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The Kubernetes 1.30 update packs major improvements across core areas like networking, storage, scheduling and code architecture, further demonstrating Kubernetes’ continued evolution to support diverse cloud native workloads and environments.

The open source StarlingX project is out with its 9.0 release, promising improved performance and capabilities for users of the telco and edge-focused cloud computing platform.

The StarlingX project is part of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, which is the home of the OpenStack cloud computing platform. In addition to OpenStack, StarlingX integrates Kubernetes and Ceph to help enable edge computing to telco use cases. T

The open-source Apache Airflow 2.9 release is out today, providing users of the widely deployed data orchestration platform with a series of advanced capabilities. The Apache Airflow technology was created by Airbnb as a way to help better organize and manage the flow of information in data pipelines. Airflow integrates with major data platforms and cloud provider systems including Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud

SUSE updated its container management and edge computing platforms with a pair of releases that boost security and automation. Rancher Prime 3.0 is SUSE’s flagship commercially supported container management platform. SUSE Edge 3.0 is, as the name implies, an edge computing platform that optimizes the Rancher platform for edge-of-network deployments.

No GUAC is not a tasty avocado based dip for nachos, The graph for understanding artifact composition (GUAC) is all about improving software supply chain security.GUAC is celebrating a major milestone today, joining the OpenSSF as an incubating project.

With Mobile World Congress (MWC) in full swing, there has been no shortage of news about open radio access networks (open RANs) and the multitude of vendors racing to provide services to support that technology.

Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind the Ubuntu Linux operating system (OS), is now entering the market with a new offering available on the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere (EKS Anywhere) that is designed specifically for open RAN deployments.

The Linux Foundation’s Nephio project hit a major milestone this week with its release 2 (R2) update. Nephio R2 builds upon the success of R1 with additional automation capabilities. While R1 provided the core automation foundations, Nephio R2 advances network automation with a focus on radio access network (RAN) and multicloud frameworks.

Linux and open-source technology provider SUSE today is announcing the latest iteration of its Adaptive Telco Infrastructure Platform (ATIP) 3.0 that offers better control over 5G network deployments using automation and better coverage for hardware. ATIP is based on SUSE’s edge stack with the addition of telco-specific optimizations.

It took just a bit longer than usual for Linux 6.7 to be released, thanks in part to the fact that there were eight release candidates and the Christmas holiday period. It’s also worth noting that Linux 6.7 is one of the largest kernel releases.

The Linux Foundation is expanding its LF Connectivity project with the addition of two new subprojects: Magma and ISP Toolbox. Launched in May, LF Connectivity got its start with three networking projects contributed by Meta. The overall goal of LF Connectivity is to create a sustainable ecosystem of technologies to enable communication service providers to meet emerging connectivity requirements.

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced today that it is merging its portfolio of open source networking projects into the Linux Foundation as independent projects.Founded in 2011, ONF has been the driving force behind many open source innovations in software-defined networking, network disaggregation, and network programmability.

The Kubernetes 1.29 milestone is the final release for 2023 for the open source cloud native technology and introduces a range of new features and enhancements. Kubernetes has multiple updates this year, the new release follows the Kubernetes 1.28 update that came out in August.

What does it take to make secure software? The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has a few ideas (10 of them, in fact). This week at the OpenSSF Day Japan event in Tokyo, the nonprofit group run by the Linux Foundation issued the release of ten guiding principles that aim to help organizations develop more secure software. OpenSSF, which focuses on improving open source security, developed the principles to provide a framework for companies to follow best practices throughout their development lifecycles.

Linux isn’t the only open-source operating system (OS). There are also a number of Unix-like open-source BSD operating systems, including FreeBSD, that are still in active development. “FreeBSD 14 represents a combination of some new features and a lot of updates to various subsystems to improve performance, stability and security,” Ed Maste, senior director of technology for the FreeBSD Foundation, told SDxCentral.

At the KubeCon NA 2023 conference this week, developers celebrated the general availability (GA) of the Gateway API, which literally opens up a new gateway to how Kubernetes networking and connectivity will be enabled in the future. Gateway API is intended to replace the Ingress API, which has long been one of the primary ways that a cloud native environment gains access to services outside of a cluster. Gateway API aims to solve numerous shortcomings in Ingress API and already benefits from the broad participation of many vendors.

One of the best ways to properly secure a cloud-native environment is to have full visibility, and that begins at the Linux kernel level. That’s one of the basic ideas behind the open-source Tetragon project, which celebrated its 1.0 release at the Kubecon NA 2023 event this week.

At KubeCon North America today, SUSE announced several updates to its container and edge computing platforms. The new offerings aim to help customers manage and secure diverse cloud-native environments.

The lakeFS project got its start back in 2020 and has been steadily improving in the years since, providing an open source technology to help organizations with version control for object storage based data, stored in data lakes.

There is yet another new project coming to the Linux Foundation, and though the name might imply otherwise, it isn’t about food. At the Open Source Summit Europe event in Bilbao, Spain, this morning the Linux Foundation announced that the OpenTofu project is coming under its wing. Previously code-named OpenTF, OpenTofu aims to create an open, community-driven successor to the Hashicorp Terraform infrastructure-as-code technology, under a neutral governance model.

The open-source PostgreSQL 16 database is out today, adding new features that will help improve performance for all types of workloads, including AI. PostgreSQL, also sometimes referred to as Postgres, is one of the most widely used and deployed open-source database technologies and has been steadily iterated since its first release back in 1996.