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Persistent, Distributed Kubernetes Storage with Longhorn

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration system that enables applications to run on a cluster of hosts. It’s a critical part of cloud native architecture because it can work on public or private clouds and on-premises environments. With an orchestration layer on top of traditional infrastructure, Kubernetes allows the automated deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

What Is Helm in Kubernetes?

Helm is a deployment tool that simplifies installing, configuring, and managing Kubernetes clusters. Anyone familiar with writing Kubernetes manifests knows how tedious it is to create multiple manifest files using YAML. Even the most basic application has at least 3 manifest files. As the cluster grows, the more unwieldy the configuration becomes. Helm is one of the most useful tools in a developer’s tool belt for managing Kubernetes clusters.

Get better visibility into DevOps performance in one place with Atlassian integrations

Every company is a software company and every company wants to get better at it. That’s why Sumo Logic built a set of integrations with Atlassian DevOps solutions. Leveraging data from Atlassian, Sumo Logic now enables you to visualize the key, actionable insights behind the DevOps Research Assessment (DORA) metrics to continuously improve your software delivery performance. Sumo Logic’s observability platform presenting Atlassian data brings the following benefits, to name a few.

The Secret Ingredient for Faster Deployment: Use On-demand Environments

If you are part of a DevOps or Cloud engineering team struggling to set up and maintain proper environments, then this article is for you. We will discuss “On-demand” environments in detail. We will go through its benefits, how development teams can take advantage of it, and how Qovery’s on-demand environments give you a competitive advantage in the business.

Raising the bar on cybersecurity with Ubuntu for AWS GovCloud

US government agencies and organizations in government-regulated industries face a huge challenge in complying with regulations and standards in order to run their workloads. AWS GovCloud and Ubuntu make it much easier to deploy missions securely in the cloud whilst remaining compatible with compliance requirements.

To require or not require (fields): that is the question

Required fields have been a hot topic at FireHydrant. Choose too many (or the wrong ones), and you unnecessarily annoy your team during an incident or encourage sloppy data entry that someone has to come back and clean up manually. Don't use them at all and risk insufficient data to efficiently propel an incident toward resolution.

Everything You Need To Know About Cloud Egress Charges

Whenever you move data into or out of a cloud, the traffic crosses one or more networks, potentially resulting in transfer charges. These are known as ingress (moving data into the cloud) and egress (moving data out of the cloud) charges - and there's incentives in most of the pricing models by cloud service providers (CSP) to encourage an organisation to use a direct connection to transfer data, rather than go via the public internet.

Analytics in Squadcast | Incident Management | On-call | SRE | Squadcast

Analyzing incident data plays a key role to do better SRE. Squadcast's Analytics Dashboard helps you analyze the performance of your Organization/ Team, for a given time period. It also gives you more insight into past outages that affected your systems.

Integrating Squadcast with Jira (Cloud & Server) - Create tickets & bidirectional sync | Squadcast

You can use this integration guide to install and configure the Squadcast extension in Jira Cloud & Jira Server to create issues in Jira projects when there is an incident in Squadcast. Also learn to automatically or manually sync the status bidirectionally.