This Week in Numbers: Serverless Adoption on Par with Containers

Serverless technologies like functions as a service (FaaS) are in use by 43 percent of enterprises that both have a significant number of strategic workloads running in the public cloud workloads and the ability to dynamically manage them. Without those qualifications, it is easy to misinterpret the findings from New Relic’s survey-based ebook “Achieving Serverless Success with Dynamic Cloud and DevOps.” After digging in, we found that the survey says 70 percent of enterprises have migrated a significant number of workloads to the public cloud. Among this group, 39 percent of using serverless, 40 percent are using containers and 34 percent are using container orchestration.

Future Proof Your SysAdmin Career: Configuration and Automation

System administrators looking to differentiate themselves from the pack are increasingly getting cloud computing certification or picking up skills with configuration management tools. From Puppet, to Chef to Ansible, powerful configuration management tools can arm sysadmins with new skills such as cloud provisioning, application monitoring and management, and countless types of automation. Configuration management platforms and tools have converged directly with the world of open source. In fact, several of the best tools are fully free and open source. From server orchestration to securely delivering high-availability applications, open source tools such as Chef and Puppet can bring organizations enormous efficiency boosts.

Still In Development, Landlock Aims To Yield Powerful Security Sandboxes For Linux

The Landlock Linux Security Module (LSM) continues to be in development and has now been revised for its seventh time. The last time we wrote about this LSM was last September while over the weekend the newest patches have surfaced.

AMDKFD Code Updated For Linux 4.14, More Changes Being Upstreamed

AMD is upstreaming more of their changes to the AMDKFD HSA kernel driver with Linux 4.14. Separate from the AMDGPU changes for Linux 4.14, the AMDKFD HSA kernel driver changes have now been pulled into DRM-Next for then merging into Linux 4.14 once that merge window opens.

XDC2017 To Feature Update On New Memory Allocation API, HDR, GPGPU, GLVND

There is now less than one month to go until the annual X.Org Developers' Conference kicks off in Mountain View at the Googleplex. As such, the conference program is now filling up with the interesting talks. One of the talks we are very much looking forward to is James Jones' update on a new Unix Device Memory Allocation API. NVIDIA has continued working on a new memory allocation API suitable for OpenGL and Vulkan that will hopefully be adopted cross-vendor and end up being used by Wayland compositors rather than relying upon Mesa's GBM. At XDC2017, NVIDIA is expected to present a design proposal and some of their prototype code. NVIDIA also has talks about DeepColor for HDR (High Dynamic Range) monitor support under X11 as well as on GLVND, the OpenGL Vendor Neutral Dispatch Library.

VkMark Makes It Easy To Run Small Vulkan Test Cases

One of the Vulkan open-source projects I have been tracking the past few months has been VkMark and it's now at a stage where it's becoming sufficiently useful for some small Vulkan test-cases / micro-benchmarks.

Intel Submits A Final Batch Of Feature Changes For Their DRM Driver In Linux 4.14

Intel's open-source developers working on the i915 DRM driver have submitted the last of their feature work slated for the upcoming Linux 4.14 kernel by way of DRM-Next.

mesa 17.1.7

Mesa 17.1.7 is now available. In this release we have: The state tracker received a fix to avoid a crash accessing a null pointer exposed using llvmpipe on Windows.

Mesa 17.1.7 Brings Various Fixes For Users Of Stable Open-Source 3D Drivers

While Mesa 17.2 is right around the corner, for those sticking to the vetted stable Mesa releases, the 17.1.7 point release is now available.

Moreutils – A Collection Of More Useful Unix Utilities

How To Adjust The Size Of The Root Partition On Live Arch Linux

Edit images with GNU Parallel and ImageMagick

How To Use Zip & 7zip To Encrypt/Decrypt and Password Protect Files/Folders in Linux

Designing a Microservices Architecture for Failure

Here are all the Git commands I used last week, and what they do.

Customing the KubeVirt Manifests