Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Kubernetes GitOps with Rancher Continuous Delivery

As the number of Kubernetes clusters under management increases, application owners and cluster operators need a programmatic way to approach cluster management. Rancher CD solves this by creating a git driven engine for applying cluster changes. Declarative code is stored in a git repo. As changes are committed to the repo, linked clusters are automatically updated. Gitops keeps all your clusters consistent, version controlled, and reduces the administrative burden as you scale.

AWS and Grafana Labs are working together on cloud native observability

Cloud native observability is at a watershed moment. The explosion of microservices has created previously unseen amounts of monitoring data, limiting the ability of humans and computer systems to extract meaning from data with last-generation tools. Debugging is often a process of detecting correlation, and then turning correlations into causal connections. This is where modern cloud native tooling comes in.

DBAle 27: Continuous Delivery with Chris, Chris and Santa

In this cracker of a DBAle episode, you can not only hear, but see our Chris-tmas duo as they embark on an end-to-end database journey where even the beers are getting Festiv-O. There’s no gold, frankincense, and myrrh, instead our two (not so) wise men build and incrementally deliver NuGet presents down your pipeline chimney. So, grab yourself a beer and tune in for the last DBAle of 2020 - cheers!

Optical Networking / DWDM Basics

Optical networking delivers the distance, bandwidth scalability, resiliency, and manageability that broadband networks require. You're invited to a special session from Ribbon on Tuesday, December 15th where we will review optical networking technology and basics and explain how optical networks solve reachability, survivability, bandwidth growth, and maintenance challenges for broadband services. What problems do optical networks solve? What are the major piece parts and important vocabulary? What do I have to think about when deploying? Any cool stuff on the market I should be aware of?

Why You Are Losing Customers: How Better Customer Service Can Save You

In a global marketplace, competition is stiff. It's hard enough to get the attention of your prospective customer, but once you have it, you don't want to lose it. This kind of drain can mean the end of your business. Any small business owner knows that the life's blood of their business is loyal customers. It is well worth the trouble to keep your customers happy and have them continue to give you their business. When they are satisfied, they naturally tell others about you. This is business growth.

Installing Mattermost using the Azure CNAB Quickstart Library

TL;DR – Get started with Mattermost on Azure using the Mattermost on AKS quickstart from the Azure CNAB Quickstart Library. The quickstart provides a fast and simple way to get running with Mattermost, without the need to learn or install any new tooling. By using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), the infrastructure is fully managed for you, and the quickstart handles configuring networking and SSL certificates so you can instantly access the Mattermost application after installation.

Alloy Software Wins Silver in the 10th Annual Best in Biz Awards

Bloomfield, NJ – December 15th, 2020 — Alloy Software, a leading provider of IT Service Management and Asset Management solutions, has been named a silver winner in Best in Biz Awards. Alloy Software’s was recognized in the Best New Version of the Year category for its Alloy Navigator – a comprehensive ITAM and ITSM solution. “During these challenging times, we are honored and very grateful to earn this award,” said Ivan Samoylov, CTO of Alloy Software.