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Cloud Infrastructure Without the Headaches

Cloud infrastructures have introduced increasing levels of complexity—you have to manage workloads across on-premises, private, and multiple public cloud environments. This requires you to migrate efficiently, optimize effectively, and stay rightsized on an ongoing basis, all while meeting evolving business requirements. With so many moving parts, it can be a massive challenge with lots of pitfalls that can cost you time and money and even put your business results in jeopardy.

How Puppet provides cyber security resilience to customers

You only have to read regular news reports about the multiple outages across household names in banking and financial services, resulting in customers being unable to access their bank accounts, to know that cyber security resilience has never been more important and is on every organization’s radar. The threat of regulatory action, heavy fines, and the potential loss of banking licenses is very real.

Ketch Now in the Civo Cloud Marketplace - Getting Started

Just behind the Ketch 0.6 Release, Ketch is now available for the first time in the Civo Marketplace. If you are unfamiliar with Civo, Civo is a Kubernetes based cloud provider allowing for the rapid creation of Kubernetes clusters. No matter where you are in the Kubernetes journey, the pairing of Civo and Ketch can allow you to fast-track your Kubernetes learnings or further your developer experience and guardrails with Kubernetes.

Infrastructure as Code, part 2: build Docker images and deploy to Kubernetes with Terraform

This series shows you how to get started with infrastructure as code (IaC). The goal is to help developers build a strong understanding of IaC through tutorials and code examples. In this post, I will demonstrate how to how to create a Docker image for an application, then push that image to Docker Hub. I will also discuss how to create and deploy the Docker image to a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster using HashiCorp’s Terraform.

Now you see me, now you don't: feature-flagging with LaunchDarkly at incident.io

At incident.io, we ship fast. We're talking multiple times a day, every day (yes, including Fridays). Once I merge a pull request (PR), my changes rocket their way into production without me lifting a finger. 💅 It's when we tackle larger projects that this becomes a bit more complicated. We recently launched Announcement Rules, which let you configure which channels incident announcements are posted in depending on criteria you define.

Unboxing BusyBox - 14 new vulnerabilities uncovered by Claroty and JFrog

Embedded devices with limited memory and storage resources are likely to leverage a tool such as BusyBox, which is marketed as the Swiss Army Knife of embedded Linux. BusyBox is a software suite of many useful Unix utilities, known as applets, that are packaged as a single executable file. Within BusyBox you can find a full-fledged shell, a DHCP client/server, and small utilities such as cp, ls, grep, and others.

Top Three Challenges in Building New Kubernetes Ecosystems: Public Sector Innovation

Worldwide container management revenue will grow strongly from a small base of $465.8 million in 2020, to reach $944 million in 2024, according to a new forecast from Gartner, Inc. Among the various subsegments, public cloud container orchestration and serverless container offerings will experience the most significant growth. The benefit of Kubernetes is that it makes it possible to manage and deploy modern applications with increased speed and efficiency.