Supply Chain Security & Robotic Heads: Open Source Matters
Welcome to the second edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.
Welcome to the second edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.
OpenSearch has been a buzz in DevOps over the first half of 2021. The project is moving forward, but understandably there are a lot of questions. This article will address some of those frequently asked questions, and will be updated to address more over time.
Last week Elastic.co started locking down its Beats OSS shippers such that they will not be able to send data to Elasticsearch 7.10 or earlier open source distros, or Non-Elastic distros of Elasticsearch. If you weren’t watching closely this might have slipped under your radar. Embedded within the Beats 7.13 minor release that was published over the weekend, a release note advised of a breaking change in which “Beats may not be sending data to some distributions of Elasticsearch”.
What an exciting episode of OpenObservability Talks it was! On May 27, I hosted Kyle Davis, Senior Developer Advocate for OpenSearch at AWS, for a chat about the OpenSearch project, where it stands and where it’s heading. I wanted to share with you some interesting insights from our chat. You’re more than welcome to check out the full episode.
In January 2021, we announced that starting with version 7.11, we would be changing the Apache 2.0 portions of Elasticsearch and Kibana source code to be dual licensed under Elastic License and SSPL, at the users’ discretion. As part of that change, we created Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2) as a permissive, fair-code license, which allows free use, redistribution, modification, and derivative works, with only three simple limitations, outlined in our original announcement.
Welcome to the first edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.
Logging solutions are a must-have for any company with software systems. They are necessary to monitor your software solution’s health, prevent issues before they happen, and troubleshoot existing problems. The market has many solutions which all focus on different aspects of the logging problem. These solutions include both open source and proprietary software and tools built into cloud provider platforms, and give a variety of different features to meet your specific needs.