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Yet another Puppetize Digital is in the (online only) books. Our second annual virtual conference drew attendees from around the globe, bringing together the people at the center of automation. If you weren’t able to attend this year’s event live, worry not! You can watch the entire conference on-demand here. Read on for Puppetize highlights!

‘Power-hungry data centers greedily devour diminishing water supply!’ – This might be my own frequency bias, but I feel like every headline today references data centers and the existential threat they pose to the environment. Perhaps it’s the sensational numbers and estimates that pull me in: So here I am, uncomfortably deep in the rabbit hole, reading about adiabatic processes and wet cooling towers (experts in the U.K.

Keeping applications on premises can seem so … stodgy and passé. If you believe the buzz, digital transformation, innovation, and agility are all happening in the public cloud. While there is some truth to this, the reality is more nuanced and complex.

After registering for Shipa Cloud or installing Shipa on your own infrastructure, you are now ready to deploy your first application. The beauty of Shipa is that in the spectrum of source code to a built image, Shipa can help you get these applications into the wild.

Breakthroughs in engineering best practices often stem from a handful of top tech companies. Many of them share their behind-the-scenes stories at conferences, in blogs, and slide decks — or open source code. These companies invest millions of dollars and dedicated headcount in optimizing everything from uptime to engineering velocity — so why wouldn’t you look to them for inspiration?

The vulnerability disclosure process involves reporting security flaws in software or hardware, and can be complex. Cooperation between the organization responsible for the software or hardware, and the security researcher who discovers the vulnerability can be complicated. In this blog we’ll look at the vulnerability disclosure process, the parties involved and how they can collaborate productively.

Announcing support for Ubuntu 20.04 on all Cloud 66 products (including registered servers). From this point onward, brand new applications will have Ubuntu 20.04 installed. We will continue to install Ubuntu 18.04 when scaling up servers in an existing application. Don't forget, you can control your target Ubuntu version through your manifest! It has been a while in the building and testing (and dependency pruning), but we are now very pleased to make it public.

Growing up, I was the youngest member of my family, so I was not very fond of the game “Keep Away” that my older brothers liked to play. The idea of the game (it has a few different names) is that two people toss a ball back and forth while the third person stands in the middle and tries to intercept it. Being the youngest, and therefore the smallest, it often seemed like a futile game that wasn’t much fun.