Topic: linux
Tetrate announces new Istio training course with CNCF
Tetrate, the creator of Tetrate Service Bridge (TSB) to help with service mesh adoption, announced that it developed a new official training course for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The new course teaches how to monitor, connect, and secure microservices using Istio and is designed for anyone who wants to build on their knowledge … continue reading
CompTIA launches new Linux+ certification exam
The IT certification company CompTIA announced the worldwide release of the CompTIA Linux+ certification exam, which covers the latest foundational skills demanded by hiring managers. The new exam validates technology professionals’ skills to secure the enterprise, power the cloud, and keep tech systems running. “As organizations opt for Linux-based solutions to automate and orchestrate critical … continue reading
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 receives Common Criteria Certification
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 has achieved a new certification that will make it a more appealing option for companies that are managing critical workloads in classified and sensitive deployments. It has earned a new Common Criteria Certification, which is a certification that assures that a product meets security criteria for a specific environment. According … continue reading
Wind River Studio announces new Linux services
Wind River, the company working to deliver software for mission-critical intelligent systems, today unveiled new Wind River Studio Linux Services. The goal of this release is to address new challenges around security, defects, compliance, and the continuing management of mission-critical intelligent systems when using community-based open-source software. With rising system complexity, new challenges have risen … continue reading
DENT 2.0 released
DENT 2.0 is now available with new features that can be utilized by distributed enterprises in retail and remote facilities. The DENT project is an open-source network that uses the Linux Kernel, Switchdev, and other Linux-based projects. DENT was launched in December 2019 under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation with the aim to simplify … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Podman
Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods that are made from groups of containers. It provides APIs for managing containers, pods, container images, and more. Podman’s GitHub documentation states that the project is based on libpod, a library for container lifecycle management that is also contained in this repository. The latest 2.2.1 … continue reading
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 to offer a more stable platform
Red Hat has announced the upcoming release of its enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 is expected to feature cloud-native innovation capabilities as well as a more stable platform. “From delivering the latest supported developer tools via Application Streams to making the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform even more accessible to systems administrators, … continue reading
CoreOS Container Linux will reach end-of-life on May 26
CoreOS Container Linux will reach its end-of-life on May 26, 2020 and will no longer receive updates. Fedora CoreOS is the official successor to CoreOS Container Linux. Fedora CoreOS is built for running containerized workloads securely and at scale and It combines the provisioning tools and automatic update model of Container Linux with the packaging … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 beta, Keyfactor’s DevOps integrations, and Circonus’ latest investment
Red Hat has released the latest beta version of its enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.2 focuses on making it easier for users to innovate faster as well as updates the user experience, monitoring and performancing capabilities. As part of the user experience, the team has streamlined its subscription process, and adds … continue reading
Canonical releases consolidated security, compliance, and support offering
In order to help customers keep costs down, Canonical has released a consolidated security, compliance and support offering for open-source infrastructure, Ubuntu Advantage (UA) for Infrastructure. “Aggregating Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, KVM, Ceph and SWIFT security update and support offerings into a single package enables businesses to evolve from traditional infrastructure to private cloud and … continue reading
Linux Foundation and ETSI find common ground
The Linux Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ETSI, a creator of IT global standards and the EU-registered European Standards Organization (ESO). The organizations agree that joint communication between code collaborators and the standards community is necessary to foster the collation of open source and standards. Faster information-sharing with the standards community will expedite … continue reading
Why Kubernetes will turn your data center into a smartphone
Installing and managing server software is hard, especially in corporate environments. There’s the inherent complexity of managing disparate platforms and systems, all while dealing with compliance and security policies. What is worse is that a lot of the work is repetitive, undifferentiated heavy lifting. Configuration management tools like Chef and Puppet were supposed to be … continue reading
