Juniper Networks  

reinforces longstanding 

commitment to open source

During the recently organised annual NXTWORK user conference, Juniper 

Networks announced its intent to move the code base of OpenContrail, an 

open source network 

virtualisation platform for 

the cloud, to the Linux 

Foundation. OpenContrail 

is a scalable, network 

virtualisation control plane. 

It provides both feature-

rich software-defined 

networking (SDN) and 

strong security.

Juniper first open 

sourced its Contrail 

products in 2013, and 

built a vibrant user and developer community around this project. In early 2017, 

expanded the project’s governance, creating an even more open, community-led 

effort to strengthen the project for its next growth phase.

Adding its code base to the Linux Foundation’s networking projects will 

further Juniper’s objective to grow the use of open source platforms in cloud 

ecosystems. OpenContrail has been deployed by various organisations, including 

cloud providers, telecom operators and enterprises, to simplify operational 

complexities and automate workload management across diverse cloud 

environments, including multi-clouds.

Arpit Joshipura, vice president of networking and orchestration at the Linux 

Foundation said, “We are excited at the prospect of our growing global community 

being able to broadly adopt, manage and integrate OpenContrail’s code base 

to manage and secure diverse cloud environments. Having this addition to our 

open source projects will be instrumental in achieving the level of technology 

advancements our community has become known for.”

Once the Linux Foundation takes over the governance of OpenContrail’s 

code base, Juniper’s mission to ensure the project truly remains 

community-led will be fulfilled. As a result, this will accelerate pioneering 

advances and community adoption, as well as enable easier and secure 

migration to multi-cloud environments. 

GIMP 2.9.8 image editor now comes with better PSD support 

and on-canvas gradient editing

The latest release of the GIMP, the popular open source image editor, introduces 

on-canvas gradient editing and various other enhancements while focusing on bug-

fixing and stability. You can now create and delete colour stops, select and shift 

them, assign colours to colour stops, change blending and colouring for segments 

between colour stops, etc, from mid-points.

“Now, when you try to change an existing gradient from a system folder, the 

GIMP will create a copy of it, call it a ‘custom gradient’ and preserve it across 

sessions. Unless, of course, you edit another ‘system’ gradient, in which case it 

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Heptio and Microsoft join 

the effort to bring Heptio 

Ark to Azure

The new collaboration between 

Heptio and Microsoft aims to 

ensure Heptio Ark delivers a 

strong Kubernetes disaster-

recovery solution for customers 

who want to use it on Azure. The 

companies will also work together 

to make the Ark project an efficient 

solution to move Kubernetes 

applications across on-premise 

computing environments and 

Azure, and to ensure that Azure-

hosted backups are secure.

The Ark project provides 

a simple, configurable and 

operationally robust way to 

back up and restore applications 

and persistent volumes from a 

series of checkpoints. With the 

Heptio-Microsoft collaboration, 

the two firms will ensure that 

organisations are not only able to 

back up and restore content into 

Azure Container Service (AKS), 

but that snapshots created using 

Ark are persisted in Azure and are 

encrypted at rest.

“I’m excited to see Heptio 

and Microsoft deliver a 

compelling solution that satisfies 

an important and unmet need in 

the Kubernetes ecosystem,” said 

Brendan Burns, distinguished 

engineer at Microsoft and co-

creator of Kubernetes.

It will also help manage 

disaster recovery for Kubernetes 

cluster resources and 

persistent volumes.

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