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Announcing HAProxy 2.5

Register for our live webinar to learn more about this release. HAProxy 2.5 is now available! It adds improvements to a number of areas including better usability around setting variables, more descriptive error reporting and logging, and enhanced HTTP and WebSocket support. The HAProxy Runtime API has expanded its coverage of SSL-related commands and now includes the ability to add and remove CA files and revocation lists on-the-fly.

Building for Windows using the MSIX orb

The MSIX orb is the first “Windows-only” orb from CircleCI. When Microsoft approached us with the opportunity to build an orb that would help Windows developers build on our platform, we were enthusiastic. Most of our orbs, and general workload, revolve around Linux and utilize Bash. However, we recognized the deep need to provide good CI/CD solutions for building applications on Windows, and with use of PowerShell growing steadily within Linux, it was time to take the plunge.

7 Cloudability Alternatives For Cloud Cost Management (Updated 2021)

If you are fine using a conventional cloud cost management tool, Apptio's Cloudability can be a helpful tool. It promises to enable DevOps, IT, and finance to optimize cloud resources for quality, speed, and cost. A large business with a high cloud spend, a team of 5-10 engineers, and a budget for expert guidance is an ideal match for Cloudability.

File Server Management: How to and Best Practices

True work revolves around the access and modification of files, and what better way to store and distribute work files than through a file server? The central-access model for storing and managing files brings many benefits to an organization. Most importantly, everyone can access a single, accurate version of any file on the server. Easy as that sounds, this feat is only possible with proper file server management.

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices: 5 to Adopt

An exponential increase in the generation of data led to the rise of the Big Data era. Among other factors, the cost of scaling up businesses to accommodate so much data prompted many businesses to switch to virtual cloud platforms. The cloud can store, organize, and manage all the data and applications for a company in a virtual environment. Monitoring this environment is crucial, because it’s susceptible to cyberthreats, like data breaches.

What Is an AIOps Strategy and How Should You Form One?

IT operations data grows by the year. Some estimates suggest that the average IT operations team watches their operational data volume double or triple every year. The result of this flood is that IT teams are grasping for any method they can find to make sense of all this data. Many teams are landing on AIOps as their solution to parse and categorize all of these events. AIOps isn’t a perfect fit for every organization, but it is a great fit for many.

Crossplane and Shipa 101 - Your First Crossplane Abstraction

Kubernetes is viewed as one of the great equalizers between development and operations teams. Simply write a manifest and the declarative power of Kubernetes is off to fulfill your desired state. Kubernetes is certainly pluggable and has the ability to be extended / opinions being swapped internally. As any IT organization can tell you, even with Kubernetes there is a lot of integration work, and several parts of the stack such as IaC have been left outside of Kubernetes.