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Protecting Critical Infrastructure in Kubernetes and Rancher

“As we expand, it’s critical for our team to have both a fast and automated rollout process for each customer environment. In the end, each of our user’s access experience must be identical. Rancher is one product that’s critical to that strategy.” – Jeff Klink, VP Engineering, Cloud and Security Specialist, Sera4 Security worries keep many of us awake at night – no matter our industry.

Custom Alerts Using Prometheus in Rancher

This article is a follow up to Custom Alerts Using Prometheus Queries. In this post, we will also demo installing Prometheus and configuring Alertmanager to send emails when alerts are fired, but in a much simpler way – using Rancher all the way through. We’ll see how easy it is to accomplish this without the dependencies used in previous article.

You've launched your first Kubernetes cluster, now what?

As Kubernetes continues to grow in popularity at a staggering rate, it’s only natural more and more people want to see what all the fuss is about. We’ve seen first hand how excited people are to try it out since launching #KUBE100 (our Kubernetes beta) – we’ve had tremendous interest and some great feedback so far. If you’re reading this and you have no idea what #KUBE100 is, it’s the name we gave to our k3s-powered, managed Kubernetes beta program.

BAM to achieve end to end visibility in a Azure Serverless Application

Looking for an end to end visibility on your Serverless Application made with Azure resources? This article is for you. Consider there is a transaction between the Azure Services. With the existing solutions offered by Azure, you cannot have the visibility on the transaction as well as the stages in the transactions. Here comes the Business Activity Monitoring in Serverless360. With a simple scenario, we will see how to use Business Activity monitoring and track business data.

How to deploy an app to AWS: Getting started

Launching a production app onto the cloud is a big task with a ton of tiny sub-tasks, and it can all be pretty overwhelming. We're here for you. We've launched an app ourselves (Blue Matador, our cloud infrastructure monitoring software). In the coming weeks, we will walk you through everything you need to know and do to successfully launch your app—with the least amount of effort.

Sharing and growing your OSS Project with Live Streaming

Your OSS project is looking better day by day. You've selected your preferred platform, frameworks, programming language and maybe a contributor or two. All is well except you aren't seeing the growth of your project as you'd like. Few stars and forks, and no open issues. What to do? This is where you can take advantage of live streaming communities to expand your OSS project's reach, code live as chatters ask questions and reuse the content for blog posts, YouTube and social media. By the end of this session, you'll have the tools and knowledge to successfully start live streaming.

Export RDS Snapshots Action

In January, AWS announced the ability to export RDS snapshots to S3. This new feature allows you to export your RDS data to S3 buckets in Apache Parquet format. Today, I’m happy to say that we’ve added a new action to help with this feature: Export RDS Snapshots. This new action will automate the process of exporting RDS snapshots to S3 on a daily basis.