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Canonical launches Ubuntu Frame, the foundation for embedded displays

Canonical’s Ubuntu Frame is an easy-to-use, reliable and secure fullscreen shell to power edge devices, with 10 years of support from Canonical. October 6th, 2021: Canonical announces the release of Ubuntu Frame, a solution that allows developers to easily build and deploy graphical applications for interactive kiosks, digital signage solutions, or any other products that require a graphical output.

What is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)?

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. It also encompasses a strategy and set of practices and principles across service offerings and is closely tied to DevOps and operations. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

Your lookback at Puppetize Digital 2021

Yet another Puppetize Digital is in the (online only) books. Our second annual virtual conference drew attendees from around the globe, bringing together the people at the center of automation. If you weren’t able to attend this year’s event live, worry not! You can watch the entire conference on-demand here. Read on for Puppetize highlights!

Podcast: Break Things on Purpose | Maxim Fateev and Samar Abbas, creators of Temporal

Join Jason for another round of “Build Things on Purpose.” This time Jason is joined by Maxim Fateev and Samar Abbas, co-founders of Temporal, to talk about the software and solutions they are developing for orchestrating micro services. Maxim and Samar talk about their joint work in the past on various projects to include the Cadence project, which has laid the foundation for what they are continuing to do at Temporal.

Looking forward to KubeCon

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America is just around the corner. I’ve been looking forward to this event for a long time, especially since 2020 was virtual and it looks like there will be an in person option this year. This should be a great event and there are going to be a ton of awesome sessions. Last year was simply enormous with over 15K attendees who joined virtually.

How to mitigate the 0-day Apache path traversal vulnerability with Puppet or Bolt

Apache has disclosed a critical actively exploited path traversal flaw in the popular Apache web server, version 2.4.49. This path traversal means that an attacker can trivially read the contents of any file on the server that the Apache process has access to. This could expose highly sensitive information, even as critical as the server's own private SSL certificates. See the Sonatype blog for more technical information on the vulnerability.

PagerDuty Integration Spotlight: HashiCorp Terraform

Manage your PagerDuty account objects with Terraform! Reap all the benefits of infrastructure as code and give your teams the flexibility they need to manage their services in real time. As infrastructure stacks grow increasingly more complex and involve an ever-growing number of services and systems, teams have looked to abstract configuration to its own layer of code. This concept of configuring infrastructure as code is gaining traction throughout the industry for a variety of reasons.