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OpenSource.com | February 15, 2019
Why Data Scientists Love Kubernetes
Let's start with an uncontroversial point: Software developers and system operators love Kubernetes as a way to deploy and manage applications in Linux containers. Linux containers provide the foundation for reproducible builds and deployments, but Kubernetes and its ecosystem provide essential...
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The Linux Foundation | February 15, 2019
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Zowe 1.0 offers a modern interface to interact with the power of z/OS on the mainframe.
Zowe Makes Mainframe Evergreen
Mainframes are, and will continue to be, a bedrock for industries and organizations that run mission-critical applications. In one way or another, all of us are mainframe users. Every time you make an online transaction or make a reservation, for example, you are using a mainframe.
According to IBM...
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Forbes | February 14, 2019 First Look: Tuxedo InfinityCube Linux Desktop PC With Intel Core-i7 8700
I've played with Linux on several of my own machines, but I recently unboxed my first custom-built Linux PC courtesy of Tuxedo Computers. It's called the InfinityCube v9, and it's left me very impressed. In fact I've been leaning on it more than the beefy AMD Ryzen 1950X rig I built because it's...
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OpenSource.com | February 14, 2019
Getting Started with the cat Command
The Linux cat and zcat commands are more useful than you may realize.
Cat is a fairly simple tool designed to concatenate and write file(s) to your screen, which is known as standard output (stdout). It is part of the GNU Core Utils released under the GPLv3+ license. You can expect to find it in...
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There's Something About R | February 13, 2019
The Monty Hall Problem
The original and most simple scenario of the Monty Hall problem is this: You are in a prize contest and in front of you there are three doors (A, B and C). Behind one of the doors is a prize (Car), while behind others is a loss (Goat). You first choose a door (let’s say door A). The contest host...
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Kubernetes Blog | February 12, 2019
Runc and CVE-2019-5736
This morning a container escape vulnerability in runc was announced. We wanted to provide some guidance to Kubernetes users to ensure everyone is safe and secure.
What Is Runc?
Very briefly, runc is the low-level tool which does the heavy lifting of spawning a Linux container. Other tools like...
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Tech Radar | February 12, 2019
Building Trust in Open Source: A Look Inside the OpenChain Project
Open source software provides businesses with a number of benefits including cost, flexibility and freedom. This freely distributed software can also be easily altered by any business that is familiar with its source code.
However, licensing issues do arise which could present a major hurdle for...
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ZDNet | February 11, 2019
Microsoft Joins OpenChain Open-Source Compliance Group
OpenChain, I would argue, is the most important open-source project you've never heard of before. This Linux Foundationconsortium provides an industry standard for open-source supply chain license compliance. And now, Microsoft has joined the the OpenChain Project.
OpenChain's important because the...
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SDx Central | February 11, 2019
Kubernetes, Docker, ContainerD Impacted by RunC Container Runtime Bug
The Linux community is dealing with another security flaw, with the latest bug impacting the runC container runtime that underpins Docker, cri-o, containerd, and Kubernetes.
The bug, dubbed CVE-2019-5736, allows an infected container to overwrite the host runC binary and gain root-level code access...
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Datadog Blog | February 11, 2019
Performance Monitoring with OpenTracing, OpenCensus, and OpenMetrics
If you are familiar with instrumenting applications, you may have heard of OpenMetrics, OpenTracing, and OpenCensus. These projects aim to create standards for application performance monitoring and collecting metric data. Although the projects do overlap in terms of their goals, they each take a...
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