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Red Hat Extends Scope of Podman Container Tool for IT Admins
Red Hat today added a systems roles capability to its Podman tool for developing, managing and running containers on Linux platforms. This capability aims to make it simpler for administrators to automatically ...

BellSoft Optimizes Java for Cloud-Native Platform
BellSoft today is adding a BellSoft Alpaquita Cloud Native Platform to its portfolio that makes it possible to more efficiently run Java applications encapsulated in containers. As part of that effort, the ...

SUSE Extends Podman Reach to Kubernetes Deployments
SUSE has updated the instance of the open source Podman container management tool to now make it possible to also deploy workloads on Kubernetes clusters. In addition, support for Kubernetes liveness probes ...

Canonical Expands Ubuntu Container Image Portfolio
As part of an update to its Ubuntu operating system, Canonical has added Grafana Loki, Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra container images to the portfolio of images to which it provides long-term ...

Solo.io BumbleBee Expands Access to eBPF Technologies
Solo.io has launched an open source BumbleBee project that makes it simpler for developers to take advantage of extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technologies that run within the kernel of an operating ...

Docker, Inc. Accelerates Updates to Tools Portfolio
Docker, Inc. has revealed that Docker Desktop for Linux (DD4L) is now available via a developer preview program and that an updated version of the Docker Compose tool for building applications spanning ...

Sophos Acquires Capsule8 Security Platform for Linux Containers
Sophos this week announced it has acquired Capsule8, a provider of tools for securing runtimes on Linux servers and container platforms, as part of an effort to expand its current focus beyond ...

When (And When Not) to Use eBPF
Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) is a relatively new feature for Linux kernels that has many DevOps professionals, SREs and engineers excited. But is it a one-stop shop for all of your ...

Red Hat Pushes Container Images to the Edge
At its online Red Hat Summit event today, Red Hat announced it is adding additional deployment and management capabilities for deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) using Linux containers. Scott McBrien, a ...

SUSE Funds Cloud-Native Skills Scholarships
SUSE has announced it is sponsoring 300 online education scholarships to provide aspiring practitioners with free access to a cloud-native education program, dubbed the Cloud Native Application Architecture Nanodegree program, delivered by ...