The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)’s in-house exhibition, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, is now available in four editions. There is a European version, the most recent of which took place in Paris in March, Heise said. The next time it will take place is in London in early April 2025. A version has been developed for the Chinese and Asian markets and now a version has also been developed for the Indian subcontinent. By far the largest edition of the conference takes place in North America. This year, more than 19,000 participants descended upon Salt Lake City, the capital of the US state of Utah. From November 12 to 15, Cloud Native and Kubernetes will be the focus. The overarching theme is “scaling new heights”.
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In the inaugural address, the focus was initially on open source software in general and its security. Heise reports on the Linux Foundation’s new approach against so-called patent trolls as part of the Open Source Summit EU in September 2024. Now, as announced at the time, CNCF is calling on the community to help. In Cloud Native Heroes Challenge Any interested person can contribute. In particular, this means: the allocation of a patent, the participant of which has to check its actual validity. There are video instructions and tips on how to proceed. Of course, there’s also something to win: up to 3000 US dollars. All participants will receive either a t-shirt or water bottle that reads “Cloud Native Heroes.”
Later it reverted to Kubernetes & Co. The news was mainly from the project corner. Dapper and certificate-manager have now reached a new level of maturity Can call oneself a “graduate”.To do this, they must meet a whole series of requirements. Currently there are 15. These include, among other things, documentation, project organization itself and a high probability of survival. certificate manager Used to manage X.509 certificates for encrypted communications in the cloud-native world. SW A runtime environment for distributed applications. To do this, it provides APIs for essential functions such as message exchange, workflow, password management or cryptographic operations.
Consolidation has been happening in the observation and telemetry sector for some time. CNCF alone has now closed four projects. in official language By the way, it’s called “stored”This announcement also fits into this Hunter-Version 2.0.0. On the one hand, this new major version is a natural evolution. Actually, he is Same as version 1.63.0On the other hand, an important innovation is the use of the so-called Open Telemetry Collector As a basis for Jaeger components. According to their own statements, related projects have repeatedly used or exchanged the same source code in the past. This “dual type” is no longer applicable. This step also reflects that opentelemetry Has established itself as the de facto standard for collecting and providing telemetry data.
Jaeger version 2.0.0 is the same as 1.63.0.
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Conclusion is a version of Keycloak. Another de facto standard: this time in the field of open source software for IAM (Identity and Access Management). Keycloak is often used as an identity provider and enables single sign-on, fine-grained authorization, and strong authentication, among other things. The following innovations in version 26 are interesting: X.509 server certificates can be exchanged without restarting and data about logged in users now ends up in a single database. This means that even after a restart they are still accessible and Keycloak requires less RAM during runtime. There is also a technology preview for integration with OpenTelemetry.
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