Docker+Wasm Reaches Technical Preview 2, Includes Three New Runtime Engines

Docker has announced the second technical preview of Docker+Wasm, aiming to make it easier to run Wasm workloads and extending runtime support by including Fermyon’s spin, Deislabs’ slight, and Bytecode Alliance’s wasmtime runtime engines.

GitHub Adds SBOM Export to Make it Easier to Comply with Security Requirements

GitHub has announced a new SBOM export feature meant to be used as part of security compliance workflows and tools. The new feature allows you to export NTIA-compliant SBOM easily, says GitHub.

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.