Docker 4.18 Extends Scout, Adds Container File Explorer, Docker Init, and More

Docker Desktop’s latest 4.18 release, brings a wealth of new features, including vulnerability quickview, recommendations, and image diffing for Docker Scout, stable Container File Explorer, an init command to quickly add Docker to a project, and experimental Compose File Watch to monitor changes inside a project.

Google Open Sources Bazel Plugin to Automate Secure Distroless Image Creation

Google and Bazel consulting firm Aspect announced version 1.0 of Bazel plugin rules_oci. Aimed to simplify secure container image creation using Bazel with special emphasis on Distroless images, the new plugin obsoletes rules_docker and improves it on a number of counts.

How Spotify Carries Through Experiments at Scale for Spotify Home

Spotify runs more than 250 online experiments annually on its Spotify Home platform, which are used by dozen of different teams. To accomplish running experiments at such scale, Spotify uses a number of different tools, explains Spotify Product Manager Nik Goyle.

Terraform Cloud Supports Ephemeral Workspaces in Public Beta

Ephemeral workspaces allows their users to set timeouts to automatically destroy unused resources, reducing infrastructure costs and the effort required for manual resource clean-up. Ephemeral workspaces are now available in public beta on Terraform Cloud Plus.

Go 1.21 Toolchain is Now Reproducible to Help Safeguard from Supply-Chain Attacks

Go 1.21 toolchain is the first Go toolchain to be perfectly reproducible. This makes it possible to reduce the risk that a malicious actor can tamper with the output binaries, explains Google engineer Russ Cox, to carry through a supply chain attack.