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Managing the Icinga Director with Ansible

Our company is using Icinga for quite some time now to monitor our whole infrastructure and its customers infrastructure. We deploy many Icinga instances for different teams and customers (see this video for more information). To manage the configuration of these instances, we use the Icinga Director module. This gives us an easy way to deploy checks, services and hosts in Icinga. The teams do not have access to the configuration files of Icinga, so every change is done via the Director frontend.

Overcoming Bandwidth Bottlenecks

What is bandwidth? Bandwidth refers to the amount of data that can be sent or received by a particular device in a stipulated period. This is measured in Mbps (Megabits per second). Very often, people use bandwidth to refer to the speed of the internet connection. However, that is not the case. Talking about bandwidth vs. speed, the former helps understand the quantity of data transferred per second. At the same time, the latter focuses on the rate of data transfer from the source to the destination.

re:Invent 2020 week 1: The Year of Serverless

The first keynote is over, the talks have started, and the AWS Heroes all got to feel motion-sick but appreciated in their AWS-supplied VR helmets. Good one Tom Here are my week 1 thoughts: Throughout the keynote it was clear that serverless is here to stay. One detail stood out to me above all others: Nearly half of all new compute workloads in Amazon in 2020 were Lambda based. During Andy Jassy’s keynote, a veritable wall of major customers that use Lambda.

Migrating the Launchpad Keyservers from SKS to Hockeypuck

Ubuntu and Launchpad use OpenPGP keys heavily. Each source package is signed with the uploader’s key, and binary and source package downloads from Ubuntu’s primary archives and from users’ Personal Package Archives (PPAs) are indirectly signed by the publisher process with per-archive keys of its own. Access to Launchpad’s bug-manipulation interface is also controlled by OpenPGP. As a result, Launchpad needs a reliable key-storage and synchronization mechanism.

Scripting Changes to Partitioned Tables with SQL Compare

A customer recently asked if Redgate's comparison engine is able to generate code to split partitions when a partitioned table is modified. Yes, it can! In this video we demonstrate this in SQL Compare, but the same functionality is also available for automated deployments from SQL Source Control and SQL Change Automation, which use the SQL Compare Engine.

Kubernetes Master Class - Provision Kubernetes in vSphere with Rancher

vSphere continues to be a popular destination for Rancher-provisioned Kubernetes clusters. In this Master Class, Rancher Staff Software Engineer, Luther Monson and Field Engineer, David Holder present updates on the capabilities of Rancher with vSphere. Follow along with a full cluster lifecycle demonstration showcasing template creation, provisioning, cloud providers and more.

Use Deployments in Jira to connect your CI/CD tool - Demo Den December

Gareth Wham, a Product Manager on the Jira Software team, gives an overview of the new Deployments in Jira view. Check out this demo to see how Deployments in Jira allows anyone on the team to get a real-time view of where a deployment is, across any CI/CD provider, as it moves through the pipeline.