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Just Launched ValidKube. Here Are 7 Other K8s Open Source Projects We Love!

I am excited to share that we’ve just launched our first open source project called ValidKube. The idea behind Validkube is to fuse together the capabilities of three other popular open-source projects (kubeval, kubectl-neat and trivy by Aqua) and present them in a single view, providing users with a way to ensure YAML code hygiene and security, all at the same time and with just a few clicks of the button.

Financial Services Customer Maintains 99.99% Uptime With LogicMonitor

In this case study video, LogicMonitor is joined by Abrigo, a software company for financial institutions, to discuss the evolution of the financial technology space through the digital transformation era. From supporting PPP loans throughout the pandemic to consolidating a plethora of monitoring tools into one platform for greater visibility and ease of use – LogicMonitor provides Abrigo with the enterprise-grade SaaS monitoring solution it needs to support its customers 24/7, around the globe.

GCISD Accelerates Digital Transformation With LogicMonitor

In this case study video, LogicMonitor is joined by Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District to discuss the evolution of the education space through the digital transformation era. From keeping tabs on thousands of devices, consolidating a plethora of monitoring tools into one platform for greater visibility and ease of use, and leveraging AI powered alerting and forecasting, LogicMonitor provides GCISD with the enterprise-grade SaaS monitoring solution it needs to support its students 24/7, wherever they are learning.

Network automation tools

“Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” – Bill Gates A network, as we all know, is the connection of multiple devices to share information between them. While it’s a major task to manually manage every device connected to a network, a software-based feature called network automation can be utilized to help overcome this challenge.

CVE-2021-44142: Critical Samba Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution

Recently, a critical out-of-bounds vulnerability, assigned to CVE-2021-44142, was disclosed in Samba versions prior to 4.13.17. The Samba vulnerability carries a critical CVSS of 9.9 and allows attackers to remotely execute code on machines running a Samba server with a vulnerable configuration. The vulnerability was disclosed as part of the Pwn2Own Austin competition where researchers are challenged to exploit widely-used software and devices with unknown vulnerabilities.

Our Solution for Scalable Multi-Region SaaS Deployment

Just like many other production DevOps engineering teams, our JFrog team deploys new version releases several times a day to AWS, Azure and GCP, across more than 20 cloud regions. This process used to take us many hours and could have even failed if it was done alongside maintenance by other teams.

[Infographic] AWS RDS from a Serverless perspective

In this article, we’ll deep dive into all the basics to help you decide if AWS RDS is the right decision for your architecture and help you hit the ground running if you do end up AWS RDS. For many decades now, relational databases (RDS) have been the place to store your data. They are pretty flexible often use some kind of SQL dialect, which is one of the main languages taught in computer science classes, and widely understood by the average developer.