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December 9, 2021
by sjvn01
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It’s time to move off CentOS 8, here are your best choices.

The end of CentOS 8 Linux has been coming for awhile now, and the day is finally here. On December 31, 2021, Red Hat‘s CentOS Linux 8 will reach End Of Life (EOL). Since that falls right in the heart of the holiday season, … Continue reading →

June 2, 2021
by sjvn01
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GitOps: The next step in cloud-native development

What do you get when you combine DevOps management and the Git distributed version control system? Say hello to GitOps. Automation makes software better and more reliable. GitOps takes automation a step further and merges it with deployment. DevOps, in … Continue reading →

January 20, 2021
by sjvn01
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Elastic changes open-source license to monetize cloud-service use

Elastic is tackling Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) with its new license change. When Elastic, makers of the open-source search and analytic engine Elasticsearch and its companion data visualization dashboard Kibana, announced it was moving both programs’ source code from the Apache 2.0-license to the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and … Continue reading →

January 14, 2021
by sjvn01
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How Parler’s Data Was Harvested

Parler, the right-wing social network, is gone. Amazon Web Services (AWS) switched it off. And, Parler, as it was, isn’t coming back. Parler’s data, however, including death threats and geotagged deleted messages, had been scraped and it’s being published on numerous public websites. Here’s how it … Continue reading →

January 12, 2021
by sjvn01
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Why Parler’s revival on public cloud is complicated and unlikely

Now that Amazon Web Services has shut down Parler, will the social network rebuild elsewhere? Parler CEO John Matze says Parler will be back with “many competing for our business.” Don’t bet on it. There appears to be no major public cloud or hosting … Continue reading →

July 9, 2020
by sjvn01
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Docker partners with AWS to smooth container deployments

On July 9, 2020, Docker and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced they would make Docker application developers’ lives easier by streamlining the process of deploying and managing containers from Docker Compose, Docker Desktop, and Docker Hub to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate. Docker partners … Continue reading →