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Kubecon is happening in Barcelona, Spain, VMWare purchases bitnami, Apptio buys Cloudability and a ton of Kubernetes announcements out of KubeCon this week on The Cloud Pod.

Sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting – https://fogops.io/thecloudpod

Topics:

• A Cosmonaut’s guide to the latest Azure Cosmos DB Announcements
• VMWare snaps up Bitnami to broaden its multi-cloud strategy
• Apptio buys Cloudability as cloud cost management market heats up
• Introducing Terraform Cloud Remote State Management
• Cloudwatch container insights for EKS and Kubernetes Preview
• Digital Ocean K8 service is now Generally Available
• Google Announces new enhancements to ease adoption of GKE
  • In celebration of K8 5th birthday GCP is giving away a free month of learning at Coursera with the Architecting with GKE course. (valid until September 30th)

Lightning Round (Jonathan 5, Justin 8, Peter 1 and Guest 3):

• EKS has simplifed K8 cluster authentication with new CLI Sub command for generating the authentication token for connecting
• You can now use custom chat bots with Amazon Chime
• Performance insights now supports Amazon Aurora Global Database