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Running Ansible Playbooks from Puppet Edge

Oct 30, 2025 By Puppet In Puppet

When thinking about imperative infrastructure commands and Day 0 tasks for provisioning infrastructure, Ansible is an oft-mentioned tool that has been popular among practitioners for its easy YAML syntax and agentless architecture. You might have used Ansible to get your infrastructure started or for other “one-and-done” infrastructure automation scenarios.

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Decoding cloud credits: Are "free" credits locking you in?

Oct 30, 2025 By Emma Kinsey-Coates In Civo

“Free" cloud credits, they sound like a gift, but they often come with hidden costs and an agenda: lock-in. The illusion of a cost-saving measure can quickly become a vendor-specific trap, forcing costly migrations or leaving your business overpaying for cloud services. This issue, which the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) estimates contributes to £430M of annual over-payments in the UK alone, is what we call the "cloud credit trap.".

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FinOps for Hybrid IT: Extending Visibility Beyond the Cloud

Oct 29, 2025 By Marie Ashway In Galileo

Controlling IT spend used to mean managing cloud invoices. Today, it’s far more complex. Modern enterprises run workloads across multiple platforms — cloud, virtualized, and on-premises — each with its own cost structures and dependencies. That’s why FinOps for hybrid IT has become essential. Extending FinOps principles beyond cloud services enables organizations to see how every part of the infrastructure contributes to cost, efficiency, and business value.

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Sidecar or Agent for OpenTelemetry: How to Decide

Oct 29, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9

Getting telemetry out of a distributed system isn’t the hard part. Getting it out cleanly, without noise, drop-offs, or odd performance side-effects — that’s where things get interesting. Before you worry about processors or storage costs, you need a clear plan for where the OTel Collector should run. Most teams narrow this down to two options: a sidecar that sits next to each service, or a node-level agent that handles data for everything running on the node. Both patterns are solid.

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Redgate Test Data Manager Product Updates - November 2025

Oct 29, 2025 By James Hemson In Redgate

Redgate Test Data Manager’s November’s release brings advanced table configuration for large databases and the ability to save connection strings. Two features that make setting up subsets and managing database connections smoother, easier, and faster.

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Setting Up the GitKraken MCP Server with GitLens

Oct 29, 2025 By GitKraken In GitKraken

GitKraken MCP (Model Context Protocol) brings repository intelligence directly into VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and other AI-powered IDEs so your agent stops guessing and starts understanding your actual workflow. Instead of manually explaining your branch structure or digging through issues in your browser, MCP connects your AI agent to the actual state of your repositories. It understands your branches, your issue tracker, your pull requests, and your commit history—then helps you start work, resolve conflicts, and review code without leaving your editor.

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Sovereignty over silence: Why Microsoft's data opacity is the real lock-in

Oct 29, 2025 By Emma Kinsey-Coates In Civo

The refusal by Microsoft to detail data flows to Police Scotland confirms the real price of hyperscale: control is an illusion. This incident isn't the problem. It’s the proof. It proves the need for a new standard in cloud computing, one that prioritizes true digital sovereignty and architectural transparency. Sovereignty, after all, is all about the customer being able to exercise control over the IT resources they use.

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Field of Dreams DevOps doesn't scale

Oct 29, 2025 By Gremlin In Gremlin

Having trouble scaling reliability? Gremlin CEO Kolton Andrus talks about just building a great tool isn’t enough.

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RancherLive: Know before you Go - KubeCon Atlanta Edition

Oct 29, 2025 By Rancher In Rancher

Join us for a special Know Before You Go online session all about getting ready for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Atlanta! Hosted by Orlin Vasilev, this live event will feature special guest Nick Eberts — a proud Atlantan, musician, father, and Project Manager at Google. Nick will share insider tips on making the most of your KubeCon experience — from navigating the conference to exploring the best of Atlanta’s music, food, and culture. Whether it’s your first time at KubeCon or your first visit to the city, this session will help you feel right at home.

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Building a Pregnancy App You Can Actually Trust!

Oct 29, 2025 By GitKraken In GitKraken

We never talk about pregnancy in the workplace. Maybe it's time to change that. Tech is still male-dominated, which creates a ripple effect: poor maternity policies, overworked expecting developers, and privacy-invasive apps that fail the people who need them most. But what happens when a developer decides to solve this problem themselves? Rizel built a pregnancy app she could actually trust. Not because existing solutions didn't exist, but because they weren't built with real privacy, real needs, and real developer insight in mind.

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