Introducing Stratos in the VanillaStack Ecosystem

Vanilla Manager available by integrating Stratos into VanillaStack to manage not only various Kubernetes Clusters but also a bundle of integrated open source tools to complete the cloud stack.

Production ready VanillaStack with Vanilla Installer and Vanilla Manager

Cloudical, a Berlin based cloud-native software and consulting company, announced release 1.8 of VanillaStack.

The VanillaStack is a vivid open source and certified Kubernetes project and therefore evolving and changing. With this release the Vanilla Manager was introduced. The Manager is based on Vanilla Installer, where Kubernetes can be rolled out easily with a bundle of various open source tools to get production ready clusters. With Vanilla Manager a management platform for Kubernetes and all integrated tools is available. Therefor the Cloud Foundry project Stratos is used, that allows in the VanillaStack environment to manage multi-cluster Kubernetes up to all single nodes and pods. But not only the rolled-out tools can be managed, also offered workloads can be run like Nextcloud. It is even possible to implement own workloads on the platform.

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OpenStack Wallaby Enhances Security and Cross-Project Integration with Other Open Source Technologies

Wallaby, the 23rd version of the most widely deployed open source cloud infrastructure software, highlights the vibrancy and engagement of developers globally in supporting the third most active open source project (alongside the Linux kernel and Chromium).

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We’re open sourcing Protocol Fuzzer Community Edition!

GitLab acquired Peach Tech, the industry leader in protocol and API fuzz testing, last year.

We were thrilled to release API fuzz testing as part of our 13.4 release. Since then we’ve made tons of improvements, such as adding Postman support and supporting runtime value overrides, and we’ve received great feedback. We’ve also heard the questions about the Peach protocol fuzz testing capabilities and what is going to happen to them.

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Information, background and knowledge about Kubernetes Security

Do you need information about security toolings for and in Kuberetes? Are you searching for an overview, basics or detailed tutorials? Recently magnologan published this comprehensive link list about Kubernetes security. You get blogs, videos, talks, official community pages, definitions, trainings and a lot more: https://github.com/magnologan/awesome-k8s-security

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Hybrid Cloud Management Platform Market Growth Improvement Highly Witness | Dell, Citrix, Oracle

Hybrid Cloud Management Platform Comprehensive Study by Type (Internal Brokerage Enablement, External Brokerage Enablement), Application (Metering and Billing, Provisioning, Compliance Management, Infrastructure and Resource Management, Identity and Policy Management, Lifecycle Management, Others), Organization Size (Large enterprises, Small and medium-sized enterprises), Industry Vertical (BFSI, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Telecommunications and IT-enabled Services (ITES), Travel and Hospitality, Retail and Consumer Goods, Media and Entertainment, Government and Public Sector, Others), Service Type (Cloud Automation, Data Security and Risk Management, Migration and Integration, Reporting and Analytics, Monitoring and Access Management, Training and Consulting, Support and Maintenance, Others) Players and Region – Global Market Outlook to 2026

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“Our ecosystem is wonderfully diverse”

We of the cloud report share this statement because we love the diversity of the open source communities and don’t understand any kind of discrimination, hate or xenophobia:

Statement from CNCF General Manager Priyanka Sharma on the unacceptable attacks against AAPI and Asian communities: Posted on March 18, 2021 By Priyanka Sharma:

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InMotion Hosting Announces the General Availability of its On-Demand Private Cloud Powered by OpenStack

InMotion Hosting (IMH), a Silver Founding Member of the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF), launches a platform that supports the rapid deployment of small OpenStack private clouds.

InMotion Hosting establishes a foothold in the IaaS and Private Cloud markets by announcing the general availability of Flex Metal Cloud IaaS. Flex Metal Cloud offers an On-Demand Private Cloud powered by OpenStack, an open source infrastructure platform.

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Cloud security firm Qualys reportedly victimized by prolific scammers

A set of cybercriminals behind a string of recent hacks involving Accellion-made software is now claiming responsibility for a breach of Qualys, a major cloud computing security vendor.

As proof of the access to data, an extortion site maintained by hackers has leaked documents claiming to contain information on Qualys customers. Attackers affiliated with the extortion site have previously been linked to the Clop ransomware, a file-locking malware that emerged two years ago. This month, thieves claimed responsibility for a series of incidents that have relied on data leaks, rather than ransomware, as an extortion tactic, according to security firm FireEye.

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Report finds the value in open source skills

When it comes to what skills developers should be learning, a recent report found organizations and technology managers value open source. According to the report, which was conducted by O’Reilly Media and commissioned by IBM, the increasing adoption of hybrid cloud is driving the importance of open source skills. IBM predicts hybrid cloud adoption will grow by 47% over the next three years and organizations will be using an average of six hybrid clouds.

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