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End-to-end visibility into pipelines is crucial for ensuring the health and performance of your CI system, especially at scale. Within extensive CI systems—which operate under the strain of numerous developers simultaneously pushing commits—even the slightest performance regression or uptick in failure rates can compound rapidly and have tremendous repercussions, causing major cost overruns and impeding release velocity across organizations.

CircleCI supports GitLab as a version control system (VCS). In this tutorial you will learn how to set up your first CircleCI CI/CD pipeline for a project hosted on GitLab. As GitLab can be used either as a SaaS tool, as well as self-managed on-premise installation, I will cover the steps to connect it with CircleCI for both.

In 2023, monitoring is essential to modern DevOps teams' work. DevOps teams need reliable and flexible tools to effectively monitor and manage complex systems that can provide real-time insights into system performance, availability, and security. Open-source monitoring tools have become increasingly popular due to their cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and community support.

Squid proxies are among the most popular open-source proxy servers preferred by companies across the globe to keep their networks safe and boost performance. Since Squid proxy’s release in 1996, companies have preferred it for its high-performance proxying, forwarding, and caching functions. Squid proxy logs contain information about the HTTP traffic passing through a server. This includes the source IP, destination IP, time of the request, and accessed URL.

Azure Service Principals are a crucial aspect of managing your Azure resources. They provide a secure and efficient way to manage your resources, without the need for human intervention. In this article, we will explore what Azure Service Principals are, how they work, and why they are important. As you may already know, Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows you to host, deploy and manage your applications and services.

Kubernetes is essential to modern application development and runtime. As a powerful container orchestration platform, its benefits include improved scalability, portability, and automation, all of which contribute to more resilient applications and cost savings. More and more organizations are adopting Kubernetes to develop applications that can scale, recover from failures, and quickly adapt to changing business requirements.

OpenStack is no doubt a wonderful and successful piece of software. It allows you to create your own cloud infrastructure, and thanks to its open-source nature, it’s free to use for everyone. But as with many giant software projects, all that power comes with a challenge: it is reasonably complex to install and configure.

The Docker project was initiated by dotCloud, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company that created Docker to run their internal infrastructure. Slowly, Docker became more successful than any of their other products, so dotCloud rebranded as Docker Inc. Docker provides easy-to-use tooling and grew into an entire ecosystem for container management.