In this article, you will learn more about what is Linux Patch Management, its importance, common challenges, key components, tools, and effective strategies. Managing patches is necessary to maintain a secure, stable and high-performing Linux environment. Whether you’re a systems administrator, IT manager, or responsible for keeping Linux systems running smoothly, mastering the process of identifying, testing, and deploying patches plays an important role in safeguarding your infrastructure.

In healthcare, protecting patient data isn’t just a requirement—it’s essential. As a tech lead or DevOps professional, understanding HIPAA compliance is crucial. This guide breaks down the essentials and shows how DevOps practices can streamline the process.

Grafana and Prometheus have become integral components in observability stacks. This comprehensive analysis examines Grafana and Prometheus, two leading open-source tools that address critical aspects of system observability. We'll dissect their architectures, compare key features, and evaluate their performance in various deployment scenarios.

In this article, we'll explore another monitoring use case. This particular use case is exciting– it's MetricFire's use case with Kubernetes and Linode! We'll examine how our company uses our platform to monitor our K8s clusters hosted on Linode. Let's get started!

I don’t understand why pure open-source licenses, such as Apache2, MIT or BSD, should be replaced with a source available license in order to increase profits from enterprise support contracts. That’s why we at VictoriaMetrics aren’t going to change the Apache2 license for our products. Our main goal is to provide good products to users, and to help users use these products in the most efficient way.

Generally, cf-agent runs as a privileged user. But did you know that you can also run as an unprivileged user? A major benefit of running cf-agent unprivileged is the ability to prototype policies during development. However, attempting to execute cf-agent as an unprivileged user without proper configuration will result in errors.

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) software tool created by HashiCorp. It allows users to define and provision data center infrastructure using a high-level configuration language known as HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) or optionally JSON.

If there’s one thing for certain – you can expect IT incidents in 2024. These could be cybersecurity incidents, system outages, or even just degraded performance. Despite the severity, even mild degraded performance can affect your users negatively. Maintenance without proper communication can decrease your reliability. Moreover, outages are costly.

Snowflake has gained significant traction in the data warehousing space due to its unique architecture, flexibility, and ease of use. Heck, after using a legacy approach for some time, we at CloudZero went with Snowflake. While at it, we noticed Snowflake customers express concerns about costs more often than they would like. So, in this guide, we’ll share our best tips for getting the most out of Snowflake without overspending.