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SMS Alerts for GitHub Actions - Civo Navigate NA 2023

Rishab Kumar, a Developer Evangelist at Twilio, shares their insights on implementing SMS alerts for GitHub actions during an informative talk. Their presentation primarily focuses on using GitHub Actions for build and CI/CD tasks due to its efficient cost structure. However, Rishab points out a feature gap: the platform lacks the capability for SMS alerts or phone calls. To address this, they demonstrate how to configure SMS alerts in a manner akin to enterprise tooling such as OpsGenie or PagerDuty.

Mastering Kubernetes Pod Restarts with kubectl

Managing containerized applications efficiently in the dynamic realm of Kubernetes is essential for smooth deployments and optimal performance. Kubernetes empowers us with powerful orchestration capabilities, enabling seamless scaling and deployment of applications. However, in real-world scenarios, there are situations that necessitate the restarting of Pods, whether to apply configuration changes, recover from failures, or address misbehaving applications.

Monitoring Redis Clusters with Prometheus

This article will outline what Redis database monitoring is and how to set up a Redis database monitoring system with MetricFire. Then we’ll show what the final graphs and dashboards look like when displayed on Grafana. We will be using Prometheus and Grafana to power the monitoring, and we'll use a simulated Redis DB to generate the data for the Grafana dashboards. ‍ ‍

7 Tips for Remote Data Center Management

As data centers become increasingly decentralized, managing them remotely is now a must-have skill. Data center professionals need to maintain uptime, increase efficiency, and boost productivity across all their global sites without leaving their desk. While this might have once seemed near-impossible, with the right tools and processes, remotely managing your data center can be even better than physically being there.

New Feature: Instantly Clone Your Service

We're excited to announce the general availability of the new "Clone Service" feature on Qovery, which is built to augment the capabilities of our platform and to cater to our user needs more effectively. Qovery has always prided itself on being a user-centric platform, and this new feature continues to uphold that tradition.

Uploading Files Using AzCopy: A Detailed Technical Guide

Data has become a critical asset in today’s digital era, making its storage, management, and accessibility crucial to many organizations’ operations. Microsoft’s Azure provides a suite of cloud storage solutions designed to address these needs. Among the tools provided by Azure is AzCopy, a command-line utility designed to simplify data transfer to and from Azure Blob, File, and Table storage.

Monitoring Digital Ocean with MetricFire

Cloud monitoring is like a health check-up for our online spaces. It tells us what's going well and what we need to improve. It is critical because it lets us fix problems before they get too big and helps our online services work at their best. This article talks about how we can use MetricFire to monitor DigitalOcean environments.

10 Video Shorts to Level Up Your Git Game

Mastering Git can sometimes feel like trying to untangle a bunch of super tangled – and wired (old school, I know) – headphones, not sure exactly where to pull or loop or flip next. Here are 10 Git tutorial videos that’ll help you level up your Git game. These videos are the perfect combination of fast and helpful.