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Intro to k3s: Lightweight Kubernetes

Ready to get some training on using K3s, the lightweight Kubernetes distribution?Earlier this year, Rancher Labs introduced k3s, a new open source project which is a lightweight implementation of Kubernetes that is easy to install and can run on x86 and ARM infrastructure with only 512 MB of RAM required to run it. It is geared towards teams that need to deploy applications quickly and reliably to resource-constrained environments. Some use cases for k3s are edge, Single Board Computers, IoT, and CI.

Continuous Delivery with Jenkins and Rollbar

Continuous delivery (CD) helps reduce the cost, time and risk of delivering changes by allowing for fast incremental updates to applications in production. However, it’s essential to monitor your application after each deployment. You need to be notified immediately if something is wrong or users are having a poor experience. Rollbar is a leading solution for error monitoring in the software development lifecycle. It alerts you when new errors occur after a deployment.

Automated Application Assessment using CloudHedge Discover

For adoption of cloud, for enterprises, there are tools which enable movement of VMs or hosts to the cloud. However, to seek the benefits of cloud, enterprises or startups need to focus on applications and not the entire infra over which the application resides. To ensure applications work post-migration, they need to be assessed on multiple parameters.

Announcing Stackery's AWS DevOps Competency - Professional Workflow & Tooling For Building On AWS Serverless

As a company providing tooling to enable developers and operations teams to adopt a productive serverless workflow, Stackery is closely integrated with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our customers are development teams who want to confidently build on AWS serverless and then manage the pipeline to production with confidence that what gets built and changed is done efficiently and well.

5 Essential Retrace Custom Dashboard Widgets For DevOps Managers

Imagine a man, a metaphorical man, slumped over, sitting silently across from you. Do you see him? Hastily smashing his fingers against the keyboard with a feverish sweat running down his neck. He, like many, only opens his APM solution after those universally feared “oh shit!” moments. Like a firefighter with a magnifying glass, he dives into his logs looking for a needle in a haystack. But you… Well, you know better than that. You wouldn’t just use your APM on bad days.

Announcing The Close of Our Seed Round: $3.1 Million

The round was led by Peterson Ventures, with participation from new investors Prelude Venture Fund, SaaS Ventures, and Forward Venture Capital and participation from existing investors Trilogy Equity Partners and Cobre Capital. It has been amazing to see the positive feedback we’ve received from our customers as we work to make the first fully automated infrastructure monitoring and alerting solution.

Release 1.16.0: Smarter binaries and built-in TLS

We’re excited to launch release v1.16.0 of the open-source Netdata monitoring agent, which delivers real-time health monitoring and performance troubleshooting to nearly any system or application. This release also contains 40 bug fixes, 31 improvements, and 20 documentation updates—if you’d like to see the full list, check out the full release notes.