ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Sparkplug
Sparkplug is an open-source specification from the Eclipse Foundation that provides MQTT clients with a framework for integrating data from applications, sensors, devices, and gateways. MQTT is a messaging protocol for sensors and mobile devices, often used in IoT. The Sparkplug specification was designed specifically for use in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) architectures. “The … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: k3s
K3s is a certified lightweight Kubernetes distribution specifically tailored for IoT and Edge computing environments. It is optimized for unattended, resource-constrained, and remote locations or within IoT appliances. K3s is packaged as a compact binary of less than 70MB, streamlining the installation, operation, and automatic updates of a production Kubernetes cluster. This distribution supports both … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cilium
Cilium provides eBPF-based networking, observability, and security for container workloads. It enables users to secure network connectivity between application services deployed using Linux container management platforms like Kubernetes. Cilium is built upon a Linux kernel technology known as eBPF. This technology allows for the real-time integration of robust security, visibility, and network control logic directly … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: SingularityCE
SingularityCE is an open-source container platform designed for use with high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Users can package complex applications into a single file, which enables portability and reproducibility across complex environments. It supports cryptographic signatures and encryption, and also offers a simple security model where users are considered to be the same user whether they … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenTofu
The Linux Foundation has introduced OpenTofu, another open-source alternative to the Terraform infrastructure as code provisioning tool. This move was prompted by Terraform’s recent license change from MPLv2 to a Business Source License v1.1, which raised concerns in the open-source community. The switch early last month involved HashiCorp’s’ products including the infrastructure-as-code service Terraform, the … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Grafana Beyla
In an effort to simplify application observability adoption, Grafana introduces Grafana Beyla, an open-source eBPF auto-instrumentation tool currently in public preview. Beyla offers span information for fundamental transactions and RED metrics (Rate-Errors-Duration) for Linux HTTP/S and gRPC services, all without the need for manual code modifications to insert probes. eBPF, short for Extended Berkeley Packet … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Fluentd
Fluentd is an open-source log collector that is intended to help companies gain a better understanding of their data. It unifies all parts of processing log data, including collecting, filtering, buffering, and outputing logs. This is made possible because all data is structured in JSON as much as possible. It also utilizes a flexible plugin … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Artifact Hub
Artifact Hub is a web application designed for locating, installing, and sharing packages and configurations related to CNCF projects. It addresses the challenge of discovering compatible artifacts for CNCF projects. It’s an open-source project licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Instead of each project creating its own artifact hub, which results in duplication and confusion … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Rustdesk
RustDesk is a full-featured open-source remote control alternative for self-hosting and security with minimal configuration. It functions as a full-featured remote desktop app that works on works on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Web. It also supports VP8 / VP9 / AV1 software codecs, and H264 / H265 hardware codecs. “You have full control of … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenELA
OpenELA, which stands for Open Enterprise Linux Association, is a new initiative to help keep Enterprise Linux downstream distributions available. It was formed by CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE following Red Hat’s recent announcements about the changes to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). RELATED CONTENT: SUSE, CIQ, and Oracle form Open Enterprise Linux Association OpenELA provides … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Dagger
Dagger is a programmable CI/CD engine that runs pipelines in containers. The solution executes pipelines entirely as standard OCI containers. The solution is a good fit for developers wishing their CI pipelines were code instead of YAML, DevOps teams, platform engineers running custom tooling, and cloud-native developer advocates or solution engineers. The running of executing … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: k0smotron
K0smotron is an open-source project for managing Kubernetes control planes. It was released earlier this week by the Kubernetes company Mirantis. The tool allows companies to rapidly provision Kubernetes control planes, and these control planes are also separated from worker nodes. According to Mirantis, this separation allows for provisioning of remote worker nodes, which supports … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Llama2 WebUI
With this project, users can run Llama 2 locally with gradio UI on GPU or CPU from anywhere (Linux/Windows/Mac). It supports Llama-2-7B/13B/70B with 8-bit, 4-bit. It also supports GPU inference (6 GB VRAM) and CPU inference. Llama 2 is a collection of pre-trained and fine-tuned generative text models ranging in scale from 7 billion to … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Crio-O
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced the graduation of the CRI-O project, which offers a reliable and high-performing implementation of the Container Runtime Interface (CRI) for the Kubelet. It also enables the orchestration of Open Container Initiative (OCI) containers in Kubernetes environments used for production purposes. This graduation signifies that CRI-O has achieved a … continue reading
