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As part of our efforts to improve the security of Grafana, we introduced a long-awaited feature in the latest Grafana 9.3 release that enhances Grafana’s OAuth 2.0 compatibility. The new Grafana OAuth token improvements, which are available in Grafana OSS, Grafana Cloud, and Grafana Enterprise, ensure that the user is not only logged into Grafana, but they’re also authorized by the OAuth identity provider.

Large enterprises usually have more than 1,000 systems running. Even smaller organisations may have hundreds of applications in their public cloud spaces or on their servers. In this world of IT systems, application migrations are common for the following reasons: In addition to these three general motivations, there is a growing repatriation trend. The public cloud provides the optimal environment for most systems but not for all. For some systems, private cloud hosting can be more cost-efficient.

Three seconds is a very important number for website owners. They know that 50% of visitors will leave their website if it doesn’t load in that time. Website developers spend a lot of time optimizing and refactoring code so that it runs more quickly and provides a better user experience. User experience is something that monitoring only uptime won’t tell you. A website might be up, but if it takes 10 seconds to load, customers will bounce.

There is no denying that incident management is one of the most crucial processes concerning the service and business aspects of software deployment. Not having a robust system in place to address and remedy unfortunate incidents can lead to user dissatisfaction, which can ultimately take a toll on your business metrics. A suboptimal management system can also have adverse impacts internally if it prioritizes efficiency and speed of recovery to the point of neglecting employee well-being.

We are happy to announce that we are rolling out a completely rebuilt Pull Request (PR) creation experience. Over the last few months we've been building and testing an improved experience when creating a pull request and are excited to finally share it with you.

Welcome to the December 2022 edition of Open Source Matters. I’m your host, Ben Lloyd Pearson; let’s dive in!

Today is the official release of PHP 8.2. And you can already use it on all your Upsun projects, with a single code change in your.platform.app.yaml: type: php:8.2 Try it out today! PHP 8.2 introduces some pretty cool new features including: Here’s a quick breakdown of each new feature and how they ought to make things easier for you.

Pods are ephemeral. And they are meant to be. They can be seamlessly destroyed and replaced if using a Deployment. Or they can be scaled at some point when using Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA). This means we can’t rely on the Pod IP address to connect with applications running in our containers internally or externally, as the Pod might not be there in the future.

This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. A Helm chart can simplify our lives and enable us to see what is happening with our K3s cluster using an external system. Lightweight Kubernetes, known as K3s, is an installation of Kubernetes half the size in terms of memory footprint. Do you need to monitor your nodes running K3s to know the status of your cluster?