okd – The Origin Community Distribution of Kubernetes that powers Red Hat OpenShift.

Built around a core of OCI container packaging and Kubernetes container cluster management, OKD is also augmented by application lifecycle management functionality and DevOps tooling. OKD provides a complete open source container application platform. OKD is a distribution of Kubernetes optimized for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployment. OKD adds developer and operations-centric tools on top of Kubernetes to

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Be careful: Microsoft Outlook iOS app is using Azure cloud services to process, store and cache your email data

I tried out the Microsoft Outlook app on iOS. Checking what kind of features this product might bring to me or my customers. Since I do host my own email services on my servers, I realized after some time, that Microsoft catches your emails via an online service, hosted on Microsoft’s own Azure cloud platform.

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Changes between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7

The distribution RHEL 7.x comes with a lot of changes on the administration side. Make sure you are aware of those and plan the migration of your infrastructure. Paket manager Yum shifts to DNF Yum is going to be deprecated and replaced by DNF.  It brings some significant changes: Faster, more mathematically correct method for

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portainer.io – Lightweight open source GUI to manage docker swarm

Portainer gives you access to a central overview of your Docker host or Swarm cluster. From the dashboard, you can easily access any manageable entity. SIMPLE TO USE It has never been so easy to manage Docker. Portainer provides a detailed overview of Docker and allows you to manage containers, images, networks and volumes. It

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PIWIK the web analytics software will be renamed/rebranded.

  Why are we changing from Piwik to Matomo? “After an epic 10 year journey creating and perfecting the best open digital analytics solution, we felt it was a good time to refresh our brand to reflect how far we have come and to reaffirm our vision: To create, as a community, the leading international

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Nextcloud, the fork of ownCloud – Another open source solution for your own file hosting solution service

Nextcloud is a suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services. It is functionally similar to Dropbox, although Nextcloud is free and open-source, allowing anyone to install and operate it on a private server. In contrast to proprietary services like Dropbox, the open architecture allows adding additional functionality to the server in form of applications and enables the user

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34C3 – Chaos Computer Congress

This year, the Chaos Computer Congress opened his doors in Leipzig. About 15000 visitors joined the presentation & questions sessions. All sessions have been recorded and are provided in various formats: https://media.ccc.de/c/34c3

R.E.A.R. – Relax and Recover

Relax-and-Recover has a few interesting characteristics you may find useful when assessing it as a Disaster Recovery solution: Modular design, written in Bash easy to extend with custom functionality targeted at sysadmins foremost Set up and forget nature designed to be easy to setup designed to require no maintenance (e.g. cron integration, nagios monitoring) Recovery image

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