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Cooking the perfect holiday ham with IoT, Prometheus, and you

With the holidays upon us around the world, some folks here at Sysdig decided to take a technological approach to holiday cooking. How, you ask? By adding a little PromQL to the mix. A home kitchen during the holidays can be a very frenetic place. There are often many, many dishes being prepared at the same time and cooked in sequence. Some are short and easy, others can take several hours. It’s inevitable that a dish will get missed, or a step forgotten.

A Few of Our Favorite Things: 2020 Resource Roundup

It’s that most wonderful time of year! Even though it’s been extra challenging for everyone, we can still take a breath, reflect on lessons learned, and look to fill our proverbial cups with knowledge to take into the New Year. We thought we’d revisit a few of our most popular Automation and AIOps resources from 2020.

New SQL Change Automation Filter Features for Enterprise Teams: Migrations and Drift Report

Options for filtering when generating migrations and when reporting on database drift help teams make the best of tricky database environments. From Enterprises to tiny startups, most developers prefer to do work in small teams these days. But when it comes to database development, teams in Enterprises often have a hard time keeping these small teams fully separate in the development process.

Using Mattermost as a tool for COVID-19 contact tracing

VCLB Ghent is a Belgian non-profit organization that serves pupils between the ages of 3 and 18 years old. Every two years, we offer students a free medical checkup. The organization also works with schools to support students that struggle with learning disabilities, behavioral problems, and other issues. As a multidisciplinary team, VCLB Ghent’s staff does contact tracing for schools in the event of an outbreak of a contagious disease, such as meningitis, hepatitis, or measles.

New Vulnerability Exposes Kubernetes to Man-in-the-Middle Attacks: How to Mitigate CVE-2020-8554

A few weeks ago a solution engineer discovered a critical flaw in Kubernetes architecture and design, and announced that a “security issue was discovered with Kubernetes affecting multi-tenant clusters. If a potential attacker can already create or edit services and pods, then they may be able to intercept traffic from other pods (or nodes) in the cluster.” If a hostile user can create a ClusterIP service and set the spec.externalIP field, they can intercept traffic to that IP.

Best Network Diagram Software + Guide

Network diagram software plays a crucial role in helping businesses understand their network and how their network components interact. This guide explains what a network diagram is and how network diagram software can help your business improve efficiency, in addition to recommending the best software for network diagrams available in 2020.

The Wait is Over: Ivanti Desktop and Server Management (DSM) 2020.2 is here

Ivanti’s extended products group is pleased to bring you the latest release – Desktop and Server Management 2020.2. This update includes improved password encryption, tighter Ivanti Xtraction integration, a new remote control feature (BETA), and a new MSIX Packaging Wizard.

3 Things Gartner Says Are Difficult About Cost Management and Optimization That CloudZero Makes Easier

Earlier this year, Gartner published a report called “How to Manage and Optimize Costs of Public Cloud IaaS and PaaS.” Overall, we agreed with the piece and wrote a blog post about what they get right (and where they miss). However, one thing that stood out to us is how many aspects of optimization Gartner described as very difficult — which CloudZero can help make easier.