In the news: Native edge computing comes to Red Hat Enterprise Linux; IBM/Red Hat deals crushing blow to CentOS; Linux Kernel 5.10 is ready for release 48; and Canonical launches curated container images.
Identity and access management plays a central role in modern IT infrastructures, with its local resources, numerous applications, and cloud services. We investigate how OpenIAM implements centralized user management.
After about two years of development, version 8 of the popular PHP scripting language was released on November 26, 2020. It comes with a number of innovations and ditches some obsolete features.
Apache Kafka reads and writes events virtually in real time, and you can extend it to take on a wide range of roles in today's world of big data and event streaming.
The basic container images on which you base your work can often be out of date. We show you how to solve this problem and create significantly leaner containers.
The FIDO and FIDO2 standard supports passwordless authentication. We discuss the requirements for the use of FIDO2 and show a sample implementation for a web service.
Google and Facebook are two of the biggest providers for single sign-on on the web, with OAuth2 and OpenID, but if you don't want to put your customers' or employees' data in their hands, Red Hat's Keycloak software lets you run your own operations with the option of integrating existing Kerberos or LDAP accounts.
If you use IIS on Windows servers, you can fully access the web server's features and manage it effectively with on-board tools, including the well-known Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, Windows Admin Center, and PowerShell.
