Weekly Digest – Week 17, 2021
Articles and News
Building Containers by Hand: The PID Namespace
The second article in this series is dedicated to the PID namespace.
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/pid-namespace
#container #linux-namespaces
Query Engines: Push vs. Pull
The author makes an in-depth comparison between “push” and “pull” based query engines.
http://justinjaffray.com/query-engines-push-vs.-pull/
#database #query-engines
Write a Good Dockerfile in 19 ‘Easy’ Steps
Post with valuable tips for building container images.
https://jkutner.github.io/2021/04/26/write-good-dockerfile.html
#container #container-file #docker
Common Interface for NIC Statistics
Standardized IEEE and IETF statistics coming to ethtool with Kernel 5.13.
https://people.kernel.org/kuba/common-interface-for-nic-statistics
#ethtool #monitoring #network-interface
Croc Full Plaintext Recovery
Vulnerabilities found in the file-sharing tool croc.
https://redrocket.club/posts/croc/
#croc #file-sharing
Europe Is Trying to Reclaim Its Lost Chipmaking Glory
»In 1990, Europe accounted for about 44% of global semiconductor manufacturing. Now, it’s closer to 10% and Taiwan, South Korea and Japan account for about 60% of production…«
#hardware #economy #europe #semiconductor-manufacturing
Projects and Releases
OpenBSD 6.9
Some of the highlights:
- Preliminary Apple M1 SoC support
- Improved arm64 support
- Improved powerpc64 support
- Numerous Kernel improvements
- Various bug fixes and tweaks in userland
https://www.openbsd.org/69.html
#bsd #openbsd #type:release
Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.4
The newest Proxmox VE release comes with single-file restore, QEMU 5.2, LXC 4.0, and ZFS 2.0.4.
https://www.proxmox.com/en/news/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-6-4-available
#virtualization #proxmox #type:release
Fedora 34
The newest release of Fedora 34 and its spins offers BTRFS compression by default, a switch from X11 to Wayland as default for KDE Plasma, and other improvements.
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-34/
#fedora #type:release
QEMU 6.0
The newest major release of QEMU comes with many improvements, especially for ARM and RISC-V architectures.
https://www.qemu.org/2021/04/30/qemu-6-0-0/
#emulation #qemu #type:release
Linux 5.12
https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.12
#type:release #linux-kernel
GCC 11.1
GCC 11.1 released with significant progress in the C++20 language support and experimental C++23 support.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-04/msg00011.html
#compiler #gcc #type:release
Stratis 2.4
Stratis 2.4 allows booting from a Stratis-managed root filesystem and enhances existing encryption support.
#type:release #file-system #stratis
https://stratis-storage.github.io/stratis-release-notes-2-4-0/
Checkov
Static code analysis for Infrastructure-as-code.
https://github.com/bridgecrewio/checkov
delta
https://github.com/dandavison/delta
#git #diff-tool
Snapper
Snapshot tool for BTRFS and thin-provisioned LVM volumes by SUSE.
#copy-on-write #btrfs #lvm #filesystem-snapshot
AWS Latency Monitoring
Site with a latency matrix for the latency between the different AWS source and destination regions.
Planter
https://github.com/achiku/planter
»Generate PlantUML ER diagram textual description from PostgreSQL tables«
#postgresql #plantuml #er-diagram #database
Termshark
»A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark«
#terminal-ui #wireshark #tshark #command-line
Computer Science from the Bottom Up
#learning #computer-science
The NGINX Handbook
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-nginx-handbook/
#nginx
QEMU Internals
https://airbus-seclab.github.io/qemu_blog/
#qemu #emulation
:wq