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Users of Red Hat Satellite will see changes coming out with regard to how Satellite interacts with Puppet. Satellite has long bundled Puppet in the distribution, using Puppet both as the Satellite installer and for configuration management. Users also had the option to leverage Satellite as an External Node Classifier (ENC) for their Puppet estates. Red Hat acquired Ansible, an imperative configuration management tool, in late 2015.

In this tutorial, we will go through a working example of a Node.js application auto-instrumented with OpenTelemetry. In our example we’ll use Express, the popular Node.js web application framework. Our example application is based on two locally hosted services sending data to each other. We will instrument this application with OpenTelemetry’s Node.js client library to generate trace data and send it to an OpenTelemetry Collector.

It’s finally the most wonderful time of the year, and this calls for a blog post on what service desk agents really want for Christmas! In addition to a warm blanket, a holiday watchlist, and a steaming cup of hot cocoa, IT agents could also use these service management functions for an extra merry holiday season. Continue reading to find out what they are.

With Christmas only a few days away, we’d like to do a round-up of something extra festive that we’ve been sharing on social media: The 12 days of Tip-Mas with xMatters! Each day offers the “gift” of a top tip, a resource, or fun fact about xMatters. So go ahead — sing along to get into the holiday spirit!

Modern day software development approaches such as DevOps, have certainly reduced development time. However, tighter release deadlines push security practices to a corner. This blog explains how Shifting Security to the Left introduces security in the early stages of DevOps Lifecycle, thus fixing software bugs proactively. We have come a long way in the DevOps lifecycle, from releasing the code every month(or sometimes more than that) to every day(or every hour).

The internet has been ablaze since the announcement of Log4Shell, the nickname for CVE-2021-44228, an arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability in the Java logging utility Log4j. So far two additional vulnerabilities ( CVE 2021-45046, CVE-2021-45105) have now been identified. The code has been vulnerable since 2013 and millions of hosts and services are affected.

With many businesses having switched to part-time or even full-time remote work, the challenge for IT teams becomes how to provide quick and efficient support for network problems remotely. In this article, we’re running you through how SPI Health and Safety is using Obkio to monitor network performance and troubleshoot performance issues for all their remote call center employees.

GitOps has become a buzzword. Developers love it, because it folds DevOps into Git, a frequently used and familiar tool. Using one tool to manage multiple DevOps activities sounds fantastic, and it can be helpful for many. The truth is GitOps has limits. In this article, we explore DevOps and GitOps, compare their similarities and differences, and examine how their principles can work together to support your software development goals.

This blog is the continuation of the blog “Get the best out of Azure Data Factory – Part 1“. It explains how Serverless360 addresses the pain points and enhances the usage of Azure Data Factory. Serverless360 is a single platform solution that enables Operations and Support Teams to manage and monitor Azure Serverless services more efficiently. Let us have a quick recap of part 1 before looking into new features that Serverless360 provides for Azure Data Factory.