Docker BuildKit 0.11 adds supply chain security features and more

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Docker has added supply chain security features to BuildKit, the build component of the Docker Engine, including provenance attestation and the ability...
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Fermyon’s new Spin and how ‘WebAssembly has miniscule compute requirements compared to more costly containers’

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

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Kubernetes 1.26, whose theme the team calls “Electrifying”, has been released with several important updates, including more complete support for Windows containers...
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AWS Finch: Why the cloud giant created a new open source macOS client for container development

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At the recent AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Principal Engineer Phil Estes and Principal Technologist Jesse Butler gave a revealing presentation on...
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What is the best way to run a container on AWS? And will Lambda SnapStart come to other runtimes?

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Interview: DevClass spoke to Deepak Singh, VP Developers, Events, Containers and Serverless at AWS.  Deepak Singh, VP Developer,...
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Microsoft releases .NET 7 spanning Windows to WebAssembly, but can it keep up with the modern web platform?

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Microsoft has released .NET 7, along with a flurry of updates to related frameworks and tools, including C# 11, F# 7, Entity...
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Serverside WebAssembly hyped at Kubecon North America: tooling for Docker and Dapr integration introduced

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Kubecon has kicked off, both virtual and in-person in Detroit, Michigan, including a Cloud Native Wasm (WebAssmbly) Day hosted by CNCF (Cloud...
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After axing free plans, Heroku introduces ‘low cost’ tier including scale to zero

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Salesforce-owned Heroku is introducing new low-cost dyno plans, called Eco, to mitigate its decision last month to end free plans from November...
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Microsoft emits .NET 7 early release licensed for production, new Visual Studio preview

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Microsoft has released .NET 7 Release Candidate (RC) 1, and according to the team: “This is the first of two … that...
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StackBlitz server-in-browser adds Firefox support, headless API

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StackBlitz, whose WebContainer product enables a Node.js server to run in WebAssembly within the browser for development, has added alpha support for...
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Rust applications previewed on Azure Sphere – a ‘lifeline’ for embedded systems, says Microsoft

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Microsoft has previewed Rust-based applications on Azure Sphere, its platform for cloud-connected devices. Azure Sphere is formed of...
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Microsoft’s devcontainer.json: Just for VS Code or an evolving standard?

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Last month,  Microsoft declared that “dev containers have become broadly useful for scenarios beyond VS Code” and introduced an open source development...
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Interview: Does new Envoy Gateway give hope for reduction in Kubernetes project sprawl?

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Part of the notorious CNCF Cloud Native Landscape diagram: too many "duplicative efforts"? Among the most significant announcements...
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GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 released with Dependabot and more, but cloud version gets features first

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GitHub Enterprise Server, the self-hosted version of the code shack's platform, has hit version 3.5. The company said there are over 60...
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Cloud-native developers grow, proportion knowingly using Kubernetes slides – report

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A report out this week indicates that while the population of cloud-native developers is growing, the number of programmers consciously using Kubernetes...
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Docker launches Extensions, Linux Desktop, CEO doesn’t expect it’ll ‘take away more free stuff’

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Docker put out a new Extensions feature at its virtual DockerCon event, which opened today. There is also the first release of...
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