Friday Five — February 11, 2022

11 de fevereiro de 2022

The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat^® blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.

GOOD READ:

The Next Platform - As Kubernetes Matures, The Edge Needs Containment

The trend of adapting a fairly mature Kubernetes to more specific workloads and needs is partly the result of the way Kubernetes’ developers moved ahead with the project. Rather than pulling in myriad elements into the project – such as a service mesh or the operating system – the Kubernetes developers allowed those to become ancillary efforts outside core Kubernetes development work. See why this plays a pivotal role in bringing Kubernetes to the rapidly expanding edge environment.

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Edge computing strategy: 5 potential gaps to watch for

According to Red Hat's 2022 Global Tech Outlook report, edge strategies figure prominently on respondents' roadmaps for the upcoming year. Hear from IT leaders and edge experts who have identified five potential gaps that organizations should consider as they build out their edge strategies.

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InfoWorld - How we should think about cloud lock-in

Red Hat's Scott McCarty addresses common concerns and misconceptions related to technology adoption and vendor lock-in, and shares his thoughts on the role that cloud and open source play in giving organizations freedom of choice.

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Kubernetes: The Documentary

There is perhaps no topic more relevant to the current open source landscape that Kubernetes, according to Honeypot, the creators behind a two-part documentary that captures the history of of the project directly from the people who lived it. Watch the documentary to hear from prominent engineers from Google, Red Hat, and others, as they shine a light on Kubernetes and the power of open source software.