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The community has spoken, six Helm charts is not enough! We agree! In all seriousness though, six charts is simply too many to maintain. And while it might sound counterintuitive, that’s why we are announcing a new Helm chart. By focusing on the “Grafana Labs way" to run Grafana Loki using Helm, we believe this will help us and the community concentrate our Helm efforts into a single chart. This new chart is released under grafana/loki at Helm version 3 or higher.

Integrating Jira and GitLab is one of the best ways for software teams to streamline their workflows and improve team collaboration. GitLab and Jira are two of the most popular tools available for tracking projects and development work. GitLab is primarily a hosting service that allows development teams to store their code. GitLab saw its first commit made in 2011 and has grown to over 30 million registered users in 2021.

Jason Chan is one of the world’s foremost cybersecurity authorities and we’re extremely proud to have him as a member of the Torq Advisory Board. He’s a pivotal figure in driving adoption of security automation best practices at many companies, including Netflix, where he led the information security organization.

At LogicMonitor, ingesting and processing time series metric data is arguably the most critical portion of our unified observability platform. In order to fully prepare for growth, scale, and fault-tolerance, we have evolved what we refer to as our Metrics Processing Pipeline from a monolith to a microservice-driven architecture.

{ If you think you can’t do something with HAProxy, go have a look, because you probably can. Onward and upward! In 2022, many happy HAProxy users turned to G2 – a leading aggregator of user reviews and product ratings – to leave their feedback. These user reviews were so positive that G2 recognized HAProxy as a Leader in Load Balancing, DDoS Protection, and API Management, with an additional leadership position for momentum in the load balancing market.

Remote and hybrid work have made Microsoft Teams a core tool in nearly all large organizations. Many business leaders and IT administrators would like to extend the value of Teams to enable users to make and receive business phone calls. This improves the productivity of their employees by keeping them connected with customers, business partners, and co-workers in the office, at home, or even on the road.

Throughout the security holiday calendar, we’ve looked at modules for enforcing security requirements. Writing the policy to achieve these security hardening goals is easy. By learning how, you can write policy (or modules) for any requirements, including those specific to your organization. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at five beginner-level examples to get you started, focusing on the most common resources to manage with CFEngine; files and packages.

While many people may have a basic understanding of virtual reality (VR), most are not as familiar with the concept of augmented reality (AR). Virtual reality is a completely immersive experience that separates the viewer from the physical world through the use of a VR device that the user wears. In contrast, augmented reality typically uses a camera on a smartphone to add digital elements to a live view.

What do restaurants rely on these days? With the change in environment with multiple competitors growing every day, to survive in this fast-paced industry, restaurants must think out of the box and start managing their assets if they are not. There are times when they end up being in a situation which is caused due to sudden breakdown in their assets, which is not a good situation to be in. It reduces the trust of customers and ultimately leads to a reduction in profits.

State of DevOps moderator Ciara Carey recaps the Dec 15 session.