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What’s Happening NEXT!
The Red Hat NEXT! conference is Red Hat’s annual event for deep dives on all things Emerging Technologies. Featuring a keynote from our CTO, Chris Wright, and breakout sessions on edge computing, cloud services, and security, this conference covers all of the most...
OpenTelemetry Tracing in Kubernetes Core
In this post, OpenTelemetry tracing and the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) is examined. As an example, the instrumentation required to generate and export OTLP traces from CRI-O is explained. CRI-O is an implementation of the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface, and...
Improving Storage System Reliability with Open Data
This post describes an open data research collaboration between the Ceph open source project and the Red Hat AI Center of Excellence, with a goal of addressing a long-standing problem with preemptively predicting storage device failure in order to improve overall...
Introducing VolSync: your data, anywhere
Organizations face a challenging task of identifying and developing data storage, backup, recovery, and migration solutions for the enterprise. There are a wide variety of tools and solutions in the ecosystem that work well with traditional legacy-type environments,...
Bucket Caching for Kubernetes
Object storage systems can offer simple, scalable and cost-effective means of storing heterogeneous data sets. Traditionally, these systems have been designed for media, backup, and archive. However, the usage of object storage systems is increasingly expanding to...
What is a Trusted Computing Base?
What does it mean for a system or component to be “trusted” in the world of computer systems? And why does it matter? In this post, we’ll provide an overview of what a Trusted Computing Base (TCB) is and provide a framework for how to evaluate a TCB’s security....
Deploying Crossplane Providers with the Operator Lifecycle Manager
Crossplane is a project that strives to bring cloud infrastructure, services, and applications closer to your Kubernetes cluster in order to create a hybrid control plane. This goal is primarily achieved through the use of providers, which are standalone controllers...
What Can You Do with a TPM?
Modern software is layers upon layers upon layers. Most of us only really work in one or two of those layers but we rely on all of the others below us to keep working. Not only do we rely on their performance and functionality, we rely on them for security. If we're...
Akraino Edge Stack
Akraino is a popular project hosted by the LF Edge Foundation, thanks to its potential to create new and improved ways for industrial and enterprise-level businesses to maximize operational efficiency and improve performance and safety. In February 2021, the Akraino...
Crossplane as an abstraction platform to manage and deploy service Operators
How do you manage and deploy Kubernetes Operators in the open hybrid cloud to take advantage of multiple clouds? One approach is Crossplane, a Kubernetes add-on that extends any cluster with the ability to provision and manage cloud infrastructure, services, and...