MayaData launches Kubera; a Kubernetes management service

Source:-blocksandfiles.com Open source developer MayaData has announced Kubera; a product for the operational management of Kubernetes. Kubernetes came into being at Google because managing the development, deployment and de-commissioning if containers was excessively complex for developers. Now MayaData has launched Kubera because managing Kubernetes has become too complex. Murat Karslioglu, Head of Product at MayaData, issued a quote: “Kubera builds on our experience in supporting a community of thousands of OpenEBS users. Originally intended to be used only by our

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WHAT IS GREAT ABOUT OPEN SOURCING CONTACT TRACING APPS?

Source:-analyticsindiamag.com Governments across the world have been working to deploy contact tracing apps in order to curb the spread of Covid-19. But many experts have raised concerns how such applications can potentially breach the privacy of citizens. Privacy concerns could be real, and personal data collection could be problematic. This may prevent a lot of people installing it. So, while governments are not going to stop their efforts of deploying such applications, there are proposals being made to make contact

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Red Hat And AWS Deliver Joint OpenShift Service

Source:-crn.com Amazon Red Hat OpenShift, merging the industry’s largest public cloud with its leading Kubernetes platform for hybrid deployments, comes integrated with native AWS services, and can be provisioned and billed through the AWS console. Red Hat and Amazon Web Services have partnered to offer a jointly managed and supported version of Red Hat OpenShift on the industry’s largest public cloud. Amazon Red Hat OpenShift, introduced Thursday, combines AWS-native capabilities with Red Hat’s leading Kubernetes platform—the central pillar of Red

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GitHub Introduces Codespaces and Discussions and More Security Features

Source:-infoq.com At GitHub Satellite 2020, GitHub announced two new features meant to bring developer collaboration to a new level: Codespaces, which provide a complete, ready-to-use dev environment within GitHub, and Discussions, aimed to enable the creation of knowledge bases in a threaded Q&A format. Additionally, code scanning for vulnerabilities is now integrated within GitHub main interface, and secret scanning is extended to private repositories, too. Codespaces gives you a fully-featured, cloud-hosted dev environment that spins up in seconds, directly within

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Alcide’s New sKan Command Line Tool Scans Kubernetes Deployment Files

Source:-infoq.com Alcide, a Kubernetes security platform, has announced the release of sKan, a command line tool that allows developers, DevOps and Kubernetes application builders access to the Alcide Security Platform. sKan enables developers to scan Kubernetes configuration and deployment files as part of their application development lifecycle including CI pipelines. Developers can scan their Kubernetes deployment files, Helm charts or Kustomized resources. Alcide is a Kubernetes-native AI-driven security platform for cross Kubernetes aspects such as configuration risks, visibility across clusters,

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Why DevOps are Keen on Open Source Logging

Source:-devops.com With the advent of DevOps, we are now moving toward more collaborative workflow models, where the integration of development and operations teams make it easier to quickly move development projects into production, and with fewer roadblocks. However, within DevOps, many of our activities are not as clear-cut as they were in previous siloed methods. While previous methods made it easier to keep track of activities and processes, these systems were not particularly efficient. In the DevOps model, moving software

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Tencent Open-Sources Another AI-Powered Tool to Help Conduct Preliminary Self-evaluation Regarding COVID-19 Infection

Source:-aithority.com Tencent Holdings Limited, announced to deepen collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). As part of the agreement, Tencent will provide technology support to combat the pandemic and open-sources another AI-powered tool today to assist the global fight against the coronavirus outbreak. The COVID-19 self-triage assistant, which is now available on Github for developers around the world, enables preliminary self-evaluation regarding infection of the disease and provides tips on its prevention. Prior to this tool, Tencent open-sourced a COVID-19

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Proposal to Move WordPress Theme Review Process to GitHub

Source:-wptavern.com Denis Žoljom, the automation representative for the WordPress theme review team, proposed moving much of the theme review system over to GitHub. The idea is to move the interactive parts of the review away from the current system. The proposal claims such a move would streamline the process via automated tools and make the manual, reviewer-to-author interactions easier. Currently, the theme review process takes place on Trac. For many theme authors and reviewers, the software can feel archaic. It

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Ensuring a Smooth Kubernetes Deployment

Source:-containerjournal.com It’s not hyperbole to say that Kubernetes is a game-changer for developers and DevOps teams. At full power, it has the capacity to impart significant efficiency and stability that has a tangible impact on a company’s bottom line. However, as is often said, “Nothing good ever came easy.” Many of us know that Kubernetes is inherently complex. Unfortunately, this complexity can lead to oversights that can cause major security issues. Thankfully, with the right procedures in place and a

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How to Secure Online Coding Platforms

Source:-devops.com The evolution of DevOps teams and a greater reliance on cloud-based computing has completely changed the coding process. Now, with Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), coding can be done entirely online. This is convenient, but are online IDEs secure? To answer this, we will focus on two popular cloud-based IDEs: AWS Cloud9 and Visual Studio Online. In online coding, the IDE is rendered inside your browser, the browser JavaScript engine uses WebSockets to initiate an Secure Shell (SSH) connection to

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GitLab moves 18 of its DevOps features to open source

Source:-sdtimes.com GitLab announced that 18 of its features are moving to open source including related issues, export issues, issue board focus mode, and service desk. “This marks a major milestone in our efforts to empower the community to collaborate more robustly and to take our single tool for the DevOps lifecycle to the next level,” Sid Sijbrandij, co-founder and CEO of GitLab wrote in a blog post. The newly open-sourced feature set covers areas that span planning, creating, verifying, packaging,

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How DevOps has evolved since 2012

Source:-techrepublic.com O’Reilly’s What is DevOps?: Infrastructure as Code published almost eight years ago. A programming expert reflects on which predictions by the author came true and what’s coming next. When Mike Loukides published the long essay What is DevOps? in book form for O’Reilly Media, he gave it a subtitle that would become well-known: Infrastructure as Code. That essay, just 20 pages long, proposed a few key things: Infrastructure moves into the code. The systems that run the software, which

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Instaclustr Offering Fully Managed Open Source Elasticsearch on AWS

Source:-globenewswire.com The newest addition to its fully managed open source data-layer technologies, Instaclustr providing enterprises with production-grade, scalable, and 100% open source Elasticsearch REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Instaclustr, the leading provider of fully managed solutions for scalable open source technologies, today announced the general availability of Instaclustr Managed Elasticsearch. The addition of Elasticsearch to the Instaclustr Managed Platform expands Instaclustr’s one-stop destination for deploying, managing, analyzing, optimizing, and monitoring all components of enterprises’ data layer

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Google Announces Beta Launch of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines

Source:-infoq.com Google Cloud Platform (GCP) recently announced the beta launch of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, a new product for automating and managing machine learning (ML) workflows, which leverages the open-source technologies TensorFlow Extended (TFX) and Kubeflow Pipelines (KFP). In a recent blog post, product manager Anusha Ramesh and developer advocate Amy Unruh gave an overview of the offering and its features. Cloud AI Platform Pipelines addresses the problem of managing end-to-end ML workflows, which span the lifecycle from ingesting raw

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Google Cloud moves to aid mainframe migration

Source:-networkworld.com Google Cloud this week bought a mainframe cloud-migration service firm Cornerstone Technology with an eye toward helping Big Iron customers move workloads to the private and public cloud. Google said the Cornerstone technology – found in its G4 platform – will shape the foundation of its future mainframe-to-Google Cloud offerings and help mainframe customers modernize applications and infrastructure. [Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] “Through the use of automated processes, Cornerstone’s tools can break

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GitHub, the gold standard for open-source software, will now woo Indians from India

Source:-qz.com GitHub is finally setting shop in India. The US-based software development website, the “gold standard” for open-source among techies and entrepreneurs, will over the next few months hire a team in the country across functions such as engineering, sales, support, marketing, and services. This team will be headed by general manager Maneesh Sharma. Even without on-ground presence, Indians make for the third largest group of active developers on the Microsoft-owned platform. Over the past year, there has been a

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Still Increasing the Power of Hybrid IT Through Open Source

Source:-it.toolbox.com Broadcom (perhaps still better known as CA) used this year’s Arcati Mainframe Yearbook to highlight the mainframe development revolution and the growth in open source tools. They said that tools, like the green screens of ISPF and the Eclipse desktop IDE, enhanced with proprietary plugins have served mainframe application developers well over the years. However, there are changes in the larger world of development that are creating the conditions for a revolution in mainframe tooling. With experienced mainframers retiring,

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Four DevOps Trends for 2020

Source:-finextra.com Last year, I put together a few thoughts on what I saw as the emerging DevOps trends for 2019. As we enter a new year and decade, I thought it might be useful to do the same for 2020. A common theme in this year’s trends concerns the way in which firms are dealing with delivering services at scale in the cloud, which I think could be a grand trend for the decade – so one I wanted highlight

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What is Kubernetes? An explainer for marketers

Source:-martechtoday.com As businesses look to rebuild their technology infrastructure, many are adopting Kubernetes platforms, a move that has implications for marketing and marketing operation teams. Amy Gesenhues on January 29, 2020 at 8:56 am MORE Chicory, a data platform that enables shoppable recipes, needed to rebuild its technology infrastructure. Because the company relies heavily on being able to access and utilize data in near real-time — analyzing millions of interactions on a daily basis with recipes, ingredients and food brands

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What’s in Your Containers? Try an Open Source Tool to Find Out

Source:-technewsworld.com As most security pros know, application containers — Docker, rkt, etc. — and the orchestration elements employed to support them, such as Kubernetes, are used increasingly in many organizations. Often the security organization isn’t exactly the first stop on the path to deployment of these tools. (If it was in your shop, consider yourself one of the lucky ones.) Instead, usage tends to emerge from the grass roots. It starts with developers using containers on their workstations to streamline

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