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With Kata Containers and Zuul, OpenStack graduates its first infrastructure projects

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Over the course of the last year and a half, the OpenStack Foundation made the switch from purely focusing on the core OpenStack project to opening itself up to other infrastructure-related projects as well. The first two of these projects, Kata Containers and the Zuul project gating system, have now exited their pilot phase and […] Continue reading With Kata Containers and Zuul, OpenStack graduates its first infrastructure projects→

‘Cloudborne’ IaaS Attack Allows Persistent Backdoors in the Cloud

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A known vulnerability combined with a weakness in bare-metal server reclamation opens the door to powerful, high-impact attacks. Continue reading ‘Cloudborne’ IaaS Attack Allows Persistent Backdoors in the Cloud→

AWS announces new bare metal instances for companies who want more cloud control

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When you think about Infrastructure as a Service, you typically pay for a virtual machine that resides in a multi-tenant environment. That means, it’s using a set of shared resources. For many companies that approach is fine, but when a customer wants more control, they may prefer a single tenant system where they control the […] Continue reading AWS announces new bare metal instances for companies who want more cloud control→

Pun Intended: Bare Metal Attracts Rust

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Programming languages tend to polarize, and Rust is by far no exception. Whether it will stick around and grow as an alternative for the lower levels or not — time will tell. In the meantime, if you’re curious about the language and its low-level abilities yourself, [phil-opp] has written a series of blog posts on building your own little bare metal kernel in Rust.

Starting from the basics, [phil-opp] describes in detail the set-up and build process to create a standalone executable that won’t be linked against the Rust standard library. From here he proceeds to build a simple operating …read more

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Full-Metal Packet is hosting the future of cloud infrastructure

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Cloud computing has been a revolution for the data center. Rather than investing in expensive hardware and managing a data center directly, companies are relying on public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to provide general-purpose and high-availability compute, storage, and networking resources in a highly flexible way. Yet as workflows have […] Continue reading Full-Metal Packet is hosting the future of cloud infrastructure→