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Auth0, Fortinet, and Vercel Among New Verified Terraform Providers
There are new providers from very important vendors and cloud services like Cisco, Fortinet and Auth0!
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/auth0-fortinet-and-vercel-among-new-verified-terraform-providers
Amazon MSK Serverless Now Generally Available
Amazon MSK Serverless automatically provisions and manages the required resources to provide on-demand streaming capacity and storage for your applications. Get started with a new Apache Kafka workload where you don’t know how much capacity you will need or if your applications produce unpredictable or highly variable throughput. It provides provisioning, scaling, and managing resource utilization of Kafka clusters.
Amazon EC2 Now Supports NitroTPM and UEFI Secure Boot
A TPM chip is a secure crypto-processor that is designed to carry out cryptographic operations. There are three key advantages of using TPM technology. First, you can generate, store, and control access to encryption keys outside of the operating system. Second, you can use a TPM module to perform platform device authentication by using the TPM’s unique RSA key, which is burned into it. And third, it may help to ensure platform integrity by taking and storing security measurements.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-now-supports-nitrotpm-and-uefi-secure-boot/
Linux Kernel 5.18 Released
Updated support for graphic cards and network chipsets. It now supports some ARM microprocessors like Tesla FSD and Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. It has switched C standard from C89 to C11 (GCC 5.1 requires C11).
https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-5-18-release
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/23/linux_kernel_5_18/
Announcing Rust 1.61.0
Updates: custom exit codes from main, more capabilities for const fn, static handles for locked stdio, and Stabilized APIs.
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/05/19/Rust-1.61.0.html
Proxmox Backup Server 2.2 released
The enterprise backup solution for backing up and restoring VMs, containers, and physical hosts seamlessly integrates into Proxmox Virtual Environment and allows you to back up your business-critical data safely. Based on Debian 11.3 "Bullseye", but using a Linux kernel 5.15, and ZFS 2.1.4.
https://www.proxmox.com/en/news/mailid-188
The Kubernetes ecosystem hits its inflection point
Jason Bloomberg is asserting that Kubernetes has reached an inflection point, I am not sure if it is true but it has some interesting points exposed in his article.
https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/22/kubernetes-ecosystem-hits-inflection-point/
Leveraging local storage in Kubernetes to reduce cloud storage by 200x
A recent survey by the Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) suggests that 70 per cent of organizations using Kubernetes are now happily running data-centric, stateful applications. However, many companies are hosting their storage outside Kubernetes since there is still fear to run stateful applications on Kubernetes. This fear can lead to a 200x of storage usage, according to the author.
Report: Broadcom in talks to acquire virtualization software giant VMware
The New Hetzner dedicated root server EX43
Running the new Intel® Core™ i5-12500 processor, with up to 128GB DDR4.
https://www.hetzner.com/news/03-22-ex43/
I hope you find useful this curated list of articles and news. This is the first issue, it is still a work in progress, I am sure it will improve.