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Navigating the XZ Security Vulnerability: A Comprehensive Guide ATIX Blog

Navigating the XZ Security Vulnerability: A Comprehensive Guide

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In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the recent discovery of a critical vulnerability in XZ Utils, a widely used data compression software, underscores the need for vigilant security practices. Identified as CVE-2024-3094, this backdoor vulnerability, discovered on March 28, 2024, has sent ripples through the open-source community and beyond, affecting various Linux distributions and necessitating immediate action to safeguard systems against potential exploits​ (Microsoft Community Hub)​​ (Unit 42)​.
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Custom Discovery Images for SecureBoot

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In the last article “orcharhino and SecureBoot” I explained what SecureBoot is, how it works and what options there are for implementing it in orcharhino. Various options and solutions were shown at the end, with option 2 being discussed in more detail here. I recommend reading this blog post beforehand to better understand the following.
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ATIX at ConfigMgmtCamp 2024

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Meeting old friends, making new ones and learning lots of interesting things - that's what ConfigManagementCamp 2024 in Ghent is all about. This year, in 2024, we attended the event again, following the established traditions of the previous year.
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Nurturing Open Source: Donation from our Consulting Team

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In the spirit of promoting open source initiatives, our consulting team proudly supports the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). Our commitment to advancing the principles of free software and open-source technologies is underscored by our recent donation to FSFE. Jonas Trüstedt, our Consulting Teamlead specializing in data center automation, shared his thoughts with us.
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Christmas donation Team Engineering

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Every year, ATIX donates to a charitable cause at Christmas time. For the first time, this will take place at team level in 2023 - the organization to be supported will now be selected per team. Our engineering team was the first to do so and chose the children's cancer charity. We asked team leader Bernhard Suttner how the choice came about.
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2023 Wheel in the sky orcharhino summit

Recap of the orcharhino Summit 2023

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orcharhino Summit 2023: sky-high discussions about open-source software
Have you ever asked yourself what a Ferris Wheel, October 17, and orcharhino have in common? No? Well, you should! Take a look at our recap of the orcharhino Summit 2023—this blog will give you a few insights!
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Sustainable Open Source

Open-source software today and tomorrow

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The color green and open source—not an obvious match, at first glance. Really not? Wrong! Open source actually is green. Would you like to know in what way this is the case and what everything has to do with ATIX's green rhino and Istio? Then enjoy reading my blog!
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Scaling Applications to Zero with Kubernetes and KEDA

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For cost reasons, it is often neither feasible nor desirable to assign enough resources to a deployment for it to be able to handle peak loads at all times. Therefore, we typically scale applications up and down based on the load they are currently facing. This usually involves a minimum number of instances deployed at any time, even if there is no load. This minimum can force us to keep more worker nodes in our Kubernetes cluster than necessary as the instances have an assigned resource budget. In this blog post, we will take a look at how to reduce the minimum amount of deployed instances to zero and discuss which kinds of applications benefit from that the most.
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