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Toronto, Ontario – October 10, 2020 – Densify, a leader in cloud and container cost management, today announced that its product has been Red Hat Operator Certified and can be purchased in the Red Hat Marketplace. The Marketplace is a one-stop shop to find, try, buy, and manage enterprise applications across an organization’s hybrid IT infrastructure.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pretty much ubiquitous these days, with everyone from tiny startups to large enterprises using the cloud service to run their apps, websites, and processes. For small businesses, being able to predict your budgets is paramount. Unfortunately, AWS costs can be very difficult to forecast. In this blog, we’ll go over the pros and cons of the tools available to help you estimate your AWS costs.

Helm charts are great. They combine high quality, ready-made runtime configurations for a huge number of applications with an incredible getting-started experience. There is literally no faster way to install a production-ready Grafana or Loki on Kubernetes than using helm install. Unfortunately, Helm charts can also be incredibly inflexible.

This community meetup took a deeper look into how the Civo marketplace can improve your Kubernetes workflows. Featuring some cool apps to try out, and how you can easily get involved with contributing, growing, and ultimately improving the marketplace. As well as talks from Civo's very own Saiyam Pathak and Kai Hoffman, we were also joined by community members Steve Miller and Jürgen Etzlstorfer.

In this guide, we are going to see what a Docker health check is and how to configure it for your Docker containers. A Health Check means to check the health of any resource to determine whether that resource is operating normally. Here, it is about checking the health of Docker containers. If you’ve been using docker containers in production, you might have noticed that docker checks the status of a container by using the status of the process (PID) launched from the Docker file command.