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Article from ADMIN 91/2026

By Amber Ankerholz

In the news: (Percona Everest Is Now OpenEverest; Docker Hardened Images Now Freely Available; NVIDIA Launches the Rubin AI Platform; IEEE Offers Two AI Ethics Certifications; Black Duck Launches Signal Security Solution; CISA Releases Guidelines for AI Integration in Operational Technology; Action1 Now Includes Linux Patch Management; AlmaLinux OS 10.1 Now Generally Available; Red Hat Announces Project Hummingbird; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 Now Available.)

Percona Everest Is Now OpenEverest

Percona has announced the transition of Percona Everest into an independent open source project called OpenEverest (https://openeverest.io/).

According to the company, OpenEverest is the first open source platform for automated database provisioning and management. It supports multiple databases and can be hosted on any Kubernetes infrastructure, in the cloud, or on-premises. It also offers:

Cloud provider independence: Deploy on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or any Kubernetes infrastructure.
High availability: Ensure your databases are always accessible with multi-region deployments.
Data sovereignty: Keep your data where you need it to comply with regulations.
With this change, Percona will continue to contribute to the project and provide support, consulting, and services for OpenEverest users.

To additionally support the project, Percona is launching Solanica (https://solanica.io/) – a cloud-native data platform "powered by OpenEverest that enables your operations teams and developers to run data workloads at scale anywhere."

Learn more at Percona (https://www.percona.com/blog/introducing-openeverest/).

Docker Hardened Images Now Freely Available

Docker recently announced that Docker Hardened Images (DHI) (https://www.docker.com/products/hardened-images/) are now open source and freely available "to everyone who builds software."

Docker Hardened Images, which are secure, minimal, production-ready images, are "fully open and free

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