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Everything You Need to Know About Deployment Environments

It's common practice that development environments for the same product are kept the same (or at least compatible) for smooth software development life cycle (SDLC) workflow. That brings the question, why do we need more than one environment for the same product. In today’s modern software development, it is crucial for product development teams to maintain an effective and rapid workflow if they want to gain a competitive edge in the product market.

Managing Your Hyperconverged Network with Harvester

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a data center architecture that uses software to provide a scalable, efficient, cost-effective way to deploy and manage resources. HCI virtualizes and combines storage, computing, and networking into a single system that can be easily scaled up or down as required.

How to Monitor Docker Metrics | Container Performance Monitoring Explained - Sematext

Find out which are the key Docker metrics you should be monitoring when deploying your containers to ensure the health and performance of your system. Monitoring Docker containers is an essential step in development but is not always an easy thing to do. Even though Docker helped overcome some of the challenges of migrating from a monolithic architecture to a distributed system, it does come with a potential downside when it comes to monitoring. Having multiple containers across a wide variety of hosts that change their scale in milliseconds makes traditional monitoring tools totally obsolete.

How to gain Kubernetes visibility in just a few clicks

Enterprises are increasingly adopting Kubernetes for the value that it brings to their organizations, from IT cost savings to improved time to market for application development. But with this shift comes a fundamental challenge: how to gain comprehensive visibility into your Kubernetes applications, when most existing monitoring tools are hard to scale or provide little or no visibility into Kubernetes? This challenge stems from two unique characteristics of Kubernetes. One, it is ephemeral.

Verify image signatures with GitHub Actions and KeylessPrefix

With the latest releases of Kubewarden v1.1.0 and the verify-image-signatures policy, it’s now possible to use GithubActions or KeylessPrefix for verifying images. Read our previous blog post if you want to learn more about how to verify container images with Sigstore using Kubewarden.

How to Monitor PHP-FPM with Prometheus

PHP is one of the most popular open source programming languages on the internet, used for web development platforms such as Magento, WordPress, or Drupal. In addition to all PHP bases, PHP-FPM is the most popular alternative implementation of PHP FastCGI. It has additional features which are really useful for high-traffic websites. In this article, you’ll learn how to monitor PHP-FPM with Prometheus.