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What is Azure Stack HCI?

Azure Stack HCI is a virtualized workload solution from Microsoft that allows businesses to run Windows and Linux apps and services in a hybrid on-premise/cloud environment. Built on top of Windows Server, Azure Stack HCI is an example of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). This technology virtualizes conventionally hardware-defined systems like storage and networking to create flexible, efficient infrastructure solutions.

Open sourcing the CircleCI Language Server

The official CircleCI extension for Visual Studio Code is now available for anyone to download on the VS Code Marketplace. This extension was developed by the Developer Experience team of CircleCI and it includes two sets of features: the pipeline manager and the config helper. The config helper provides language support for CircleCI YAML files.

A Kubernetes Observability Tool to Support SRE Best Practices

Kubernetes can be tough to troubleshoot and remediate fast, especially when you have many interdependent services. This blog, part 3 of 3 in the “8 SRE Best Practices to Help Developers Troubleshoot Kubernetes” series, describes the Kubernetes observability foundation StackState has built to support SRE best practices and enable rapid remediation of issues.

Identify the root causes of issues and bottlenecks in your build pipelines with TeamCity and Datadog

TeamCity is a CI/CD server that provides out-of-the-box support for unit testing, code quality tracking, and build automation. Additionally, TeamCity integrates with your other tools—such as version control, issue tracking, package repositories, and more—to simplify and expedite your CI/CD workflows.

Automating deployment to an EKS cluster using CircleCI and Helm Charts

Kubernetes is a container orchestration system for automating deployment and managing containerized applications. Helm is a Kubernetes package manager that helps you define, install, and upgrade Kubernetes applications. It lets you define reusable templates for Kubernetes components (deployment, service, hpa, service account, etc.) that can be published and shared across applications. In this tutorial, you will learn how to build and install Helm charts for your application to an AWS EKS cluster.

Understanding Azure Cool Tier Storage: Balancing Costs and Efficiency

As the amount of data generated by organizations grows exponentially, the need for efficient and cost-effective storage solutions becomes critical. Cloud storage providers like Microsoft Azure offer a range of storage options to meet these demands. One such option is Azure Cool Tier Storage, a part of Azure Blob Storage, which is designed for cost-effective storage of infrequently accessed data.

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The Risks and Pitfalls of Too Many Monitoring Tools

If you are like most organizations, your technology environment is a complex mixture of tools needed to run your business. In this environment, monitoring and observability are critical to making sure everything is running smoothly. You use monitoring tools to measure server resources, log-parsing tools for troubleshooting, application tools to observe application performance, and audit-request tools to comply with regulations. While these are all valid observability needs, there are risks to overdoing it by introducing too many tools. Here are some ways to avoid monitoring proliferation when developing your observability strategy.

What is Azure Blob Hot Tier Storage?

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage is a scalable, cost-effective, and high-performance cloud storage solution that enables businesses to store massive amounts of unstructured data. With Azure Blob Storage, users can access and manipulate data from anywhere in the world through the Azure Storage REST API or the Storage Client Library. One of the key considerations when using Azure Blob Storage is the choice of storage tier, as it significantly affects cost and performance.

Canonical joins the confidential computing consortium

Canonical is committed to enabling Ubuntu users to leverage the strong run-time confidentiality and integrity guarantees that confidential computing provides. That is why we are happy to announce we have joined the confidential computing consortium, a project community at the Linux Foundation that is focused on accelerating the adoption of confidential computing and driving cross-industry collaboration around relevant open source software, standards and tools.