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Recently I was in New York giving a talk at O'Reilly Velocity on the topic of troubleshooting Kubernetes apps and, motivated by the positive feedback and great discussions on the topic, I decided to revisit tooling in the space.

Creating a text file is one task for which you can depend only on your keyboard on an Ubuntu system. This tutorial explains three commands which can be used to quickly create a text file.

Apache OpenWhisk is a serverless, open source cloud platform that allows you to execute code in response to events at any scale. Apache OpenWhisk offers developers a straightforward programming model based on four concepts: actions, packages, triggers, and rules.

Code to help those managing lots of servers unleashed, designated by jumbles of letters After years of making the world more open and connected – to everyone's delight – Facebook recently moved on to bringing the world closer together.…

OKD is the open source upstream community edition of Red Hat's OpenShift container platform. OKD is a container management and orchestration platform based on Docker and Kubernetes. OKD is a complete solution to manage, deploy, and operate containerized applications that (in addition to the features provided by Kubernetes) includes an easy-to-use web interface, automated build tools, routing capabilities, and monitoring and logging aggregation features. read more

Django is a free and open source high-level Python web framework designed to help developers build secure, scalable and maintainable web applications. In this tutorial, we will be installing and configuring the latest stable version of Django on a CentOS 7 machine inside a Python virtual environment.

Drawing arrows in GIMP is very easy. You just need the right plugins to do the job. We show here where to grab the arrow plugin and start drawing arrows in GIMP.

The Fedora Project announced the final release of the Fedora 29 Linux operating system, a major update that comes six months after the previous version.

The terminal is a very powerful tool, and it can be a fun place to be, too. Here are some fun Linux commands you can run in terminal and make it interesting.

In their article, What is agile?, Jen Krieger, Daniel Oh, and Matt Takane discuss what we at Red Hat consider the most important sentence of the Agile Manifesto: “We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.”

By buying Red Hat, IBM doubles-down on both the cloud and the open-source software, which powers it.

October was big month for events at The Linux Foundation. Seriously, just this month, the LF-affiliated events included: Hyperledger Hackfest and Hyperledger Member Summit and Open FinTech Forum.

With the Firefox 63 release out the door, Mozilla is now working hard on the next release in the Quantum series, Firefox 64, which is expected to arrive in mid-December with various improvements and enhancements.

Big Blue plans to use both Red Hat's name and expertise to help convince potential enterprise customers that it is the company to choose to reshape legacy on-premises infrastructure to a hybrid cloud approach, utilizing modern cloud native technologies -- an area where Red Hat is a leader and IBM is sorely lacking. In addition, it'll most likely take advantage of the new acquisition to further optimize RHEL and the rest of the Red Hat stack for its servers, especially its mainframe offerings which have seen a considerable uptake since the introduction of the LinuxONE line.

After unwrapping the Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) release, Canonical is now kicking off the development cycle of the next major release, Ubuntu 19.04, due in spring 2019.

"It's all just a bunch of hocus pocus!" — Max in Hocus Pocus Over my many years as a system administrator, I've heard many horror stories about the different ghosts that have haunted new admins due to their inexperience. Here are three of the stories that stand out to me the most in helping build my character as a good sysadmin. read more

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Corbin Champion about Userland, an easy way to run Linux on your Android device, and other new projects.

Criptext is a fairly new encrypted email service that claims it "doesn't store any emails in its servers" and instead, "all your emails are stored on your device alone". The service uses the open source Signal Protocol to encrypt emails from end to end.

Hardware hacks are particularly scary because they trump any software security safeguards—for example, they can render all accounts on a server password-less. Fortunately, we can benefit from what the software industry has learned from decades of fighting prolific software hackers: Using open source techniques can, perhaps counterintuitively, make a system more secure. Open source hardware and distributed manufacturing can provide protection from future attacks. read more