Developed at SUSE, EiriniX helps developers build Extensions around Eirini, using the Kubernetes API
The Cloud Foundry Foundation, home to open source projects simplifying the developer experience, announced that SUSE has contributed the EiriniX project to the Foundation, marking the continued expansion of the Cloud Foundry ecosystem and its commitment to streamlining developers’ interactions with Kubernetes.
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VanillaStack is the new open-source cloud-stack for IaaS, CaaS and PaaS!
A complete open-source software-stack and -ecosystem running on every cloud, VM and bare-metal.
As complete open-source software-stack and -ecosystem for IaaS, CaaS and PaaS, running on every cloud, VM and bare-metal, VanillaStack covers all aspects of modern cloud-environments. VanillaStack is based on Kubernetes and incorporates a multitude of open-source projects, such as OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, HELM, Harbor, etc. in one easy to set up, open, secure, trustworthy and expandible package.
AUSTIN, Texas—August 10, 2020—StarlingX—the open source edge computing and IoT cloud platform optimized for low-latency and high-performance applications that combines open source projects including Ceph, OpenStack, and Kubernetes—is available in its 4.0 release today. Among many new integrations, StarlingX 4.0 increases security in edge environments by supporting Kata Containers as a container runtime and adding Active Directory integration for Kubernetes APIs for enhanced authentication.
Download StarlingX 4.0 at git.starlingx.io/starlingx
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Monitoring system Prometheus has recently hit version 2.20, improving the CNCF project’s service discovery, query language, and user interface, amongst other things.
The main change the Prometheus team wanted to put front and centre was a new default in the system’s time series database (TSDB). Namely, compression of the write-ahead-log (WAL) is now standardly enabled.
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OpenStack, one of the top three most active open source projects, marks its 10th anniversary this month by hosting a virtual celebration with its global community of more than 100,000 supporters.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is issuing this alert in response to recently disclosed exploits that target F5 BIG-IP devices that are vulnerable to CVE-2020-5902. F5 Networks, Inc. (F5) released a patch for CVE-2020-5902 on June 30, 2020.[1] Unpatched F5 BIG-IP devices are an attractive target for malicious actors. Affected organizations that have not applied the patch to fix this critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability risk an attacker exploiting CVE-2020-5902 to take control of their system. Note: F5’s security advisory for CVE-2020-5902 states that there is a high probability that any remaining unpatched devices are likely already compromised.
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Smartwatch and wearable maker Garmin planning multi-day maintenance window to deal with ransomware incident.
Smartwatch and wearables maker Garmin has shut down several of its services on July 23 to deal with a ransomware attack that has encrypted its internal network and some production systems.
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The Corona crisis has suddenly made the relevance of digitization even clearer. Millions of workers had to stay at home. Digital forms of work and home offices suddenly became the norm in many companies. The health insurance agency DAK in Germany made a study with more than 7500 attendees about home-office, digitization at work and health during the crises. And the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied IT released a study about home-office and remote work with 2000 attendees.
This is the most stable Apache Cassandra in history; you should start using Apache Cassandra 4.0 Beta today in your test and QA environments, head to the downloads site to get your hands on it. The Cassandra community is on a mission to deliver a 4.0 GA release that is ready to be deployed to production. You can guarantee this holds true by running your application workloads against the Beta release and contributing to the community’s validation effort to get Cassandra 4.0 to GA.
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