It wasn’t that long ago when Kevin Xu, general manager of global strategy and operations at PingCAP, remembers walking into what he described as a “dark and dingy” basement at an internet cafe to play World of Warcraft and eat noodles in his native China. READ MORE
At the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019, Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux and Git was in a conversation with Dirk Hohndel, VP and Chief Open Source Officer, VMware on the past, present, and future of Linux. READ MORE
At the core of a microservices software architecture lies the ability for each containerized workload to communicate with one another in a secure and dynamic fashion. Cloud native messaging system NATS has been providing this sort of functionality since its inception in 2010, and now with NATS 2.0, the open source messaging service has upped the ante, providing something that NATS creator Derek Collison says is akin to “containers for messaging,” with improved security, multitenancy, decentralized management and global scale. READ MORE
When asking someone what makes a solid leader in today’s open source communities, the answer often varies. In this podcast, we discuss leadership and the ways in which a community can and should do to better help underrepresented minorities become leaders in open source. READ MORE
Open source sustainability and all these questions were on the table when The New Stack Editor in Chief Alex Williams sat down at our first The New Stack Makers podcast from the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and Open Source Summit last month from Shanghai, China. He spoke with VMware Senior Staff Engineer Bryan Liles, and Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Dan Kohn. READ MORE
Open source messaging software NATS 2.0 has been released and offers advanced security management, global disaster recovery, and improved performance at scale. NATS is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) incubating project that provides messaging services for cloud native systems, IoT messaging, and microservices. READ MORE
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced at the KubeCon + Cloud Native + Open Source China Summit today that it is expanding the number of special interest groups (SIGs) surrounding Kubernetes, as part of an effort to accelerate development of critical complementary technologies. READ MORE
With Kubernetes 1.14, the team moved 10 enhancements to stable, but this time around that number has dropped to two, with many more alpha and beta features being introduced. Kubernetes 1.15, says team lead Claire Laurence, is focused far more on introducing new features than stable ones, and spending time building those features up before declaring them stable. READ MORE
The maturity of Kubernetes continues with v1.15, which arrives with custom resource definition updates and more. READ MORE
The release team in charge of Kubernetes today announced a 1.15 quarterly update that adds a bevy of application programming interfaces (APIs) to help make the platform even more flexible than it already is. READ MORE