Kubernetes: A Data Management Game Changer

The only sure thing in the data integration and management world is that technology will continually change. While this is good for companies looking for a better way to manage and use the explosion of data now available, it also presents a challenge: How do you know what technology is right for your needs, and will it really move you closer to your business goals? Every time a new tool is created, there is a lot of buzz about its capabilities, innovative approach to a problem or potential to move data integration or management to the next level.

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Tumbleweed’s industry-leading products include managed file transfer, email security and identity validation that provide enterprise-class solutions to organizations of all sizes. Tumbleweed’s innovative products enable organizations to effectively manage and protect business-critical Internet communications, with capabilities that span secure file transfer, encryption, data loss prevention, and email security.

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Empowering Industry 4.0 with Artificial Intelligence

Article | March 14, 2024

The next step in industrial technology is about robotics, computers and equipment becoming connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) and enhanced by machine learning algorithms. Industry 4.0 has the potential to be a powerful driver of economic growth, predicted to add between $500 billion- $1.5 trillion in value to the global economy between 2018 and 2022, according to a report by Capgemini.

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Businesses

Article | April 18, 2024

Whilst there are many people that associate AI with sci-fi novels and films, its reputation as an antagonist to fictional dystopic worlds is now becoming a thing of the past, as the technology becomes more and more integrated into our everyday lives. AI technologies have become increasingly more present in our daily lives, not just with Alexa’s in the home, but also throughout businesses everywhere, disrupting a variety of different industries with often tremendous results. The technology has helped to streamline even the most mundane of tasks whilst having a breath-taking impact on a company’s efficiency and productivity

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The advances of AI in healthcare

Article | February 29, 2024

With the Government investing £250 million into the project, the Lab will consider how to use AI for the benefit of patients – whether this be the deployment of existing AI methods, the development of new technologies or the testing of their safety. Amongst other things, the initiative will aim to deliver earlier diagnoses of cancer. It is estimated that in excess of 50,000 extra patients could see their cancer being detected at an early stage, thus boosting survival rates. More specifically, a study has shown that AI is quicker in identifying brain tumour tissue than a pathologist.This would have a positive knock-on effect in other areas, such as enabling money to be saved (that otherwise would have been spent on further treatment) and reducing the workload of staff (at a time when there is a crisis in NHS workforce numbers).

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Three Keys to Successful AI Adoption

Article | February 10, 2020

Over the past several years, we have begun to see the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in businesses. According to a study for the AI Index 2019 Annual Report, more than half of respondents report their companies are using AI in at least one function or business unit. Thirty percent report they have AI embedded across multiple areas of their business. As businesses continue to develop their understanding of what is possible with AI, we can expect to see a continued increase in AI adoption.

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Leading the Next Wave of Engineering: RapDev Introduces Digi, an AI-integrated ServiceNow Digital Developer

Prnewswire | July 26, 2023

RapDev, an Elite ServiceNow engineering consultancy for enterprise technology solutions released Digi, an open-source Coding Assistant for ServiceNow, with free access for the ServiceNow community. Digi grants ServiceNow developers a GitHub co-pilot experience on the platform, making code generation and debugging effortless, while continuing to drive innovation within the ServiceNow ecosystem. "LLMs have been in the wild. The tricky part is enabling their output to create meaningful change in a technical environment, in a controlled and configurable way. I have never been prouder of a team of engineers. They delivered the foundation of an open-source AI future for the entire ServiceNow ecosystem. This is just the beginning!", said Kyle Brueckner, Engineering Manager at RapDev. By offering a flexible and configurable framework to leverage AI in modern operations, developers can benefit from spending less time writing code, and more time automating testing and debugging to innovate faster with ServiceNow. Live on GitHub, ServiceNow developers can now access key features: Connect to popular models or AI engines like Codex, Bard, or private Starcoder stacks. Customize prompts, prefixes, and postfixes for messages sent to the AI engine Complete traceability for every AI action performed on the platform. Validate changes to ensure modifications to your environment are accurately assessed before implementation. How Digi works A simple user-interface allows a ServiceNow developer to submit a statement, which in turn returns an AI-generated block of code that can be easily inserted into any ServiceNow development scripts. A developer can review, insert, test, and accept the block of code within seconds, saving them minutes or even hours of manual development. The road ahead for Digi Pre-trained data collation: Streamline the preparation of structured pre-training data by leveraging relevant and publicly available information from your ServiceNow instance. Starcoder in a box: Offer Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for a plug-and-play Starcoder stack, enabling you to securely train sensitive data. Test-Driven Development: Enable Digi to build solutions on the platform based on ATF (Automated Test Framework) tests until the tests pass. AI Actions: Extend Digi's use cases beyond code generation and harness its vast data resources to provide contextual insights for workflow creation, ticket handling, and real-time incident analysis. Join us in charting the future of AI on ServiceNow RapDev invites all ServiceNow developers to access Digi on GitHub, star the repo and create a pull request to collaborate with the project team. Users are encouraged to attend the quarterly architectural board meetings hosted by RapDev to further the conversation about where we can collectively take AI on ServiceNow, together. About RapDev Founded in 2019, RapDev has become the go-to partner for cloud-native software implementations of ServiceNow and Datadog at Fortune 1000 organizations. Through extensive experience working with domestic and international organizations to drive time-to-value and ROI on DevOps investments for highly regulated environments, RapDev optimizes software release cycles and ensures availability for cloud-native applications. RapDev expertly guides organizations through their DevOps transformations from beginning to end.

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Kubernetes’ Push to the Edge Shows Innovation, Challenges

SDxCentral | March 19, 2019

Kubernetes continues to proliferate across the cloud ecosystem, with one of its latest efforts focused on pushing the container orchestration platform further toward the edge. This is becoming more important as organizations look to extend the orchestration capabilities of Kubernetes across their cloud infrastructure and as the overall edge market sees increased service provider attention tied to 5G deployments. A recent example of this push toward the edge was Rancher Labs’ launch of its K3s platform. That platform is basically a slimmer version of Kubernetes, which is often referred to as “K8s.” That slimness is important because edge locations are more resource constrained compared with data center or network core locations. Shannon Williams, co-founder and vice president of sales at Rancher Labs, said the vendor pulled “alpha-level features that were still in development and also deprecated features” that were no longer needed or supported. This allowed the vendor to push out a platform that consumes just 40 megabytes of space and can run on x86_64, Armv8-A, and Armv7-A architectures. “We completely changed how Kubernetes works,” Williams said. “We removed drivers that were not essential for edge deployments, but still allow a customer to pull down those drivers if they need them.” Full to the Edge: While Rancher Labs moved to strip down Kubernetes, other vendors have been plugging the full version into their efforts. Mirantis last year plugged Kubernetes into its Cloud Platform Edge product to allows operators to deploy a combination of containers, virtual machines (VMs), and bare metal points of presence (POP) that are connected by a unified management plane.

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Kubernetes, Docker, ContainerD Impacted by RunC Container Runtime Bug

SDxCentral | February 11, 2019

The Linux community is dealing with another security flaw, with the latest bug impacting the runC container runtime that underpins Docker, cri-o, containerd, and Kubernetes. The bug, dubbed CVE-2019-5736, allows an infected container to overwrite the host runC binary and gain root-level code access on the host. This would basically allow the infected container to gain control of the overarching host container and allow an attacker to execute any command. “It is quite likely that most container runtimes are vulnerable to this flaw, unless they took very strange mitigations beforehand,” explained Aleksa Sarai, a senior software engineer at SUSE and a maintainer for runC, in an email posted on Openwall. Sarai added that the flaw is blocked by the proper implementation of user namespaces “where the host root is not mapped into the container’s user namespace.” The bug has received an “important” impact rating from some vendors. Sarai said the flaw has a 7.2 out of 10 CVSSv3 vector score. A patch for the flaw has been developed and is being sent out to the runC community. A number of vendor and cloud providers have already taken steps to implement the patch. RunC was initially spun out of work done by Docker Inc. It’s an Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant command line interface (CLI) tool for spawning and running containers.

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Leading the Next Wave of Engineering: RapDev Introduces Digi, an AI-integrated ServiceNow Digital Developer

Prnewswire | July 26, 2023

RapDev, an Elite ServiceNow engineering consultancy for enterprise technology solutions released Digi, an open-source Coding Assistant for ServiceNow, with free access for the ServiceNow community. Digi grants ServiceNow developers a GitHub co-pilot experience on the platform, making code generation and debugging effortless, while continuing to drive innovation within the ServiceNow ecosystem. "LLMs have been in the wild. The tricky part is enabling their output to create meaningful change in a technical environment, in a controlled and configurable way. I have never been prouder of a team of engineers. They delivered the foundation of an open-source AI future for the entire ServiceNow ecosystem. This is just the beginning!", said Kyle Brueckner, Engineering Manager at RapDev. By offering a flexible and configurable framework to leverage AI in modern operations, developers can benefit from spending less time writing code, and more time automating testing and debugging to innovate faster with ServiceNow. Live on GitHub, ServiceNow developers can now access key features: Connect to popular models or AI engines like Codex, Bard, or private Starcoder stacks. Customize prompts, prefixes, and postfixes for messages sent to the AI engine Complete traceability for every AI action performed on the platform. Validate changes to ensure modifications to your environment are accurately assessed before implementation. How Digi works A simple user-interface allows a ServiceNow developer to submit a statement, which in turn returns an AI-generated block of code that can be easily inserted into any ServiceNow development scripts. A developer can review, insert, test, and accept the block of code within seconds, saving them minutes or even hours of manual development. The road ahead for Digi Pre-trained data collation: Streamline the preparation of structured pre-training data by leveraging relevant and publicly available information from your ServiceNow instance. Starcoder in a box: Offer Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for a plug-and-play Starcoder stack, enabling you to securely train sensitive data. Test-Driven Development: Enable Digi to build solutions on the platform based on ATF (Automated Test Framework) tests until the tests pass. AI Actions: Extend Digi's use cases beyond code generation and harness its vast data resources to provide contextual insights for workflow creation, ticket handling, and real-time incident analysis. Join us in charting the future of AI on ServiceNow RapDev invites all ServiceNow developers to access Digi on GitHub, star the repo and create a pull request to collaborate with the project team. Users are encouraged to attend the quarterly architectural board meetings hosted by RapDev to further the conversation about where we can collectively take AI on ServiceNow, together. About RapDev Founded in 2019, RapDev has become the go-to partner for cloud-native software implementations of ServiceNow and Datadog at Fortune 1000 organizations. Through extensive experience working with domestic and international organizations to drive time-to-value and ROI on DevOps investments for highly regulated environments, RapDev optimizes software release cycles and ensures availability for cloud-native applications. RapDev expertly guides organizations through their DevOps transformations from beginning to end.

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Kubernetes’ Push to the Edge Shows Innovation, Challenges

SDxCentral | March 19, 2019

Kubernetes continues to proliferate across the cloud ecosystem, with one of its latest efforts focused on pushing the container orchestration platform further toward the edge. This is becoming more important as organizations look to extend the orchestration capabilities of Kubernetes across their cloud infrastructure and as the overall edge market sees increased service provider attention tied to 5G deployments. A recent example of this push toward the edge was Rancher Labs’ launch of its K3s platform. That platform is basically a slimmer version of Kubernetes, which is often referred to as “K8s.” That slimness is important because edge locations are more resource constrained compared with data center or network core locations. Shannon Williams, co-founder and vice president of sales at Rancher Labs, said the vendor pulled “alpha-level features that were still in development and also deprecated features” that were no longer needed or supported. This allowed the vendor to push out a platform that consumes just 40 megabytes of space and can run on x86_64, Armv8-A, and Armv7-A architectures. “We completely changed how Kubernetes works,” Williams said. “We removed drivers that were not essential for edge deployments, but still allow a customer to pull down those drivers if they need them.” Full to the Edge: While Rancher Labs moved to strip down Kubernetes, other vendors have been plugging the full version into their efforts. Mirantis last year plugged Kubernetes into its Cloud Platform Edge product to allows operators to deploy a combination of containers, virtual machines (VMs), and bare metal points of presence (POP) that are connected by a unified management plane.

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Kubernetes, Docker, ContainerD Impacted by RunC Container Runtime Bug

SDxCentral | February 11, 2019

The Linux community is dealing with another security flaw, with the latest bug impacting the runC container runtime that underpins Docker, cri-o, containerd, and Kubernetes. The bug, dubbed CVE-2019-5736, allows an infected container to overwrite the host runC binary and gain root-level code access on the host. This would basically allow the infected container to gain control of the overarching host container and allow an attacker to execute any command. “It is quite likely that most container runtimes are vulnerable to this flaw, unless they took very strange mitigations beforehand,” explained Aleksa Sarai, a senior software engineer at SUSE and a maintainer for runC, in an email posted on Openwall. Sarai added that the flaw is blocked by the proper implementation of user namespaces “where the host root is not mapped into the container’s user namespace.” The bug has received an “important” impact rating from some vendors. Sarai said the flaw has a 7.2 out of 10 CVSSv3 vector score. A patch for the flaw has been developed and is being sent out to the runC community. A number of vendor and cloud providers have already taken steps to implement the patch. RunC was initially spun out of work done by Docker Inc. It’s an Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant command line interface (CLI) tool for spawning and running containers.

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