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Monitor AWS GovCloud (US) with Datadog

Public sector organizations face a unique challenge when it comes to the cloud: how can they successfully migrate their operations while maintaining an air-tight, heavily regulated, massively distributed environment? To solve this problem, Amazon created the AWS GovCloud (US), two isolated Regions in the AWS ecosystem that are only accessible to US customers who meet strict security and compliance standards.

Nationwide Building Society: Ensuring Continuous Quality for DevOps Success

DevOps promised that we could deliver more, faster, and with confidence. But blockers to adoption and transformation can make those goals hard to achieve. From disjointed toolchains to a lack of predictability and visibility - persistent challenges can make DevOps success elusive and frustrating. Join us for a discussion with Rich Jordan, Test Engineering Manager at Nationwide Building Society, the world’s largest building society.

The Power of Open Source Software: Rancher Academy Issues 1,000th Certificate

The Rancher Academy launched on May 15, 2020. Here we are, 94 days later, and we’ve issued our 1,000th certificate to a graduate of the Certified Rancher Operator: Level 1 course. Rancher is open source software, so anyone can download it and use it. With that freedom, though, comes a cost: we all learn how to use it according to how we need to use it. Through this lens, the actual potential of Rancher becomes distorted, and the experience of each individual varies widely.

Kubevious - a Revolutionary Kubernetes Dashboard for Cross-Checking and Validating Your Kubernetes Resources

The standard Command Line Interface for Kubernetes (kubectl) is a very powerful tool for debugging or monitoring purposes. It is very inefficient, but just if you want to get a high-level overview of your Kubernetes cluster or want to work with multiple resources at the same time. A large number of graphical Kubernetes dashboards exist today and chances are that you already used the default Kubernetes dashboard or the one that comes with your cloud provider.

Survey Says: COVID-19 is Threatening On-prem Environments

COVID-19 is leading to large-scale migrations away from on-premises environments, according to Codefresh’s second annual State of DevOps survey that revealed this and other surprising insights into the continued evolution of the industry. At the same time, DevOps automation continues to expand in scope and complexity with more and more processes becoming automated, and more involved technologies like Kubernetes continuing to gain strong traction.

Transition Jira issues on merge

Developers understand the importance of keeping their team up to date on work and use many of the integrations between Bitbucket Cloud and Jira like smart commits and automation triggers to do so automatically. However there may be times where there are nuances or uncommon situations when merging a pull request that aren't covered by existing automation rules – sometimes there are multiple pull requests, or sometimes merging means you're now in 'Done' and other times you're in 'Releasing'.

Set up the AdGuard Home Ubuntu Appliance

Block ads and trackers, and regain full control of your network. The AdGuard Home Ubuntu Appliance is an easy way for anyone to shield their WiFi network, and all the devices in their home from hackers and prying eyes online. In this post, we discuss what AdGuard Home is, some of the benefits and features of using the appliance, and how you can get started.

Explore Kubernetes resources with Datadog Live Containers

Running Kubernetes applications requires visibility into not only the overall performance of clusters but also the health of individual pods, deployments, and other resources that make up your environment. Datadog already integrates with your containerized environments and includes features like the Live Container view and the Container Map, enabling you to easily monitor Kubernetes and container runtime performance in real time and get deep visibility into clusters.