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What Is Helm in Kubernetes?

Helm is a deployment tool that simplifies installing, configuring, and managing Kubernetes clusters. Anyone familiar with writing Kubernetes manifests knows how tedious it is to create multiple manifest files using YAML. Even the most basic application has at least 3 manifest files. As the cluster grows, the more unwieldy the configuration becomes. Helm is one of the most useful tools in a developer’s tool belt for managing Kubernetes clusters.

Get better visibility into DevOps performance in one place with Atlassian integrations

Every company is a software company and every company wants to get better at it. That’s why Sumo Logic built a set of integrations with Atlassian DevOps solutions. Leveraging data from Atlassian, Sumo Logic now enables you to visualize the key, actionable insights behind the DevOps Research Assessment (DORA) metrics to continuously improve your software delivery performance. Sumo Logic’s observability platform presenting Atlassian data brings the following benefits, to name a few.

Monitor Citrix Hypervisor performance with Datadog

Citrix Hypervisor, formerly known as Citrix XenServer, is a type 1 hypervisor that enables organizations to run and manage an entire virtual infrastructure—including VMs, virtual desktops, and virtual applications. Organizations can also use Citrix Hypervisor to optionally host these virtual workloads with higher availability and flexibility by implementing managed server groups called resource pools.

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Classifying Severity Levels for Your Organization

Major outages are bound to occur in even the most well-maintained infrastructure and systems. Being able to quickly classify the severity level also allows your on-call team to respond more effectively. Imagine a scenario where your on-call team is getting critical alerts every 15 minutes, user complaints are piling up on social media, and since your platform is inoperative revenue losses are mounting every minute. How do you go about getting your application back on track? This is where understanding incident severity and priority can be invaluable. In this blog we look at severity levels and how they can improve your incident response process.

CloudHealth Pricing: How Much Does CloudHealth Cost?

Virtualization technology provider VMware acquired CloudHealth in August 2018. VMware hoped the new addition would enable more organizations to manage services on other cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and their private data centers. So, what does CloudHealth do and how much does it cost? Is it a good all-in-one platform for cloud management? This guide explores CloudHealth pricing, features, and possible alternatives to help you decide if the solution is right for you (or if there is a better option).

StackPod: Jujhar Singh of Thoughtworks on Why Technology Is Always About People

A few episodes ago, we talked with fellow podcaster and tech evangelist Dotan Horovits. During that episode, Dotan shared that he wrote a blog post with Jujhar Singh called “How Much Observability Is Enough?” which is definitely a recommended read if you’re implementing observability and feeling overwhelmed. After reading this article, we were eager to invite Jujhar to the StackPod as well, to dive into this topic a bit more.

Qovery x Spayr - Managing Multiple Environments Running on Kubernetes Clusters

Qovery makes it easy to deploy on-demand environments on AWS. More than 20,000 DevOps and developers use Qovery to deploy their production, staging, and development environments on AWS in a few seconds. Join Albane (Product Marketing at Qovery) and Pierre (CTO and Co-founder at Spayr) to talk about how Spayr is managing multiple environments running on Kubernetes clusters on Qovery, and is empowering his team, from junior to senior developers, to create a new environment and test new ideas independently.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) explained

Google has introduced so many innovations that it’d be impossible to list them all. And we’re not just talking about the obvious things like search engine algorithms or nearly-ubiquitous programs and apps (Google Maps, Docs, Gmail) — not even self-driving cars. Today, we’re going to talk about one such innovation: Site Reliability Engineering. In a nutshell, SRE it’s a practical framework for software development that improves on even giants like DevOps. Wait, what?