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Telco and Ubuntu: 2020 roundup

2021 is around the corner and we had such a tremendous journey this year. Like many others, at Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, we lived different times and maybe more than ever we saw how important it was to stay connected. Therefore, Canonical continued to innovate in the telco world and brought Ubuntu closer to it, by offering open source systems and supporting the deployment of various applications.

Elastic Cloud Terraform provider now available in beta

We’re excited to share that the official Elastic Cloud Terraform provider is now available in beta. Operations and SRE teams often rely on Terraform to safely manage production-related infrastructure using methodologies such as infrastructure as code, which allows you to apply peer-reviewed infrastructure changes in an automated and controlled fashion. The provider works with Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, and Elasticsearch Service Private environments.

Achieving Continuous Deployment with Artifactory Webhooks & Docker

Continuous Deployment (CD) requires setting up your infrastructure and automation to update your solution with the latest code change from the main branch. That’s what we call “Liquid Software”. Full automation makes your deployment seamless, less error prone, faster and it makes the feedback loop shorter because you can now deploy after each change. Achieving continuous deployment requires the following elements.

Application Modernization

Application modernization is an inevitable transition for enterprises with a futuristic business plan. It begets new capabilities and scalability with its new flexible environment. ZiniosEdge helps enterprises to modernize their infrastructure and legacy application with advanced cloud technologies. ZiniosEdge offers application modernization process guide, architecture assessment, design, and execution plan. Plus we will help to facilitate application cloud deployment using #Containers #Microservices #Kubernetes.

Redgate embraces open source with its ongoing development of Flyway

18 months ago, Redgate embarked on a new and ambitious journey with the acquisition of Flyway. It’s been quite a ride since then and we thought we’d end 2020 with an update on what’s been happening with the world’s most popular open source migrations framework for database deployments. We’ve learned a lot, and I wanted to share that with you in this post.

Performance tuning with SQL Monitor: tempdb usage, parameter sniffing, and blocking chains

Looking to level up your performance tuning game? Check out three new videos on tempdb, unstable query plans, and identifying blocking chains with SQL Monitor. I got to work with some of my favorite folks from the SQL Monitor team last week to build some new workload patterns for our online monitoring demo site. Here are three videos sharing some highlights of performance tuning features in SQL Monitor.

Finding Unstable Query Plans in SQL Monitor ("Bad" Parameter Sniffing)

A common but tricky issue to identify in SQL Server is when something called "parameter sniffing" goes bad. In this video, Redgate's Kendra Little shows how to identify if a query has an unstable execution plan in SQL Monitor, where to find the parameters which were "sniffed" for each query plan, and gives tips on where to start to resolve the issue.

Mitigating Kubernetes Security Vulnerability when using ExternalIP Services (CVE-2020-8554)

Earlier this month the Kubernetes project discovered a security issue affecting multitenant clusters: If a potential attacker can already create or edit services and pods, then they may be able to intercept traffic from other pods (or nodes) in the cluster. An attacker that is able to create a ClusterIP service and set the spec.externalIPs field can intercept traffic to that IP.