The Linux Foundation announced today that an open source application programming interface (API) gateway known as KrakenD has become the latest project it will oversee. Rechristened the Lura Project, the lightweight stateless API gateway was originally developed by KrakenD, which plans to continue to offer an enterprise edition of the platform. KrakenD CEO Albert Lombarte […]
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Digital Infrastructure Project for Agriculture, Enables Global Collaboration Among Industry, Government and Academia
AgStack Foundation will build and sustain the global data infrastructure for food and agriculture to help scale digital transformation and address climate change, rural engagement and food and water security SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 5, 2021 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the launch of the […]
Armory Joins Continuous Delivery Foundation As Premier Member
Armory provides enterprise version of Spinnaker, open source continuous delivery multi-cloud project housed under CD Foundation SAN FRANCISCO, April 13, 2021 – The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), the open-source software foundation that seeks to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed, today announced that Armory has joined the CDF as a […]
Linux Foundation Takes Control Of AsyncAPI Specification
The Linux Foundation announced today that it now plays host to an AsyncAPI Initiative that has developed a specification and a suite of open source tools for asynchronous application programming interfaces (APIs) and event-driven architectures. Founding sponsors of the AsyncAPI Initiative include Ably Realtime, Apideck, Bump, IQVIA Technologies, Slack, Solace and TIBCO. Most recently, Postman, […]
Linux Foundation Project Secures Software Supply Chains
The Linux Foundation today embraced a sigstore project founded by Red Hat, Google and Purdue University to make it simpler for developers to employ cryptographic software, enabled by transparency log technologies, to secure software supply chains. Luke Hinds, security engineering lead in the office of the CTO at Red Hat, said he and Dan Lorenc, […]
Linux Foundation Announces Free sigstore Signing Service to Confirm Origin and Authenticity of Software
Red Hat, Google and Purdue University lead efforts to ensure software maintainers, distributors and consumers have full confidence in their code, artifacts and tooling SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 9, 2021 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the sigstore project. sigstore improves the security of the software […]
New Training Course Helps Gain Expertise with Jenkins CI/CD
Course to help SREs, software developers, software architects and other DevOps professionals use Jenkins to improve their CI/CD practices SAN FRANCISCO, October 6, 2020 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the availability of a new training course, LFS267 – Jenkins Essentials. LFS267, developed in conjunction with the Continuous Delivery Foundation, is […]
Linux Foundation Adds Entry-Level Certification
The Linux Foundation has announced the development of a new entry-level certification exam to complement their existing Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin (LFCS) and Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE) exams. This new certification, the Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate (LFCA), targets people just moving into systems administration. The certification will focus on the test taker’s knowledge […]
The Linux Foundation to Award 500 Training Scholarships
The Linux Foundation this week announced it will make up to 500 training scholarships available this year. Clyde Seepersad, general manager for training at the Linux Foundation, said the number of Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarships being made available is being increased because of both the demand for individuals with particular expertise such as Kubernetes […]
The Foundational Era of Open Source
Contrary to popular belief, software is not eating the world. Open source software is eating the world. This was very apparent at the Linux Foundation’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event recently in San Diego. Driving this phenomenon is what I call the Foundational era of Open Source. This Foundational era of Open Source has replaced what […]