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Five worthy reads: How should your business approach multi-cloud adoption?

Businesses are emphasizing remote work options, and workers are now accessing more applications and data from their respective locations using the cloud. Even before opting for the current work-from-home mode, it was predicted that 83 percent of the workload will be on cloud for all enterprise activities. It was also predicted that 73 percent of workers from all the departments will be telecommuting by 2028. Looking at the on-going trend, these are highly likely to happen.

How to encrypt a file using Azure Logic App

This blog will brief on how to encrypt a text file using Azure Logic App out of the box. In this blog, we will use keys from the Azure Key Vault to encrypt the file. Consider a scenario in which I receive an e-mail with high importance along with the attachments. When it happens, I wish to back up those attachments carrying sensitive information in Azure Storage blobs in an encrypted format. As mentioned above I will use keys from Azure Key Vault to encrypt the files.

Kubernetes GitOps with Azure Arc and Charmed Kubernetes

This week, Canonical announced the integration of Charmed Kubernetes with Microsoft Azure Arc. This integration provides businesses with a centralised place to manage their Kubernetes clusters and deploy their applications at scale, from cloud to the edge. The Azure Arc dashboard enables management and governance of any Kubernetes, across any substrate.

CI/CD In Confidence: How Pipelines Keeps Your Secrets

A friend that can’t keep a secret isn’t one you’ll rely on. The same is true for your mission critical CI/CD tool that you have to entrust with credentials for each integrated component. Keeping your secrets safe can be a challenge for CI/CD tools, since they need to connect to such a variety of other services. Each one needs its own password or token that must be kept hidden from prying eyes.

HAProxyConf 2019 - HAProxy Process Management with William Lallemand

Process management in HAProxy has evolved since the beginning of the project; With the advent of new init systems and process managers, managing HAProxy processes became complicated due to the multi-processes architecture of the project. The Master Worker mode simplifies the process management and introduces interesting features. This talk will briefly review the history of the Master Worker mode and the new features it brought.

Pre-Release Testing Gems in the IAC Team - Sheena Tharakanparampil

Sheena, a Senior Software Engineer on the Infrastructure Automation Content team, shows how we do pre-release testing of our tooling across our modules to avoid regressions escaping into the field. Thanks to Lore's and her work, this is now scripted and we can spend our time adding more features. #pdksync #litmus #gemtesting.

Using bolt's terraform integration to create infrastructure for your tests - Daniel Carabas

Using the bolt/terraform integration (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-terraform) Daniel shows how to create arbitrary infrastructure as part of system-level acceptance testing for modules using Puppet Litmus (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet_litmus). #litmus #testing #terraform

KMC - Windows Kubernetes Cluster Support in Rancher 2.4 - 2020-05-20

Windows containerization efforts continue to grow and deploying workloads on a hybrid Kubernetes cluster might soon be in your future. Rancher fully supports creating and managing Windows Clusters today and we would like to show you how it could look like within your organization.

FIPS certification for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Canonical has received FIPS 140-2, Level 1 certification for cryptographic modules in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, with FIPS-validated OpenSSL-1.1.1. modules included. This certification enables organisations to meet compliance requirements within the public sector, healthcare and finance industries when utilising Ubuntu 18.04 LTS within public and private cloud environments. Canonical worked with U.S. Government and BSI accredited laboratory, atsec information security, for the 18.04 LTS FIPS certification.