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KMC - GitOps in a Hybrid Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Setup

How do you make sure your clusters are up to date and running the right version of your releases and policies? Doing this by hand can be very hard and time consuming. GitOps helps to solve this issue by allowing you to operationalize your Git repos and ensure that what you have in Git is what is being deployed to your clusters regardless of where they are.

How DevOps Monitoring Impacts Your Organization

DevOps monitoring didn’t simply become part of the collective engineering consciousness. It was built, brick by brick, by practices that have continued to grow and flourish with each new technological innovation. Have you ever been forced to sit back in your chair, your phone buzzing incessantly, SSH windows and half-written commands dashing across your screen, and admit that you’re completely stumped? Nothing is behaving as it should and your investigations have been utterly fruitless.

GitOps with Microsoft Azure Arc and Rancher

The promise of Kubernetes is to empower your organization to quickly deliver applications and services to your customers. Delivering fast cycle time and innovation requires developers and operators to collaborate effectively to ensure safety while moving fast. The GitOps methodology has taken hold in the Kubernetes ecosystem to deliver on this promise. What is GitOps? GitOps provides a mechanism to safely deploy Kubernetes manifests stored in a Git repository.

New GPU and GUI features announced for WSL at Build

Microsoft Build, Microsoft’s annual developer conference, is taking place virtually May 19-20. Ubuntu will be featured throughout the event, in announcements of new WSL features, demos of cloud-native development on Microsoft Azure, and by presenters using Ubuntu desktop with native Microsoft applications like Teams, Code, and Edge. In an address by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the company announced new features coming to WSL 2.

Adopting Distributed Tracing: Finding the Right Path

Here at Sumo Logic, we share a lot of thoughts about managing data at scale, and the innovative ways we help customers address their unique use cases. It’s not just about analysis of logs. In this article, I will talk about another important observability signal: distributed traces. I will share a few observations about how we at Sumo think about the future of adoption of distributed traces, a very important concept, taking from our own experience.

Welcome to the Rancher Academy!

Today we're launching the inaugural course of the new Rancher Academy: Certified Rancher Operator: Level 1. In this course you'll learn and demonstrate the skills to install Rancher, install downstream Kubernetes clusters, and interact with them from the perspective of a user and an operator. The course ends with a final assessment, and when you pass, you'll receive a certificate from Rancher Labs that will help you advance your career.

Building Secure Go Projects with Free Vulnerability Scanning in VSC Code

Go 1.13 introduced important security features to Go Modules including a checksumdb that verifies that your dependencies haven’t been tampered with. While the integrity of the data can be verified this way - Go Modules can still have security vulnerabilities. Join this webinar to watch a technical walkthrough on how to keep your Go Modules secure.

How to Import Kubernetes Labels as Tags | Datadog Tips & Tricks

In this video, you’ll learn how to turn Kubernetes node labels and pod labels into tags in Datadog in order to correlate metrics, traces, and logs back to Kubernetes deployments. Using labels for Kubernetes objects—such as pods or nodes—is key to organizing and making sense of your deployments. Datadog can automatically bring your Kubernetes labels from your clusters into the Datadog platform as tags, regardless of whether you’re using on-prem Kubernetes or a cloud-based service such as AKS, EKS, or GKE.