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How to Decommission a vmstorage Node from a VictoriaMetrics Cluster
We need to remove a vmstorage node from VictoriaMetrics cluster gracefully. Every vmstorage node contains its own portion of data and removing the vmstorage node from the cluster creates gaps in the graph (because replication is out of scope).
Cloud certifications for the security of your data
More and more companies around the world are using cloud solutions to run their applications, software or to store their data. But what about cloud compliance? The democratisation of the cloud is not surprising as it provides access to virtual data storage where companies no longer need to buy or maintain their own IT infrastructure. However, with cloud solutions, the security of user data should not be overlooked. There are cloud certifications and regulations that can help you in your choice.
The ABC of the Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a lean technique that has become deeply ingrained in the practices of IT service management (ITSM), DevOps, IT4IT, and Agile (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban). Over a century old, VSM is the best technique to obtain a customer-focused agreement on improving a cross-departmental flow of activities. It’s a simple concept but difficult to begin and sustain in practice. In this article, we will: Let’s begin!
System Administrators: Everything You Need to Know to Become a SysAdmin
Having a reliable IT infrastructure is crucial to the health of your company or organization. And while this is generally true, it’s doubly so in our current times, where practically everything is digital. So, who is the lucky one to make general decisions about how to run a system efficiently — and keep it going? That would be the System Administrator. But what does a SysAdmin actually do? That's what we'll answer here!
Networking 101: What is a VLAN?
The idea of a VLAN, or Virtual Local Area Network, is simple enough, right? It’s hard to imagine any work in a modern networking/IT space without having encountered, set up, or managed a VLAN. Well if that’s all you needed to know about VLANs, we’d be done here, but there’s a bit more to it. To cover our bases: In most modern networks the primary purpose of the LAN is to provide connectivity to a wider network, most notably the internet.
Application Deployment to Civo with a Terraform Template
Join our CTO, Dinesh Majrekar, as he deploys the infrastructure needed to host any application on Civo. This session will use a new terraform template repo to deploy a cluster, install an ingress and let-encrypt helm chart all from terraform. Once these basics are in place, the cluster can be used in GitOps pipelines by other teams to actually deploy their code.
Icinga Camp Berlin 2022: Meerkat - a new Icinga Dashboarding tool by Dave Kempe
Meerkat is an Open Source dashboarding tool, written in Go and javascript. It allow users to drag and drop Icinga API objects onto a background, plays sounds and even embed videos. Dave will give a tour of its features and a guide on setup and usage, with real-world examples.
Icinga Camp Berlin 2022: Current State of Icinga DB by Eric Lippmann
In recent years, the number of servers, virtual machines, services, applications, etc. that our customers and users monitor with Icinga has increased significantly. For very large environments, the IDO can be a performance bottleneck. With Icinga DB we’ve rethought everything to allow users to monitor massive amounts of data and bring exclusive features that weren’t possible before.
Icinga Camp Berlin 2022: Blerim Sheqa How Companies use Icinga by Blerim Sheqa
During the past months we’ve been in direct contact with enterprises to understand their Icinga story. As result we created multiple customer stories which differ in their use case. I want to exemplify how Icinga meets different requirements of organizations and helps them cover their monitoring demands.