When Puppet shows up red, don't panic! You need to figure out what's causing the error, so you can understand whether it's something fixable, or an actual bug. Generally, the first error in a Puppet run is the one you need to concern yourself with. Once the first thing fails, others that run after it or require it to succeed will also fail and could produce a LOT of red text! So scroll to the first red error on your Puppet run.
Stormshield and SonicWall are popular firewalls used to monitor network traffic for malicious actors. Firewalls can help detect all kinds of attacks, like brute force logins, DDoS, and SQL Injection, but they just make up a piece of the security puzzle. Most teams will have many other security tools that address different kinds of vulnerabilities and attacks.
Too often companies make vague “saves you loads of time” sorts of claims about their products, without quantifying exactly how the product will save you time and how much time. I realized we have been guilty of this in the past, so I’m here to set the record straight! In this blog we will quantify exactly how much time (and effort) Easy Tune will save you.
AWS is announcing the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry today. This is a distribution of OpenTelemetry, itself a CNCF sandbox project. This is part of a wider push towards Open Source, cloud native technologies, and modern observability, all based on Open Standards. This push can be observed across the whole technology sector, but with increasing velocity from within AWS. As they are the largest public cloud provider by far, this is noteworthy in and of itself.
Rancher Labs has launched its much-anticipated Rancher version 2.5 into the cloud-native space, and we at LSD couldn't be more excited. Before highlighting some of the new features, here is some context as to how we think Rancher is innovating. Kubernetes has become one of the most important technologies adopted by companies in their quest to modernize.
If you use Microsoft Hyper-V every day, you may want to spend some time producing and analyzing reports. Reports can help you find where the virtualization software is lagging and how it’s behaving. Monitoring and reporting can help optimize virtual machines, especially if you run many of them on a single system. What is Hyper-V? It’s virtualization software that specifically provides hardware virtualization.
