Gitpod Revamps Dev Automation Tool
Gitpod announced today it refreshed the dashboard for its namesake open source tool for automating the deployment of development environments, in addition to making Microsoft VS Code its default tool for editing code. In addition, Gitpod has included support for sudo privileges and Docker images using an advanced user namespace to map and limit access […]
AlmaLinux Foundation Delivers on CentOS Promise
A nonprofit organization launched this week to oversee future development of AlmaLinux, a distribution of Linux based on code originally contributed to the open source CentOS project. At the same time, CloudLinux, which created AlmaLinux in response to a decision by Red Hat to pull financial support for CentOS, announced that a stable version of […]
Red Hat Survey Reveals More Confidence in Open Source
A recent Red Hat survey revealed how DevOps teams increasingly depend on open source to support their shift to cloud-native environments and digital transformations, and to maintain security in these highly distributed environments. Based on a survey of 1,250 IT professionals, Red Hat maintains that the survey respondents — from organizations that were Red Hat […]
Eclipse Foundation Creates Adoptium Working Group for OpenJDK Binaries
The Eclipse Foundation announced today a working group that will establish a governance framework for an Eclipse Adoptium project that enables developers to download compatible runtimes based on OpenJDK source code. Members of the Adoptium working group include Alibaba Cloud, Huawei, IBM, iJUG, Karakun AG, Microsoft, New Relic and Red Hat. OpenJDK is a free […]
Open Source Vs. Proprietary DataOps
Core DataOps concepts are making their way into data engineering teams and, from there, into the broader enterprise. Data engineers are retooling how they create data products, and much of this work revolves around creating data pipelines. DataOps pipelines offer the kind of observability that traditional data integration and ETL processes don’t or can’t. They […]
Harness Revamps User Interface for CI Platform
Harness today announced it has updated the community edition of its continuous integration (CI) platform with, among other updates, a revamped user interface. Formerly known as Drone.io, the latest release also adds pipeline execution visualizations, governance and security controls and live CI pipeline debugging capabilities. Harness last year acquired Drone.io, an open source CI project, […]
How Open Source Software Powers Digital Innovation
Open source has permanently altered how we work and conduct business. Linux, and thousands of other open source projects and open standards, now dominate the software landscape, supporting emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and edge computing. Without open source, the DevOps tooling ecosystem would lack Docker, Kubernetes, service mesh, popular databases, and many CI/CD tools […]
Scarf Gateway Tracks Open Source Software Usage
Scarf today exited stealth to launch a gateway that makes it simpler for individuals or organizations to track usage of open source software. Avi Press, founder of Scarf, said the Scarf Gateway is an online service through which providers of open source software can redirect downloads from a wide range of repositories and registries. That […]
GitLab Releases Updates to CI/CD Platform
GitLab this week made available a 13.9 update that adds more than 60 new features and updated capabilities to its namesake open source continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Brian Glanz, a product marketing manager for GitLab, said chief among those capabilities is a Security Alert Dashboard that enables DevOps teams to triage high-priority alerts more […]
Amex, Adobe Join GitHub Intern Program
GitHub revealed today that Adobe and American Express have joined its Summer 2021 Fellowship program, a 12-week, hands-on curriculum where interns work alongside developers to contribute to open source projects hosted on the GitHub repository. Vanessa Gennarelli, senior director of education at GitHub, said the overall goal of the program is increase the pool of […]
DevSecOps Trends to Know For 2021
For DevSecOps leaders, 2021 will be the year of the open source supply chain attack. It’s already starting, in fact. On January 7, security researchers at Sonatype identified three malicious Java components in the Maven Central repository. The components had identical names to reputable components. Then on January 20, the same research team found three […]
Open Source Advocates Want Share of Wealth
The egalitarian spirit of the open source community might be starting to fray as individual developers begin to question who is really benefiting most from their efforts. A survey of 4,440 developers who actively participated in open source projects in 2020 finds more than half (54%) of respondents said they feel that individuals should be […]
Join the Open Source Languages for z/OS User Forum
Why join the Rocket Open Source Languages and Tools for z/OS forum? It’s a place where you can ask questions about our open source languages and tools and get answers from other mainframe professionals like yourself, as well as members of the Rocket team. As a Forum member, you can engage with your peers, learn […]
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Empower your developers to use their preferred open source languages. We offer many open source languages and tools—including Git, R and Python—that allow any developer to harness the power of the mainframe without spending months learning new skills. Git Git is a version control system (VCS) for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating work […]
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Ready to learn more about support options for Rocket open source tools? All Rocket maintenance contracts include new versions, releases, modifications, service packs, access to the Rocket Customer Portal, chat, 24×7 phone support, proactive alerts, tech notes and how-to webinars. There are no support tiers—all customers receiving maintenance services get the same premium level of […]
EraDB Launches Log Management Alternative
EraDB today launched EraSearch to provide IT teams with an alternative to open source ElasticSearch software for managing logs at scale. Todd Persen, EraDB’s CEO, said EraSearch is based on a modern database that decouples storage and compute. In this way, EraSearch can scale more efficiently than ElasticSearch, while providing IT teams with the same […]
The Benefits of Open Source Technologies
Over the last 20 years, we have seen the proliferation of open source software and technologies become part of commercial offerings, either as part of the technology stack that powers the product or part of the product itself. Although these two use cases are largely different, both have come to showcase just how useful open […]
Tidelift Secures Open Source Software Supply Chains
Tidelift today announced the general availability of a platform dubbed Tidelift catalogs, through which enterprise IT organizations can more effectively manage their open source supply chains. Donald Fischer, Tidelift’s CEO, says the Tidelift catalogs platform enables IT teams to curate, track and manage open source components that have been vetted and adhere to compliance requirements […]
Open Mainframe Virtual Summit: Adding Value to the Mainframe
While many predicted mainframes would eventually become obsolete, they continue to be prevalent in the corporate world. Mainframes are still in high demand, and the mainframe market is likely to grow over the next few years as business and IT leaders validate its enduring role in their hybrid strategies. Mainframes are rapidly evolving to meet […]
Open Source and the Mainframe with Rocket Software
Open source enables developers to quickly create and deploy containers and business services across public and private infrastructures. Open source tools allow DevOps teams to harness the power of the mainframe. In this TechStrong TV interview, Tim Willging, chief architect and strategist, and Peter Fandel, mainframe open source evangelist at Rocket Software, join Mitch Ashley […]
The Use of Open Source in Mainframe Environments
Open source is a critical element of IT computing. As companies modernize the mainframe and start to add components to mainframe applications that are off the mainframe, they should to be able to build, test and deploy the components of that application that go across the mainframe and different computing platforms in the same manner. […]
CentOS Rebellion Against Red Hat Gains Momentum
Two insurgent efforts to make sure the CentOS distribution remains viable have been launched following a decision by Red Hat to no longer invest in that fork of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. Launched in 2006, CentOS is widely employed by IT organizations that need an open source distribution of Linux to, for […]
Armory Offers Framework to Extend Spinnaker
Armory, provider of a curated instance of open source Spinnaker continuous delivery (CD) software, is making generally available an open source plugin framework for any instance of Spinnaker. Announced this week at its online OPEN CORE SUMMIT, the framework has already been employed to create 15 plugins for Spinnaker, including an observability tool from Armory […]