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How to deploy the Elastic Stack on Red Hat OpenShift with ECK

Managing hundreds or thousands of containers has quickly become the standard for many organizations. With infrastructures growing more complex, we want every user to find value with Elastic (regardless of where or how they operate). We created Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) — the official Operator — to simplify setup, upgrades, scaling, and more for running Elasticsearch and Kibana on Kubernetes.

Cybersecurity defenses for IIoT

Cybersecurity attacks on industrial IoT solutions can have detrimental consequences. This is the case because IoT devices record privacy-sensitive data and control production assets. Therefore, demonstrable trustworthiness is prerequisite to IoT adoption in industrial settings. Fortunately, IT security is a mature field. Experts have identified classes of threats devices may be subject to. Let’s discuss these threat patterns and mitigation strategies in the IIoT context.

Distribute ROS 2 across machines with MicroK8s

Our simple ROS 2 talker and listener setup runs well on a single Kubernetes node, now let’s distribute it out across multiple computers. This article builds upon our simple ROS 2 talker / listener setup by running it on multiple K8s nodes. At the completion of this setup expect to have a ROS2 Kubernetes cluster running MicroK8s on three different machines. Applying a single configuration file distributes the ROS 2 workload across the machines.

6 Myths of DevOps

Have you ever heard someone say "no one has the same definition of DevOps." While the definitions of DevOps principles and DevOps practices are pretty clear, there is a lot of myths and subjectivity in how the principles play out in the real world. In this episode of Dissecting DevOps, Dave and Chris debunk six common DevOps Myths. Dave McAllister and Chris Riley are DevOps Advocates at Splunk. Follow them on Twitter at @dwmcallister​ and @hoardinginfo.

How to Choose your Monitoring Solution

When we talk about IT support in an organization, it’s not only about resetting passwords or fixing desktops and printers. The most important task for your IT staff is to regularly monitor your network for any emerging issues or threats, and respond on time to ensure that the problem does not interfere with your productivity. However, in an age of growing networks and small budgets, it’s a challenging task that is not easy to handle manually at all times.

Secure Chaos Engineering on Kubernetes Clusters Without being a Noisy Neighbor

Get started with Gremlin's Chaos Engineering tools to safely, securely, and simply inject failure into your systems to find weaknesses before they cause customer-facing issues. Kubernetes is a powerful open source platform to build scalable, reliable systems, designed to be extensible and customizable for many use cases. Kubernetes provides the ability to scale individual pods, swap out runtimes, and control access to objects using namespaces.

HAProxy Log Sampling

Log Sampling is a powerful feature introduced in HAProxy 2.0 that lets you define a percentage of your logs to create a representative view of your data allowing you to minimize your costs. Log files are the key to observability. They can provide helpful information that can be used for debugging as well as analytics that can be used to understand how users interact with an application.

NeuVector & JFrog - Integrating Container Security To Accelerate Your CI CD Pipeline

Container security must shift both left and right to protect environments across the full application lifecycle – from the beginning of development through production. In this webinar, we will discuss how the integration of JFrog Xray and NeuVector can provide you with the best Container protection while improving productivity.

How Interconnection Can Help Africa's Cloud And Data Centre Ecosystem

2020 has been a significant year for Africa’s cloud and data centre ecosystem. Considerable new investment is going into carrier-neutral data centres across Sub-Saharan Africa and slowly but surely the adoption of cloud services is gathering pace. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has led many businesses to accelerate their adoption of cloud services in order to help them operate during these difficult times.