KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual (say that five times fast) was held online, November 18th to 20th. It was the second virtual KubeCon, due to the Coronavirus pandemic. I had a lot of fun attending and saw a lot of great talks. If you weren’t able to participate in real-time, the CNCF will post the talks soon to its YouTube channel.
Lock your sights on the black box hiding untold vulnerabilities in your repository and shine a light inside to find out what monsters lurk within. Yes, I'm talking about running on-demand security scans against supported packages within your repository. If you are a Velocity or Ultra customer, you can start making use of security scanning today!
November 24th 2020: Canonical has published the LTS Docker Image Portfolio, a curated set of secure container application images, on Docker Hub. The LTS Docker Image Portfolio comes with up to ten years Extended Security Maintenance by Canonical. “LTS Images are built on trusted infrastructure, in a secure environment, with guarantees of stable security updates,” said Mark Lewis, VP Application Services at Canonical.
A combined ITSM and ITOM approach can make your business more resilient and proactive in three ways. We’ll start with a stat that most anyone will appreciate: In the average enterprise, about 60% of incidents are generated by machines (servers, storage, network routers, etc.) instead of people, ServiceNow research finds.
Every business has a CEO. And especially in today’s environment, most CEOs face challenges. Business continuity, employee productivity, customer service, to name a few. If they didn’t know it before, COVID has made CEOs realize that outdated, offline processes are slowing them down, frustrating employees and customers, and costing them too much. With winter approaching in half the world, one could say CEOs feel they’re being left out in the cold.
Welcome to Raygun APM. Raygun’s modern Application Performance Monitoring (APM) beats traditional solutions by providing actionable, developer-level insights into server-side performance issues. In this article, you’ll learn how to set up Raygun APM to be the most effective, plus a few key features that we recommend.
Welcome to the second part of our three-part blog series on leveraging analytics to deliver an exceptional end-user experience. In the last part, we discussed two key points: how to gauge the effectiveness of your support forms using analytics, and how to pick the right metrics that focus on customer satisfaction. In this part, we’ll discuss the next two ways analytics can help you deliver an exceptional end-user experience.
From containerized workloads to microservice architectures, developers are rapidly adopting new technology that allows organizations to scale their products at unprecedented rates. In order to make sense of these complex deployments, many teams are abstracting applications away from the environments in which they run. Because of this trade-off, developers and security teams lose the access to the unified context from infrastructure to application needed to fully secure their services.
I recently found out Travis CI is ending its free-for-opensource offering, and looked at the alternatives. I recently got badly burned by giving an external CI service access to my repositories, so I am now wary of giving any service any access to important accounts. Github Actions, being a part of Github, therefore looked attractive to me. I had no experience with Github Actions going in. I have now spent maybe 4 hours total tinkering with it.
