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Secure Connections with Environment-Level VPNs

At Cycle, we've taken a distinctive approach to VPN services, integrating them at the environment level of our platform. In a landscape where complexity can escalate quickly, anchoring each VPN to an environment–a VPC spanning the nodes of a cluster– simplifies management and maintains a high level of isolation.

How Proper Infrastructure Design Impacts Network Reliability

In the digital age, network reliability is paramount for businesses of all sizes. A robust and dependable network infrastructure ensures seamless operations, uninterrupted communication, and efficient data transfer. However, achieving this level of reliability hinges on a well-designed infrastructure that accounts for factors like redundancy, security, and performance optimization. Proper infrastructure design plays a critical role in reducing downtime, mitigating disruptions, and ultimately improving an organization's bottom line.

Kunal Kushwaha Interviews Solomon Hykes at Navigate North America 2024

Join us at Navigate NA 2024 in Austin for an enlightening conversation between @KunalKushwaha and Solomon Hykes, founder of @dagger-io and Founder, former Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Architect of Docker. Dive deep into the world of DevOps, Docker, and the cutting-edge Dagger tool as Solomon shares his insights on the evolving landscape of software development, the challenges developers face in the cloud-native space, and the innovative solutions Dagger brings to the table.

Want to use #GitKraken features in your terminal? #shorts

So, you want to stay in your terminal. That doesn't mean you have to miss out on any GitKraken goodness. 👀 The GitKraken CLI makes it easy to use features like Workspaces, Cloud Patches, and more, all without leaving the comfort of your terminal. 🖥️ Download for free at gitkraken.com/cli or 'gk-cli' on GitHub!

Cloud Agnostic Backups on Cycle.io

At Cycle.io, we see many unique situations involving data requirements, retention, and security. As a multi/hybrid cloud and LowOps platform, we've had to come up with some pretty interesting solutions for backups and data protection. Dive in with Cycle's co-founder and head of engineering, Alexander Mattoni, as he is easily able to deploy a postgres instance, with automated backups to offsite storage in the span of minutes.

Microservices Catalog: Definition, Use Cases & Benefits

When speed to market can make or break a business, the move from monoliths to microservices has become an obvious choice for many engineering teams. This transformation promises agility, scalability, and the ability to more closely align with business functions. It is why we see organizations moving from the rigidity and restrictions of monoliths to the flexibility and control associated with microservices architectures.

Overview of Playbooks - Incident response automation

Playbooks are a powerful tool to automate common actions in your incident response process. It's like a pre-programmed sequence of steps your team should take when specific incidents occur. Instead of scrambling to remember protocols or manually initiating a series of tasks, responders can activate a Playbook with a single click. This triggers a predefined set of actions, such as notifying team members, setting incident severity/priority, or creating support tickets, all tailored to the nature of the incident.

10 reasons why a VM monitoring tool is invaluable for organizations

Navigating the modern IT environments requires a robust strategy when it comes to managing virtual machines. As businesses increasingly rely on virtualization, the importance of Virtual Machine (VM) monitoring becomes undeniable. VM monitoring is a major part of overall IT infrastructure management. The advantages of VM monitoring tool range from performance and security to strategic planning, and more. Let’s look at them in-depth.

DevOps Debriefs: How The Financial Times Beat Leaks with OIDC

In our first instalment of DevOps Debriefs, join Cloudsmith and special guest Rob Godfrey, Senior Technical Architect at the Financial Times (FT) for a discussion on the crucial role of authentication and credential management in ensuring software pipeline security. We’ll discuss: Innovative strategies that empowered the Financial Times team to overcome software supply chain risks in their pipelines. How the team responded to the fallout of the CircleCI breach by using OIDC with CircleCI and Cloudsmith.