Remote access is a means to extend network accessibility by establishing a connection over a server. It allows users to manage and view the system from remote locations when they’re not able to connect physically. In short, remote access allows users to access their systems and IT infrastructure just by using an internet connection or telecommunication protocol.

There has been so much uproar about cloud computing in recent years, mostly due to its scalability, capability, and accessibility. Cloud computing is designed to provide constant access to data and applications for users, allowing them to have high bandwidth. Cloud architecture pertains to the diverse components, such as servers, software functionalities, and software solutions, used by all businesses to harness the efficiency of cloud resources.

With the constantly evolving landscape of technology, professionals in the DevOps and SRE fields need to stay up-to-date and knowledgeable about the tools and practices driving the industry forward. Whether you are just starting your career or have been working in DevOps or SRE for years, this post will provide valuable insights and information on the tools you should be familiar with as we head into 2023.

OpenTelemetry (OTel), the emerging industry standard for application observability and distributed tracing across cloud-native and distributed architectures, is becoming an essential tool for Go developers. However, implementing OTel with Go to send data to observability platforms is hardly a straightforward process. At Helios, we’re on a mission to help as many teams as possible adopt distributed tracing.

One of the game changers in modern software development is Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI/CD). Both large, established organizations and small, growing companies use CI/CD to deliver software faster and to detect bugs in the software lifecycle. In this tutorial, I’ll create a full pipeline to practice CI/CD using Jenkins, including how to set up Jenkins on Docker. I’ll give an in-depth view of a Jenkins pipeline example using Jenkinsfile.

Security automation tools can be the first step in preventing IT fires from happening. When IT teams dedicate time to extinguishing security and compliance fires, they’re missing out on valuable time to spend tackling bigger goals. Let’s explore some ways to make your IT fireproof using the preventative power of security automation.

How you communicate helps build your 9s. In the world of Site Reliability Engineering, this is crucial. How do you do it?

Businesses around the world are increasingly turning to container technology to streamline the process of deploying and managing complex, cloud native applications. Containers bundle all necessary dependencies into a single package, offering portability, speed, security, scalability, and ease of management, making them the preferred choice over traditional virtual machines (VMs).

In Parts 1 and 2, we looked at how you can build and maintain effective test suites. These steps are a key part of ensuring that application workflows function as expected. But how you run your tests is another important point to consider, so in this post, we’ll walk through best practices for executing your tests across every stage of development. Along the way, we’ll also look at how Datadog supports these practices for the applications that you are already monitoring.

In November 2022, our team here at Helios attended and sponsored KubeCon North America. Our motivations for being there were related to getting out the word about what Helios is doing to accelerate development velocity through microservices troubleshooting. Here we are at our booth: While there we also caught up with a number of the other folks attending the event. Here are a few of the key takeaways and trends we noticed.

Life at a startup often feels like a 100-meter sprint, head down, and focused until you cross the finish line. Only then do you really know what you have achieved. While a startup's work is never finished, every year we take a pause to reflect on what we have achieved over the past twelve months. And boy, was 2022 a good one!

This 2022 was an incredible year for Epinio, SUSE’s application development engine for Kubernetes, enabling developers to go from Code to URL in one push. We removed many dependencies in the first few months, increasing the deployment speed and shortening the development feedback loop. We standardized the installation process with Helm, dropping the original installer. We added many new features, such as Services, allowing developers to provision custom resources autonomously.

As a continuation of our series for monitoring web servers with NGINX and APACHE, let us find out how to effectively and easily monitor and troubleshoot NGINXPlus using Netdata!

Moving towards a Kubernetes platform might seem a simple move. You’ll ask your smartest engineers to get started. They will love a move towards cloud and container technology. However, if you want to realize maximum benefit as you start using a platform like Kubernetes, there is more to it.

How a multinational logistics and supply chain management company created a Self-Service Developer Platform to turn complex cloud infrastructure requirements into self-service cloud environments to meet the needs of their complex organizational hierarchy.

Git is a powerful version-controlling system designed to quickly and effectively manage any project. If you’re one of the 83 million developers who use Git, you’ve probably heard of Git HEAD before. When working with Git, you can check out only one branch at a time – the current or active branch. Git HEAD refers to the tip of this active branch. This article will teach you about Git HEAD and how to find and check its status.

Apple has issued its hot new release—MacOS Ventura for the Mac desktop computer operating system. Apple users are excited about new features, such as continuity camera and stage manager, but organizations might need more time for testing the operating system in their production environments. Either bulk-deployment or bulk-deferring the OS update comes with its own challenges.

What are you tinkering with over your vacation? Perhaps you have ambitions to have a beautiful homelab, launch pet projects on a public cloud, or build do it yourself home automation. Ubuntu has broad community and commercial support, making it the logical choice when you need to provision machines and containers with a mix of proprietary and open source software. Once your homelab, home automation, or public cloud projects are running, you can deploy Landscape beta.

FireHydrant received three G2 Winter 2023 awards — High Performer, a High Performer in the Enterprise category, and a High Performer in the United Kingdom. We are honored to be recognized by G2 because these awards are based on customer reviews.

Continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are integral to software development and management nowadays, yet there seems to be a lot of confusion about what CI/CD actually is. In this article, learn about the definitions and explanations of CI/CD, the difference between CI and CD—and the difference between CI/CD and DevOps.

Receiving a phone call from an unfamiliar number—and deciding whether or not to answer that call—has become an increasingly pervasive problem for nearly everyone. Sophisticated robocalls and Caller ID spoofing are now a regular (albeit frustrating) part of consumers’ daily lives.

Netreo enjoyed another great year, and we’re extremely grateful to our customers and partners for their ongoing loyalty and support. We wish all of our customers, business partners, your employees and ours the happiest of holiday seasons. 2022 began with a monumental shift in sales strategy and the addition of experienced leaders in key disciplines.

Mastodon recently became a popular decentralized alternative to Twitter and, more importantly, a way to own your part of a global social network. Mastodon servers can interact with all other fediverse servers (including other Mastodon server). You don't have to own your Mastodon server to get started, you can even join the Mastodon of Qoddi.

Over the years, as companies have moved from monolith to cloud-native architectures, maintaining high availability has become more challenging. After all, today’s IT ecosystems are complex, distributed and ephemeral, making it increasingly difficult (and, in many cases, downright impossible) for DevOps practitioners and SREs to identify and fix issues manually.

Applications and servers need to be constantly monitored to prevent failure and also be able to detect issues on time. This blog post outlines how developers can use Prometheus to monitor applications on AWS EC2 instances.

The Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2023 report makes predictions across a number of industries for the coming year. Here are the ones that excite us the most.

Most Linux users will be faced with sudo and su at least once in their lives. Because of their comparable syntax and overlapping functions, it is often complicated for new users to differentiate between them. The commands sudo and su are among the most widespread and effective in Linux. By deterring unpredictable things in your network, you can deter performance and safety issues in your network. The two methods of gaining root privileges are sudo and su.

Let’s get one thing out of the way: we’re going into 2023 on a high-note. We’ve closed deals with some of the most respected companies in both the UK and US, we’ve hired in the double-digits, expanded into New York, and revenue is growing steadily. But we aren’t hanging up our football boots just yet. Yes, we can take some time to celebrate our wins, but we’re all hands on deck for 2023 planning.

Find out how to effectively and easily monitor and troubleshoot Dovecot using Netdata.

Common issues with digital signages When it comes to digital signages, most businesses think about them from the same perspective they use when executing other collaterals, such as print advertisements. These business leaders prioritize branding: the look and feel of the signage should be faithful to the brand, any elements from the brand bible should be rendered accurately, and the tone of the copy should be consistent with the brand voice.

With 34% of cloud developers facing difficulties when calculating how much their cloud provider is going to charge them each month, it is essential to prioritize cloud cost management. This concept surrounds the process of monitoring, controlling, and optimizing an organization’s cloud service spend. By having the correct cloud cost management strategies in place, organizations are able to eliminate unnecessary expenses through optimizing resource allocation and cost-saving strategies.

I’m excited to announce the general availability of the SUSE NeuVector container security platform version 5.1. With the 5.1 release, customers will benefit from more efficient and powerful vulnerability scanning and admission controls across multiple clusters through centralized enterprise scanning, auto-scaling scanners and support for the new Kubernetes (1.25+) pod security admission (PSA) standard. The release also supports the Cilium network plug-in.

As we enter the holiday season, online shopping and payment systems are gearing up for higher traffic and workloads. Ensuring that these applications can handle the increased demand without slowing down or crashing is critical for providing a smooth and efficient experience for customers. One way to improve the performance and reliability of these applications is by using chiselled Ubuntu images in your containerised deployment.

Code, features, pull requests, code reviews and so much more! 2022 has been a year of dramatic growth and change for Codefresh. Join us for a review of the year! As companies that build software, you rewarded Codefresh with healthy revenue growth throughout 2022 because you’ve told us progressive software delivery remains a critical investment and top priority.

{ If you think you can’t do something with HAProxy, go have a look, because you probably can. Onward and upward! In 2022, many happy HAProxy users turned to G2 – a leading aggregator of user reviews and product ratings – to leave their feedback. These user reviews were so positive that G2 recognized HAProxy as a Leader in Load Balancing, DDoS Protection, and API Management, with an additional leadership position for momentum in the load balancing market.

Remote and hybrid work have made Microsoft Teams a core tool in nearly all large organizations. Many business leaders and IT administrators would like to extend the value of Teams to enable users to make and receive business phone calls. This improves the productivity of their employees by keeping them connected with customers, business partners, and co-workers in the office, at home, or even on the road.

Another successful AWS re:Invent is in the books for VMware Tanzu. This year, like in previous years, the event had a high attendance with 51,000+ people descending on Las Vegas to learn and explore everything AWS-related. However, there were some notable changes in the focus areas for 2022. This year, VMware was pleased to see that Amazon hosted their first-ever Kubernetes Leadership segment at re:Invent, delivered by Barry Cooks, vice president, Kubernetes for AWS.

While many people may have a basic understanding of virtual reality (VR), most are not as familiar with the concept of augmented reality (AR). Virtual reality is a completely immersive experience that separates the viewer from the physical world through the use of a VR device that the user wears. In contrast, augmented reality typically uses a camera on a smartphone to add digital elements to a live view.

State of DevOps moderator Ciara Carey recaps the Dec 15 session.

Having a healthy network is essential for any online business. Downtime can be costly; if you're not monitoring your devices, you could have more downtime than you realize. Routers, in particular, are essential for keeping a network running. Routers are critical equipment for any business that relies on the Internet to communicate with customers or clients. A slow or faulty router can grind business to a halt, which is why keeping an eye on your router's performance is essential.

If you are looking for a small-scale cloud deployment suitable for the edge, chances are you came across Canonical’s Micro cloud solution. These are small-footprint clusters of compute nodes with distributed storage and secure networking, optimised for repeatable and reliable remote deployments.

The cloud migration tools category is as wide as any other in enterprise IT software. Here we provide an overview of the landscape, and when and how to apply each type of tool to achieve your goals. While the landscape can seem complicated, one thing is clear: There is no silver-bullet to cloud migration tools.

The key to a successful cloud migration? Accurate discovery of your applications and technology - no guesswork allowed. With Tidal, you can complete this step faster than ever, automatically.

Tidal provides you with an automated assessment of your software usage, defects, vulnerabilities, and more. You’ll know exactly what to expect before your cloud migration.

Enterprises are increasingly adopting Kubernetes. In fact, Gartner estimates that by 2026 more than 90% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, an increase from fewer than 40% in 2020. And IDC reports that 80% of new workloads are being developed in containers.

3 things to know about IT Remote Support software: Remote support software is designed specifically to help businesses provide customer support by troubleshooting software and hardware issues using a variety of tools. In contrast to remote access and control software, customers that receive remote assistance support must give consent to allow access to an IT technician to view their device’s screen.

A new version of Rancher Desktop with the experimental Allowed Images feature and several other improvements has just been released!

Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) optimizes team development flows by automating build, test, and deployment processes to ensure fast and reliable delivery of high-quality software. Adopting best-in-class CI/CD tooling is one of the best investments your organization can make to shorten delivery cycles, eliminate painful manual processes, and keep infrastructure costs in check.

As we wrap up another year, it’s time to reflect on how data center management has evolved over the last 12 months. The data center industry is known for rapidly changing. New challenges, best practices, and technologies are always appearing that need to be noted and addressed. By staying on top of the latest trends, you can put yourself in the best position to have a successful 2023.

Repatriation in cloud computing refers to moving workloads from the public cloud to on-premise infrastructure. Sarah Wang and Martin Casado from Andreessen Horowitz have written one of the most popular articles about repatriation: they explain the motivation with the significant cost savings possible. For software-based businesses, public cloud spend can rise to 50% of the cost of revenue (COR). Reducing these costs has the potential for significant margin increases.

Using anonymized data from 50,000 incidents, the Incident Benchmark Report reveals insights into the when, what, who, and how behind incidents and highlights behaviors that correlate to faster response times.

At Civo, we have always sought to expand people’s understanding of technology. From setting up an academy to help people get to grips with Kubernetes to running developer events around the world, we firmly believe that the benefits of technology should be accessible to everyone. There is a growing global community in the tech sector that is focused on a new way of doing things. This community is united by a conviction that these changes must be done for the benefit of all.

We are all about providing the best web deployment experience on the market. Working to ensure that our product is delivering the quality we promise with regular product updates and new features being introduced all the time. And that’s exactly why we’re here! We’re delighted to share the new version of our API server and Metrics server, designed to optimize transparency, crons, builds and sources operations control- to name but a few. Ready to find out more? Keep on scrolling.

Chaos engineering is a hot topic in the platform engineering field as organizations try to build more robust applications. Chaos engineering involves deliberately injecting faults into a system to observe its behavior and build confidence in the behavior of that system. The Chaos Monkey from Netflix pioneered the concept of deliberately inflicting chaos on a production system, but the discipline has grown extensively since this initial project.

Organizations are under pressure to deliver software faster than ever before. Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) help them meet that demand. Companies are turning to CI/CD to speed up the software development process and increase efficiency. In this article, learn about what CI/CD is, the benefits of using it and some of the challenges that come with it.

Platform engineering is an emerging discipline focused on enhancing developer productivity by reducing the complexity and uncertainty of modern software delivery. It addresses some of the biggest challenges of doing DevOps at scale, including aligning development practices with business priorities and reducing the burden of managing a complicated web of tools and infrastructure across the application lifecycle.

Customer service is essential to a businesses’ survival, and it makes sense when considering the impact that poor customer service can have on a business in terms of reputation and sales. In fact, 70 percent of people have claimed that their purchase decisions are based on the customer service received, so it is imperative for businesses to invest in their customer service experiences continually.

It should surprise no one that Kubernetes uptake is growing and will continue to do so. The wildly popular container orchestration platform’s continuous development is fueled by broad adoption. This will continue in 2023 as more companies, teams and individuals embrace it as a platform for innovation, building new applications and scaling existing ones faster than ever before.

Find out how to effectively and easily monitor and troubleshoot CoreDNS using Netdata.

VMware Tanzu Application Service is a modern application platform for enterprises that want to deliver mission-critical microservices across clouds. The team at VMware Tanzu has been hard at work this year, continuing to enhance the overall developer and operator experiences on the platform. In addition to this work, the team continued to collaborate closely with the Cloud Foundry community and honor VMware’s commitment to open source ecosystems.

MLOps is the short term for machine learning operations and it represents a set of practices that aim to simplify workflow processes and automate machine learning and deep learning deployments. It accomplishes the deployment and maintenance of models reliably and efficiently for production, at a large scale. MLOps is slowly evolving into an independent approach to the machine learning lifecycle that includes all steps – from data gathering to governance and monitoring.

K3s and Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE2) are two Kubernetes distributions from the SUSE Rancher container platform. Either project can be used to run a production-ready cluster; however, they target different use cases and consequently possess unique characteristics. This article will explain the similarities and differences between the projects. You’ll learn when it makes sense to use RKE2 instead of K3s and vice versa.

Find out how to effectively and easily monitor and troubleshoot Dnsmasq for DHCP using Netdata.

Find out how to effectively and easily monitor and troubleshoot Dnsmasq DNS Forwarder using Netdata.

Your employees and customers are constantly on the move and rely on their mobile devices to stay connected and productive. On-demand remote support is crucial when technical issues become a roadblock in their day. With mobile device remote support, your IT team can troubleshoot problems quickly and efficiently from a tablet, computer, or smartphone.

Financial Institutions (FIs) need to respond with agility and business velocity to keep pace with changing economic conditions. Yet, emerging competition from fintechs and challenger banks and increasing customer expectations is making this task difficult, especially as regulatory and compliance requirements increase. Embracing the next phase of digital transformation is an imperative for financial institutions to sustain and grow in a competitive environment of rising cost pressures.