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Docker logging best practices

When an application in a Docker container emits logs, they are sent to the application’s stdout and stderr output streams. The container’s logging driver can access these streams and send the logs to a file, a log collector running on the host, or a log management service endpoint. In this post, we’ll explain how the driver you choose—and how you configure it—influences the performance of your containerized application and the reliability of your Docker logging.

Healthcare Organization uses VirtualWisdom to Target Cross-domain Collaboration

January 29, 2020 It’s well known that within large IT datacenters, specialists in different domains (i.e. application, DB, networking, storage, etc) often struggle with sharing tools to solve problems. Vendors produce tools that may give a deep view of one domain, but lack correlation with others.

How to Get Your Elixir Application Ready for CI/CD

In today’s post, we’ll go over what continuous integration and continuous delivery are, the benefits that come along with employing CI/CD, and some best practices that you should follow. We’ll also explore a wide array of Elixir ecosystem tools that can help you create top-notch CI pipelines. In order to experiment with a handful of the tools that we will be discussing, we’ll use a Git hooks Elixir library to execute our CI/CD validation steps, but on our local machine.

DevOps Incident Management: A Guide With Best Practices

This is the one post I hope you’ll never need. However, should you ever need it, this is your one-stop shop for understanding how to proceed with DevOps incident management. Have you just been attacked? Did the commit go wrong? A CI pipeline went haywire? Don’t worry. I got you.

Interlink Software Services | Your Digital Transformation Needs AIOps

Suffering from all too frequent, business damaging IT outages? Struggling to make sense of torrents of operational data and metrics? Overwhelmed by ever-increasing IT complexity and monitoring tool sprawl? Interlink Software is dedicated to helping IT teams in large, digital enterprises tackle these challenges and efficiently protect service availability. Your digital enterprise needs AIOps.

Rancher vs. OpenShift - A Consultant's View

In any rapidly emerging market, consultants can be a great source for vendor-neutral insights, as they typically work with multiple technologies to help their customers make informed decisions. In that vein, Derya (Dorian) Sezen of kloia, a new-era consulting organization that provides services toward transition of legacy workloads to frontline technologies in Cloud, DevOps and Microservices, recently wrote a blog summarizing his experience with Rancher and Red Hat OpenShift.

Kubernetes Master Class: How to harden your Kubernetes Clusters

As enterprises accelerate their adoption of containers and Kubernetes, they need to take necessary steps to protect such a critical part of their compute infrastructure. But not everyone has the same security needs, with developers and engineers often asking for different levels of granular control on specific configurations. This masterclass will help you navigate these conversations using Rancher’s current best practice security guidance. Topics to be covered will include:

CNCF Member Webinar: DevOps Patterns and Antipatterns for Continuous Software Updates

So, you want to update the software for your user, be it the nodes in your K8s cluster, a browser on the user’s desktop, an app in the user’s smartphone or even a user’s car. What can possibly go wrong? In this talk, we’ll analyze real-world software update fails and how multiple DevOps patterns, that fit a variety of scenarios, could have saved the developers. Manually making sure that everything works before sending update and expecting the user to do acceptance tests before they update is most definitely not on the list of such patterns.

Best Practices Guide for Local Prototyping of Serverless Applications

Local prototyping has become de rigueur for most web stack developers in the last few years. Even complex web backends are generally assumed to be emulatable from a developer’s laptop. But this assumption breaks down a bit as we explore the AWS platform in general. More specifically, serverless architecture challenges the system of local prototyping.