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 enable rapid application development, easy deployment and scaling, and long-term lifecycle maintenance for small and large teams. OKD is the upstream Kubernetes distribution embedded in Red Hat OpenShift.

KD embeds Kubernetes and extends it with security and other integrated concepts. OKD is also referred to as Origin in github and in the documentation. An OKD release corresponds to the Kubernetes distribution – for example, OKD 1.10 includes Kubernetes 1.10. If you are looking for enterprise-level support, or information on partner certification, Red Hat also offers Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

Find out more at its website.

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.

THIS, I DID NOT know beforehand!

This means to me and for everybody else:

• Using this Software will transfer, cache and store my email data in a Microsoft cloud service.
• My email account information will be transfered to and stored within this cloud service environment. For Exchange based accounts and also your normal IMAP and POP3 based accounts
• Since the Microsoft cloud service is a service provided by an American company that has to follow the law of the United States, it is not clear whether you or the company itself is able to make sure, that your data is secured under the duties of the European data protection security laws.

After some quick research I found the following architecture diagram on a Microsoft website, explaining their technology:

Here ist the link to the Microsoft website explaining their technology. 

Result for me:

I did immediately stop using this product for accounts I host directly on my email servers and changed the account information for every account I did use and connect with this tool.

FreeIPA

Main features

• Integrated security information management solution combining Linux (Fedora), 389 Directory Server, MIT Kerberos, NTP, DNS, Dogtag certificate system, SSSD and others.
• Built on top of well known Open Source components and standard protocols
• Strong focus on ease of management and automation of installation and configuration tasks.
• Full multi master replication for higher redundancy and scalability
• Extensible management interfaces (CLI, Web UI, XMLRPC and JSONRPC API) and Python SDK

Read more:
www.freeipa.org

GlusterFS

GlusterFS is a scalable network filesystem suitable for data-intensive tasks such as cloud storage and media streaming. GlusterFS is free and open source software and can utilize common off-the-shelf hardware. To learn more, please see the Gluster project home page.

Read more:
www.glusterfs.org

Linux distribution – CentOS

The CentOS Linux distribution is a stable, predictable, manageable and reproduceable platform derived from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

CentOS Website:

http://www.centos.org/about/

Linux distribution – Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86, x86-64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86-64. All of Red Hat’s official support and training and the Red Hat Certification Program centers around the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is often abbreviated to RHEL, although this is not an official designation.

RHEL Website:

http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux/desktop/

RedHat about RHEL:

Linux distribution – Fedora (RedHat)

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system, a suite of software that makes your computer run. You can use the Fedora operating system to replace or to run alongside of other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows™ or Mac OS X™. The Fedora operating system is 100% free of cost for you to enjoy and share.

Learn more about what Fedora is, the community that creates it, and why we make it at our About Fedora page.

Fedora’s Website:

https://fedoraproject.org/

Fedoras Quickview:

Fedora and RedHat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJRQbtJhPOc

Linux distribution – Ubuntu

One very famous open source and free operating systems for all kind of devices. If you heared of Ubuntu as name and are wondering what it is…here you go:

The Ubuntu website:

http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop

Ubuntu features:

Ubuntu English introduction:

Ubuntu German introduction: