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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.

The open-source Kubernetes cloud-native platform is out with its second major update of 2023, introducing a long list of enhancements for operators in the new 1.28 release.Kubernetes is an open-source project, originally started by Google and now developed under the Linux Foundation’s Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), benefiting from the contributions of more than 900 companies.

Cilium, an open-source networking, security and observability project, has released version 1.14 with an array of connectivity, security and observability updates. The Cilium 1.14 update also introduces new mesh capabilities, high-speed networking and security enhancements.

The open source Istio service mesh project is hitting a major milestone today as it officially graduates to be a full project at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

The recently released Linux 6.4 kernel is making some big networking strides that end users, enterprises and service providers will benefit from in the months to come.Among the key networking features in Linux 6.4 are multiple improvements to improve traffic flow, extended support for Wi-Fi 7 wireless networking, new eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) features and IPv6 optimizations.

Getting an open-source LLM model deployed onto infrastructure has often been a bespoke process of trial and error as developers figure out the right compute resources and configuration parameters. It’s also not easy for developers to simply compare one model with another. These are some of the challenges Anyscale is looking to help solve with Aviary.

Red Hat is not a networking vendor, but it does play a strong supporting role in the networking ecosystem overall.

Wright noted that while his company is not necessarily in the business of low-level data center infrastructure networking gear, such as switches and routers, Red Hat’s software does integrate and touch all the low-level gear in one way or another.

Meta is contributing a series of technologies to a new open source initiative at the Linux Foundation designed to help improve networking connectivity.

Amazon is one of the leading contributors to Dent and helped to get the project started back in 2019 at the Linux Foundation. Dent is largely targeted at edge deployments which is where Amazon and other large organizations are using the technology.

As part of the open approach, there is an open source Java Development Kit (JDK) distribution that is published by multiple vendors, including but not limited to Oracle. For most of the history of OpenJDK, Oracle has remained one of the most commonly used distributions. In 2023 that slipped somewhat...

The open source Ray machine learning (ML) technology for deploying and scaling AI workloads is taking a big step forward today with the release of version 2.4. The new release takes specific aim at accelerating generative AI workloads.

Kubernetes is on the cusp of a series of new developments that will change the way networking works in cloud native deployments.

Kubernetes organizes its development efforts into various Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for specific topics. In session at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF‘s) Kubecon conference this week in Amsterdam (and streamed virtually) SIG-Network project leads detailed a series of upcoming innovations that are currently being developed for Kubernetes networking.

Among the most popular control planes is the open source Crossplane project, which Upbound leads. Crossplane is based on the open source Kubernetes control plane, and it enables users to pull in services from different providers and cloud service providers.

The 1-year-old open source PyScript programming framework is getting a new service that advocates hope will ease Python application development.

Just about every LLM/ Generative AI tool any of us can name is trained on cloud native architectures and and almost *all* of them rely on the open source Kubeflow project to make it happen.

A lot of people might say they’re running Linux, but the OS itself is actually almost just a single application that’s just running on Linux versus giving you that full Linux user experience,” Charles Conte exec director at Comcast said. “This is almost like an out of the box experience with SONiC because it is truly is a Linux user experience.”

The open source OpenStack cloud platform received its first major update of 2023 on March 22, with the release of OpenStack Antelope. With Antelope, OpenStack has now had 27 releases of its open source cloud platform, which got its start as a joint effort between Rackspace and NASA in 2010, expanding significantly in the years since then.

The open source Wireshark network protocol analyzer has been used by networking professionals for the last two decades and today the technology is finally getting its own open source foundation.

Among the big changes in the new StarlingX 8.0 update is a shift to the Debian Linux operating system, support for O-RAN standard as well the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) all in an effort to help telco users with IoT, 5G and edge computing deployments. StarlingX 8.0 also claims a 50% reduction of the platform footprint for 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, enabling more vRAN capacity.