Servers, Containers, and Clown Computing (Buzzwords, Cargo Cults)
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Simos Xenitellis ☛ Simos Xenitellis: Migrating to Incus from LXD
Incus is a manager for virtual machines and system containers.
A virtual machine is an instance of an operating system that runs on a computer, along with the main operating system. A virtual machine uses hardware virtualization features for the separation from the main operating system.
A system container is an instance of an operating system that also runs on a computer, along with the main operating system. A system container uses, instead, security primitives of the GNU/Linux kernel for the separation from the main operating system. You can think of system containers as software virtual machines.
All these are managed together by Incus. Depending on your requirements, you would select either a virtual machine of a system container. Between the two, system containers are more lightweight and you can fit much more of them on your computer.
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Bert Hubert ☛ Taking the Airbus to the IKEA Cloud
All of computing is moving to the clown at a rapid clip, including (government) parts you might want to keep under your own control Europe has no relevant ‘hyperscaler’ cloud providers at all, and there is a desire to change this by policy means Competing with the IKEA-concept is nearly impossible. Offering IKEA-like products but then with a smaller range is not an attractive proposition.
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OpenTelemetry for Containerized Environments
By providing a unified approach to telemetry data capture, OpenTelemetry aims to make observability more accessible to all developers.
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Silicon Angle ☛ Google ends transfer fees for customers exiting its cloud [Ed: There are no transfer fees if you duck all this "Clown Computing" hype in the first place]
Google LLC today said it will eliminate all data transfer fees for customers that want to migrate their data fully to other clouds.
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Ubuntu ☛ Cloud-native infrastructure – When the future meets the present
We’ve all heard about cloud-native applications in recent years, but what about cloud-native infrastructure? Is there any reason why the infrastructure couldn’t be cloud-native, too? Or maybe it’s already cloud-native, but you’ve never had a chance to dive deep into the stack to check it out?
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Linux Foundation Welcomes OpenTofu, the Terraform™ Fork [Ed: It's not Linux. Heading here is misleading.]
The OpenTofu community is thrilled to announce the general availability of OpenTofu, a robust open-source fork of Terraform™, now officially recognized as a production-ready project under the Linux Foundation. This development marks a significant milestone in the evolution of infrastructure as code (IaC), offering a powerful and flexible alternative for users seeking innovative solutions.