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The future of the Puppet Developer Kit (PDK)

The Puppet Developer Kit was launched in 2017 to help our users develop high quality modules faster and over the years, it has seen regular development towards that goal. It was designed to be a single install that would provide everything you needed to write, lint, test and publish a Puppet module — and for the most part, that's what it did.

Overprovisioned and Overspent: Optimize Before You Lift and Shift

Do you know what’s wrong with “lift and shift?” Everything. But why? In this video, SolarWinds Head Geek Leon Adato and Technical Content Manager for Community Kevin M. Sparenberg dig into what goes wrong during on-prem to cloud migration of applications and systems in many organizations and how monitoring can help not only avoid those problems but improve the overall outcome as well.

Logging Gitlab Runners for MacOS and Linux

Gitlab is the DevOps lifecycle tool of choice for most application developers. It was developed to offer continuous integration and deployment pipeline features on an open-source licensing model. GitLab Runner is an open-source application that is integrated within the GitLab CI/ CD pipeline to automate running jobs in the pipeline. It is written in GoLang, making it platform agnostic. It is installed onto any supported operating system, a locally hosted application environment, or within a container.

The doctor is in: why domain agnostic AIOps is a necessity for diagnosis

Gartner recently identified two different high-level categories of AIOps: domain-centric and domain-agnostic. Elik Eizenberg, CTO at BigPanda, explains the difference and why would you need the latter to gain an overall view and understanding of your IT Ops.

Empower Your Network Operations Team With AI

Voice networks are become increasing complex. Unfortunately, most businesses do not have the luxury of having vast multi-domain expertise within their voice network teams to address the all of new operational challenges that comes with SIP, Cloud Architectures, Multi-Access Networks, Policy and Routing, and so on. That overwhelming complexity inherently is driving the need for different types solutions to ensure efficient operations.

Open-Source Monitoring With SolarWinds AppOptics

In software terms, “open source” means applications and their source code are available for the public to download and modify free of cost. Anyone can access, edit, and supplement the code to create an enhanced version of the application. Vendors often do this by forking the source code to create their own version of the application, marketing their version commercially.

What Does The Princess Bride Have to Do with Your Service Desk?

Based on a 1973 book by William Goldman, the film became a cult classic. A story of true love, giants, pirates and miracles – it is loved by IT geeks all around the world. So many memorable quotations, and so many references to use when selecting a new service desk. It would be rude not to quote some.

Ivanti Derived Credentials: A Zero Sign-On Solution for Smart Card-Enabled Organizations

Government agencies and some regulated industries have adopted standards (such as NIST SP 800-157) for issuing smart cards, based on the user’s validated and confirmed identity. The smart cards have digital certificates such as an authentication certification, a signing certificate, and an encryption private key (certificate). Often the smart cards also act as human recognizable identity validation cards and contain the user’s picture (for a guard to validate at a door or gate).