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Using cfbs with a traditionally managed policy set

With the recent release of build.cfengine.com and cfbs I have been thinking about the process of converting a traditionally manged policy set. I consider a traditionally manged policy set one where you have a repo with the root of masterfiles being the root of the repository, or even having no repository at all and managing masterfiles by editing directly in the distribution point (e.g. /var/cfengine/masterfiles).

Getting Started with Playbooks

It’s 2022: You’re good at your job, you’re maintaining modern systems, now you want to level up your team based on a solid foundation of their collective expertise. You want to standardize and centralize process documentation and make execution as easy and effective as possible so that everything runs smoothly, every time.

If you're adopting Kubernetes, you need Chaos Engineering

When Ticketmaster started their Kubernetes migration, they had to address a huge problem: whenever ticket sales opened for a popular event, as many as 150 million visitors flooded their website, effectively causing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. With new events happening every 20 minutes and $7.6 billion in revenue at stake, outages could mean hundreds of thousands in lost sales.

Application Insights health check with Serverless360

Recently we launched features to provide support for App Insights in Serverless360. App Insights is one of the coolest features on Azure because it can integrate so easily with many different features such as: In Serverless360 our core principle is to democratize the support experience for your application.

Best Large File Transfer Tools

At a time when so much of business is digitized, it’s becoming critically important for organizations to have a way to transfer large files over the internet without compromising security. While it may seem like the importance of these transfers would lead to an abundance of great large file transfer options, finding a quality large file transfer tool can be tricky.

Security Apathy Is Real - Here Are 5 Ways Agencies Can Combat It

A new study—the SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2021—suggests, although tech pros are confident with their work from home and remote work policies, agencies are at a critical inflection point as this confidence could create complacency or lead to security failures. Rather than potentially fall behind, here are five steps government agencies can take to combat security apathy and proactively manage cyber risk when we emerge from the pandemic. 1.

What's New: Updates to Event Intelligence, On-Call Management, Automation, Mobile, and More!

We’re excited to announce a new set of updates and enhancements to the PagerDuty platform. Recent updates from the product team include On-Call Management, Event Intelligence, and Mobile Products, to PagerDuty Community & Advocacy Events.

5 Cloud Tagging Best Practices Every SaaS Company Should Use

Ask anyone who’s managing any cloud environment of any size, and they will undoubtedly bring up the stress they experience on a regular basis over tags. Since the dawn of cloud, every cloud user has struggled with the challenge of tagging — essentially the only mechanism that exists for you to apply metadata to your cloud environment. The fact that tags themselves are an imperfect tool — both inflexible and hard to manage — makes no difference.

[Infographic] AWS Elastic Load Balancing from a Serverless perspective

Load balancing is a significant part of every internet-facing software, and with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), AWS offers a set of load balancers for every use case. Since our latest update, Dashbird also gives you insights into these ELB services; let’s look at them and see how they can be used in a serverless environment.