Micropacker-for-containers is a proof of concept that started in the VMware Product Security team as a hardening exercise. Over time, it has matured to allow you to easily pack a microcontainer starting from a standard container. Don’t be scared of the word “microcontainer”—it works and basically is just like a normal container. It is considered Read more...
Here at VMware’s Open Source Program Office, we’re thrilled to acknowledge that Harbor has been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox-level hosted project. Harbor, as you probably know, is an open source cloud native registry that stores, signs and scans content. It originated as an internal VMware project in China Read more...
Over the past nine months, we have seen a growing consensus in the industry regarding one specific aspect of GPL compliance. Since the October 2017 announcement of the Linux kernel Technical Advisory Board’s Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement, which stated that the Linux kernel project was adopting the GPLv3 cure commitment, a significant number of key Read more...
By Nisha Kumar, open source engineer, VMware I’m a longtime Python developer, but until this year I had never been to PyCon, the largest international conference for Python users. I went this year because I wanted to run a development sprint for Tern, the open source project that I maintain. PyCon’s development sprints are a Read more...
VMware helps its customers build and release new IoT products and solutions. In most situations, it’s a challenge to automate the configuration and rollout of IoT solutions, simply due to the scale and variety of systems involved. The AWS Greengrass service from Amazon supports management of IoT devices and provides a UI for interacting with Read more...
