today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 22, 2022

• 5 Problems With NixOS | LINUX Unplugged 472

  The five most common problems when trying out an immutable Linux distro like NixOS. Plus, why one Linux dev says just target WINE.

• Kubernetes Spotlight on SIG Storage

  Since the very beginning of Kubernetes, the topic of persistent data and how to address the requirement of stateful applications has been an important topic. Support for stateless deployments was natural, present from the start, and garnered attention, becoming very well-known. Work on better support for stateful applications was also present from early on, with each release increasing the scope of what could be run on Kubernetes.

  Message queues, databases, clustered filesystems: these are some examples of the solutions that have different storage requirements and that are, today, increasingly deployed in Kubernetes. Dealing with ephemeral and persistent storage, local or remote, file or block, from many different vendors, while considering how to provide the needed resiliency and data consistency that users expect, all of this is under SIG Storage's umbrella.

  In this SIG Storage spotlight, Frederico Muñoz (Cloud & Architecture Lead at SAS) talked with Xing Yang, Tech Lead at VMware and co-chair of SIG Storage, on how the SIG is organized, what are the current challenges and how anyone can get involved and contribute.

• My podman journey so far | IT-Hure

  This blog post was rotting in my queue since November of 2021, but the info is still helpfull for someone, so I post it now.

  I had a long time ago a look at docker when just version 1 was released, but I never really used it that much for my own production setups. I used it for playing around. I hated that is runs as root and even Docker itself had problem making it secure.

  I really liked it when podman was released, I’m a fan of Dan Walsh from SELinux times and I really liked the idea of splitting it up and running it as non root (I know docker can do it now as well). But I did not have the time to play with it. But because my RSS Feeder (ttrss) does not support normal installation anymore I was forced to try it again. I started with bitwarden_rs and now ttrss.

• CISA Updates Advisory on Threat Actors Exploiting Multiple CVEs Against Zimbra Collaboration Suite | CISA

  CISA and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) have updated joint Cybersecurity Advisory AA22-228A: Threat Actors Exploiting Multiple CVEs Against Zimbra Collaboration Suite, originally released August 16, 2022. The advisory has been updated to include additional detection signatures.