Open Source Weekly: database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL and more

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Check out the below recap of this week’s top open source related product announcements, popular docs, and demos from around Microsoft.
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Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL: Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL are now generally available (GA). This GA milestone means that these services are bringing the community versions of MySQL and PostgreSQL with built-in high availability, a 99.99% availability SLA, elastic scaling for performance, and industry leading security and compliance to Azure. Learn more about this release here.
Azure Databricks, analytics platform powered by Apache Spark: Azure Databricks, a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics platform, is now generally available. Azure Databricks is designed in collaboration with Databricks, whose founders started the Spark research project at UC Berkeley, which later became Apache Spark. Microsoft’s goal with Azure Databricks is to help customers accelerate innovation and simplify the process of building Big Data & AI solutions by combining the best of Databricks and Azure. Check out the announcement.
HashiCorp Terraform in the Azure Marketplace: In addition to Terraform being integrated to the Azure Cloud Shell, the new Terraform solution is now in the Azure Marketplace. This solution will enable teams to use shared identity, using Managed Service Identity (MSI), and shared state using Azure Storage. These features will allow you to use a consistent hosted instance of Terraform for DevOps Automation and production scenarios. Learn more on the Azure blog.
OSI’s new ClearlyDefined project: Earlier this month, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) announced ClearlyDefined, an incubator project that focuses on crowd-sourcing critical licensing and security data for open source projects. The project aims to increase clarity around open source projects, making it easier to build a community and gain contributors. Learn about how to get involved here.
Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) community update: This week at OCP Summit 2018 Microsoft gave an update on SONiC, which is a container based, open-sourced switch OS architecture, built for cloud-scale performance and resiliency. It currently powers Azure and many other parts of the Microsoft Cloud, including Microsoft’s AI platform. Developers across the world are contributing to SONiC, refining and adding new capabilities. In the past 12 months, the SONiC community has delivered three official releases, which have greatly enriched and increased SONiC use-cases. Read more about the SONiC community here.
Microsoft joins effort to help advance open source licensing: Microsoft joined RedHat, Facebook, Google, IBM, CA Technologies, Cisco, HPE, SAP, and SUSE, to announce that it is making an open source license commitment designed to help licensees overcome common mistakes in using open source software. Specifically, the commitment offers licensees of GPLv2 code a reasonable period of time to correct license compliance issues, building on emerging community norms already in place in the Linux kernel community. Read the complete announcement here.
Using Habitat in Azure: Nick Rycar from Chef stops by Azure Friday to chat with Donovan Brown about Habitat, a simple, flexible way to build, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications. Habitat makes it easier to develop and promote changes by enabling each instance of your application to continually and independently apply updates as soon as they’re ready.


Here is this week’s sampling of recently updated open source related docs:
Azure Cosmos DB data migration tool: This tutorial provides instructions on using the Azure Cosmos DB Data Migration tool, which can import data from various sources into Azure Cosmos DB collections and tables. You can import from JSON files, CSV files, SQL, MongoDB, Azure Table storage, Amazon DynamoDB, and even Azure Cosmos DB SQL API collections, and you migrate that data to collections and tables for use with Azure Cosmos DB. The Data Migration tool can also be used when migrating from a single partition collection to a multi-partition collection for the SQL API.
Running Apache Spark jobs on AKS: Apache Spark is a fast engine for large-scale data processing. As of the Spark 2.3.0 release, Apache Spark supports native integration with Kubernetes clusters. Azure Container Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes environment running in Azure. This document details preparing and running Apache Spark jobs on an Azure Container Service (AKS) cluster.
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