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From beta tester, to building the next-gen Civo platform

There are times in life that feel like they are detached from reality. Some call it divine intervention, others use more modern, hippie-ish ways to explain these moments. Call it what you will, nearly everyone has experienced some form of this occurrence. Some people have been short on cash and found a $50 note on the ground. Others have lost jobs only to find their dream job on the way to their car after getting walked out by security.

How To 'Translate' Grafana Dashboards from Graphite to Elasticsearch

Grafana is the de facto open source tool for visualizing metrics. Grafana supports many different backends for data sources and handles each one slightly differently. This blog post is geared towards helping convert Grafana dashboards from using the Graphite backend to using Elasticsearch as a metrics datasource. There are many similarities between how to use both as datasources and how to plot graphs around them, but there are also many differences that need to be accounted for.

Become FIPS Compliant with HAProxy Enterprise on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Guarantee strong encryption by enabling ‘FIPS mode’ with RHEL and HAProxy Enterprise. SSL and its successor TLS are protocols that safeguard web traffic as it crosses the Internet, encrypting communication and protecting it from tampering. However, the encryption algorithms within these protocols are subject to change over time as vulnerabilities are discovered or as better encryption methods become available.

Client-side chaos: Making your front end more reliable

Get started with Gremlin’s Chaos Engineering tools to safely, securely, and simply inject failure into your systems to find weaknesses before they cause customer-facing issues. The concept of Chaos Engineering is most often applied to backend systems, but for teams building websites and web applications, this is only half of the story.

Self-Service Network Security for Kubernetes

Learn how to empower your team with safe self-service network security for Kubernetes with Calico Enterprise. What are Calico Enterprise Network Policy Tiers How to use tiers to enable safe self service policy management What are Calico Enterprise Policy impact preview and staged network policies How to enable operations and developers to safely manage Kubernetes network policy How to build a workflow using these tools to safely deliver approved changes to your clusters

Overview of Advanced Roadmaps UI - Demo Den - Sep 2020

Rhys Christian, a Product Manager on the Advanced Roadmaps team, gives an overview of the new Advanced Roadmaps planning interface for Jira Premium users. Check out this demo to learn more about the main sections of a plan, how to configure the view for your needs, and a brief look into scheduling the Roadmap.

Driving Kubernetes Adoption in Finance with Rancher

In Switzerland, Inventx is the IT partner of choice for financial and insurance service providers. Its full-stack DevOps platform, ix.AgileFactory, allows financial organizations to move to a modern, cloud-native and microservices-centric infrastructure. The platform decouples core applications from the central infrastructure, allowing organizations to better manage and innovate applications in safety.