AUSTIN, Texas A hat trick of news from the OpenStack Foundation (OSF) highlights momentum gains in the edge computing community. First, a white paper released today by the OSF Edge Computing Group describes how advancements in defining edge architecture options are being guided by open source communities. The white paper, “Edge Computing: Next Steps in Architecture, Design and Testing,” describes specific ways open infrastructure operators are shaping the future of edge computing by collecting use cases and  technology requirements and contributing architectures, open source components and considerations for testing activities.  Continue reading “Edge Computing Use Cases Gain Momentum in Open Infrastructure Community—OpenStack Foundation” →

New Offering to Enable a Bridge to Multi-Cloud for Enterprises with Push-Button Deployments and Fully Managed Infrastructure

SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HashiCorp^®, the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software, at HashiConf Digital today announced its new flagship cloud offering HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), a fully managed platform offering the HashiCorp products as a service to automate infrastructure on any cloud.

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On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.0 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

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The Harbor community annouced the new release of Habor 2.0 last week. This release makes Harbor the first OCI (Open Container Initiative)-compliant open source registry capable of storing a multitude of cloud-native artifacts like container images, Helm charts, OPAs, Singularity, and much more.

Let’s first dive into what OCI is and what the release of Harbor 2.0 means for the community.

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A Rook Maintainer and a Chief Cyber Security Officer are talking about Kubernetes

This new webinar series from Cloudical takes Kubernetes as its theme with all related topics like container management, Kubernetes architecture, Kubernetes security and many more.

“Less than five years old, Kubernetes has already become the de facto container management system worldwide”, said Thomas Di Giacomo, CTO of SUSE. “It also automates the deployment and scaling of containerized applications. Not quite a true platform in itself, Kubernetes can be combined with additional elements to provide the ease of use of Platform-as-a-Service for developers, with the adaptability of Infrastructure-as-a-Service to make it easier to move workloads across infrastructure providers.” (https://the-report.cloud/kubernetes).

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Previously at SUSE, KubeCF code has been brought into the Cloud Foundry incubator under Runtime PMC

San Francisco, CA — Cloud Foundry Foundation, home to open source projects simplifying the developer experience, today announced that KubeCF has become an incubating project under the Foundation and has released version 1.0.

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With FOSS constituting 80-90 percent of all software, it is more important than ever that we understand what FOSS is most used and where it could be vulnerable to attack. To help ensure the continued health of the ecosystem, the Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) have released ‘Vulnerabilities in the Core,’ a Preliminary Report and Census II of Open Source Software.

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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is reviewing the state of security across its 300+ projects in a recently released report. According to the report, the most notable events in 2019 included increased attacks of Hadoop instances, a flaw in Apache HTTP Server 2.4, and a flaw in older versions of Apache Axis.

The foundation looked at key metrics, specific vulnerabilities and the most common ways users of ASF projects were affected by security issues to publish its 2019 security report. Data was gathered through 320 reports of new vulnerabilities that came from emails delivered to security@apache.org.

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