News briefs for May 7, 2019.
Red Hat Enterprise 8 is now available[1]. From the press release: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is the operating system redesigned for the hybrid cloud era and built to support the workloads and operations that stretch from enterprise datacenters to multiple public clouds. Red Hat understands that the operating system should do more than simply exist as part of a technology stack; it should be the catalyst for innovation. From Linux containers and hybrid cloud to DevOps and artificial intelligence (AI), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is built to not just support enterprise IT in the hybrid cloud, but to help these new technology strategies thrive." There will be a press conference tomorrow, May 8, at 11am EDT. You can register here[2].
Microsoft yesterday announced a new Windows 10 Terminal app[3] for command-line users. From Microsoft's blog post: "Windows Terminal [is] a new application for Windows command-line users [that] will offer a user interface with emoji-rich fonts and graphics-processing-unit-accelerated text rendering. It also will provide multiple tab support as well as theming and customization, allowing users to personalize their Terminal." Windows Terminal will be available for Windows 10 systems sometime in June.
In other Microsoft and Red Hat news (the Build 2019 developer conference and Red Hat Summit both are this week), the two companies announce an "open-source service for auto-scaling serverless containers on Kubernetes". ZDNet reports[4] that "Microsoft and Red Hat have jointly developed an open-sourced Kubernetes event-driven autoscaling (KEDA) service[5]. KEDA enables developers to deploy serverless containers on Kubernetes in any public or private cloud, as well as on-premises, Microsoft officials said."
StackRox[6] announced this morning that the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform is now available as a Red Hat certified container. From the press release: "As part of the Red Hat Container Certification,