Azure Container Apps is a serverless platform that enables you to deploy containerized applications and microservices—regardless of their code or framework—without managing any underlying cloud infrastructure or orchestrators. By using serverless containers, Azure Container Apps can automatically scale based on HTTP requests or events supported by Kubernetes event-driven autoscaling (KEDA) in order to accommodate peak demand and meet your budgeting goals.

Continuous integration (CI) demands continous testing: shifting left helps prevent faulty code from spreading, which is one of the core aims of CI. Datadog’s new Azure DevOps extension enables you to seamlessly incorporate integration and end-to-end tests into existing CI/CD workflows on Azure Pipelines, a dedicated CI/CD service that automatically runs builds, performs tests, and deploys your services and applications via cloud-hosted pipelines.

Private clouds combine the many benefits of cloud computing, like elasticity, scalability and agility, with the security, access control and resource customisation of on-prem infrastructure. Private clouds allow financial institutions to have greater control over hardware and software choices. They make it easier to enforce compliance with regulatory standards.

Maximizing the value of streaming data requires carefully navigating operational tradeoffs when developing and managing cloud native applications. Organizations that are rapidly producing and processing high volumes of data — like Netflix, Salesforce, Shopify and even the United States Postal Service (USPS), are constantly applying and testing new methods to manage the complexity of data streaming in the cloud.

Every article you find about reducing Azure cost will invariably mention ensuring any unused (especially PAYG) resources are identified and shut down/deleted. However very few actually will tell you “HOW” to do this. eG Enterprise has added new functionality to enable you to identify unused, wasted and orphaned Azure resources and services without the need to resort to hacking up KQL queries or PowerShell scripts.

SquaredUp Cloud has been in development for over two years (we first previewed it at SquaredUp Live, Spring 2021). It continues our mission to unlock and summarize data – think of it like “BI for engineering”. In building SquaredUp Cloud, we drew upon what we’ve learned with our Microsoft solutions over the last ten years, and built a solution independent of any one tool, like SCOM.

Some time ago, AWS forked ElasticSearch, the most popular search engine on the planet. They had some struggles with the maintainer of ElasticSearch and decided it was time to part ways. So, with OpenSearch, there is now a new kid in town. Well, not new, but at least some kind of alternative.

The more clouds you use, the more security risks your business can face. Here’s what to look out for, and how to stay safe.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns have enabled velocity, repeatability, and codification of best practices for our environments. However, using IaC has introduced new challenges, especially around security. Securing manually deployed infrastructure is already difficult. This problem rapidly multiplies when organizations adopt IaC patterns, since they must now contend with the complexity of code and the proliferation of environments enabled by this increased velocity.

Customers expect that online services are available all the time. The truth is that outages happen to almost everyone because providing 100% service availability is challenging and costly. Creating reliable and profitable service is, amongst other things, finding the balance between application availability, costs and time to market. Faster feature delivery means less availability as constant changes to production may cause issues and introduce bugs.

Although there are many great tools out there to get on top of application monitoring, there’s one vital metric that’s often overlooked by us technical folks – cost. In the days of running apps on servers in private datacenters, the kit was a one-time purchase that the systems team had to deal with. But running apps in public clouds is a different story. Whether you’re running on VMs, containers in Kubernetes, or entirely serverless, execution of your code adds to the bill.

One question many administrators are asking is: How can I effectively and efficiently monitor Azure Virtual Desktop technology? There are several options for monitoring Azure Virtual Desktop technology and this blog will cover some of the most popular ones. In this blog, we will focus on multi-session, native Azure virtual desktops.

Logging is a critical part of the software development lifecycle allowing developers to debug their apps, DevOps/SRE teams to troubleshoot issues, and security admins to analyze access. Cloud Logging provides a powerful pipeline to reliably ingest logs at scale and quickly find your logs. Today, we’re pleased to announce Log Analytics, a new set of features in Cloud Logging available in Preview, powered by BigQuery that allows you to gain even more insights and value from your logs.

Partnership with Megaport helps Pulsant and its customers realize their potential.

In the beginning, there was Amazon Web Services (AWS). And AWS set a standard for cloud computing. AWS was fast, flexible, convenient to use and geo-redundant. Definitely much better than legacy IT infrastructure or VMware. A lot of enterprises all over the world started migrating their business applications to AWS.

Although reducing costs is one of the benefits organizations seek in deploying Kubernetes in the cloud, many organizations find it difficult or impossible to monitor and control their costs. The problem typically stems from a lack of visibility. For example, 53% of respondents in the Anodot State of Cloud Cost Report 202 2 said their biggest challenge to controlling costs is gaining visibility into their cloud usage and associated costs.

At MetricFire, we focus on integration with your infrastructure. As one of our business values, MetricFire strives to ensure you can integrate your infrastructure with our Hosted Graphite monitoring service easily. Our engineers are committed to going above and beyond in finding solutions to get our customers the insights they need.

As a Platform.sh customer, your protection is paramount and every single one of your projects is secure. For Enterprise and Elite customer projects we go the extra mile and offer a rich selection of enhanced security features, which can be used right now. Let’s dig into each of them.

This is the second blog in a series focusing on how telecom operators can leverage public clouds to meet their business demands. In a previous blog, we talked about Amazon Web Services (AWS) and how its services made it possible for telcos to shift towards public clouds. In this blog, you’ll get to know about Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its role in enabling the telecommunications industry to leverage the cloud’s capabilities.

By implementing CI/CD in your software development process, you can build high-quality software faster and easier than ever before. However, despite its many benefits, many challenges still arise when scaling up CI/CD pipeline process, such as increasing throughput or reducing wait times, just to name a couple.

Companies moving their applications and services to the cloud is nothing new, but doing business there requires a solid cloud migration strategy. The list of things to consider is longer than you might think. Fortunately, xMatters has done it successfully and has helped its own customers move to the cloud too. In this article, Product Marketing Manager Erin Jones gives a checklist you can use to get your cloud migration right.

Everybody is starting to look more at object storage to deliver on data lake initiatives, and S3, specifically Amazon S3, is the gold standard for that. In addition, we’ve heard from many of you that setting up S3 as a destination is a must when starting with Cribl Stream. So in this article we’ll walk you through the setup.

One of the core features of Cribl Stream is our Replay capability. We pride ourselves on giving customers choice and control over their data. The ability to archive data in cheap object storage, and then providing the ability to reach into the same object storage is one example of this. It’s safe to say that S3 and AWS have become synonymous with the term object storage. It’s like a modern day Kleenex, or Band-Aid.

GitOps takes DevOps best practices used for application development (such as version control and CI/CD) and applies them to infrastructure automation. In GitOps, the Git repository serves as the source of truth and the CD pipeline is responsible for building, testing, and deploying the application code and the underlying infrastructure. Nowadays, an application is not just code running on infrastructure that you own and operate.

Public cloud can deliver significant business value across infrastructure cost savings, team productivity, service elasticity, and DevOps agility. Yet, up to 70% of organizations are regularly overshooting their cloud budgets, minimizing the gap between cloud costs and the revenue cloud investments can drive.

Canonical is excited to partner with AWS and feature on this week’s episode of AWS on Air. Watch us live on September 16, at 12pm PT. As the publisher of the Linux distribution Ubuntu, Canonical support, secure, and manage Ubuntu infrastructure and devices for thousands of businesses. Ubuntu runs from cloud to edge. It is the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud including AWS, and the preferred workstation experience for builders all over the world!

Cloud cost anomalies are unpredicted variations (typically increases) in cloud spending that are larger than expected based on historical patterns. Misconfiguration, unused resources, malicious activity or overambitious projects are some of the reasons for unexpected anomalies in cloud costs. Even the smallest of incidents can add up over time leading to cost overruns and bill shock.

As enterprises adopt cloud-based technologies, their IT infrastructure becomes more complex. The need to constantly scale up the CI/CD pipeline presents new challenges for IT teams. This blog post will share best practices and learnings from our work with enterprise customers who have successfully scaled up their CI/CD pipelines and discuss how to solve these challenges with Cloudify in production environments.

Today’s blog comes from Kevin Howell, CEO of UK partner – Howell Technology Group (HTG) about their work supplying secure cloud technologies and remote working solutions to government and regulated customers. HTG are a trusted industry leader in the UK, who offer virtual desktops, managed services and efficient modern workplace solutions. Their solutions are also available with the UK Government’s Digital Market place under the G-Cloud Framework.

In this post, we’ll look at how to host the OpenTelemetry Collector in Azure Container Apps. There are a few gotchas with how it’s deployed, so hopefully this will stop you from hitting the same issues. If you don’t care about the details and just want to run a script, I’ve created one here.

We're excited to announce that starting with the new Splunk Cloud Product 9.0.2205 release, it's easier to create, manage and use private apps. Although Splunk is great by itself, we can all agree that the real value of Splunk comes from all the applications that Developers, SplunkTrust folks and Splunkers build.

Last week (7th September 2022) I spotted a post from EUC and Cloud Veteran Marius Sandu alerting his professional and social media networks to an outage of Azure Front Door that in turn meant a significant number of Azure services and resources were unavailable.

One of the key advantages of cloud services versus on premise deployments is the wide range of purchasing options and pricing models. While it’s an attractive advantage, it can be complicated for organizations to determine the best blend of service pricing models. The ability to define the organization’s blend of purchasing strategies and display the target versus actual performance is critical for optimizing cloud cost management efforts.

Curious about Microsoft Azure and the best ways to connect? Azure is a hybrid Cloud Service Provider (CSP) with customized, scalable, cloud-based packages. These encompass Software as a Service (SaaS), based on subscription-based software licensing and delivery, Platform as a Service (PaaS), allowing companies to develop, deploy, manage, and update applications, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), providing high-level application programming interfaces (APIs).

Cloudify offers a set of GitHub actions that can be used to interact with your managers. You can combine and use those actions based on your needs. You can check them out in the GitHub marketplace. This brings us to the main point where a developer would require a way to test GitHub workflows or debug them locally without needing to modify the workflow on the repository -extra commits for debugging- and then go through the logs using the Github actions tab.

Technologies like virtualization and containerization have gained significant traction over the last decade as foundational tools for modern application development. As companies like Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure), and Google (Google Cloud) started to invest in the hardware and software infrastructure required to support access to these virtualized resources, “the cloud” was born.

As a developer, Python for me is a heavy-lifting and versatile language. I’ve used it for building APIs, internet of things projects, file and data conversions, machine learning and (of course) web development. Like with any modern, commonly used language, the functionality behind the application is only as good as the infrastructure that it is deployed onto.

Cloud spend — which research shows makes up 51% of IT budgets — is a prime candidate for company cost savings initiatives with the potential to make a huge difference in gross margins. It’s also an area that has grown dramatically in the last few years due to digital transformation and a rise in cloud demand during the pandemic.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is an isolated and secure virtual network in which you can deploy resources, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instances, while restricting their exposure to the internet. As part of your monitoring strategy, you can collect and analyze VPC flow logs, which record network traffic flow between VPC components.

Iselin, New Jersey – 8th September, 2022 – CloudHedge Technologies, the leader in application modernization, partners with Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services and solutions. The partnership will accelerate modernization of business applications for enterprise customers using OmniDeq™.

Do you already know about Docker and finding out whether it is good for hosting? Are you wondering why Docker containers are so popular? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you are at the right place. Here we’ll discuss the meaning and working of Docker hosting. By the end of this article, you will also be aware of the advantages and disadvantages of Docker. I’ll be covering the best server for Docker and throw some light on whether you should use Docker at all.

An essential aspect of operating any application is the ability to observe the health and performance of that application and of the underlying infrastructure to quickly resolve issues as they arise. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) already provides audit logs, operational logs, and metrics along with out-of-the-box dashboards and automatic error reporting to facilitate running reliable applications at scale.

As more workloads move to the cloud, more employees work remotely and SaaS application adoption increases, enterprises have had to rethink the way they secure access to the IT services their employees need. The reality for most enterprises today is a multi-vendor, siloed approach that has only compounded their security and IT operations management headaches as they end up using multiple management tools to secure and govern their access to cloud services.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) offers a great foundation to build cloud-native applications by minimizing the expertise needed to operate Kubernetes. However, production-grade enterprise platforms require more than Kubernetes and need to be augmented with additional capabilities to meet requirements. These additional services can be added easily by D2iQ, which is a close AWS partner.

For years, Chromatic managed virtual servers on behalf of our clients. As tools like Platform.sh matured, our team realized we were spending much of our clients’ budgets on simply maintaining those servers—instead of making their sites better (which is kind of our reason for existing).

If you’re unfamiliar with multicloud, it can be tricky to know where to start. This complete guide covers the basics of multicloud, how it could benefit your business, and how to get started.

When Radware, a DDoS protection solutions provider, needed to upgrade their NOC operations, they tested out multiple solutions before choosing moovingon.ai. From increasing efficiency and visibility to improving ticket resolution times and runbook automation, moovingon.ai provided the NOC manager and team with everything they needed to run operations more smoothly and effectively.

The last few years have brought immense change in telco technology adoption trends, with the introduction of 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, and mobile edge computing.

Cloud adoption has been on an upward trajectory for over a decade with no signs of slowing down. As widescale migration becomes the norm, organizations are realizing cloud financial management — also referred to as FinOps — is critical to creating long term value in the cloud. Building a culture of financial discipline requires visibility and a strategy for measuring success along the way.

It’s no secret that application containerization has revolutionized the digital world as we know it by providing a transient gateway into elastic infrastructure that can scale and grow as needed. Where traditional virtualization was all about creating a single homogenous entity, containers are self-contained units of software, able to run in just about any environment, making them extremely portable.