Improving reliability is important, but how do you prove that your efforts are having an impact? A critical part of reliability work is having the tools to measure and track your progress. Gremlin supports this by providing several built-in reports, which update automatically and are available on-demand. This blog post is a quick introduction to Gremlin’s reporting capabilities.

Google Cloud, the number three player in the global IaaS and PaaS sectors, secured a market share of 10% towards the end of 2023 with similar commitments to AI that we’re seeing across the cloud provider board. Although growth at Google Cloud hit 24% year-on-year in Q3, according to Canalys, performance was lower than expectations as the cloud provider struggled more than its peers with the delayed impact of enterprise’ IT cost-cutting measures.

Kubernetes is an open-source platform designed to automate deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Understanding the architecture of Kubernetes is crucial for anyone who works with this platform. It helps you to better understand how different components of a Kubernetes cluster interact with each other and how applications are run on this platform.

If you’re an SRE, then you already know your SLOs from your SLAs, not to mention your SLIs. But even if you’re not au fait with those acronyms, you’ll soon discover how widespread and applicable these concepts are in this installment of our IPM Best Practices Series. We’ll explore these concepts in detail and explore how external monitoring can enhance the tracking of Service Level Objectives (SLOs), leading to positive user experiences and informed decision-making.

OpenStack is an open source cloud platform that enables customers to provision and manage compute, storage, and networking resources via web-based dashboards or APIs. OpenStack offers a range of services beyond standard infrastructure-as-a-service functionality, including orchestration, fault management, and service management components. These components help customers build, maintain, and scale high-availability applications.

Automation is the result of taking a manual task or process and making it automatic with little to no manual intervention. It plays a crucial role in optimizing your cloud spend, as it can be applied to save several hours in various scenarios within your service’s operation. Here, at CloudZero, discussing automation is no stranger to us. We have information about what automation is and some common tools to help in this guide.

In today's tech landscape, businesses are undergoing a significant shift in how they manage their IT infrastructure. Cloud computing has been a huge force in this transformation, leading to a blend of on-prem and cloud-based services known as hybrid IT. With a hybrid IT infrastructure, you can take advantage of both the control and security of on-prem solutions, as well as the scalability and flexibility of cloud architecture. But is hybrid IT right for your business?

We at Komodor are excited to announce our groundbreaking integration with Cisco Full-Stack Observability (FSO). This collaboration marks a significant milestone in Kubernetes Continuous Reliability, bringing together the best of both worlds to redefine Kubernetes management.

Configuration as code (CaC), a practice that involves setting up operating systems and software through configuration files, has quickly become an essential concept for software developers and DevOps teams. The key reason for this is that CaC integrates seamlessly with CI/CD and version control pipelines, a game-changing benefit discussed in this article.

Portfolio Analysis is a strategic process that evaluates potential software vendors in a business investment portfolio. This method assesses risk and potential returns by considering factors such as vendor stability, technological maturity, and alignment with the organization's strategic goals. By implementing Portfolio Analysis in software vendor selection, organizations can optimize their overall software portfolio.