Welcome to the December 2022 edition of Open Source Matters. I’m your host, Ben Lloyd Pearson; let’s dive in!

Want to try out Mattermost, but don’t have sufficient infrastructure or the time? Here is a guide on how to deploy Mattermost using minikube in five minutes.

Bitbucket or GitHub? These hosting platforms are popular because they offer software development teams the ability to create, manage, track, and review code repositories. They are essential tools for developers in various industries and can be used for numerous applications and projects. So, if your team is growing out of local repositories, then it may be time to level up to a more robust coding repository platform.

Critics of open source software have long argued that giving everyone access to a project’s source code creates security issues. But in active projects with highly engaged communities, the opposite is actually true: Open source software helps organizations become more secure. That said, any piece of technology can be exploited.

Today, large enterprises are using multiple cloud providers and technologies. Enterprises dealing with distributed loads on their on-prem infrastructure, private clouds, and public clouds need teams that are versed in writing different CLI commands and scripts in multiple languages and require specialists in these fields. Unfortunately, all of this bears a hidden cost since the company has to train its employees in multiple technology stacks to manage different infrastructures.

Mattermost v7.5 is generally available today. The following new features are included (see changelog for more details).