Tag: Open Source

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Citus 11.0 is here! Citus is a PostgreSQL extension that adds distributed database superpowers to PostgreSQL. With Citus, you can create tables that are transparently distributed or replicated across a cluster of PostgreSQL nodes. Citus 11.0 is a new major release, which means that it comes with some very exciting new features that enable new levels of scalability. The biggest enhancement in Citus 11.0 is that you can now always run distributed queries from any node in the cluster because the schema & metadata are automatically synchronized. We already shared some of the details in the Citus ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Today is the culmination of years of hard work at EDB, and, hopefully, the beginning of a new phase in the multi-decade evolution of Postgres and its community.On April 21, 2022, EDB released CloudNativePG—an open source Kubernetes operator that manages highly available primary/standby cluster architectures for the Postgres database management system. CloudNativePG is distributed under the Apache License 2.0, and is now owned and governed by a newly formed community of contributors to the project, built on solid principles and values inspired by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Among these are openness, fairness, inclusivity, technical excellence, ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. This blog is about my work on the Postgres open source database, and is published on Planet PostgreSQL. PgLife allows monitoring of all Postgres community activity. Abuse of Open Source? Monday, April 4, 2022 With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is renewed focus on the use of Postgres by governments, particularly uses that might further military goals. The unintended use of technology is nothing new. Alfred Nobel's invention of dynamite prompted the creation of the Nobel Peace Prize to promote peace. Manhattan Project engineers unsuccessfully tried to control the use of the atomic bomb they created ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Caroline Mulligan. Governments who want to digitally transform services with the cloud face a common challenge: how to provide scalable, accessible, and secure innovations for citizens, despite constraints on cloud-skilled talent, time, and money. Leveraging open source technology – taking the “open source road” – solves this problem because governments can use previously tested and scrutinized code, architecture, and technical designs that have worked for other organizations, including governments. The open source approach is a secure and common-sense approach that cuts project timelines by months or even years by utilizing secure code and robust ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Proton support for defining infrastructure in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) and provisioning infrastructure using Terraform Open Source is now generally available in all regions where Proton is available. Platform teams can now define AWS Proton templates using Terraform modules, in addition to CloudFormation. AWS Proton leverages the customer-managed Terraform automation to provision or update the infrastructure. Customers can use Terraform as their infrastructure definition and provisioning tool, and AWS Proton keeps modules that are used consistently up to date. This generally available launch includes support for BitBucket repositories for infrastructure management, and improved messaging across the ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Relay and the open source communityRelay is deliberately built to be easy to extend. The more steps there are in the world the better it is for everyone who wants to write a workflow. It's sort of like fax machines or MySpace: you'll want to use the same technology that the people you're communicating with use. OK, maybe the fax machine isn't not a great analogy... the point is, nourishing a healthy open-source ecosystem and community around Relay is super important to its success. In this post I'll talk about the different aspects ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Erin Chapple. With more than 1 million views of our fireside chats, we’re inspired by the tremendous opportunity to connect those within the community—customers, partners, and technology enthusiasts everywhere. Whether you engage in the live ask-the-experts sessions, watch the deep-dive skilling videos, or join us for fireside chats—the Azure team and I are delighted and humbled by your participation and enthusiasm for Inside Azure for IT.  In our third episode, we talk about some of our Linux and open source-related partnerships, product innovation, and initiatives, plus how that helps customers and communities. To those who ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: David Dennis. To show you the latest capabilities of using Linux and Azure—and share some exciting announcements—we will be hosting Azure Open Source Day on Tuesday, February 15, 2022, from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM Pacific Time. Push your apps and data to the next level by using Azure, open source, and Linux together. Join this free digital event to learn how to natively run your open-source workloads on Azure, expand their capabilities, and innovate in new ways using Azure services. At this event, you’ll learn how Microsoft is committed to open source and works ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. We are thrilled to have been awarded new funding as part of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Open Science program’s education and capacity building strategy. This $400K grant will support a new project to enable more members of historically excluded groups to participate in, benefit from, and become leaders in the R, research software engineering, and open source and open science communities. Developers in the R and open source communities are overwhelmingly white, male, from a handful of countries, primarily English-speaking, and do not use assistive technologies to participate. Research software ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; If you're looking to enforce CIS benchmarks with Puppet Compliance Enforcement Modules, click here.Enforcing CIS benchmarks on Linux using Open Source Puppet CIS (Center for Internet Security) is a non-profit organization that aims to develop a best practice in relation to cyber security. The CIS benchmarks have been adopted by many organizations as the standard against which to measure their systems. You can download a copy of the CIS standards for free from CIS Security; if you do, you'll see the high number of benchmarks. For example, for CentOS 7 there are 186 ... Read More