Software: Kubernetes, Docker, and More
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Docker container orchestration tools
The rise of containers has changed the way programmers think about developing, deploying and maintaining software applications. Using the capabilities of native isolation of modern operatingsystems, containers support a separation of concerns similar to virtual machines, but without consuming too many resources and greater deployment flexibility compared with virtual machines. Containers are so lightweight and flexible that they have spawned new application architectures. This new approach consists of packaging the different services that make up an application in separate containers and then deploying those containers across a cluster of physical or virtual machines.
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Live and let live with Kluctl and Server Side Apply | Kubernetes
This blog post was inspired by a previous Kubernetes blog post about Advanced Server Side Apply. The author of said blog post listed multiple benefits for applications and controllers when switching to server-side apply (from now on abbreviated with SSA). Especially the chapter about CI/CD systems motivated me to respond and write down my thoughts and experiences. These thoughts and experiences are the results of me working on Kluctl for the past 2 years. I describe Kluctl as "The missing glue to put together large Kubernetes deployments, composed of multiple smaller parts (Helm/Kustomize/...) in a manageable and unified way."
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FOSS Weekly #22.41: Zorin OS 16.2, CLI Tools, Discord Bots and More
As promised a few weeks ago, the newsletter landing page is now ready. It highlights the features of the FOSS Weekly newsletter and testimonials from regular readers among other stuff. You can now share it in various Linux communities you are part of and encourage them to subscribe. Also, I am collecting more testimonials about It's FOSS as a complete portal and they will be listed on a dedicated page. You can send yours by replying to this email :)
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10 Best Open Source Bots for Your Discord Server
If it is your first time hearing about it, consider it something like Slack, but with countless fun functionalities to create communities (i.e., servers). Among all the features, Discord bots allow automating things or spice up your server. But most of them are proprietary. So, in this list, I suggest some of the best open-source Discord bots.