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Make Kubernetes Essential to Your DevOps Pipeline

Kubernetes has seen an incredible rise over the past few years as organizations leverage containers for complex applications, micro-services and even cloud-native applications. And with the rise of Kubernetes, DevOps has gained more traction. While they may seem very different — one is a tool and the other is a methodology — they work together to help organizations deliver fast. This article explains why Kubernetes is essential to your DevOps strategy.

Monitor ClickHouse with Datadog

ClickHouse is an open source database management system, and was originally developed as a backend for Yandex’s Metrica analytics platform. ClickHouse is column oriented, meaning that it can quickly scan through ranges of values in a single column without touching irrelevant values in other columns. This makes ClickHouse well suited for online analytical processing (OLAP).

Introduction to the Integration Module for Cherwell

The Kelverion Integration Module for Cherwell provides a powerful integration capability for writing Azure Automation runbooks as well as being usable in PowerShell scripts. The Integration Module supports Cherwell Service Management 9.6.3 or 9.7 Using Kelverion smart discovery the Integration Module interrogates Cherwell and discovers how it has been configured providing a forms based view of the tables, fields, properties and allowed inputs for mandatory and optional fields.

Introduction to the Integration Module for Freshservice

The Kelverion Integration Module for Freshservice provides a powerful integration capability for writing Azure Automation runbooks as well as being usable in PowerShell scripts. The Integration Module supports Freshservice SaaS instances with the REST API. Using Kelverion smart discovery the Integration Module interrogates Freshservice and discovers how it has been configured providing a forms based view of the tables, fields, properties and allowed inputs for mandatory and optional fields.

Docker container monitoring with Netdata

Properly monitoring the health and performance of Docker containers is an essential skill for solo developers and large teams alike. As your infrastructure grows in complexity, it’s important to streamline every facet of the performance of your apps/services. Plus, it’s essential that the tools you use to make those performance decisions work across teams, and allow for complex scaling architectures.