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Chef Rolls all of its IT Management Ingredients into One Package, Chef Automate
Chef has consolidated its portfolio of IT automation application tools and support products into a single core product, Chef Automate, which is designed to offer a complete workflow pipeline for...
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DigitalOcean Launches Block Storage Service for Storage-Hungry Cloud Users
Responding from strong customer demand, DigitalOcean is expanding its range of cloud infrastructure services by adding a new block storage offering. The service will use solid state drives (SSD), and...
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The Emerging Containers as a Service Marketplace
While many developers are enthusiastic about the way containers can speed up deployments, administrators and operators may be a bit more wary, given the considerable amount of retooling that their...
View ArticleChef Working on a Build Service to Automate Habitat Packaging
Quickly extending its recently launched and much-discussed Habitat application packaging tool, Chef is working on a component, called Builder, that will provide an automated build service and package...
View ArticleThe Quest to Build an Unprivileged Container
One aspect that has long bothered security professionals about Docker containers is that they run as root, even if the processes they run themselves are unprivileged. Now Docker maintainer Jessie...
View ArticleNodeSource Packages its Commercial Node.js Software for Kubernetes Clusters
NodeSource has configured a version of its N|Solid commercial Node.js implementation to run on Kubernetes clusters, potentially speeding both the deployments of containerized Node.js applications and...
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Q&A James Turnbull: The Art of Monitoring in the Age of Microservices
By now, forward-thinking system architects are starting to realize that moving to a microservices architecture requires an entirely new set of monitoring tools. Built for long-running physical servers,...
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Container Format Dispute on Twitter Shows Disparities Between Docker and the...
Should the Docker container image format be completely standardized? Or should Docker not be held back from evolving the format ahead of the open specification? This was the topic of a heated Twitter...
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The Prometheus Microservice Monitor Reports for Production
By now, it’s no secret that traditional application monitoring tools are ill-suited for watching over microservices. Only recently have we started to see a new generation of tools limber enough to...
View ArticleOpenStack Summit Silicon Valley: Kubernetes and the Future of OpenStack
The future of OpenStack will be in supporting entire types of applications that we may not even recognize today, noted Jonathan Bryce, executive director at OpenStack Foundation. “Everything we do as...
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For Modern Business, it’s ‘DevOps or Die’
If your company is in the software business, or if software is part of your competitive edge in any way, then failing to adopt a continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipeline will spell the...
View ArticleDigitalOcean’s New CTO Doesn’t Do Process for its Own Sake (But She Has a...
In June, the rapidly growing DigitalOcean cloud provider hired seasoned exec Julia Austin to lead the company’s engineering and product development, in the role of chief technology officer. Her...
View ArticleIntel Sets a Base for Scalable Deep Learning
“Artificial intelligence is around us everywhere. It is becoming very commonplace,” said Diane Bryant, Intel’s executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group, keynoting the Intel...
View ArticleMicrosoft Open Sources PowerShell, Ports the CLI to Linux
Microsoft has opened sourced its Windows command line shell for administrators, called PowerShell, and has ported it to Linux and MacOS. “PowerShell on Linux now enables customers to use the same...
View ArticleHuawei Launches a Kubernetes-based Container Engine
Joining an increasing number of companies, Asian telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies has released its own container orchestration engine, the Cloud Container Engine (CCE). Ying Xiong, Huawei’s...
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Ready Docker Containers for a RunC Runtime with Riddler
This is a story about the benefits of standardization … and about how you can convert a Docker container into a runC image, using Riddler, a tool written by container programmer Jess Frazelle. Phil...
View ArticleA Docker Fork: Talk of a Split Is Now on the Table
Discussions about a split from Docker are now underway among several Docker ecosystem vendors and end users. Expressing frustration of Docker’s management of Docker Engine, the technologists with the...
View ArticleDocker and the ‘F’-word
In this surprise episode of the 106th New Stack Analysts podcast, we take a quick reading on the fallout from our story, “A Docker Fork: Talk of a Split Is Now on the Table,” which described rumors of...
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Twitter’s IT Chargeback System Sets the Stage for End-to-End Service...
Twitter is finding profit in trusting in the old reporter adage, “follow the money.” Having moved to a microservices-based service architecture, the company has set up a chargeback system that lets the...
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BOSH Hooks Cloud Foundry into the Google Cloud Platform, Offers Large-Scale...
BOSH, the de facto deployment mechanism for Cloud Foundry, is being tightly integrated into the Google Cloud Platform. The software is also being expanded beyond Cloud Foundry to manage other complex...
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