I spent the period from July to September 2018 volunteering as the Kubernetes 1.12 release lead. As this stint comes to a close, I’m pausing to reflect on the experience. A first observation relates to an aspect of open source commonly understood today: open source projects move fast! The Kubernetes 1.12 release demonstrates that velocity. Read more...
By Stephen McPolin and Venil Noronha When Istio 1.0 was released a couple of months ago, TechCrunch called it “probably one of the most important new open source projects out there right now.” It’s not perfect (more on that in part two of this series), but the release does mark a significant stage in the development Read more...
Summer 2015. Kubernetes 1.0 had just arrived, but with one huge user experience problem: there was no easy way to install it. Everyone willing to try Kubernetes had to endure the hassle of figuring out how to create a cluster on their own. This is not an easy job, as Kubernetes consists of several services Read more...
By Eric Brown I lead the security team in VMware’s Open Source Technology Center (OSTC), where security tooling is a major area of focus. One of the tooling projects I help maintain is Bandit, a security linter, or scanning tool, that Python developers can run against their source code to expose potential security vulnerabilities. In Read more...
Amazon Kinesis enables real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale. Kinesis Streams is useful for rapidly moving data off data producers and then continuously processing the data, be it to transform the data before emitting to a data store, run real-time metrics and analytics or derive more complex data streams for further processing. How Kinesis Read more...
