Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Tales from the ups and downs of running a cloud

"A long time ago in a data centre far, far away.... Our first episode takes us back to the early days of launching Civo, where we had a fledgling Ceph cluster with a bunch of SSDs in each. Those were darker times, in the early days of OpenStack. As time went by the cluster grew, new bigger nodes were added along with bigger disks.

Jira + Slack Integration: App Home - Demo Den October

David Michelson, a Product Manager on the Atlassian Slack integrations team, gives an overview of the Jira + Slack integration’s new App Home feature, where you can find and work on your most important Jira issues right in Slack. Check out this demo to learn how you can minimize switching between Slack and Jira throughout your day. Thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe to our channel!

Configure and apply hardening rules in minutes with Ubuntu CIS Benchmark tooling

CIS benchmark has hundreds of configuration recommendations, so hardening a system manually can be very tedious. To drastically improve this process for enterprises, Canonical has made CIS automation tooling available to its Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure customers and Ubuntu Pro users on the public cloud (Azure, AWS).

Intro to synthetic monitoring - and Grafana Labs' new iteration on worldPing

Often there’s a focus on how a service is running from the perspective of the organization. But what does service health monitoring look like from the perspective of a user? Today, understanding your end users’ experience is a key component of ensuring your website or application is functioning correctly. Having a website that is performing well regardless of location, load, or connection type is no longer a nice-to-have, but rather a requirement.