Interview: Not much on Kubernetes at AWS re:Invent? More than it seemed, VP tells us

Kubernetes is hot in the enterprise, yet received little attention in the keynotes at the AWS re:Invent conference last week where the focus was...

Ubuntu chiselled containers arrive for .NET – smaller, more secure, but beware ‘sharp edges’

Ubuntu has made its chiselled containers for .NET generally available, providing a claimed 20 percent performance improvement for container startup as well as security...

Microsoft releases .NET 8 with preview of Aspire cloud-ready stack to ‘simplify cloud app complexity’

Microsoft has released .NET 8 to general availability - a long-term support version - together with a preview of Aspire, a new “cloud ready...

Docker introduces ‘seems like magic’ container debug tool and cloud-driven build service

Docker introduced Docker Debug today at its DockerCon event now under way in Los Angeles, as well as a “next-generation” cloud-assisted Docker Build and...

Fermyon previews new spin on Serverless AI via Wasm

Fermyon, specialists in WebAssembly (Wasm) microservices, has introduced a new serverless AI platform, in association with Kubernetes hosting service Civo. The service uses Large Language...

Podman Desktop 1.0 released: a challenge to Docker Desktop

The RedHat-sponsored open source project Podman Desktop has hit general availability, with features including building and running containers, running Kubernetes locally, and connecting and...

Despite ‘extremely disruptive’ Jakarta EE change, Red Hat releases the Quarkus 3.0 container-optimized framework

Red Hat has released Quarkus 3.0, its Java framework for containers and Kubernetes, with this being the version based on Jakarta EE 10. New...

Amazon now the most popular Java Development Kit vendor for production, says observability survey

A new “State of the Java ecosystem” survey by observability company New Relic states that the Amazon JDK (Java Development Kit) is now the...

Linux Foundation Europe chief warns EU bill could fragment open source – and load risk onto devs

The head of Linux Foundation Europe took to the stage at Kubecon today to deliver an unscheduled call to action for the open source...

Docker subscription revenue 30 times higher than three years ago, CEO claims

Docker CEO Scott Johnston says the company’s annual recurring revenue has increased by 30 times in the past 3 years. At a press briefing...

Docker to users of Free Team orgs: One month to pay up or we freeze account and images go [Updated]

Update on Friday, March 17: Docker has apologized for the way it communicated its scrapping of free accounts for teams, and sought to clarify...

Fly.io CEO says reliability ‘not great’ as platform suffers scaling issues

Fly.io, a platform for easy deployment of container-based applications, is suffering reliability problems following a rapid influx of users. “We’ve pushed the platform past what...

Kwok: simulate nodes with “Kubernetes without Kubelet” for controller testing

A Kubernetes SIG (Special Interest Group) has introduced Kwok (Kubernetes Without Kubelet) in order to make testing a Kubernetes controller easier. Kwok simulates nodes,...

Docker BuildKit 0.11 adds supply chain security features and more

Docker has added supply chain security features to BuildKit, the build component of the Docker Engine, including provenance attestation and the ability to generate...

Fermyon’s new Spin and how ‘WebAssembly has miniscule compute requirements compared to more costly containers’

Fermyon’s Spin project has reached version 0.7.0 – now updated with a bug-fix release 0.7.1 – adding important features including Linux Arm64 support and...

‘Electrifying’ Kubernetes 1.26 released with improved Windows support, verified binaries

Kubernetes 1.26, whose theme the team calls “Electrifying”, has been released with several important updates, including more complete support for Windows containers and, for...