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Zero to hero: Enterprise multi-cloud application management from Day 0 to Day 2, on any substrate

Oct 26, 2021 By Canonical In Canonical

Kubernetes and Operators have stormed the IT industry, but the enterprise landscape is still a mix of bare metal, virtual machines and Kubernetes, on-prem and on public clouds, all running different workloads. How can we manage the lifecycle of all those applications across all these environments, whithout having to learn new tools and frameworks as the industry is already moving to serverless? In this fast-flowing demo we will show you how the Charmed Operator Framework brings a unified approach for application management across clouds and infrastructure generations.

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Announcing the Gremlin Chaos Engineering Professional Certificate Program

Oct 26, 2021 By Alex Drag In Gremlin

There’s a reason why thousands of Engineers, Testers, and other Reliability specialists signed up for Gremlin’s first Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Practitioner (GCCEP) certificate program: Chaos Engineering is in high demand, and the market is looking for professionals who know how to wield it well.

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OpenStack Xena and OpenStack Charms 21.10

Oct 25, 2021 By Tytus Kurek In Canonical

The release of OpenStack Charms 21.10 brings native support for OpenStack Xena in Charmed OpenStack. This latest version of OpenStack comes with initial support for SmartNICs in Nova and further improvements around Neutron Open Virtual Network (OVN) driver integration. In order to further simplify the job of the cloud operations teams, the OpenStack Charms 21.10 release offers improved day-2 automation, including additional charm actions and better upgrade experience, and new operations documentation.

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Do You Know What's Keeping Your Cloud Team up at Night?

Oct 25, 2021 By Jon Cyr In Virtana

Cloud teams are busy. In fact, Virtana’s recently published State of Hybrid Cloud and FinOps survey found that 44% of respondents have deployed more than half of their workloads in a public cloud, and 88% have deployed more than one-quarter of their workloads in a public cloud. That’s a lot of migration, optimization, and management on the cloud team’s plate; and it’s not just for right now but for the foreseeable future.

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10 CTO Tools Every Tech Leader Should Be Using

Oct 25, 2021 By CloudZero In CloudZero

Managing technology isn't your only responsibility as a CTO. You could be the CIO, Digital Enabler, Data Officer, and Engineering Leader all rolled up into one, whether you work at a startup, scaleup, or enterprise. Your role as a C-suite executive for engineering requires you to research and implement the newest, most efficient technologies. As CTO, you’re responsible for: The list goes on and on. That's why you, of all people, need the right tools to manage your vital role in the digital world.

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A guide to personal retrospectives in engineering

Oct 25, 2021 By Stig Brautaset In CircleCI

Retrospectives are a well-established resource in the software and systems engineering toolbox. From sprint retros through to post-incident reviews, we look back on our work to learn from it and to get better. We can apply the same ideas to our professional practice with a personal retrospective: writing an analysis of our experiences to learn as much as possible. We could look over a whole year of work, or focus more closely on a particular project.

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CI/CD optimized for AWS

Oct 25, 2021 By CircleCI In CircleCI

CircleCI has a suite of AWS integrations that our users have run over 30 million times. Just add one line of code to interact with Amazon CLI, ECS, and more. Try CircleCI for free through the AWS Marketplace.

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Netdata's Nodes view for troubleshooting system health and performance

Oct 25, 2021 By netdata In netdata

This video introduces you to the Netdata Nodes view. Use this view to visualize and customize metrics from any number of Agent-monitored nodes and navigate to any specific nodes within the dashboard. View key monitoring metrics like CPU utilization, memory usage, disk usage, network traffic, and much more to get started troubleshooting performance issues or anomalies. Netdata’s free, open-source monitoring agent works with Netdata Cloud to help you monitor and troubleshoot every layer of your systems to find weaknesses before they turn into outages.

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Cloud Testing at Facebook

Oct 25, 2021 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale

At Speedscale, we are on the cutting edge of defining autonomous testing for the cloud era. However, we aren’t the only company trying to solve this problem and we enjoy learning from every perspective. That’s why Facebook’s recent blog article about autonomous testing caught my eye. They’ve built a sophisticated autonomous test system that introduces many of the same techniques we utilize.

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Adopting A Network-as-a-Service Model

Oct 25, 2021 By Alex Hawkes In Console Connect

Despite the great advancements in IT infrastructure consumption models that have been enabled by the cloud, the underlying network remains the last - and long awaited - piece of the digital transformation puzzle to fall into place. In this blog, we look at the key benefits for businesses adopting a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) model.

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