Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (aka sjvn) has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting-edge PC operating system, 300bps was a fast Internet connection, and WordStar was the state-of-the-art word processor.

Chainguard's Wolfi: Revolutionizing Containerized Workloads with Rapid Updates and Robust Security

A Small Octopus and a Big Idea: How Wolfi Linux is Improving the Cloud’s Software Supply Chain Security.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / 2 days ago

The invaluable opensource.com site is reborn as opensource.net

Thanks to the Open Source Initiative, one of the best open-source and Linux how-to and feature sites is coming back to life.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / 12 days ago

Docker: The software development revolution continued

First, Docker transformed containers into a universally useful technology. Today, its development tools make it easy to create, package, and ship programs across all platforms.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / 17 days ago

Upbound Introduces Spaces for Enhanced Cloud Control Plane Management

When you need a Kubernetes control plane that's easy to use and where you call the shots, check out Upbound's Crossplane-based Spaces.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / 22 days ago

Now it's PostgreSQL's turn to have a bogus CVE

PostgreSQL and cURL aren't the only ones. Someone is faking security alerts for numerous open-source projects.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / 25 days ago

OpenTF pulls the trigger on its open-source Terraform fork

While, at the same time, Terraform is annoying its open-source followers and customers.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / a month ago

Clouds vs cryptominers

It doesn't get the headlines of complete cloud failures, but criminal cryptominers such as TeamTNT quietly steal away your cloud resources every day.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / a month ago

A New Take on Software Code Security: The Open Source Consumption Manifesto

Open source is a blessing. It's also a curse when we don't take its security seriously. Now, the OpenSSF wants us all to take a long, hard look at how we consume and secure open-source software.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / a month ago

SUSE To Go Private

SUSE has gone through more than its fair share of corporate restructuring, and here comes another one.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / a month ago

Mirantis unveils k0smotron: An Open-Source Streamlined Kubernetes Management Project

K0smotron will empower you to manage Kubernetes control planes much more easily.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols / 2 months ago