The emergence of Ephemeral Environments poses a compelling question: What can organizations expect from adopting this transformative approach? What are the hurdles they may face along the way? And what results can they anticipate? These are the questions I will address in this article as we explore why Ephemeral Environments are garnering attention and what makes them so pivotal for engineering teams today. Let's go!

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating the state of the UK cloud market, and for good reason. While the submissions and commentary already submitted to the CMA point to various concerning practices, one issue stands out as the single biggest threat to a healthy, competitive landscape: excessive free cloud credits. This tactic, employed by the dominant hyperscalers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform), is akin to a drug dealer offering free samples.

Proper backups are universally acknowledged as essential, yet they grow increasingly tedious and prone to error as DevOps complexity escalates. While some managed database services offer automated backup solutions, the scope of your backup requirements is likely to expand as the business and products scale. There's a considerable chance you'll find yourself hosting your own databases or stateful services, a task that can seem daunting in its demand for precision and reliability.

Business environment, maximizing return on investment (ROI) is crucial for staying competitive and achieving sustainable growth. One area that has proven to be highly effective in driving ROI is investing in automation solutions. Automation not only streamlines processes and increases efficiency but also brings tangible business value across various aspects of an organization. Let’s delve into the key reasons why investing in automation solutions is essential for maximizing ROI.

Sysdig has been awarded Google Cloud’s 2024 Technology Partner of the Year for Security, excelling in the “Configuration, Vulnerability Management, and GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance)” segment. This award acknowledges Sysdig’s innovation and commitment to customer success.

Providing the best support for our customers has always been at the core of our company since day one, and it is something that will never change. In the infrastructure space, one downtime can be critical and have a huge business impact. Having the best support is key to running a business with confidence. Today, we are glad to introduce our new support plans, allowing us to provide best-in-class support and scale with the increasing number of clients using our product.

Role: DevOps (Development and Operations) is a cultural and professional movement that focuses on collaboration between software development and IT operations teams, aiming to automate and streamline the software delivery process.

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.

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.

This is a guest post authored by Nathan Skrzypczak, R&D Engineer at Cisco. Calico VPP, the latest addition to Calico’s suite of pluggable data planes, revolutionizes Kubernetes networking by enabling transparent user-space packet processing. With features such as service load balancing, encapsulation, policy enforcement, and encryption, Calico VPP brings the performance, flexibility, and observability of VPP to Kubernetes networking.