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How We Designed Qovery To Manage Thousands of Kubernetes Clusters with a Single Control Plane

Deploying and managing applications in the cloud can be complex and time-consuming, especially when using Kubernetes. However, Qovery has made this process much easier with its platform abstracts away the complexity of Kubernetes and provides developers with the tools they need to manage their deployments. But how does Qovery manage thousands of Kubernetes clusters with a single control plane?

IT Remote Management: 5 Best Practices for Retail

Modern retail businesses have a lot on their plates. IT infrastructure needs to work spotlessly to provide exceptional user experiences. Even the tiniest system bug can result in shopping cart abandonment and bring the workflow to a standstill. Instead of waiting hours for an IT technician to arrive and fix the problem, tech-savvy retail businesses rely on you – a remote IT support provider.

Understanding Azure Blob Storage Metadata: A Complete Guide

In today’s world, data is king. Companies and organizations are generating vast amounts of data every day, and they need a way to store, manage, and organize that data. This is where cloud storage solutions like Azure Blob Storage come into play. Azure Blob Storage is a scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud storage solution that allows you to store and retrieve large amounts of unstructured data. One of the key features of Azure Blob Storage is metadata.

Moving Fast and Cutting Costs in a Billion-Dollar Organization: Containers in the Automotive Industry

One may say that competitive dynamics in the automotive space are constantly changing, and they would not be wrong in the slightest. As retailers face the daily battlefield of getting their customers’ attention with the right mix of products at the right price and on the right platform, their technology infrastructure must be lean and efficient while achieving those goals—and that is no easy feat.

CircleCI Outages: Have They Kept Their Promises in 2022?

At the beginning of April 2022, a massive disruption in CircleCI caused large portions of their cloud offering to be unavailable for users worldwide. It occurred after CircleCI deployed a change to its front end and an auto-vacuum job on one of its core databases. Due to this outage, CircleCI users were unable to run tests and deploy code. After the incident, CircleCI promised to prevent these kinds of disruptions in the future.

Epinio Meets s3gw

Since the very first version, Epinio has made use of an internal S3 endpoint to store the user’s projects in the form of aggregated tarballs. Those objects are then downloaded and staged by the internal engine’s pipeline and, finally, they are deployed into the Kubernetes cluster as consumable applications. Epinio makes use of S3 as an internal private service. In this scenario, S3 can be thought of as an internal ephemeral cache with the purpose of storing temporary objects.

Calculating Business Value of Automation in PagerDuty Process Automation

Budgets in IT departments are tight these days, so proving a return on investment is essential for justifying or expanding a project. The good news is that automation saves money by reducing the amount of human effort required. It is similar to investing in a robot vacuum cleaner. Despite the upfront cost, you save time (and money) by not having humans do the vacuuming. Reporting the value delivered by an automation program can be challenging since the value depends heavily on what is being automated.

Elevate Kubernetes Security with Zero Trust

The theme of this year’s Rocky Mountain Cyberspace Symposium was " Post-Pandemic Zero Trust." In General Dynamics Information Technology’s 2022 report, “ Agency Guide to Zero Trust Maturity,” 63% of respondents from federal civilian and defense agencies said they believed their agencies would achieve specific zero trust security goals by the end of fiscal 2024.