June 25, 2020
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Puppet is a great DevOps program for managing multiple servers, but it wants to do more than automating server setup, program installation, and system management. The Portland, Oregon-based open-source company wants to automate processes across any cloud infrastructure — as well as all tools and APIs — with its new cloud-aware DevOps program Relay.
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June 24, 2020
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The Cloud Foundry Foundation, home to the open-source Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud, announced from the virtual Cloud Foundry North American Summit the release of version 7 of the Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface (CF CLI v7).
A command line? For the cloud? Oh yes. There are still times — many times — when for fine control of setup, monitoring, and management, you can’t beat the power of shell commands.
June 24, 2020
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2020’s Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is a great Linux laptop. Now it’s better than ever. On June 23, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, announced the latest Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is now available in North America and selected EMEA countries with Ubuntu 20.04 Long Term Support (LTS) pre-installed.
This makes the Dell XPS 13, with its speedy Ice Lake Intel Core i7-1065G7 and up to 32GBs of RAM and Hynix 512GB NVMe Solid State Drive (SSD), the first shipping Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system. This is a great combination. I’ve upgraded my Dell XPS 13 to Ubuntu 20.04 from 18.04 and it runs like a top.
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June 24, 2020
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Ansible, a leading DevOps program, may not be Red Hat‘s most well-known product line, but after Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for system and cloud administrators, it may be the most important one. Thanks to its latest edition, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with Ansible Tower 3.7 and its new Red Hat Certified Ansible Content Collections, Ansible’s more important than ever.
Red Hat upgrades Ansible DevOps and new Certified Ansible Content Collections More>
June 24, 2020
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Which seems more unlikely to you? Dogs and cats living together in peace or Microsoft releasing a security program for Linux? Actually, both are true. On June 23, Microsoft released Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for Linux for general use.
June 23, 2020
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For years, x86 processors and Linux have ruled supercomputing. Linux still runs 500 out of the TOP500 supercomputers in the world. For just about as long, x86 CPUs have dominated supercomputers — until now. On June 22, Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer, powered by Fujitsu‘s 48-core A64FX SoC and running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), became the first ARM-powered supercomputer to be dubbed the fastest computer in the world.