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Risk and the problems of 3rd party software dependencies

Docker's VP of Product, Michael Donovan, discusses the importance of risk management and the security challenges introduced by the scale of 3rd party software dependency in development. See the full webinar: https:/cloudsmith.com/webinars Get to know Cloudsmith: About Cloudsmith We offer the world's best cloud-native artifact management platform to control, secure, and distribute everything that flows through your software supply chain. Cloudsmith operates at enterprise scale, reduces risk, and streamlines builds.

Rollbacks, Red Eyes And Unreliable Deployments

We spoke to data professionals from a range of industries about the impact of unreliable database deployments — not just on their systems, but on their workload, time, and well-being. From delayed releases to weekend firefighting, and the fallout for teams and customers, they share the day-to-day pressures they face and the small changes that help make deployments, and life, a little less stressful. What stood out from these conversations?

Smarter Data Center Capacity Planning for AI Innovation

Global demand for data center capacity is skyrocketing. From 2023 to 2030, power consumption across data centers is expected to grow by up to 22% annually, driven primarily by generative AI (GenAI) workloads. By 2030, AI workloads are predicted to account for 70% of total demand. This demand doesn’t just mean more hardware; it necessitates high-density computing environments to support training large language models like GPT and real-time inference systems.

GenAI: 80% Adoption by 2026... Are You Ready?

In this video, we explore the growing adoption of Generative AI in enterprise, the common pitfalls companies face, and how to build GenAI infrastructure that’s secure, scalable, and production-ready. We also introduce how relaxAI, Civo’s AI assistant, helps solve key challenges around privacy and infrastructure, giving you full control by bringing the LLM to your data.

Goodbye imagePullSecrets, Hello Kubernetes Credential Providers

Previously, we showed you how to securely pull Docker images from Cloudsmith to Kubernetes using OIDC with a CronJob-based approach. We concluded the post discussing credential provider plugins from Kubernetes 1.20 and an enhancement in Kubernetes 1.33 that offers a new approach for external registries like Cloudsmith. We have now built a credential provider that takes advantage of this new capability. This article explores what this means for the future of pulling images from Cloudsmith on Kubernetes.

Entity Developer Overview: Visual ORM Designer for .NET

Entity Developer is a powerful visual ORM designer for.NET that helps you build, edit, and manage your data models faster and more efficiently. Whether you're using EF Core, NHibernate, LinqConnect, or classic Entity Framework, Entity Developer streamlines the process with rich design tools, customizable templates, and full integration with Visual Studio. In this video, we’ll walk you through the key features and show how you can.

Using a Kubernetes credential provider with Cloudsmith

Join Ian Duffy, Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Cloudsmith, as he discusses using credential providers in Kubernetes to securely pull images from private repositories. Credential providers are a great new feature that appeared in recent versions of Kubernetes. They allow you to pull images using a short-lived authentication token, which makes them less prone to leakage than long-lived credentials - bolstering security in the software supply chain.

Docker Stop vs Kill: When to Use Each Command

When a container starts consuming excessive memory or becomes unresponsive, you need a way to shut it down. The two primary options — docker stop and docker kill,both terminate containers, but they operate differently and have different implications. The key difference: docker stop sends SIGTERM for a graceful shutdown, then escalates to SIGKILL if the process doesn’t exit in time. docker kill skips straight to SIGKILL, terminating the container immediately.