Creating a DevOps workflow to optimize application deployments to your Kubernetes cluster can be a complex journey. I recently demonstrated how to optimize your local K8s development workflow with Rancher Desktop and Skaffold. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can watch it by viewing the video below. You might be wondering, “What happens next?” How do you extend this solution beyond a local setup to a real-world pipeline with a remote cluster?

In 2021 we saw corporate investments in the cloud spike, although business leaders are still struggling with cloud projects in terms of education, guidance, and talent. In 2022, our view is that cloud investment will remain strong, with more business leaders taking ownership of their cloud journey.

Lambda is a top-rated compute service available on the AWS cloud service network. Its popularity largely derives from its ease of use, allowing users to run Lambda functions reliably without provisioning or managing servers. Lambda can be triggered manually or by any linked events in the AWS network, including DynamoDB streams, SQS, Kinesis, and more.

Securing an SAP environment is critical to any organization and as the use of public clouds grows for these environments, so does the concern of SAP security. These hyperscalers all have teams of people working around the clock to ensure their solutions are impenetrable. Third party cybersecurity solutions are often used as well to make sure these environments are safe and secure.

S3 buckets without encryption can leave sensitive data exposed and at risk. As a best practice and to meet a number of industry and governmental regulations, it’s important to ensure that S3 server side bucket encryption has been properly applied at all times. To do this, many security teams rely on their Cloud Posture Security Management (CSPM) platform and/or AWS GuardDuty to monitor their AWS resources and provide alerts when an S3 bucket is found unencrypted.

For some time now, people have understood the importance of early warning systems, whether for detecting earthquakes and tsunamis, military defense, or business and financial crises. Why should service providers, especially those delivering software as a service (SaaS,) be any different? In a world where time is money and minutes mean millions, it is vital for organizations to keep a very close eye on the supply and delivery chain of their service to their end users, both business and consumer.

Netreo SaaS delivers a single solution for simplifying how IT organizations optimize today’s hybrid blend of on-premises, public and private clouds that are common in complex, global enterprise infrastructures. With the upcoming release of cloud monitoring enhancements coming in March, Netreo SaaS will provide even greater, multi-cloud monitoring capabilities and extended functionality for Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud customers.

Based on the Teneo customers I’ve spoken with in the last 12 months, adopting a ‘‘Cloud-First’, Multi-Cloud strategy is often a top priority for Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) teams. However, many organizations have multiple clouds and cloud services mixed with physical data centers and Co-Lo (co-locations). And as a result of running multiple applications and services stitched together, user experience suffers.

Business analytics and business continuity go hand in hand. Microsoft 365 as well as Azure services are used by companies around the globe to achieve better business outcomes. Learn why a hybrid approach to Azure and Microsoft 365 monitoring can be beneficial and what steps to take to get clear insights into SLA fulfillment.

Bare metal servers are a valuable option for all sizes of businesses, including small, medium, and startups companies. When designing infrastructure it is important to manage cost. However, the decision on whether to run your application on bare metal or cloud provider should not be driven by the size of your company but by your infrastructure needs. Each approach has its own tradeoffs and complexities, especially since it is difficult to find two clouds with the same parameters.

In the field of Chaos Theory, there’s a concept called the Synchronization of Chaos—disparate systems filled with randomness will influence the disorder in other systems when coupled together. From a theoretical perspective, these influences can be surprising. It’s difficult to understand exactly how a butterfly flapping its wings could lead to a devastating tornado. But we often see the influences of seemingly unconnected systems play out in real life.

We are excited to announce that PagerDuty is now an approved AWS Financial Services Competency Partner. We’re looking forward to expanding our global reach and helping financial services organizations accelerate their cloud migration and digital acceleration journeys. This will allow us to further streamline and automate financial service companies’ digital operations while helping them reduce risk and manage compliance requirements.

The Simple Notification Service, or SNS for short, is one of the central services to build serverless architectures in the AWS cloud. SNS itself is a serverless messaging service that can distribute massive numbers of messages to different recipients. These include mobile end-user devices, like smartphones and tablets, but also other services inside the AWS ecosystem. SNS’ ability to target AWS services makes it the perfect companion for AWS Lambda.

With the introduction of Cloud computing services, let it be the Family photo sharing feature on iPhone or documents on Google Drive, sharing and keeping up-to-date information became easier than ever before. All Cloud-based products require no direct resource management from the user and ultimately create one of the most popular ways to store data whether you’re a scholar writing an essay or a new business owner trying to build an online shop

Gartner introduced a new security architecture called Security Service Edge, or SSE, back in March 2021. Now finally, after a long wait, they’ve just published their first Magic Quadrant for SSE in February 2022. This begs the question, is SASE dead? To answer, we need to look at what is SSE vs SASE, and what are the challenges SSE addresses. For easy reference, Gartner created the following SSE definition.

Grafana 8.4 is here! Get 8.4 This release includes a variety of updates focused on making Grafana easier to use, improving performance, and keeping your data secure. For a full list of new features and capabilities, check out our What’s New in Grafana 8.4 documentation. You can get started with Grafana in minutes with Grafana Cloud. We have free and paid Grafana Cloud plans to suit every use case — sign up for free now.

In 2022, it’s hard to find places in the business and technology ecosystem where performance is not measured, where lots of data is not collected and where insights are not analyzed to improve operational and business performance and trace accountability.

Avoid Writing a Lot of Try Catch by Catching The ‘catch()’ Just Once. How annoying it is to write a lot of try-catch for each async function in an express app? What if you never need to write a try catch block for all async functions and still be able to handle the errors?

You have many options when it comes to choosing a platform to deploy your app. In this article, we will compare AWS, Heroku, and Qoddi. Heroku is hosted on AWS, making Heroku, like Qovery for instance, nothing more than a management platform for AWS services. You can do everything you do on Heroku (or Qovery) directly with AWS for a lesser price but Heroku removes all the infrastructure management layer (or DevOps) you still need to have with AWS or any other cloud providers.

We've gone through many iterations of ways to build, deploy and distribute applications written in Go at Cloud 66. Unlike Rails, Go applications can be web applications, daemons or CLIs and therefore have different requirements. I'll share some of what we've learned with you in this post.

With the proliferation of security SaaS platforms, such as Cloudflare, Proofpoint, and PingOne, enterprises must figure out how to integrate third-party data shipped over the internet into their analytics and SIEM platforms. This requirement to integrate third-party data raises a host of security, infrastructure, and data quality questions. Enterprises can lower risk, and complete projects faster, by using Cribl LogStream Cloud to solve their challenges in managing third-party SaaS platform data.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is one of the core services of AWS, designed to help users reduce the cost of acquiring and reserving hardware. EC2 represents the compute infrastructure of Amazon’s cloud service offerings, providing organizations a customizable selection of processors, storage, networking, operating systems, and purchasing models.

We are pleased to announce today that Shipa, the cloud-native Application as Code platform is now available on the AWS Marketplace. Bringing the power of Shipa to your internal customers on AWS infrastructure has never been easier with click to install from the AWS Marketplace.

Worried that your app will not have enough resources as you grow? All apps on Qoddi can scale at any time and as part of Qoddi's new interface launch early this week, we made auto-scaling available for everyone after more than 6 months in Beta. Auto-Scaling, like Auto-Heal (another feature included with all Qoddi apps), is the guardian angel of your apps and will make sure your app continues to run whatever happens.

Compared to the previous generation, today’s generation of startups are increasingly cloud-centric. The previous generation of dotcoms had to suffer the economics and complexities of deploying, managing, and scaling their own servers, networks, and data centers. In contrast, today’s generation grew up in the just-in-time, pay-for-what-you-need, and scale-up-on-demand world that is cloud native.

A recent eG Innovations & DevOps Institute APM survey of more than 900 IT professionals indicated that AWS is the dominant cloud service provider. Organizations are deploying a wide variety of workloads on AWS cloud environments to ensure agility, scalability, and high availability of their application services.

The rapid growth of the marketplace and increasing competition require companies to make significant changes in the way they offer services and products. Companies that wish to remain competitive must keep an eye on technology development and adapt to any new technology if it becomes available. Each new cloud service provider in cloud computing contributes fundamentally to promoting growth and competition at the same time.

Many organizations leverage AWS to build fully managed, event-driven applications, which break down complex workloads into APIs, event streams, and other decentralized services in order to improve performance and scalability. This type of architecture relies primarily on AWS Lambda functions to process synchronous and asynchronous requests as they move between a workload’s resources, such as Amazon API Gateway and Amazon Kinesis.

Over the last couple years, cloud transformation has become increasingly critical, evolving from a preferable priority to an urgent imperative. In our rapidly changing world, organizations have had to innovate at unprecedented rates — and those most successful are harnessing the power of cloud to move faster and smarter. But it’s more than a simple migration.

Bram Vogelaar is a DevOps Cloud Engineer at The Factory, and he recently delivered an intro to observability talk during our Grafana Labs' EMEA meetup. When I talk to customers, they might tell me about how their applications are running in two data centers, but when we probe a little further, it turns out that their observability stack is only available in one of them. This revelation hit close to home last March.

In version v1.32 of Netdata, we announced a remarkable new update that we are extremely proud of; Netdata Cloud now runs on the most reliable and stable backend that we’ve ever built. The architectural changes allow us to deliver new features, such as parent-child relationships and improved alert handling.

The Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) service and an identity provider (IdP). Azure AD is the backbone for authentication in Microsoft 365 and for thousands of cloud-based SaaS applications. Azure AD provides several features for your organization and one of the features is the Microsoft Identity Platform.

In the second part of our series on production readiness, we highlight the important role that security and scalability plays in the success of all businesses on the cloud. In the interview below, our panel of cloud experts –Shiri Hochhauser, Sr.

Clouds remain segmented, leaving businesses little recourse for how to best navigate complexity. The multicloud movement has flavors to it. Intentional or accidental, an enterprise can blend a kaleidoscope of infrastructure services with existing software tools. IaaS requirements can tag along with SaaS adoption, easily creating a multicloud environment before technology teams can consider the sprawl.

The cloud has become a core component of Information Technology because of its flexibility, affordability, and ease of use. Software is run via cloud subscription models, reducing time to market and simplifying distribution. Entire offices have moved into the cloud, allowing teams of all sizes to collaborate and communicate remotely. Beneath it all, files and data are stored and shared in the cloud where it’s readily accessible across devices.

February, 8th 2022 — Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, and CoreSpace, a leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, announced a partnership today that makes it easier and more economical for organizations to set up, customize, and manage private clouds. Hybrid or multi-cloud environments that allow organizations to run workloads where it makes the most sense have become common in the modern enterprise.

What the heck is Web3 and why is everyone and their mother talking about it? In short, Web3 is a decentralized web-based on blockchain technology. What that means, how Web3 actually functions, and what it means for the future of the internet is a bit more complicated… To understand what makes Web3 so special and so different, we first need to understand why it's called “Web3” and what came online before it.

In this article, we’ll deep dive into all the basics to help you decide if AWS RDS is the right decision for your architecture and help you hit the ground running if you do end up AWS RDS. For many decades now, relational databases (RDS) have been the place to store your data. They are pretty flexible often use some kind of SQL dialect, which is one of the main languages taught in computer science classes, and widely understood by the average developer.

InfluxDB Cloud wins Best Use of the Cloud in the Internet of Things category SAN FRANCISCO, February 8, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced InfluxDB Cloud was named a winner in the 2021-22 Cloud Awards category for Best Use of the Cloud in the Internet of Things. Now in its 10th year, the Cloud Awards recognize innovation and excellence in cloud computing among startups and global enterprises.

It takes only a glance at the daily headlines to see that cybercriminals are using increasingly sophisticated methods to breach cloud defenses and access sensitive data. The complexity of cloud frameworks makes it extraordinarily difficult to detect nefarious activities. In many cases, attackers lurk in systems for weeks or months before pulling the trigger.

We’re excited to announce the release of a major update to the Google Cloud Python logging library. v3.0.0 makes it even easier for Python developers to send and read logs from Google Cloud, providing real-time insights into what is happening in your application. If you’re a Python developer working with Google Cloud, now is a great time to try out Cloud Logging! If you're unfamiliar with the `google-cloud-logging` library, getting started is simple.

Kubernetes monitoring involves tracking application performance and resource utilization across cluster components, such as pods, containers, and services. The goal is to gain visibility into the health and security of your clusters. Kubernetes provides built-in features for monitoring, including the resource metrics pipeline that tracks several metrics like node CPU and memory usage and a full metrics pipeline.

The future of financial services technology infrastructure is hybrid multi-cloud. Hybrid multi-cloud architecture provides financial institutions flexibility, portability, interoperability, and the control needed to consistently deploy and manage enterprise applications and workloads. By adopting hybrid cloud, finservs realise the benefits of effective cloud cost management, security, compliance, efficiency and agility. The hybrid cloud strategy starts with choosing the right enterprise Linux.

CloudHedge’s OmniDeq™, worlds leading platform for automating App Modernization has been recognized by NASSCOM in the Emerge 50 Awards for 2021 and has also secured a spot in the League of Top 10 Enterprises under the “SaaS” Award Category.

On June 4, 2021, the EU Commission released two new contract templates, both labeled Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs). The first template is for standard contractual clauses between controllers and processors under Article 28 of the GDPR, and its adoption is optional. The second template is for module-based standard contractual clauses for personal data transfers to non-adequate countries, and its adoption is required. With GDPR compliance as our top priority, Platform.sh has adopted both.

Are you confused about which Azure Storage Service to use, for mapping a drive, or just dumping large amounts of data in to? This post goes indepth in to the differences between Azure Blob Storage and Azure File Services.

Everyone is doing it. No, I am not talking about the latest Tik Tok challenge… The thing that everybody is doing—every company, that is—is that they are spending more money in the cloud than they need to. In fact, 82% of respondents in our own recent survey admitted that their organizations have incurred unnecessary cloud costs.

Speedscale is excited to join the AWS Partner Network (APN), the global community of partners who leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build solutions and services for customers. AWS Partners are uniquely positioned to help businesses take full advantage of all that AWS has to offer and accelerate the journey to the cloud. As part of this achievement, Speedscale has completed the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR).

Are you looking for an open source cloud platform and you don’t know where to start? Are you getting lost in all the independent rankings and cloud platform comparison pages? Try OpenStack and get your open source cloud platform up and running today. OpenStack works at any scale: from a single workstation to thousands of nodes and installs in minutes. Sounds impossible? Give it a try or continue reading to explore where is it coming from.

AWS announced CloudTrail Lake on January 5th, 2022, as a fully-managed solution for storing and querying CloudTrail logs. At first glance, it is straightforward to set up, can be enabled for all your organization’s accounts with a radio button, and keeps data for up to seven years by default! It’s a huge time saver and headache eliminator for many, as getting CloudTrail from all organization accounts to a SIEM can be tedious and time-consuming. But all this comes with a cost.