Best of 2024

centos tombstone

Best of 2024: RIP CentOS. Hello AlmaLinux Rocky Linux, CentOS Stream or RHEL

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | December 24, 2024 | AlmaLinux, centos7, linux, Linux distributions, red hat, rhel, Rocky Linux

CentOS 7's official end of life is June 30th. What should a DevOps team do? We help you consider your choices ...

two pens.

Best of 2024: IBM Confirms: It’s Buying HashiCorp

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | December 23, 2024 | acquisition, Hashicorp, ibm, infrastructure as code, opentofu, Terraform

Everyone knew HashiCorp was attempting to find a buyer. Few suspected it would be IBM ...

sign posts with many colored signs

Best of 2024: Valkey is Rapidly Overtaking Redis

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | December 23, 2024 | database, dbms, key-value database, Linux Foundation, open source, Redis, source available, valkey

Redis is taking it in the chops, as both maintainers and customers move to the Valkey Redis fork ...

OpenTofu, stack, KubeCon, generative AI, open source, AI, future, shiny new thing, reflection, light

My Personal Reflection on DevOps in 2024 and Looking Ahead to 2025

Alan Shimel | December 23, 2024 | devops, prediction, reflection, year-end

It’s that time of the year again when I take a moment to do some navel gazing and look at what was and what will be. Not that I have a crystal ...