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JFrog ChartCenter: How to Include Helm Charts from Source

Learn how you can add your Helm chart to ChartCenter directly from its Git-stored source. ChartCenter will host your Helm repository for you to share it with the world. Until the release of Helm v3, you might have submitted your Helm chart to the official `stable` or `incubator` chart repository to share it with the community. But this Helm chart archive is no longer actively maintained, and is not accepting new charts. Now all Helm charts must be in a hosted repository elsewhere.

Centralize the truth of your infrastructure with alarm notifications

Netdata is architected on every level, across both the open-source Netdata Agent and Netdata Cloud, to help you own every layer of your monitoring experience. With this design, all metrics data collected by the Netdata Agent stays distributed on your node, but you also leverage Netdata Cloud’s dashboards and multi-node visualizations to view the health and performance of an entire infrastructure from a single application.

Rancher Online Meetup - December 2020: Open Source Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Learn about a new project we’ve been working on at Rancher Labs! Harvester is a virtualization and HCI platform that uses open-source hypervisors and other CNCF technologies to produce a seamless experience for administrators of complex environments that depend on Virtual Machines. Join Harvester’s principal engineer Sheng Yang and product manager William Jimenez as they walk you through the new tech.

September 2020 Online Meetup - What's New with K3s?

If you haven't heard, Rancher's K3s was accepted last month as a Sandbox Project by the CNCF! Exciting things have been underway with K3s and in this September's meetup we will bring you up to speed on all of them. We’ll discuss the donation of K3s to the CNCF and talk about the changes you can expect to see as part of this move. Rancher experts will also cover the features and enhancements available in the 1.19 release. The focus of the 1.19 release has been improved configurability and operations for K3s clusters.

November Meetup - GitOps with Rancher Continuous Delivery

As the number of clusters under management increase, application owners and cluster operators need a programatic way to manage deploying to their clusters. Rancher Continuous Delivery allows an administrator to create groups of clusters and link them to Git repositories. This means an application owner only ever needs access to the Git repository and not the management cluster. Deployment manifests can be defined in Helm, Kustomize or K8s yaml files and can be tailored based on attributes of the target clusters.

How to Monitor IIS Performance

Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) is a well-known web server that hosts web applications and is used in many sectors like banking, healthcare, logistics, E-commerce, etc. It is the backbone of many IT Infrastructures but if it encounters issues it can cause websites to experience higher response times. Hence, end-users often leave the website. A web server plays a vital role in an organization’s IT infrastructure.

JFrog CLI Plugin: rt-fs

JFrog CLI Plugins allow enhancing the functionality of JFrog CLI to meet the specific user and organization needs. All public plugins are registered in JFrog CLI's Plugins Registry. The source code of a plugin is maintained as an open source Go project on GitHub. Anyone can develop their own plugin, in Go. This rt-fs plugin runs file system commands in Artifactory. It is designed to mimic the functionality of the Linux/Unix 'ls' and 'cat' commands. Watch this video to see how.

How to get the size of all your Azure Storage Accounts

Do you really ever know how much Azure Storage you are consuming or how many Azure Storage Blobs you have in each of your Storage Accounts? Perhaps you just need an overview of your Azure Storage Account Consumption, including things like the number of Blobs per storage account, Number of Containers, and the Azure Blob Storage Capacity used. All this information is quite easy to gather from one of the several reports available in Cloud Storage Manager.

Integrate Datadog Compliance Monitoring with your AWS Well-Architected workloads

Many of our customers rely on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Framework as a guide to build safe, secure, and performant applications in the cloud. AWS offers the Well-Architected Review (WAR) Tool as a centralized way to track and trend adherence to Well-Architected best practices. It allows users to define workloads and answer a set of questions regarding operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.