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Guide to Monitoring Kubernetes Using a Telegraf Daemonset

Kubernetes is used in production-level applications and software services to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications - ensuring high availability and consistent performance across distributed systems. It enhances reliability through features like load balancing, self-healing, and rolling updates, enabling efficient resource utilization and orchestration in cloud-native and hybrid environments.

#030 - Kubernetes for Humans with Ellen Chisa (Boldstart Ventures)

Ellen is a Partner at boldstart. She joined the boldstart team in January 2021, after having worked with the team as a founder at Dark. Her role allows her to do exactly what she loves – investing and supporting founders building pre-product, dev-focused, enterprise companies. Prior to boldstart and founding Dark, she worked in a variety of early stage product roles: at Lola on travel tooling, at Kickstarter on backer-facing projects, and at Microsoft on the first versions of cross-platform Office Mobile. The common thread is building tools that enable people to do creative work.

All Things CI/CD (Codefresh 101 webinar series)

Part 1 of our three part Codefresh 101 webinar series. In this session, Dan Garfield and Laurent Rochette walked through using Codefresh to create pipelines to build, test, and push changes to your code. This includes using shared pipelines to create a single pipeline that can handle many applications and Git repositories, caching, debugging with breakpoints and lots more!

What is Multi-Cloud, and why should you care?

As companies embrace cloud-native architectures and scale their operations, ensuring business continuity and minimizing downtime become paramount; even brief outages can result in substantial revenue loss and reputational damage. In July 2023, a flaw in CrowdStrike's software update caused widespread disruption across various industries. The air travel sector was particularly hard hit, with over 3,300 flights cancelled globally. Major airlines like United, Delta, American Airlines, British Airway.

Announcing the Cycle Toolbox

Today we announce the launch of the Cycle Toolbox, a suite of tools that are designed to streamline the workflows of Devops professionals and developers. Our goal is to create a toolkit that not only simplifies your daily tasks but also helps alleviate some of those common frustrations. This is just the beginning, but for our initial release, we're excited to introduce the following tools.

Do You Still Need a DevOps Team in 2024?

In the early days of DevOps, building and maintaining infrastructure required a specialized team. DevOps engineers were essential for ensuring smooth development operations and bridging the gap between development and IT operations. Today, however, with mature markets and advanced tools becoming standard, the necessity of a dedicated DevOps team is being re-evaluated.