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Introducing Netplan v1.0 - stable, declarative network management

As the maintainer and lead developer of Netplan, I’m proud to announce the general availability of Netplan v1.0 after more than 7 years of development efforts. Over the years, we’ve had approximately 80 individual contributors from around the globe. This includes many contributions from our Netplan core-team at Canonical as well as organisations like Microsoft and Deutsche Telekom.

The Ultimate Guide to Performance Regression Testing

Regression testing is not a new concept. However, historically, it has been limited to functional testing due to the setup, configuration, and maintenance required to simulate a production environment accurately. Many teams have found the cost outweighs the benefits, but with the advent of production traffic replication (PTR), it’s become a viable option to regression test performance, especially for those running applications in Kubernetes.

Introducing Squadcast and ServiceNow Bidirectional Integration For Enhanced Operational Efficiency

Discover everything about the powerful ServiceNow Squadcast bidirectional integration, its key features and benefits, designed to streamline incident resolution and enhance collaboration within your DevOps and IT teams. Key takeaways:​Accelerate Incident Response: Streamline incident response and accelerate resolution directly through Squadcast and ServiceNow ​Enhanced Learning and Retrospectives: Simplify tracking, retrospectives, and learning for your engineering team, ensuring a more efficient and productive incident management process.

How to set up Azure budget alerts - A Step-by-Step Guide

Azure cost monitoring - Create and manage budgets When it comes to managing costs in the Azure cloud, it is essential to have a reliable system that can help you keep track of your spending and alert you when you are getting close to exceeding your budget. This is where Turbo360's Budgets monitoring feature comes in. The Azure Budgets monitoring feature in Turbo360 is designed specifically for Azure cost monitoring. It allows you to create budgets for your Azure resources, monitor your spending, and receive alerts when you are approaching or exceeding your budgeted amount.

Are you VM-wary? A fast exit route for service providers in 60 seconds - Civo.com

Are you a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) feeling stranded after the recent VMware contract terminations by Broadcom? You're not alone. In December 2023, a seismic shift occurred, leaving over 4,500 VCSP partners in a challenging position. A select few have transitioned to Pinnacle and Premier partnerships, but what about the rest? Over 4,000 partners find themselves as "registered partners" without direct support or contracts, facing uncertain futures and potential business risks.

The egress fee trap: How hyperscalers hurt customers and stifle innovation

Today, at Civo, we announced the complete removal of all egress fees, without caveats. Regardless of whether you stay with Civo, or look to move to another provider. Why have we done this? Our decision to remove egress fees is rooted from the original promise of cloud computing: flexibility and freedom. It embodies the ability to tap into virtually limitless computing resources on demand, without being tethered to rigid, on-premises infrastructure.

Platform.sh Reveals Upsun, Its New PaaS Offering Designed to Support the Growth of Startups and Scaleups

Founded in 2015 and a leading Platform-as-a-Service player, Platform.sh has more than 7,000 customers and is used by more than 17,000 active developers worldwide. Upsun, its new PaaS offering, provides automated DevOps tools and managed cloud services to empower startups and scaleups to build, deploy, and scale their applications and data backends with simplicity and flexibility. Based on proven foundations, Upsun combines security, compliance, and reliability to support startups and scaleups as they consolidate and expand.

How Incidents Foster Leadership

To become battle-tested, you need to go through battles, not just read books or mentor newcomers. Both are helpful but the stakes are low. On the other hand, high stake jobs, such as running a big project or managing a team, are hard to get when you lack experience. So how can we solve this dilemma? Enter incident response.

AI on Public Cloud with Open Source

AI is at the heart of a revolution in the technology space. Organisations from all industries are looking for ways to put AI to work. Once they have finalised use case assessment, their next question is typically related to the environment they will use to develop and deploy their AI initiatives. They often prefer the public clouds as an initial environment, because of the computing power and ability to scale as projects mature. In addition to the infrastructure, enterprises need software where they can develop and deploy the machine learning models.