Blink

Blink

Rendering engine for Chromium (Google Chrome browser) and Chromium OS (Google Chrome OS).
Open source community development.
Tons of resources available for interested browser and operating systems developers.

OpenZFS

OpenZFS

Open source storage platform.
Backbone of various OS distributions.
Open implement of the ZFS project by Sun Microsystems.

For more information and links to repositories: http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/FAQ

FreeBSD

FreeBSD

Operating system focusing "on performance, networking, and storage."
20 years of refining with help of volunteers
Root name servers, website hosting, hypervisor abilities.

For download information: https://www.freebsd.org/where.html
For a full feature list: https://www.freebsd.org/features.html

FreeNAS

FreeNAS

Free and open source file sharing / data storage system.
Supports "every major operating system."
Fully accessible controls via Web UI.
Offers data protection using RAID-Z.
Snapshots - local and remote backup options; works with 3rd party backup services.
Full volume encryption.
Works with 3rd party plugins.

For a more comprehensive list of FreeNAS features: http://www.freenas.org/about/features/

[Special] SuperGiant.io Open Source Container

SuperGiant.io 

Open Source Containerization software

excerpted from the website:

We believe we can learn more from each other when we share. Supergiant is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. It's free to use, modify, and distribute.

And it’s the first container orchestration system built specifically handle high-availability, distributed, stateful apps. We would love your feedback to help make Supergiant even better.

shared from Adam via Twitter DM:

Application containerization is an operating system level (OS-level) virtualization method for deploying and running distributed applications without launching an entire virtual machine (VM) for each app. Instead, multiple isolated systems are run on a single control host and access a single kernel. The application containers hold the components such as files, environment variables and libraries necessary to run the desired software. *Because resources are shared in this way, application containers can be created that place less strain on the overall resources available.* For example, if a variation from the standard image is desired, a container can be created that holds only the new library.

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Definitely. I'll say that there are a few different container orchestration systems. We're built on top of Kubernetes and make it much easier to run/deploy/manage. We also have a packing algorithm that makes for very efficient usage of your cloud infrastructure. For more on that, see this: https://supergiant.io/blog/supergiant-packing-algorithm-unique-save-money

Supergiant is actually a product we built for ourselves at Qbox.io, which is a hosted elasticsearch product. We wanted to run containers at scale in production. We decided on kubernetes, but built this for ease of management. It saved us about 50% of our own AWS bill. We open-sourced the project about 8 months ago. It works with AWS/Digital Ocean/Open Stack.

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This FOSS Spotlight Special is brought to you in honor of Adam at SuperGiant.io who was willing to take time out to answer some of my questions.

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