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CloudBees Announces New Cloud Native DevSecOps Platform

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Thursday, September 14, 2023

DEVOPS WORLD – CloudBees, the leading software delivery platform for enterprises, announced today a new cloud native DevSecOps platform that places platform engineers and developer experience front and center.

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  • DEVOPS WORLD – CloudBees, the leading software delivery platform for enterprises, announced today a new cloud native DevSecOps platform that places platform engineers and developer experience front and center.
  • It also redefines DevSecOps by addressing the challenges associated with delivering better, more secure and compliant cloud native software at a faster pace than ever.
  • With the rush towards cloud native application development, software development and delivery teams struggle with the complexity that comes with modern cloud native architectures.
  • The CloudBees platform empowers organizations to simplify complex cloud native development and deployment processes across all the tools in the DevOps tool chain, thereby accelerating innovation velocity.

Red Hat Unveils Red Hat Developer Hub to Help Fuel Developer Productivity

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Tuesday, May 23, 2023

As the first standalone enterprise-grade offering based on Backstage, Red Hat Developer Hub intends to deliver improved developer experiences across environments, including Kubernetes and container application platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift .

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  • As the first standalone enterprise-grade offering based on Backstage, Red Hat Developer Hub intends to deliver improved developer experiences across environments, including Kubernetes and container application platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift .
  • Additionally, Red Hat Developer Hub includes a set of pre-defined, pre-architected and supported templates for accelerating application development.
  • Red Hat plans to continue to enhance the Red Hat Developer Hub platform with additional plug-ins to support a broader set of tools and systems in future releases.
  • The Red Hat Backstage Plug-ins are generally available in the second half of this year with the Developer Preview of Red Hat Developer Hub.

CD Foundation Announces Significant Project Momentum at cdCon + GitOpsCon

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Monday, May 8, 2023

VANCOUVER, BC, May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), the open source software foundation that seeks to improve the world's capacity to deliver software with security and speed, today announced several updates underlying the open source foundation's momentum. The announcements come at the start of cdCon + GitOpsCon (May 8 – 9, 2023), an in-person event in Vancouver, Canada, co-organized with The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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  • CD Foundation announces CDEvents adoption, new Tekton supply chain security features, and a new Ortelius sub-project called Emporous
    VANCOUVER, BC, May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) , the open source software foundation that seeks to improve the world's capacity to deliver software with security and speed, today announced several updates underlying the open source foundation's momentum.
  • The announcements come at the start of cdCon + GitOpsCon (May 8 – 9, 2023), an in-person event in Vancouver, Canada, co-organized with The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) .
  • CD Foundation announces CDEvents adoption, Tekton supply chain security features, and new Ortelius sub-project Emporous.
  • Jenkins , Spinnaker , Tekton , and Testkube projects are adopting CDEvents for their users to achieve interoperability, and enable scalability and observability of their CI/CD pipelines.

JFrog-Led Open Source “Pyrsia” Initiative to Secure the Software Supply Chain will be Contributed to the CD Foundation

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

(JFrog) (NASDAQ: FROG), the Liquid Software company and creators of the JFrog DevOps Platform , today announced Pyrsia , an open source software community initiative that utilizes blockchain technology to secure software packages (a.k.a.

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  • (JFrog) (NASDAQ: FROG), the Liquid Software company and creators of the JFrog DevOps Platform , today announced Pyrsia , an open source software community initiative that utilizes blockchain technology to secure software packages (a.k.a.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221025005480/en/
    The JFrog-Led "Pyrsia" initiative for securing the software supply chain will be contributed to the CD Foundation, with support from Docker, DeployHub, Oracle, and others.
  • The beauty of it is, large and small businesses alike stand to benefit from Pyrsia, as will the entire software supply chain."
  • @jfrog-led open source project #Pyrsia to be incubated under the @CDFoundation to further secure the software supply chain.

CD Foundation Welcomes New Software Supply Chain Security Project Pyrsia, Announces Tekton Graduation, and CDEvents Release

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

DETROIT, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), the open source software foundation that seeks to improve the world's capacity to deliver software with security and speed, today announced at its CD Summit that Pyrsia became its newest Incubating Project, Tekton completed the graduation process, and CDEvents released v0.1.

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  • "Interoperability and Supply Chain Security are the keys to the growth of the modern Software Delivery ecosystem.
  • The CD Foundation is excited to work closely with Pyrsia to be key in scaling supply chain security."
  • Pyrsia is a Decentralized Package Network improving the security of open source software and the supply chain security of these libraries that are critical for software development.
  • To get started, please see the CDEvents Documentation: https://cdevents.dev/
    The CD Foundation seeks to improve the world's capacity to deliver software with security and speed.

SPIFFE and SPIRE Projects Graduate from Cloud Native Computing Foundation Incubator

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced today the graduation of the SPIFFE and SPIRE projects. They join 16 other graduated projects.

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  • Projects are used by leading cloud native companies including Bloomberg, ByteDance, Pinterest, and Twilio, among others
    SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced today the graduation of the SPIFFE and SPIRE projects.
  • It is great to see the support behind these projects and I anticipate continuous growth as more organizations move to secure cloud native architectures."
  • SPIFFE and SPIRE entered the CNCF Sandbox in 2018, moved to the Incubator in 2020 and has grown significantly in that time.
  • It's been truly awe inspiring to watch the SPIFFE and SPIRE projects grow.

CD Foundation Announces State of CD in 2022 Report, Opens Third Annual cdCon with New Project CDEvents, New Members

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Tuesday, June 7, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), the open source software foundation that seeks to improve the world's capacity to deliver software with security and speed, today announced its State of CD Report in 2022, a new project called CDEvents building a vendor-neutral specification for defining the format of event data, new members, and more. The announcement comes at the start of CDF's third annual cdCon (June 7-8, 2022). cdCon 2022 is being run as a hybrid event from Austin, TX.

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  • The announcement comes at the start of CDF's third annual cdCon (June 7-8, 2022).
  • Defining a standard set of specifications is critical in solving the interoperability issues across the continuous delivery (CD) ecosystem.
  • cdCon is sponsored by IBM, JFrog, Armory, CircleCI, OpsMx, Camunda, Capital One, CloudBees, Cloudsmith, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Liquibase, Spacelift, and more.
  • He participated in the very first public meeting during the Open Source Leadership Summit in California in March 2019 when the CD Foundation was announced.

Chainguard Raises $50M in Series A to Make Software Supply Chain Secure by Default, Introduces Secure Container Base Images

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Thursday, June 2, 2022

KIRKLAND, Wash., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chainguard, the leader in securing the software supply chain by default, today announced it has raised $50 million in its Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Amplify, the Chainsmokers' Mantis VC, LiveOak Venture Partners, Banana Capital, K5/JPMC and CISOs from Google and Square (Block), among others. The company today is also announcing Chainguard Images, the first container base images designed for a secure software supply chain that are continuously updated to achieve zero-known vulnerabilities.

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  • The company today is also announcing Chainguard Images, the first container base images designed for a secure software supply chain that are continuously updated to achieve zero-known vulnerabilities.
  • Chainguard raises $50m in Series A, introduces Chainguard Images
    "High profile software supply chain attacks like Log4j have flashed a spotlight on the need to establish a foundation of trust in the software that companies put in production," said Bogomil Balkansky, partner at Sequoia Capital.
  • "We are partnering with Chainguard to substantially increase our ability to build a secure foundation for supply chain security.
  • Chainguard is addressing every critical point in the software supply chain," said Milan Koch, Partner, Chainsmokers' Mantis VC.

Red Hat Boosts Performance and Scale for Cloud-Native Application Development with Latest Portfolio Updates

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

With new Tekton Chains , OpenShift Pipelines now provides built-in image signing capabilities that help to enhance reliability in the application delivery supply chain.

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  • With new Tekton Chains , OpenShift Pipelines now provides built-in image signing capabilities that help to enhance reliability in the application delivery supply chain.
  • The latest release includes Argo CD 2.3, bringing new sync and diff strategies, UI improvements, and performance enhancements.
  • ApplicationSets is also now fully integrated with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management .
  • Red Hat also unveiled its next-generation in-browser and local development environments, Red Hat OpenShift DevSpaces 3 (formerly Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces) and Red Hat OpenShift Local 2 (formerly Red Hat CodeReady Containers), the next generation of its in-browser and local development environments for Red Hat OpenShift , the industrys leading enterprise Kubernetes platform.

CD Foundation Announces CDEvents, a vendor-neutral specification for defining the format of event data

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Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Defining a standard set of specifications is critical in solving the interoperability issues across the continuous delivery (CD) ecosystem.

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  • Defining a standard set of specifications is critical in solving the interoperability issues across the continuous delivery (CD) ecosystem.
  • Having a common format for events in the CD space will enable an ecosystem of tools to collect, store, visualize and analyze events across CD platforms.
  • This also limits the potential for libraries, tooling and infrastructure to aid the delivery of event data across environments, like SDKs, event routers or tracing systems.
  • There exists a Proof of Concept implementation proving that Tekton and Keptn can communicate over a common event protocol.