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Red Hat Puts Podman Container Management On The Desktop

Open-source GUI tool allows developers to create, deploy, and manage containers running locally or in remote Kubernetes clusters. Red Hat has released Podman Desktop 1.0, a graphical desktop client for creating, deploying, and managing containers. It’s available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Available at podman-desktop.io, Podman Desktop is an open source tool for working with containers and Kubernetes in a local environment. For Red Hat customers, the goal is to provide a frictionless development experience for Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based enterprise container platform. Podman Desktop aims to simplify development, deployment, and management of containers while abstracting the underlying configuration,…

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Cloud-Native

A Cloud-Native, Open-Source Stack For Accelerating Foundation Model Innovation

Foundation models, and generative AI, have captivated our collective imagination and enabled the discovery of new ways to improve the way we live and work. From more seamless interactions with technology via natural language, to automatic generation of code or other data, to use cases across various domains of science, applications of foundation models are growing by the day. At IBM, our goal is both to infuse this technology across our product portfolio and to help our customers adopt foundation models into their own offerings quickly, efficiently, and safely. As part of this journey, we shared our perspective on why we built…

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Somehow OpenSearch Has Succeeded

OpenSearch shouldn’t exist. The open source alternative to Elasticsearch started off as Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) answer to getting outflanked by Elastic’s change in Elasticsearch’s license, which was in turn sparked by AWS building a successful Elasticsearch service but contributing little back. In 2019 when AWS launched its then Open Distro for Elasticsearch, I thought its reasons rang hollow and, frankly, sounded sanctimonious. This was, after all, a company that used more open source than it contributed. Two years later, AWS opted to fork Elasticsearch to create OpenSearch, committing to a “long-term investment” in OpenSearch. I worked at AWS at the time. Privately, I…

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3 Reasons To Host A Docathon For Your Open Source Project

A marathon for documentation is a great way to produce or improve the docs for your open source project. Your open source project’s documentation is essential to your customers. Your target audience must understand the purpose of your project and how to use it, and documentation is what bridges that gap. A project is rarely ever truly done, so it’s equally important for resources to be maintained and updated with your project’s continuous improvement. But what happens when you have lots of documentation to maintain but lack the resources to keep it current? The answer is pretty simple: Host a…

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Amazon’s Quiet Open Source Revolution

After years of getting a free ride from open source projects, the company is developing its own obsession with contributing. Something has changed at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with regard to its formerly fraught relationship with open source. Though it was always incorrect to lambast AWS for “strip-mining” open source, as Daisuke Wakabayashi did in The New York Times, there was just enough smoke in that “strip-mining” fire to make the accusation seem somewhat credible. After all, a quick perusal of top open source projects with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the Apache Software Foundation, or just about anywhere would have shown that Google tended…

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Announcing Linkerd 2.13 With Circuit Breaking, Dynamic Request Routing, FIPS, Health Monitoring, And More

Today we’re thrilled to announce the release of Linkerd 2.13, a significant milestone for the CNCF’s only graduated service mesh! This release introduces dynamic request routing based on the Gateway API, circuit breaking for overloaded services, and several other important features and fixes. For users who need to run Linkerd in government environments, we’ve also published a FIPS-compatible version of Linkerd 2.13. Contact us for details. Finally, for this release, we’ve done something really audacious: we’ve launched free automated health monitoring, vulnerability alerts, and proxy upgrade assistance for any Linkerd cluster with Buoyant Cloud, our Linkerd automation platform. This means that any user in the world can make…

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A Search Engine For Creative Commons

Find images and audio with open licenses. Are you looking for content that is openly licensed that you can reuse? Then you might be interested in Openverse. Openverse is an innovative tool that searches over 300 million pictures from an aggregation of different databases. It goes beyond just searching for an image by giving users access to tags created by machine learning models and one-click attribution. With so many visuals to explore, users can find the perfect image to make their project more engaging. The content comes from a variety of sources, including the Smithsonian, Cleveland Museum of Art, NASA, and…

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Cloud Foundry Korifi Update Enables Transformation to Cloud Native Workloads

Optimal way to migrate Cloud Foundry workloads to Kubernetes SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2022 — Cloud Foundry Foundation today announced the latest release of Korifi, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that reduces much of the complexity of Kubernetes and greatly improves the application deployment experience. The Foundation also announced a series of Korifi Tutorials to help developers get started with Korifi, as well as its Cloud Foundry Day event, taking place on June 21 in Heidelberg, Germany. Many organizations face challenges when using Kubernetes infrastructure to deploy their applications. Kubernetes is a powerful and flexible platform for managing containerized workloads, but it can be complex and difficult…

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Engineering

Our Favorite Fonts For The Linux Terminal

Here is an entirely subjective list of some fun fonts for your Linux console. Terminal emulators came up as a topic for me recently, and it got me thinking: What’s everyone’s favorite terminal font? So I asked Opensource.com contributors to share what font they like to use. Here are their answers. VT323 I like to use a different font (VT323) in my GNOME Terminal than the font I use (Source Code Pro) in my programming editors or other apps that use a monospace font. I just like the look of the classic VT-style font. Sometimes, I switch to the original…

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