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Chaos Engineering for MongoDB

MongoDB is designed for performance, scale, and high-availability. But, as with any software, you need to test your configuration to verify that it will work as advertised. Ensure that MongoDB performs the way you expect by using Chaos Engineering to test four key features. This guide includes four experiment tutorials to verify that MongoDB will perform reliably: In order to ensure you get the most out of MongoDB's rich features, including built-in data sharding and replication, it's crucial to test your configuration.

Comprehensive Kubernetes Observability at Scale

A guide to enterprise observability for Kubernetes environment, full-stack. Understand how to effectively alert, troubleshoot, and optimize across the Kubernetes environment of tens of thousands of pods, including the host, cluster, container, networking, and the applications on top. Read real-world case studies of how successful teams have implemented automated Tanzu Observability for increasing performance and reliability of applications, Kubernetes components, and underlying infrastructure.

Get Started with DevOps: A Guide for IT Managers

If you're managing an IT team, you may be turning to DevOps as the path to faster delivery of software. DevOps can help your team become more efficient - and your organization more competitive - but you'll need to be able to communicate to your team why things are changing and how their usual working practices are likely to alter. In this guide we tease out the whys and hows of DevOps as you work with your team and the approaches that make a DevOps initiative successful.

Eliminating Misunderstandings Between InfoSec and IT Operations

Speeding remediation reduces the cost of compliance and vulnerability of the IT estate. When looking for issues that slow remediation, notice the hand off from security to IT. Download this free resource to learn how the interaction between IT and Security can be improved to speed compliance.

Kelverion: Optimizing Runbook Performance

By default, each Orchestrator Runbook Server is configured to simultaneously run a maximum of 50 runbooks. This is to control the CPU and Memory load placed on the Orchestrator Runbook Server by executing Runbooks. You can change this number by using the Runbook Server Runbook Throttling tool. In most cases, you can increase the default setting. If Orchestrator has a number of Runbooks with high CPU or Memory resource requirements, you might run fewer Runbooks simultaneously.

Kelverion: How Automation Closes the Patching Gap

Monthly patch deployments of software and security updates can be a costly, time consuming, and unreliable process, leaving companies with huge security and compliance issues. Many tasks are repeated monthly and it is up to the SCCM Administrator to ensure that devices are patched correctly and working. When the Admin is looking after a large estate or multiple customers, the patching process often becomes an unwieldy full-time job fraught with failure gaps.