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...

AWS Finch: Why the cloud giant created a new open source macOS client for container development

At the recent AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Principal Engineer Phil Estes and Principal Technologist Jesse Butler gave a revealing presentation on Finch, a...

What is the best way to run a container on AWS? And will Lambda SnapStart come to other runtimes?

Interview: DevClass spoke to Deepak Singh, VP Developers, Events, Containers and Serverless at AWS.  How many ways are there to run a container on AWS?...

Microsoft releases .NET 7 spanning Windows to WebAssembly, but can it keep up with the modern web platform?

Microsoft has released .NET 7, along with a flurry of updates to related frameworks and tools, including C# 11, F# 7, Entity Framework Core...

Serverside WebAssembly hyped at Kubecon North America: tooling for Docker and Dapr integration introduced

Kubecon has kicked off, both virtual and in-person in Detroit, Michigan, including a Cloud Native Wasm (WebAssmbly) Day hosted by CNCF (Cloud Native Computing...

After axing free plans, Heroku introduces ‘low cost’ tier including scale to zero

Salesforce-owned Heroku is introducing new low-cost dyno plans, called Eco, to mitigate its decision last month to end free plans from November 28 this...