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Microsoft Azure & JFrog: Accelerating Deployment With Virtual Kubelet And Artifactory

Sep 25, 2020 By JFrog In JFrog

Virtual Kubelet simplifies the management of your Kubernetes cluster by rapidly spinning up pods behind an abstraction that takes care of scaling up and down your cluster. JFrog Artifactory is a universal binary repository that serves as a highly scalable container registry with advanced security scanning of container images. By combining Virtual Kubelet on Azure Container Instances (ACI) for fast orchestration and Artifactory to reliably serve container images, you get a highly scalable and secure platform for application deployment.

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WEBINAR: Advanced Serverless Debugging through Observability

Sep 25, 2020 By Dashbird In Dashbird

In this webinar we will be covering the advanced techniques of observability, debugging and operations with large-scale serverless environments. We'll be looking at the best practices for ingesting and navigating logs, metrics and traces to easily understand the state of your application and develop confidence in your operational practices.

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Cloud Native, You Keep Using Those Words

Sep 25, 2020 By Patrick Hubbard In SolarWinds

Ask a hundred IT pros and their managers what “cloud native” is, and you’ll get as many different definitions. In part it’s because public cloud providers (PCPs) seek to provide all things to all IT teams, but it’s also because each organization has different goals for cloud. If I could get away with it, I’d enclose cloud native in quotes whenever it’s unclear what business expectations are for PCPs.

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10 Common Issues You Could Experience When Using Citrix Cloud

Sep 25, 2020 By George Spiers In eG Innovations

There are an increasing number of organizations, who are moving their Virtual Apps and Desktops deployments to Citrix Cloud by using the Virtual Apps and Desktops service. Citrix Cloud allows you to host components such as your core management layer for a Virtual Apps and Desktops deployment in the cloud, managed and kept up to date by Citrix.

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Incident Review - Google Outage

Sep 25, 2020 By Catchpoint Systems In Catchpoint

When something as ubiquitous as Google goes down, there is a lot of online frenzy with users tweeting and searching for updates on the issue. That’s exactly what we witnessed today between 9/24/2020 17:59:44 PST to 9/24/2020 18:23:20 PST. Multiple Google services like Mail, Drive, Meet, Hangouts experienced downtime. Frustrated users took to Twitter to report the outage and the tweets were captured by Websee. Users trying to access Google services got a 502 error screen.

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Leveraging logs to better secure cloud-native applications

Sep 25, 2020 By Twain Taylor In Sumo Logic

With the growing popularity of cloud computing, security incidents related to it have been on the rise. Logs are indispensable resources for countering these threats, and they can be utilized for alerting, taking remedial action, and even preventing future attacks. In this post, we will examine ways to better secure cloud-native applications using logs.

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Better monitoring and logging for Compute Engine VMs

Sep 25, 2020 By Morgan McLean In Google Operations

Over the past several months we’ve been focused on improving observability and operations workflows for Compute Engine. Today, we are excited to share the first wave of these enhancements are now available. These include: Significantly improved operating system support for the Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging agents. The ability to rapidly deploy, update, and remove agents to groups of VMs, or all of your VMs, by policy, with as little as a single gcloud command.

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All together now: Fleet-wide monitoring for your Compute Engine VMs

Sep 24, 2020 By Marie Cosgrove-Davies In Google Operations

Cloud Monitoring has always provided comprehensive visibility and management into individual Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs). But many Google Cloud customers have hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of VMs that they need to manage. Cloud Monitoring now gives you zero-config, out-of-the-box visibility into your entire Compute Engine VM fleet, with quick access to advanced Monitoring features such as installing the Cloud Monitoring agent and configuring fleetwide alerts.

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Working with a hybrid SquaredUp deployment

Sep 24, 2020 By Sameer Mhaisekar In Squared Up

Many customers we have are hybrid – meaning they have both Azure and on-prem estate, and subsequently both SquaredUp for Azure and SquaredUp for SCOM deployments. In other cases, some customers are using multiple different deployments of a product, for example for multiple SCOM management groups or multiple Azure tenants.

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Creating Azure VM images with Packer and Puppet Bolt

Sep 24, 2020 By Martez Reed In Puppet

HashiCorp Packer is a free and open source tool for creating golden images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer makes it easy to codify VM images for Microsoft Azure. In this blog post we’ll look at how to use HashiCorp Packer and Puppet Bolt to define our VM templates in code.

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