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This Week I Learned -  * Reliance Industries signed a 10-year partnership with Microsoft Azure in 2019. Jio will set up datacenters in locations across India, consisting of next-generation compute, storage and networking capabilities, and Microsoft will deploy its Azure platform in these datacenters to support Jio’s offerings. 2 regions in India, Jio India Central and Jio India West can be seen on the Azure Status page . Jio regions are available to Jio customers only. * At age 35, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.  * In 1920, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose stood 4th in the Indian Civil Service exam. *  Tax loopholes billionaires use *  Do Aankhen Barah Haath  (transl. Two Eyes, Twelve Hands) is a 1957 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by V. Shantaram. The film was inspired by the story of an "open prison" experiment: Swatantrapur in the princely state of Aundh near Satara. The real experiment was conduct...

Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation.  Using Kubernetes, you can cluster together groups of hosts running these containers, spanning on-premise, public, private, or hybrid clouds.  Image: Red Hat 1. Who maintains Kubernetes?  The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) now maintains the project. Google worked with the Linux Foundation to form the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in 2015 and offered Kubernetes as a seed technology. CNCF technologies enable cloud portability without vendor lock-in.  2. How often is Kubernetes updated?  Kubernetes releases currently happen approximately three times per year . Kubernetes 1.23 was the last release of 2021. 3. What is the need to upgrade to a new Kubernetes version?  Kubernetes 1.19 and newer receive approximately 1 year of patch support . You need to upgrade t...

 This Week I Learned -  * Microsoft  FastTrack for Azure (FTA) team, part of Azure Engineering at Microsoft provides a design review and guidance checklist [ Excel ]. Main areas of recommendations and guidance are: >Azure Firewall >Azure Networking >Defender For Cloud >Identity >Sentinel >VM Security Checks *  Failure mode analysis (FMA) is a process for building resiliency into a system, by identifying possible failure points in the system. * A multicloud strategy enables customers to leverage services that span different cloud platforms, enabling them to select the services best suited to the workloads or apps they are managing. *  Commonly cited benefits of a multicloud strategy include : Flexibility: Customers wish to have the flexibility to optimize their architectures leveraging the cloud services best suited to their specific needs, including the flexibility to select services based on features or costs Avoiding vendor lock-in: A...