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Civo Online Meetup #7 - Kubernetes security focus

Four our seventh online meetup, we discussed the critical topic of cloud-native security, focusing on Kubernetes. We looked into security of clusters, containers and code as well as explore some applications that help make sure your setups are secure. With talks from Civo Director of Evangelism Saiyam, plus Civo Ambassadors Jahred Love and Milind Chawre. Get free credit to try the world’s first K3s-powered, managed Kubernetes service.

How to Optimize Server and VM Performance with VirtualMetric

The key to maximizing revenues and ensuring foolproof security is to actively monitor infrastructure. With virtualization growing increasingly, virtual machine or VM performance monitoring is one of the most crucial parts of infrastructure monitoring. This is because as opposed to a physical server or machine, detecting problems in a VM can be even more challenging.

Paving The Road, From Code To Kubernetes With JFrog And Microsoft

The shift to modern application architectures, often based on microservices running in cloud infrastructures and built using DevOps and CI/CD principles, has been a game changer for how applications are developed. The shift, however, introduces some new complexities. JFrog and Microsoft have been on the forefront of this shift. We’ve heard about these new complexities from you on your development journey, and your need for a simple, cloud-native, Kubernetes enabled way to deliver better quality software faster.

Container deployment showdown: Docker or Kubernetes?

Monitoring the current state and performance of applications is critical for IT Ops and DevOps teams alike. Understanding the health of an application is one of the most effective ways of anticipating potential bottlenecks or slowdowns, yet it’s one of the largest challenges faced by many organizations that build and deploy software. This is largely due to applications’ distributed and diversified nature.

What is GitOps, Where Did It Come From, and Why Should You Care?

“What is GitOps?” – a question which has seen increasing popularity on Google searches and blog posts in the last three years. If you want to know why then read on. Quite simply, the coining of GitOps is credited to one individual, and pretty smart guy, Alexis Richardson. He’s so smart that he’s built a multi-award-winning consultancy, Weaveworks, and a bespoke product, Flux, around the GitOps concept.

The Importance of Communication in Software Development Teams

Programming is often thought of purely as a problem-solving activity. This may be true for the lone coder in their garage, but in the multi-person environment of an Agile team, such problem solving must be collaborative. In this article, we’ll look at the role of communication in software development, particularly in an Agile framework. Covid-19 has forced an unprecedented shift to remote working so we’ll finish up with a discussion of how Agile can be implemented in a remote setting.

Get unified visibility of Azure resources under multiple subscriptions | Serverless360

Do you have hundreds of resources under multiple Azure Subscription? Would you like to manage them in the context of business or in groups in single pane of glass? Want to provide restricted access to your team members to focus only on resources they are supposed to. Serverless360 introduces Composite Applications to group your resources in business application context or groups like staging or production.

Achieve end-to-end message tracking across Azure resources and hybrid integration | Serverless360

Serverless360 BAM is a real time hybrid integration solution can be instrumented with the business process definition to capture necessary data in all stages of the business transaction. Resolve issues faster with a unified view of business transactions and get maximum visibility on the integration solution for the functional support teams.