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Kubernetes Master Class: How to harden your Kubernetes Clusters

As enterprises accelerate their adoption of containers and Kubernetes, they need to take necessary steps to protect such a critical part of their compute infrastructure. But not everyone has the same security needs, with developers and engineers often asking for different levels of granular control on specific configurations. This masterclass will help you navigate these conversations using Rancher’s current best practice security guidance. Topics to be covered will include:

CNCF Member Webinar: DevOps Patterns and Antipatterns for Continuous Software Updates

So, you want to update the software for your user, be it the nodes in your K8s cluster, a browser on the user’s desktop, an app in the user’s smartphone or even a user’s car. What can possibly go wrong? In this talk, we’ll analyze real-world software update fails and how multiple DevOps patterns, that fit a variety of scenarios, could have saved the developers. Manually making sure that everything works before sending update and expecting the user to do acceptance tests before they update is most definitely not on the list of such patterns.

Best Practices Guide for Local Prototyping of Serverless Applications

Local prototyping has become de rigueur for most web stack developers in the last few years. Even complex web backends are generally assumed to be emulatable from a developer’s laptop. But this assumption breaks down a bit as we explore the AWS platform in general. More specifically, serverless architecture challenges the system of local prototyping.

Statistical Modeling to Solve a Time-series Problem: How CloudZero Uses Machine Learning to Detect Cost Anomalies

It is no secret that it is not that hard to accidentally spend a boatload of money on AWS. This Twitter user told the story of his $77,000 mistake with a monkey emoji (because what’s funnier than spending the price of an entry level Tesla by accident.) The scary part is that many of us have been there. If you are not looking at your cloud bill every day, it is easy to let the costs run up quickly, then suffer from bill shock when it arrives a month later.

AIOps Early Warning System: Root Cause Analysis

With root cause analysis, LogicMonitor uses automatically discovered relationships between monitored resources to identify the root cause for triggered alerts and notify users of the originating issue, while preventing notifications for dependent resources in alert. When a core or root device goes down affecting connectivity for downstream devices, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) will identify the originating and dependent resources and subsequent alerts and disable notifications for dependent resources.

How to call deprecated connector actions on Logic Apps

You may know my series of blog posts about BizTalk Server Tips and Tricks that I normally write in the BizTalk360 blog. Well, the goal of this Logic Apps Tips and Tricks series will be the same; to provide simple tips or tricks that may improve your performance on developing Logic Apps workflows, avoiding issues, apply best practices and so on. But you may think, “What a strange way to start this topic, deprecated actions? Why should I use deprecated actions?”.