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Mattermost v9.4 includes several new features designed to significantly enhance digital security and compliance, including the introduction of IP filtering, bring your own key (BYOK) for data control, and cloud-native compliance export. IP filtering tightens access control, BYOK offers greater data protection through personalized encryption, and streamlined compliance reporting ensures adherence to regulatory standards.
This European country is poised to make its mark in the cloud networking industry. Here’s why it should be the next addition to your enterprise network.
Once the unsung heroes of the digital realm, engineers are now caught in a cycle of perpetual interruptions thanks to alerting systems that haven't kept pace with evolving needs. A constant stream of notifications has turned on-call duty into a source of frustration, stress, and poor work-life balance. In 2021, 83% percent of software engineers surveyed reported feelings of burnout from high workloads, inefficient processes, and unclear goals and targets.
Every quarter, we host a roundtable discussion centered around the challenges encountered by incident responders at the world’s leading organizations. These discussions are lightly facilitated and vendor-agnostic, with a carefully curated group of experts. Everyone brings their own unique perspective and experience to the group as we dive deep into the real-world challenges incident responders are facing today.
The Continuous Compliance content hub is a set of guides for DevOps teams who need to move fast while remaining in compliance for audit and security purposes. We know that the old change management processes for software releases that happened once every 6 months don’t scale for DevOps teams who want to deploy every day. This is where Continuous Compliance comes in.
As data volumes continue to grow and observability plays an ever-greater role in ensuring optimal website and application performance, responsibility for end-user experience is shifting left. This can create a messy situation with hundreds of R&D members from back-end engineers, front-end teams as well as DevOps and SREs, all shipping data and creating their own dashboards and alerts.
A new year has started and some of the major IaaS providers are making major changes early on. AWS and GCP have both announced major changes that might be a signal for what's to come this year.
With a limitless load of questions on IT automation and the industry’s biggest trends, Resolve’s “Ask Me Anything (AMA)” session went about tackling them in an all-new way. We threw out the preparation, we threw out the scripts, and we asked our community to submit the questions that matter most to them and their organizations. Part of our leadership team took the hot seat and provided answers in real time, sans dress rehearsal.
Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and DevOps teams often deal with alert fatigue. It's like when you get too alert that it's hard to keep up, making it tougher to respond quickly and adding extra stress to the current responsibilities. According to a study, 62% of participants noted that alert fatigue played a role in employee turnover, while 60% reported that it resulted in internal conflicts within their organization.
Cloudsmith announces expanded support for System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) for user management and enhanced software supply chain security.
Let’s dive into the world of pull requests (PRs). They’re the bridges connecting your hard work to the bigger project, facilitating code review, collaboration, and more. But why are they so crucial, and how can tools like GitKraken Client and GitHub take their management to the next level? Keep reading to explore the unique features of both platforms, plus time-saving tips for efficient PR management.
$575 million was the cost of a huge IT incident that hit Equifax, one of the largest credit reporting agencies in the U.S. In September 2017, Equifax announced a data breach that impacted approximately 147 million consumers. The breach occurred due to a vulnerability in the Apache Struts web application framework, which Equifax failed to patch in time. This vulnerability allowed hackers to access the company's systems and exfiltrate sensitive data.
As we’ve talked about before, our app is a monolith: all our backend code lives together and gets compiled into a single binary. One of the reasons I prefer monolithic architectures is that they make it much easier to focus on shipping features without having to spend much time thinking about where code should live and how to get all the data you need together quickly. However, I’m not going to claim there aren’t disadvantages too. One of those is compile times.
PCE is a performance metric that evaluates the effective utilization of power in data centers. It measures the ratio of IT equipment power to the total power consumed, encompassing all aspects of the facility’s operations, including cooling and lighting. Unlike traditional metrics, PCE provides a comprehensive assessment of how power is used within data centers, aiming to optimize the actual power capacity available.
Time and time again we hear the same statements from FinOps teams with respect to what is holding back optimization of wasteful cloud resource consumption. Engineers and App Owners are interested in helping but stop short at actually taking actions to reduce that waste. There are many reasons for this main sticking point when it comes to application owners and developers taking action.
Modern software delivery teams find themselves under constant pressure to maintain security and compliance without slowing down the speed of development. This usually means that they have to find a way of using automation to ensure robust governance processes that can adapt to evolving cyber threats and new regulatory requirements.
DevOps has accelerated the delivery of software, but it has also made it more difficult to stay on top of compliance issues and security threats. When applications, environments and infrastructure are constantly changing it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain a handle on compliance and security. For fast-moving teams, real time security monitoring has become essential for quickly identifying risky changes so they can be remediated before they result in security failure.
Non-Abstract Large System Design (NALSD) is an approach where intricate systems are crafted with precision and purpose. It holds particular importance for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) due to its inherent alignment with the core principles and goals of SRE practices. It improves the reliability of systems, allows for scalable architectures, optimizes performance, encourages fault tolerance, streamlines the processes of monitoring and debugging, and enables efficient incident response.
Kubernetes has revolutionized the world of container orchestration, enabling organizations to deploy and manage applications at scale with unprecedented ease and flexibility. Yet, with great power comes great responsibility, and one of the key responsibilities in the Kubernetes ecosystem is resource management. Ensuring that your applications receive the right amount of CPU and memory resources is a fundamental task that impacts the stability and performance of your entire cluster.
Last month, we announced our new GitOps Environment dashboard that finally allows you to promote Argo CD applications easily between different environments.
As rack densities in data centers increase to support power-hungry applications like Artificial Intelligence and high-performance compute (HPC), data center professionals struggle with the limited cooling capacity and energy efficiency of traditional air cooling systems. In response, a potential solution has emerged in liquid cooling, a paradigm shift from traditional air-based methods that offers a more efficient and targeted approach to thermal management.
Prompt engineering is the practice of crafting input queries or instructions to elicit more accurate and desirable outputs from large language models (LLMs). It is a crucial skill for working with artificial intelligence (AI) applications, helping developers achieve better results from language models. Prompt engineering involves strategically shaping input prompts, exploring the nuances of language, and experimenting with diverse prompts to fine-tune model output and address potential biases.
As John Lennon once said, another year over…and a new one just begun. As we head into 2024, it’s important to reflect on what we’ve seen and where we need to focus in the year ahead.
No one wants to get an alert in the middle of the night. No one wants their Slack flooded to the point of opting out from channels. And indeed, no one wants an urgent alert to be ignored, spiraling into an outage. Getting the right alert to the right person through the right channel — with the goal of initiating immediate action — is the last mile of observability.
Azure Automation is a powerful IT Automation service in use by thousands of organisations. Many organisations are using Azure Automation just as a PowerShell runbook execution service and are unaware of its wider capabilities.
Editor’s Note: This blog is the first of a two-part series that recaps our first-ever “Ask Me Anything (AMA)” session. Part 2, to include questions 5-9, is set to publish next Tuesday. Seems like there’s an overload of burning, tough questions surrounding IT automation and orchestration, doesn’t it?
Contributing to open source software helps you develop new skills, gain real-world coding experience, interact with new technologies, and meet new people. But with so many open source projects to choose from — developers started some 52 million new projects on GitHub in 2022 alone — it can be difficult to figure out which repositories to contribute to. If you’re thinking about joining a new open source project in 2024, you’ve come to the right place.
As on-premises infrastructure and workloads increasingly migrate to the cloud, you’ve undoubtedly encountered many challenges in managing complex cloud architectures. These hurdles include juggling cost-efficiency and security to maintain a seamless, high-performance infrastructure. Navigating your cloud infrastructure landscape requires thoroughly understanding its virtualized elements—servers, software, network devices, and storage.
Moving to Teams Phone as your primary voice system can save money and provide a great user experience, or it can “crash and burn”. In a two-part workshop, I had the opportunity to explore insights to help migrate successfully to Teams Phone with Greg Zweig of Ribbon. (Ribbon was kind enough to sponsor both workshop sessions.) This article summarizes the information we covered in the workshop.
Computer vision: digital understanding of the physical world From face recognition to fire prevention, autonomous cars to medical diagnosis, the promise of video analytics has enticed technology innovators for years. Video analytics, the processing and analysing of visual data through machine learning and artificial intelligence, is perceived as a significant opportunity for edge computing.
Amazon EC2 was one of the first services available on AWS, helping propel the cloud platform into the mainstream of IT. And while EC2 instances come in a wide range of sizes and flavors to address all sorts of use cases, keeping tabs on those instances isn’t always easy. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our new EC2 monitoring solution in Grafana Cloud.
In 2.8, Rancher added a new field to the GlobalRoles resource (inheritedClusterRoles), which allows users to grant permissions on all downstream clusters. With the addition of this field, it is now possible to create a custom global role that grants user-configurable permissions on all current and future downstream clusters. This post will outline how to create this role using the new Rancher Kubernetes API, which is currently the best-supported method to use this new feature.
Learn more about how modern DCIM software is being used to measure the power capacity effectiveness (PCE) of data centers. Schedule a free one-on-one demo of Hyperview today.
NGINX, is a versatile open-source web server, reverse proxy, and load balancer, stands out for its exceptional performance and scalability. Monitoring Nginx is pivotal for maintaining its optimal functionality. By tracking and analysing performance, including real-time insights into server health, resource utilization, and user requests, administrators can proactively identify issues.
If you Google, “What is the shortest, complete sentence in American English?”, then you may get, “I am” as the first answer. However, “Go” is also considered a grammatically correct sentence, and is shorter than, “I am”.
From AI to OTel, 2023 was a transformative year for open source observability. While the advancements we made in open source observability will be a catalyst for our continued work in 2024, there is even more innovation on the horizon. We asked seven Grafanistas to share their predictions for which observability trends are on their “In” list for 2024. Here’s what they had to say.
The Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline has evolved as a cornerstone in the fast-evolving world of software development, particularly in the field of cloud computing. This blog aims to demystify how CI/CD, a set of practices that streamline software development, enhances the agility and efficiency of cloud computing.
Modern-day engineering teams rely on continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) providers, such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, and Jenkins to build automated pipelines and testing tools that enable them to commit and deploy application code faster and more frequently.
In the dynamic realm of container orchestration, Kubernetes stands tall as the go-to platform for managing and deploying containerized applications. However, as the complexity of applications and infrastructure grows, so does the challenge of efficiently managing configuration files. Enter Kustomize, a powerful tool designed to simplify and streamline Kubernetes configuration management.
An elite DevOps team from Komodor takes on the Klustered challenge; can they fix a maliciously broken Kubernetes cluster using only the Komodor platform? Let’s find out! Watch Komodor’s Co-Founding CTO, Itiel Shwartz, and two engineers – Guy Menahem and Nir Shtein leverage the Continuous Kubernetes Reliability Platform that they’ve built to showcase how fast, effortless, and even fun, troubleshooting can be!
Within the dynamic landscape of container orchestration, Kubernetes stands as a transformative force, reshaping the landscape of deploying and managing containerized applications. At the core of Kubernetes' capabilities lies its sophisticated networking model, a resilient framework that facilitates seamless communication between microservices and orchestrates external access to applications. Among the foundational elements shaping this networking landscape are Kubernetes Services and Ingress.
Downtime is an unwelcome reality. But, beyond the immediate disruption, outages carry a significant financial burden, impacting revenue, customer satisfaction, and brand reputation. For SREs and IT professionals, understanding the cost of downtime is crucial to mitigating its impact and building a more resilient infrastructure.
In the realm of modern application deployment, orchestrating containers through Kubernetes is essential for achieving scalability and operational efficiency. This blog deals with diverse Kubernetes distribution platforms, each offering tailored solutions for organizations navigating the intricacies of containerized application management.
Last year we decided to just keep our heads down and continue working on a good reliable product #bootstrapped. Most features we built were based on your feedback. Thank you so much. 2024 is going to be great but before that let's glance on the year gone.
It is our pleasure to introduce the first officially supported API with Rancher v2.8: the Rancher Kubernetes API, or RK-API for short. Since the introduction of Rancher v2.0, a publicly supported API has been one of our most requested features. The Rancher APIs, which you may recognize as v3 (Norman) or v1 (Steve), have never been officially supported and can only be automated using our Terraform Provider.
Software delivery are paramount. The ability to swiftly deploy, manage, and scale applications can make a significant difference in staying ahead in the competitive tech industry. Enter Docker and Kubernetes, two revolutionary technologies that have transformed the way we develop, deploy, and manage software.
2023 was the year of Artificial Intelligence (AI). 2024 will build on the incredible momentum of the likes of ChatGPT, Google Bard, Microsoft CoPilot, and others, delivering applications and services that apply AI to every industry imaginable. A recent analysis piece from Schroders makes the point well: “The mass adoption of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) …has sparked interest akin to the Californian Gold Rush.”
Imagine a symphony where every musician plays their part flawlessly, but without a conductor to guide the orchestra, the result is just a discordant mess. Now apply that image to the modern IT landscape, where development and operations teams work with remarkable autonomy, each expertly playing their part. Agile methodologies and DevOps practices have empowered teams to build and manage their services independently, resulting in an environment that accelerates innovation and development.
Our CEO, Jad Jebara joins Digitalisation World podcast to provide insights as to how the data center industry, prompted by the requirement for meaningful environmental reporting, can work towards a truly sustainable future by focusing on the metrics that matter. See first-hand how modern DCIM software is being used to manage hybrid IT environments. Schedule a free one-on-one demo of Hyperview today.
As data centers grow more complex and power-hungry, rack PDUs are an increasingly important component of data center power circuits. Modern intelligent rack PDUs have many advanced features and work seamlessly with Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software to provide a complete solution for monitoring and managing data center infrastructure. Let’s delve into the key trends shaping rack PDU management in 2024 and beyond.
There’s a rising and intensifying pressure on financial services institutions that aligns with the demand for modernization, down to the core. It comes from laws like those of the Service Organization Control Type 2 (SOC 2) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDRP), which enforce the need to build and hold down cybersecurity policies.
The companies we work with at Tanzu by Broadcom are constantly looking for better, faster ways of developing and releasing quality software. But digital transformation means fundamentally changing the way you do business, a process that can be derailed by any number of obstacles. In his recent video series, my colleague Michael Coté identifies 14 reasons why it’s hard to change development practices in large organizations.
In the dynamic world of containerized applications, effective monitoring and optimization are crucial to ensure the efficient operation of Kubernetes clusters. Metrics give you valuable insights into the performance and resource utilization of pods, which are the fundamental units of deployment in Kubernetes. By harnessing the power of pod metrics, organizations can unlock numerous benefits, ranging from cost optimization to capacity planning and ensuring application availability.
As technology takes the driver’s seat in our lives, Kubernetes is taking center stage in IT operations. Google first introduced Kubernetes in 2014 to handle high-demand workloads. Today, it has become the go-to choice for cloud-native environments. Kubernetes’ primary purpose is to simplify the management of distributed systems and offer a smooth interface for handling containerized applications no matter where they’re deployed.
Kubernetes, with its robust, flexible, and extensible architecture, has rapidly become the standard for managing containerized applications at scale. However, Kubernetes presents its own unique set of access control and security challenges. Given its distributed and dynamic nature, Kubernetes necessitates a different model than traditional monolithic apps.
Containerization has become a cornerstone of modern software development and deployment. Docker, a leading containerization platform, has revolutionized the way applications are built, shipped, and deployed. As a DevOps engineer, mastering Docker and understanding best practices for Dockerfile creation is essential for efficient and scalable containerized workflows. Let’s delve into some crucial best practices to optimize your Dockerfiles.
With the vast amount of data that is transmitted through the internet, it is essential to have a reliable connection. However, sometimes even the most stable connection can experience issues, one of which is the "DNS Server Not Responding" error. This error occurs when your device is unable to establish a connection with the DNS server, thereby depriving you of access to the internet.