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Scaling Your CI/CD: What You Need To Know

CI/CD is the process that ensures that code updates are deployed efficiently and reliably. However, more than simply having CI/CD pipelines is required for modern business application development needs. The problems start as soon as your team grows, but your CI/CD process does not. Static CI/CD pipelines result in an operational bottleneck and slow down your application workflow. Today, we will discuss why scaling your CI/CD is an inevitable need for your organization.

Baking Security into your DevOps Supply Chain with Argo CD & OPA - Dan Garfield (DevOps Experience)

Argo CD has become the defacto entry for engineering teams to deploy and manage their applications while Open Policy Agent has become one of the most reliable security policy enforcement engines. These two tools work perfectly together and yet there are very few articles and videos on the subject! In this talk, we look at the best strategies for getting these tools to work together to improve the software delivery supply chain. We’ll look at admission hooks, sync waves, and other ways to ensure your applications and clusters are always running in a secure and safe manner. Including example files and reference repos.

How to Setup InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana on Docker: Part 2

This tutorial describes how to install the Telegraf plugin as a data-collection interface with InfluxDB 1.7 and Docker. In Part 1 of this tutorial series, we covered the steps to install InfluxDB 1.7 on Docker for Linux instances. We describe in Part 2 how to install the Telegraf plugin as a data-collection interface with InfluxDB 1.7 and Docker.

A day in the life of a Customer Support Detective

I open my laptop and look over my cases while I slurp down my first cup of coffee. Most of my backlog is waiting on customer updates, or bug fixes. Two of my cases have been marked for closure. Not a bad start for a Monday! A pod CrashLoopBackoff issue was resolved by bumping up memory requests, and the missing metrics issue was solved after applying some Prometheus annotations to the customer’s nginx pods. I notate and close both cases. No sooner do I hear the beep of the badge scanner.

Your guide to Kubernetes Dashboards

As a developer, it can become challenging to manage Kubernetes and develop applications simultaneously. That’s why we put together this guide to show you how the Kubernetes Dashboard can help developers overcome this problem and get an overview of the cluster and its workloads. From this, developers can focus more on application development while stressing less on cluster management.