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Three Reasons Why Hosted Rancher Makes Your Life Easier

Today’s generation of makers, artists and creatives have reinforced the idea that great things can happen when you roll up your sleeves and try to learn something new and exciting. Kubernetes was like this only a couple of years ago: the mere act of installing the thing was a rewarding challenge. Kelsey Hightower’s Kubernetes the Hard Way became the Maker’s handbook for this artisan craft.

How to get Key-values from Azure App Configuration within Logic Apps

Last week, I worked on a POC – how can we dynamically set SQL Server Connector configurations within Logic Apps? – that became a real project and a real architect solution. And one of the critical pieces was Azure App Configuration. Azure App Configuration stores configuration data as key-values.

Puppet Agent 7 - Filebucket hash algorithm update

Puppet 7 upgrades the default filebucket hash digest algorithm from MD5 to SHA256, which is generally a good thing. However, this makes upgrades just a little tricky. The mitigation for this is simply to set your digest algorithm to SHA256 on server and agent both before upgrade. Gabriel shows us how to do so in this video.

Puppet Agent 7 - SMF provider consistency

Service Management Facility (SMF) is the service management framework for Solaris as of version 10. In previous versions of Puppet, starting a service was effectively the same as enabling it. This meant that the service provider only supported starting and stopping each service. As of Puppet 7, it works the same as any other service provider.

Cloud CI Project

Puppet supports a lot of platforms, including some that aren't well represented in the cloud world, like AIX or Solaris. To cover all these platforms, much of our module testing happened on an internal Jenkins server and our in-house vmpooler infrastructure. This worked pretty well, but had the unfortunate side effect that PRs from community contributors would often get rejected by an opaque process that didn't even tell them what tests failed!

Tech is reinventing the future of work right now

Paul Hardy, Innovation Evangelist speaks with Tom Cheesewright, Applied Futurist, on findings from The Work Survey, conducted for ServiceNow, providing a global view of the future of work beyond Covid 19. Hear how digital transformation will become an increasing focus for business spending as companies look to innovate the processes of getting work done.

It's not about remote work or return to work

Nerys Mutlow, Innovation Evangelist speaks with Tom Cheesewright, Applied Futurist, on findings from The Work Survey, conducted for ServiceNow, providing a global view of the future of work beyond Covid 19. They discuss how 2020 has seen an entirely new way of working, the benefits of remote working from home, and how the challenges are becoming more apparent.

The future of work is now

Nerys Mutlow, Innovation Evangelist speaks with Tom Cheesewright, Applied Futurist, on findings from The Work Survey, conducted for ServiceNow, providing a global view of the future of work beyond Covid 19. Hear how COVID-19 has created the perfect environment for innovation. Practically overnight, the business world shifted to near universal remote work, one which we would have not previously thought possible, unleashing a new period of experimentation and innovation at work.