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It was the week before Christmas 🤶 🎅 and all through the DevOps world not a creature was stirring not even a mouse 🖱. Hardly… You might be in a change freeze but the open source world is a glow with many gifts under the tree this week. Department of Refreshment and Refurbishment Linus’ gift to the DevOps world came in the form of Kernel 4.9. This is a large release coming in at about 22.3 million lines according to Michael Larabel with, “a bit over two thirds drivers”. Kubernetes 1.5 is out! PetSet is now called StatefulSet (beta), Windows server containers are available, and a slew of other features are now available. Docker spun out containerd, its core container runtime, into a standalone product, “and will be donating it to a neutral foundation early next year”. This is big news especially when you consider Alibaba, AWS, Google, IBM and Microsoft are all onboard the containerd train. CoreOS Linux has rebranded itself to Container Linux. The CoreOS team can do what they want as far as branding but I honestly think this is going to create some confusion in the marketplace. Think about explaining to an overzealous CTO who wants to use containers that Container Linux might not be the best option. ...

Welcome to this week’s edition of DevOps’ish where we cover Dev, Ops, and all the ish in between. Department of Choice Concepts I love the idea of dumping XML and JSON for HTML 5. Despite having to block people trying to pick fights on Twitter, this idea has been pretty well received. I would love to see the frustrations of JSON cast aside for something less syntactically challenging and more human readable. Department of Happy Little Clouds Ryan Scott Brown might have beat Amazon to the punch but AWS has launched a region in Canada! 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 The general consensus is if a company that is doing business in Canada they are likely going to be diving head first into this AWS region. Canadian privacy laws make sure a lot of Canadian PII does not leave the county. Speaking of Amazon and privacy… A developer interviewing at Amazon had a rather unusual experience taking a proctored test. He ended up terminating the interview early and then as the proctor was unable to clean things up on the dev’s machine the dev terminated the termination. “The normalization of privacy violation has never felt more real.” ...