AWS Open Source Blog

Using Open Policy Agent on Amazon EKS

中文版 – Open Policy Agent (OPA) is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project designed to help you implement automated policies around pretty much anything, similar to the way the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) works. With OPA, you can write a very slimmed-down policy using a language called rego which is based […]

Demystifying ENTRYPOINT and CMD in Docker

中文版 – As you begin your Docker container creation journey, you might find yourself faced with a puzzling question: Should your Dockerfile contain an ENTRYPOINT instruction, a CMD instruction, or both? In this post, I discuss the differences between the two in detail, and explain how best to use them in various use cases you […]

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Amazon Corretto 8 Now Generally Available

  Amazon Corretto 8, a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK, is now Generally Available (Corretto 8 had been in preview since we announced it in November, 2018). Amazon runs Corretto internally on thousands of production services. We at Amazon are committed to keeping Java free. Since preview, we’ve listened to our customers and have […]

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Supporting The Apache Software Foundation

中文版 – At AWS, we are excited to support The Apache Software Foundation, championing an organization that is delivering software for public good. Apache’s software is core to much of the Internet and is used by many of our customers and community. We’re happy to kick off 2019 by increasing our support of The Apache […]

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Open Source Love at FOSDEM 2019

中文版 – It’s that time of the year again, and thousands of open source enthusiasts will be traveling to Brussels, Belgium to attend FOSDEM to soak up as much as they can in 700 sessions covering hundreds of open source projects, across the span of two days at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Solbosch Campus. For […]

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Kata Containers 1.5 Release with Support for Firecracker

中文版 – Firecracker was announced at re:Invent 2018. It provides security and isolation of virtual machines along with fast startup times and density of containers. It provides a cloud-native hypervisor for running containers safely and efficiently. In this post, Eric Ernst from the Kata Containers project explains how Firecracker meets a need in their community […]

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Integrating Phabricator with AWS CodePipeline via AWS CodeCommit

中文版 Realizing true DevOps culture means implementing a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline from development to production, often integrating popular open source tools with cloud services such as AWS CodeCommit and AWS CodePipeline. In this post, Junaid Kapadia shows how to integrate Phabricator, an open source code manager, into a cloud-based CI/CD pipeline. […]

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Recruiting Open Source Contributors to Work at AWS

Note: This post is, of course, out of date – but we still have lots of open source jobs at AWS! Happy New Year! How would you like to start 2019 with a new role working on open source at AWS? Robots! My team of open source technologists is growing steadily, adding specialists in different […]