KubeDigest - 02/2025
?? Welcome to the February edition of KubeDigest!
Glasskube’s monthly digest brings you key product updates, latest content highlights, and noteworthy third-party tools that should be on your radar.
Monthly Glasskube update ??
This month, the Glasskube team delivered several highly requested features on the Distr roadmap. Our Open Source platform continues to simplify how software vendors distribute and manage applications (or agents) in customer-controlled or shared-responsibility environments.
We’re excited to announce that the following features are now available:
Check out the Licensing walkthrough video:
The license management feature is in Beta, to request access, reach out to us via LinkedIn, Discord or by sending an email to [email protected]
Run Distr locally on MacOS
Additionally, we published a new guide on how to run Distr agents locally on macOS machines.
The guide addresses challenges posed by how Docker Desktop works on macOS, running Distr on MacOS Docker requires a couple of tweaks to get it to communicate with Distr correctly, but in the guide we have got you covered.
?? Check out the Distr documentation to get started today!
Monthly blog post highlight ??
One of out latest blog posts, a piece called One Year After Switching from Java to Go, took off on Hacker News this month! The response was incredible, sparking discussions around performance gains, developer experience, and why Go was the right choice for us.
Who would have thought that so many people would join the conversation and share their thoughts in the Java vs. Go debate?
If the topic peaks your interest, apart from recommending the blog post of course, we also recommend you head over to the Hacker News comments. Some really interesting threads emerged.
If you haven’t read it yet, be sure to check it out!
What's coming next? ??
Here is what we’re actively working on next:
Why is this important?
As platform builders, it's easy to get caught up in the idea of an ideal user, someone who needs every toggle, setting, and feature our platform has to offer. But more and more, we’re hearing from software vendors who, while appreciating what we’re building, really only need one or two key features.
One of the most requested features is a secure, self-hostable image registry that end customers can access at their own convenience. They want it equipped with authentication, along with access and usage metrics. This would allow software vendors to provide secure, vulnerability-scanned images while gaining insights into which artifacts are being used, which are reporting issues, and much more. We can't wait to deliver this!
If there’s something you’d love to see, let us know!
?? Third-Party Tool Spotlight: Stack Auth
We're excited to shine a spotlight on our friends over at Stack Auth, an secure and approachable open-source alternative to Auth0 and Clerk. Stack Auth offers developers a powerful, flexible, and transparent authentication solution, without the vendor lock-in of traditional closed-source platforms.
To further imptove how Stack Auth integrate secure authentication into application they recently launched a massive integration with Neon, making up-to-date synchronization of user profiles directly into Neon Postgres databases really easy. The integration eliminates the need for custom sync logic by automatically connecting your authentication provider (such as Stack Auth) to your database, giving you full ownership of your auth data.
?? Check out the Stack Auth installation guide to get started!
That’s all for this month! If you have thoughts, feedback, or just want to chat about software distribution challenges, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.
Until next time, The Glasskube Team
Co-Founder at Glasskube (YC S24)
6 天前Congratulations to Konstantin Wohlwend & Zai Shi from Stack Auth (YC S24) on the Neon integration!