Cracks in Containerized Development

Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it

How eBPF is shaping the future of Linux and platform engineering

When Docker burst onto the scene in 2013, Linux containers seemed like an overnight success. But the evolution to containers—and microservices and Kubernetes—was actually decades in the making, based on kernel primitives in the Linux operating system. Docker used these primitives, namely cgroups and namespaces, as building blocks to create a lightweight, easy-to-use software packaging format. Linux containers had been used by Google and others for many years, but Docker made them easily accessible to mainstream developers.

Container Escape Techniques: Breaking Out of the Digital Jail

How Attackers Break Free From Containerized Environments and What Defenders Need to Know

Aaron Boodman on Twitter / X

There is this tension in dev tooling right now: Lots of people want to self-host, and not depend on a service. Lots of people also want the vibes of open source - being part of an open development community, having the code, etc.But builders still need to make a living...— Aaron Boodman (@aboodman) January 23, 2024

Ten FOSS Development Fallacies For User Facing Software

This is a list, inspired by the Five Geek Social Fallacies, of common patterns or behaviours that developers of free/open source software (FOSS) fall into when they try to develop software for users who are not technical, or for whom non-technical users would be the most obvious userbase. Hopefully writing these down (which frankly is cathartic more than anything) is helpful to some in recognising these thought patterns and avoiding them when developing software - I’ve got some of my own thoughts on this at the bottom.

The Missing Middle of Open Source

Why serious, maintainer-driven projects struggle to sustain themselves—and what it will take to fix it.

Composable, fast, and secure dev environments | Workshop | Ubuntu

Launch agent-ready, sandboxed development environments with a single command. Define them via simple YAML configs, share them to recreate on different machines.

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open S…

An inside look at modern open source software developer…

Apptainer - Portable, Reproducible Containers

Apptainer is an open source container platform designed to run complex applications on high-performance computing (HPC) clusters in a simple, portable, and reproducible way.

NSF investing in secure open-source ecosystems

Open-source software is ubiquitous, supporting artificial intelligence, data science, cloud computing, telecommunications and scientific research tools. Despite these benefits, the number of open-source developers is relatively small, and many projects lack sufficient resources, slowing the pace of innovation and making maintenance difficult. In addition, weaknesses in open-source software, such as security flaws, supply chain risks or insider threats, can spread across many connected systems. In extreme cases, these weaknesses could lead to large-scale failures that affect national or global systems.

The Industry-Leading Container Runtime | Docker

Read about our industry-leading Docker container runtimes. Docker Engine allows containerized apps to run consistently on any infrastructure — from anywhere.

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue

‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’