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Migrating to Ubuntu LTS: six facts for CentOS users

Considering migrating to Ubuntu from other Linux platforms, such as CentOS? Think Ubuntu- the most popular Linux distribution on public clouds, data centre and the edge. Since its inception, Ubuntu consistently gains market share, as of today reaching almost 50%. Wondering why Ubuntu is so popular? Here is our take.

November Meetup - GitOps with Rancher Continuous Delivery

As the number of clusters under management increase, application owners and cluster operators need a programatic way to manage deploying to their clusters. Rancher Continuous Delivery allows an administrator to create groups of clusters and link them to Git repositories. This means an application owner only ever needs access to the Git repository and not the management cluster. Deployment manifests can be defined in Helm, Kustomize or K8s yaml files and can be tailored based on attributes of the target clusters.

Integrate Datadog Compliance Monitoring with your AWS Well-Architected workloads

Many of our customers rely on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Framework as a guide to build safe, secure, and performant applications in the cloud. AWS offers the Well-Architected Review (WAR) Tool as a centralized way to track and trend adherence to Well-Architected best practices. It allows users to define workloads and answer a set of questions regarding operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.

Manual steps in parallel groups available for Pipelines

Bitbucket Pipelines now allows steps with a manual trigger to be used in parallel groups, satisfying one of the highest voted feature requests. This feature provides more flexibility in Pipelines, allowing teams to configure pipelines with multiple options and then only run the steps they actually need to run, at the time they want. For example you can choose which environments should be deployed for individual developers, giving them different environments to test and do their work.

Announcing Harvester: Open Source Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Software

Today, I am excited to announce project Harvester, open source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software built using Kubernetes. Harvester provides fully integrated virtualization and storage capabilities on bare-metal servers. No Kubernetes knowledge is required to use Harvester. In the past few years, we’ve seen many attempts to bring VM management into container platforms, including our own RancherVM, and other solutions like KubeVirt and Virtlet.

Cloud Cost Optimization & DevOps

See how leading enterprises are achieving continuous, DevOps-driven cloud and container cost. Our DevOps experts detail methods for embedding cloud cost optimization into DevOps pipelines, demo an extensible, best practice DevOps pipeline supporting continuous cloud FinOps, and showcase case studies of advanced enterprises successfully augmenting their DevOps to embrace systemic optimization.

Cost per Tenant: A Key Part of the AWS Well-Architected Strategy SaaS Lens

Multi-tenancy is one of the key properties of any effective SaaS solution. It gives companies the economies of scale, elasticity, and operational efficiency to offer competitive products with strong margins. However, multi-tenancy has a tradeoff: cost visibility. Because customers share AWS resources in multi-tenant architecture, the billing data shows the resources you’ve utilized, but not by who or to do what. It’s possible to build this kind of visibility in.