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GitHub Releases ML-Based “Good First Issues” Recommendations

Source:-infoq.com GitHub shipped an updated version of good first issues feature that uses a combination of both a machine learning (ML) model that identifies “easy” issues and a hand curated list of issues that have been labeled “easy” by project maintainers. New and seasoned open source contributors can use this feature to find and tackle easy issues in a project. In order to eliminate the challenging and tedious task of labelling and building a training set for a supervised ML

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Google Cloud embraces GitOps with new Application Manager for Kubernetes

Source:-theregister.co.uk Cloud giant aims to attract developers with code-oriented deployment automation Google’s new Application Manager, now in beta, is geared toward simplifying setting up GitOps with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as the target platform. GitOps is the idea that developers include a definition of the infrastructure required to deploy an application in a repository alongside the application code. Devs can then automate deployment with a script that sets up the production environment as well as compiling the code. If coders

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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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INTRODUCTION TO GITHUB FOR ASPIRING DATA SCIENTISTS

Source:-analyticsindiamag.com Popularly considered to be the exclusive domain of software developers, Git – the most widely used modern version control system in the world – is increasingly being used by data scientists today. This may strike some people as odd – how can this platform add value to the daily work of a data scientist, commonly known to work in silos? The key here is to broaden their scope of work. Any software professional worth his salt sees value in

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GitOps Basics: Developers Are Gitting Into Deployment

Source:-securityboulevard.com The DevOps revolution has provided us with quite a few trends and buzzwords to experiment with. One of the most popular is GitOps, that term introduced by Weaveworks, echoing through practically every hall in the latest San Diego KubeCon, and its recaps. Over the past year or two, I’ve seen GitOps described as a strategy, a paradigm, a set of practices, a workflow, and even as a science. I’ve heard that GitOps is for developers dealing with Kubernetes cluster

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UBank releases open source accessibility kit on Github

Source:-zdnet.com The kit allows iOS developers and contributors to audit the accessibility of their app. UBank has released an open source accessibility kit on Github in a move to help iOS app developers and contributors improve the accessibility for users that experience issues such as low vision, cognitive impairment, or neurological impairment. UBank digital banking chief product officer Peter O’Malley said making the accessibility kit openly available for the first time is part of the bank’s mission of “making technology

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AWS leak exposes passwords, private keys on GitHub

Source:-searchsecurity.techtarget.com UpGuard discovered a public GitHub repository that contained sensitive AWS customer data, including passwords, authentication tokens and private encryption keys. An Amazon Web Services engineer uploaded sensitive data to a public GitHub repository that included customer credentials and private encryption keys. Cybersecurity vendor UpGuard earlier this month found the exposed GitHub repository within 30 minutes of its creation. UpGuard analysts discovered the AWS leak, which was slightly less than 1 GB and contained log files and resource templates that

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Hapless AWS engineer spilled passwords, keys, confidential internal training info, customer messages on public GitHub

Source:-theregister.co.uk Only up for five hours, but that’s plenty of time for the wrong person to spot it Updated An Amazon Web Services engineer published exchanges with customers and “system credentials including passwords, AWS key pairs, and private keys” to a public GitHub repository by accident. On 13 January, infosec biz UpGuard discovered a 954MB repository containing AWS resource templates – used to create cloud services – plus hostnames, and log files generated in the second half of 2019. There

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GitHub now uses AI to recommend open issues in project repositories

Source:-venturebeat.com Large open source projects on GitHub have intimidatingly long lists of problems that require addressing. To make it easier to spot the most pressing, GitHub recently introduced the “good first issues” feature, which matches contributors with issues that are likely to fit their interests. The initial version, which launched in May 2019, surfaced recommendations based on labels applied to issues by project maintainers. But an updated release shipped last month incorporates an AI algorithm that GitHub claims surfaces issues

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Git Update Improves DevOps with Partial Cloning Feature

Source:-itprotoday.com The latest Git update – release 2.25 – provides developers with improved code efficiency and other new features. On Jan. 13, Git 2.25 was released, bringing to one of the most commonly used developer tools new capabilities that will help improve performance and overall developer productivity. The open-source Git distributed version control system is the core technology that unpins both the GitHub and GitLab code repositories as well as being used in on-premises deployments by enterprises. Created by Linux

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What’s the point: GitLab shifts CDN, LaunchDarkly pulls in cash, Puppet release, GitHub student giveaway

Source:-devclass.com GitLab has warned customers it is changing its CDN provider to Cloudflare, which might have some knockon effects for GitLab.com customers – self-managed customers will be unaffected. Users with a whitelists of sites will need to update them accordingly. Custom runner images or private runners could also be affected if they have any kind of caching of DNS or SSL certificates The company said the move would allow it to have CDN, WAF and DDOS protection through a single

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How to back up Kubernetes and Docker

Source:-networkworld.com You don’t have to back up everything about every container, but it’s important to back up configurations for running and managing them in case of disaster. Yes, your container infrastructure needs some type of backup. Kubernetes and Docker will not magically build themselves after a disaster. As discussed in a separate article, you don’t need to back up the running state of each container, but you will need to back up the configuration used to run and manage your

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Securing Kubernetes: Bug bounty program announced

Source:-zdnet.com Want to help lock down Kubernetes and make some money while you’re at it? The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has a new bug bounty program for you. Kubernetes, the container orchestration program, has become hotter than hot. Everyone — and I mean everyone — is adopting it. But with quarterly major updates and everyone rushing to deploy it, security is a real worry. Thus, the Kubernetes Product Security Committee, funded by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is launching

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CI/CD pipelines are expanding

Source:-sdtimes.com CI/CD pipelines are evolving as organizations identify opportunities to improve release velocity and as the industry considers what CI/CD pipelines should look like in the first place. Amalgam Insights recently released “The 2020 Guide to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery: Process, Projects and Products.” In it, report author and research fellow Tom Petrocelli explains what basic and extended CI/CD pipelines involve. The “basic” CI/CD pipeline includes five processes, which are: merge, build, test, package and deploy. All of these

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Why Google Is an Underdog in the Cloud Race

Source:-fool.com Google owns the world’s largest search engine, web browser, and mobile operating system. Yet it controlled just 4% of the public cloud services market last year, according to Gartner. That put it in fourth place behind Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Alibaba — which controlled 48%, 16%, and 8% of that market, respectively. Google still believes that it can challenge Amazon and Microsoft to become one of the top two cloud players by 2023, according to The Information, but

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AWS month in review: An AWS re:Invent recap of overlooked roll outs

Source:-searchaws.techtarget.com At the 2019 re:Invent, AWS added a host of tools and features, raising the cloud provider’s portfolio to more than 175 services — many of which flew under the radar due to the sheer number of rollouts at the annual conference. Flashier announcements took up much of the spotlight at re:Invent, including the launch of AWS Outposts, AWS’ latest hybrid cloud play, and the preview of AWS Braket, a managed quantum computing service. AWS also looked to improve its

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Amazon, Google, Microsoft: Who had the best year in cloud in 2019?

Source:-theregister.co.uk Analysis Three technology giants continued to dominate cloud computing in 2019, with each bringing in some interesting tools to play with as they sprawled over smaller players. The big picture did not change radically in 2019. All the big three cloud providers (or big four if you consider Alibaba’s growth in East Asia) continued to grow at a dramatic pace. In the quarter ending September 30 2019, AWS reported 34 per cent revenue growth and Microsoft Azure 59 per

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SD Times news digest: Magellan 2.0, GitHub Enterprise on AWS Marketplace, and security patches for Git vulnerabilities

Source:-sdtimes.com Magellan 2.0 is a group of vulnerabilities that exist in SQLite and were verified to be able to exploit remote code execution in the Chromium render process. Users of SQLite as a component who haven’t updated the latest patch, or users of Chrome that are using versions prior to 79.0.3945.79 with WebSQL enabled may be affected. However, the team noted that it didn’t find the vulnerability to have a public full exploit code. More information is available here. GitHub

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DevOps in 2019: A Deeper Commitment to Github, Java and .Net

Source:-tprotoday.com Everything old was new again as developer mainstays Java and .Net got milestone upgrades and continued to engage with wholly Microsoft-owned Github. While change is constant, in the world of DevOps and software development, there are a lot of important things that remain the same. A decade ago, in 2009, Java and .NET dominated the development landscape. As we look back at software development and DevOps in 2019, it’s striking to note that both Java and .NET remain widely

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Version Control Hosting Software Market to Exhibit Impressive Growth during 2019 – 2026 | GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jfrog, Assembla, Helix Core, Beanstalk

Source:-ittechnologynews24.com Version control hosting solutions are products that host multiple code repositories in the cloud and integrate with, and often provide, online tools that enhance the use of version control systems. Version Control Hosting Software Market has been projected in a report added by IT Intelligence Markets. Titled “Global Version Control Hosting Software Market Size, Status and Forecast 2026,” the report has also foreseen another classification based on application, which includes suburban and rural areas, high-density urban areas, targeted outdoor

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