Im mittlerweile dritten Anlauf warnt Microsoft vor einer kritischen Sicherheitslücke im Internet Explorer, die aktiv ausgenutzt wird. Eine weitere kritische Lücke in Edge ermöglicht ebenfalls das Ausführen von Code. Das Unternehmen hat zudem eine Vielzahl anderer Lücken geschlossen. (Microsoft, Internet Explorer)
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Der Veranstalter des Mobile World Congress in Barcelona streitet mit der Regierung über das Ausrufen des Gesundheitsnotstandes. Inzwischen haben Telekom, Vodafone, Cisco und HMD Global ihren Auftritt abgesagt. But the show must go on. (MWC2020, Telekom)
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Digitization does not stop at the proverbial concrete gold — real estate. In fact, the real estate industry is on the move. Companies are realizing the benefits of digital transformation and are capitalizing on the power of new technologies such as cloud, AI and blockchain.
Take, for example, Apleona GmbH, one of Europe’s largest real estate service providers. The German company has more than €2 billion in sales and manages properties in all asset classes in more than 30 countries. Apleona recognizes that it can broaden the established facility management model by strategically partnering with its corporate clients to transform and digitize their offerings. To this end, Apleona has been working with IBM since 2017 in a digital partnership that is continually expanding. The company has already implemented a range of innovative ideas, including the following new applications:
Room Booking is the easy and fast way to book office conference rooms without spending too much time on mobile apps. The mobile terminal’s visual representation can also display which rooms are occupied or vacant. As a result, you can quickly find available spaces in the building.
With Smart Ticketing, office workers can use a mobile app to create a “ticket” in just a few clicks if they notice a problem such as defective devices in the office. With this simple and straightforward solution, employees can track the ticket’s processing through the app. IBM Watson AI Services even allows them to “spot” problems so they can automatically create a categorized ticket.
Finally, Energy Pods are convenient mini-booths for “power naps” in the office, optionally accompanied by music or guided meditations. Employees can recharge in these stylish pods and even book them with a mobile phone. Four of the units are in use and are very popular at the IBM headquarters; more are planned at other locations.
New technologies and agile methods are key to innovative solutions
Apleona team members and experienced IBM IT consultants co-created the new solutions in the IBM Garage in Munich, Germany. Most of the applications are hosted on IBM Cloud in the Frankfurt data center, but the customer-oriented flexibility of the IBM hybrid multicloud platform makes the applications available across platforms.
The Apleona and IBM team capitalized on existing real estate and facility management data in inventive ways to develop new offerings. To create smart environments that optimally adapt to people’s needs, the team used data analytics, cognitive automation, edge computing and AI. These technologies, in connection with sensor technology and the cloud, made it possible to process and transfer data streams.
The forward-thinking and agile principles of the IBM Garage Methodology also helped Apleona succeed in its digital transformation. Apleona and IBM continue to follow this methodology at the IBM Watson IoT Center, which serves as the team’s co-creation space. This location even boasts the Room Booking solution.
Expanding offerings and scaling solutions
While the real estate industry has recognized the general benefits of digitization, critical voices are still asking for detailed business cases and quantifiable cost savings. How do you quickly scale the new solutions? “In our industry, innovation and monetization must always be thought of together,” explains Dr. Jochen Keysberg, Chief Executive Officer at Apleona. “That’s why it’s so important that new ideas, such as those developed with IBM, always have competitive advantages, efficiency improvements and better resource utilization in mind.”
The real estate industry cannot shy away from digitization, and like Apleona, other facility managers will have to adopt modern solutions to succeed in the marketplace. “Simply start, develop agile and at the same time, bring the required expertise to the table. Then quickly validate and test it with the addressed users. In our experience, it usually works in a quite straightforward way,” explains Stefan Lutz, General Manager and Services Transformation Program Leader at IBM.
Indeed, new customers, including a major German bank and global companies in the technology, energy and automation industries, are already relying on the innovation of Apleona and IBM. In addition, other IBM locations will soon use Apleona’s cutting-edge solutions, and more applications will roll out in 2020. The joint team is excited to see the offerings expand and the solutions scale.
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Vodafone macht in Hessen einen großen Schritt in Richtung Gigabitversorgung für viele Haushalte. Die Regierung des Bundeslands feiert den Kabelnetzbetreiber als Teil der Gigabitstrategie. (Docsis 3.1, Vodafone)
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In vier Jahren will die US-Raumfahrtbehörde Nasa Menschen auf den Mond schicken. Weitere bemannte Missionen zu anderen Himmelskörpern sollen folgen. Die Nasa sucht gerade das geeignete Personal. (Nasa, Raumfahrt)
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Docker is proud and happy to announce the donation of our cnab-to-oci library to the CNAB project . This project was created last year after Microsoft and Docker moved the CNAB specification to the Linux Foundation’s Joint Development Foundation. At that time, the CNAB specification repository was moved from the deislab GitHub organization to the new cnabio organization. The reference implementations – cnab-go which is the Golang library implementation of the specification and duffle which is the CLI reference implementation – were also moved.
What is cnab-to-oci for?
Docker helped with the development of the CNAB specification and its reference implementations, and led the work on the cnab-to-oci library for sharing a CNAB bundle using an existing container registry. This library is now used by 3 CNAB tools, Docker App, Porter and duffle, as well as Docker Hub. It successfully demonstrated how to push, pull and share a CNAB bundle using a registry. This work will be used as a foundation for the future CNAB Registries specification.
The transfer is already in effect, so starting now please refer to github.com/cnabio/cnab-to-oci in your Golang imports.
How does cnab-to-oci store a CNAB bundle into a registry?
As you may know, the OCI image specification introduces two main objects: the OCI Manifest and the OCI Image Index. The first one is well known and represents the classic Docker image. The other one was, at first, used to store multi-architecture images (see nginx as an example).
But what you may not know is that the specification doesn’t restrict the use of OCI Indexes to multi-arch images. You can store almost anything you want, as long as you meet the specification, and it is quite open.
cnab-to-oci uses this openness to push the bundle.json, but also the invocation image and the component images (or service images for a Docker App). It pushes everything in the same repository, so one has the guarantee that when someone pulls her/his bundle, all the components can be pulled as well.
Demo Time
While cnab-to-oci is implemented as a library that can be used by other tools, the repository contains a handy CLI tool that can perform push and pull of any CNAB bundle.json.
With the following command we push a bundle example to the Docker Hub repository. It pushes all the manifests found in the bundle, then creates an OCI Index and pushes it at the end. The digest we get as a result is pointing to the OCI Index of the bundle.
$ make bin/cnab-to-oci…$ ./bin/cnab-to-oci push examples/helloworld-cnab/bundle.json -t hubusername/repo:demo –log-level=debug –auto-update-bundleDEBU[0000] Fixing up bundle docker.io/hubusername/repo:demoDEBU[0000] Updating entry in relocation map for “cnab/helloworld:0.1.1”Starting to copy image cnab/helloworld:0.1.1…Completed image cnab/helloworld:0.1.1 copyDEBU[0004] Bundle fixedDEBU[0004] Pushing CNAB Bundle docker.io/hubusername/repo:demoDEBU[0004] Pushing CNAB Bundle ConfigDEBU[0004] Trying to push CNAB Bundle ConfigDEBU[0004] CNAB Bundle Config DescriptorDEBU[0004] { “mediaType”: “application/vnd.cnab.config.v1+json”, “digest”: “sha256:e91b9dfcbbb3b88bac94726f276b89de46e4460b55f6e6d6f876e666b150ec5b”, “size”: 498}DEBU[0005] Trying to push CNAB Bundle Config ManifestDEBU[0005] CNAB Bundle Config Manifest DescriptorDEBU[0005] { “mediaType”: “application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json”, “digest”: “sha256:6ec4fd695cace0e3d4305838fdf9fcd646798d3fea42b3abb28c117f903a6a5f”, “size”: 188}DEBU[0006] Failed to push CNAB Bundle Config Manifest, trying with a fallback methodDEBU[0006] Trying to push CNAB Bundle ConfigDEBU[0006] CNAB Bundle Config DescriptorDEBU[0006] { “mediaType”: “application/vnd.oci.image.config.v1+json”, “digest”: “sha256:e91b9dfcbbb3b88bac94726f276b89de46e4460b55f6e6d6f876e666b150ec5b”, “size”: 498}DEBU[0006] Trying to push CNAB Bundle Config ManifestDEBU[0006] CNAB Bundle Config Manifest DescriptorDEBU[0006] { “mediaType”: “application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json”, “digest”: “sha256:b9616da7500f8c7c9a5e8d915714cd02d11bcc71ff5b4fd190bb77b1355c8549”, “size”: 193}DEBU[0006] CNAB Bundle Config pushedDEBU[0006] Pushing CNAB IndexDEBU[0006] Trying to push OCI IndexDEBU[0006] {“schemaVersion”:2,”manifests”:[{“mediaType”:”application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json”,”digest”:”sha256:b9616da7500f8c7c9a5e8d915714cd02d11bcc71ff5b4fd190bb77b1355c8549″,”size”:193,”annotations”:{“io.cnab.manifest.type”:”config”}},{“mediaType”:”application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json”,”digest”:”sha256:a59a4e74d9cc89e4e75dfb2cc7ea5c108e4236ba6231b53081a9e2506d1197b6″,”size”:942,”annotations”:{“io.cnab.manifest.type”:”invocation”}}],”annotations”:{“io.cnab.keywords”:”[”helloworld”,”cnab”,”tutorial”]”,”io.cnab.runtime_version”:”v1.0.0″,”org.opencontainers.artifactType”:”application/vnd.cnab.manifest.v1″,”org.opencontainers.image.authors”:”[{”name”:”Jane Doe”,”email”:”jane.doe@example.com”,”url”:”https://example.com”}]”,”org.opencontainers.image.description”:”A short description of your bundle”,”org.opencontainers.image.title”:”helloworld”,”org.opencontainers.image.version”:”0.1.1″}}DEBU[0006] OCI Index DescriptorDEBU[0006] { “mediaType”: “application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1+json”, “digest”: “sha256:fcee8577f3acc8ddc6e0280e6d1eb15be70bdff460fe7353abf917a872487af2”, “size”: 926}DEBU[0007] CNAB Index pushedDEBU[0007] CNAB Bundle pushedPushed successfully, with digest “sha256:fcee8577f3acc8ddc6e0280e6d1eb15be70bdff460fe7353abf917a872487af2”
Let’s check that our bundle has been pushed on Docker Hub:
We can now pull our bundle back from the registry. It will only fetch the bundle.json file, but as you may notice this now has a digested reference for the image manifest of every component, inside the same registry repository. The Docker Engine will pull any images required by the bundle at runtime. So pulling a bundle is a lightweight process.
$ ./bin/cnab-to-oci pull hubusername/repo:demo –log-level=debugDEBU[0000] Pulling CNAB Bundle docker.io/hubusername/repo:demoDEBU[0000] Getting OCI Index DescriptorDEBU[0001] { “mediaType”: “application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1+json”, “digest”: “sha256:fcee8577f3acc8ddc6e0280e6d1eb15be70bdff460fe7353abf917a872487af2”, “size”: 926}DEBU[0001] Fetching OCI Index sha256:fcee8577f3acc8ddc6e0280e6d1eb15be70bdff460fe7353abf917a872487af2DEBU[0001] { “schemaVersion”: 2, “manifests”: [ { “mediaType”: “application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json”, “digest”: “sha256:b9616da7500f8c7c9a5e8d915714cd02d11bcc71ff5b4fd190bb77b1355c8549”, “size”: 193, “annotations”: { “io.cnab.manifest.type”: “config” } }, { “mediaType”: “application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json”, “digest”: “sha256:a59a4e74d9cc89e4e75dfb2cc7ea5c108e4236ba6231b53081a9e2506d1197b6”, “size”: 942, “annotations”: { “io.cnab.manifest.type”: “invocation” } } ], “annotations”: { “io.cnab.keywords”: “[”helloworld”,”cnab”,”tutorial”]”, “io.cnab.runtime_version”: “v1.0.0”, “org.opencontainers.artifactType”: “application/vnd.cnab.manifest.v1”, “org.opencontainers.image.authors”: “[{”name”:”Jane Doe”,”email”:”jane.doe@example.com”,”url”:”https://example.com”}]”, “org.opencontainers.image.description”: “A short description of your bundle”, “org.opencontainers.image.title”: “helloworld”, “org.opencontainers.image.version”: “0.1.1” }}DEBU[0001] Getting Bundle Config Manifest DescriptorDEBU[0001] { “mediaType”: “application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json”, “digest”: “sha256:b9616da7500f8c7c9a5e8d915714cd02d11bcc71ff5b4fd190bb77b1355c8549”, “size”: 193, “annotations”: { “io.cnab.manifest.type”: “config” }}DEBU[0001] Getting Bundle Config Manifest sha256:b9616da7500f8c7c9a5e8d915714cd02d11bcc71ff5b4fd190bb77b1355c8549DEBU[0001] { “schemaVersion”: 2, “config”: { “mediaType”: “application/vnd.oci.image.config.v1+json”, “digest”: “sha256:e91b9dfcbbb3b88bac94726f276b89de46e4460b55f6e6d6f876e666b150ec5b”, “size”: 498 }, “layers”: null}DEBU[0001] Fetching Bundle sha256:e91b9dfcbbb3b88bac94726f276b89de46e4460b55f6e6d6f876e666b150ec5bDEBU[0002] { “schemaVersion”: “v1.0.0”, “name”: “helloworld”, “version”: “0.1.1”, “description”: “A short description of your bundle”, “keywords”: [ “helloworld”, “cnab”, “tutorial” ], “maintainers”: [ { “name”: “Jane Doe”, “email”: “jane.doe@example.com”, “url”: “https://example.com” } ], “invocationImages”: [ { “imageType”: “docker”, “image”: “cnab/helloworld:0.1.1”, “contentDigest”: “sha256:a59a4e74d9cc89e4e75dfb2cc7ea5c108e4236ba6231b53081a9e2506d1197b6”, “size”: 942, “mediaType”: “application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json” } ]}
cnab-to-oci has been integrated with Docker App in the last beta release v0.9.0-beta1, to let you push and pull your entire application with the same UX as pushing a regular Docker container image. As Docker App is a standard CNAB runtime, it can also run this generic CNAB example:
$ docker app pull hubusername/repo:demoSuccessfully pulled “helloworld” (0.1.1) from docker.io/hubusername/repo:demo$ docker app run hubusername/repo:demoPort parameter was set to Install actionAction install complete for upbeat_nobelApp “upbeat_nobel” running on context “default”
Want to Know More?
If you’re interested in getting more details about CNAB, a few blog posts are available:
Multi-arch All The ThingsBuilding Multi-Arch Images for Arm and x86 with Docker DesktopAnnouncing CNABDocker App and CNABNext Steps for Cloud Native Application Bundles
Please note that we will give a talk about this topic at KubeCon Europe 2020: “Sharing is Caring! Push your Cloud Application to an OCI Registry – Silvin Lubecki & Djordje Lukic”
And of course, you can also find more information directly on the cnab-to-oci GitHub repository.
Contributions are welcome!!!
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Der Vorschlag der Bundesregierung für das neue Leistungsschutzrecht stößt auf Widerstand bei den Verlegerverbänden. Überschriften mit mehr als drei Wörtern und Vorschaubilder sollen lizenzpfichtig sein. Dabei wenden die Verlage einen sehr auffälligen Argumentationstrick an. Eine Analyse von Friedhelm Greis (Leistungsschutzrecht, Google)
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Ein ehemaliger Profispieler durfte bei Riot Games eine frühe Version von Project A ausprobieren und sich öffentlich dazu äußern. Der Multiplayer erinnert nach seinen Angaben vor allem an Counter-Strike, dazu kommen eher vorsichtig umgesetzte Elemente aus Overwatch. (Riot Games, Counter-Strike)
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Mehr Geld für die Halbleiterfertigung: Der Auftragsfertiger TSMC hat die Freigabe für 6,7 Milliarden US-Dollar erhalten. Diese sollen in Produktionsanlagen, Belichtungsmaschinen, Kapazitätserweiterungen, Packaging-Systeme und Entwicklung gesteckt werden. (TSMC, Halbleiterfertigung)
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Beim zweiten Versuch hat Samsung aus seinen Fehlern gelernt: Das Smartphone Galaxy Z Flip mit faltbarem Display ist alltagstauglicher und stabiler als der Vorgänger. Motorolas Razr kann da nicht mithalten. Ein Hands on von Tobias Költzsch (Samsung, Smartphone)
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