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Cloudsmith Supports OpenSSF's Efforts to Secure OSS

As part of our mission to make it simple to secure software at scale through Continuous Packaging, Cloudsmith is excited to announce that we have become an Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) member. OpenSSF is a cross-industry forum for a collaborative effort to improve security in open source software (OSS). One software pipeline's output is another's dependency- we are all splashing around in each other's supply chains.

Learn How Tanzu Observability Helps OpenShift Users Manage the Grafana Licensing Change

Grafana Labs recently announced that they are relicensing their core projects from Apache 2.0 to Affero General Public License (AGPL) version 3. This is great news for the open source community, since the new license is still Open Source Initiative–approved and adheres to an additional clause in which network access of any AGPL-licensed software counts as a type of distribution.

Contributor's Box (Level 1) - Unboxing the Codefresh Open Source Maintainer's

As we work diligently on transforming Codefresh into an Open Source company, we created THE MAINTAINER'S CLUB. The Maintainer's Club is a set of incentives and onramps to becoming more active in the open source community, specifically the Argo Project. There are three levels 1) Contributor 2) Member 3) Maintainer In this video, Dan Garfield, Co-Founder and Chief Open Source Officer unboxes the level 1 or Contributor Box. Check it out!

Open sourcing our pay calculator

We all know that pay is just as hard as it is important. Having a team distributed over 11+ countries makes pay even harder than in a traditional setup. I joined Checkly in mid-2021 with the promise of a fair and transparent culture in a remote tech startup and my goal was clear: make Checkly one of the best employers in our industry. A topic that I wanted to tackle early on was pay. How can we make pay less nebulous and more transparent, fair, and predictable?

Apache Kafka made simple

Aiven’s fully managed data solutions take the pain out of getting your Apache Kafka® clusters up and running. Everything is already set up for you. Just select the services and tools you need, pick a cloud provider and your storage needs, and you’re good to go. You can deploy Kafka and everything else you need in under 10 minutes. We offer rock solid, reliable, open source data infra – with no hidden costs.

Apache Kafka that works for you

Aiven’s fully managed data solutions take the pain out of getting Apache Kafka® up and running, and give you the tools you love to work the way you choose. Just select the services and tools you need, pick a cloud provider and your storage needs, and you’re good to go. Use our intuitive Console, or set up infrastructure as code using Terraform, Kubernetes or CLI. Whichever route you take, you'll get Kafka deployed with everything else you need in under 10 minutes.

Pop the pain away - with Aiven (20 sec)

Don't stress! Aiven’s fully managed data solutions take the pain out of cloud infra – everything is already set up for you. Just select the services and tools you need, pick a cloud provider and your storage needs, and you’re good to go. You can deploy a cluster in under 10 minutes. We offer rock solid, reliable, open source data infra – with no hidden costs.

Most-Loved Open Source Tools: Free solutions recommended by IT Pros

The best free and open-source software are tools that users simply cannot live without — they make everyday tasks on Windows, Mac, and Linux easy without any of the associated costs or licensing fees that come with pay-to-play solutions. For some quick background, open-source software took off during the earlier days of IT in the late 1990s and has changed the world ever since.

Pandora FMS wins the Open Source Excellence 2022 award along with four other SourceForge awards

We love uploading this kind of post to our blog. Articles in which we boast about our work and where all the effort of our team throughout the year comes to light. Because yes, we are rewarded once more, Pandora FMS is proclaimed winner in several categories in the SourceForge Awards. No more and no less than four awards, including the Open Source Excellence 2022 award, possibly one of the most desired and disputed in the industry in this specific sector.