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Simplify your Code with Helmfile

You’ve got Helm deploying Charts via Codefresh but now how do you deal with Helm chart dependencies? There has to be a better solution than a Chart of Charts? How do I DRY out my Helm charts and simplify my Codefresh Pipelines for multiple environments? How do I create secrets in Codefresh? Is there another way than using Encrypted Secrets / Environment Variables?

How tech teams are making extraordinary progress in COVID-19 shutdown while working remotely?

COVID-19 has led businesses into extreme work challenges. To overcome these challenges, companies have shifted their working patterns and have embraced Remote Work to avoid any negative impact on employee’s health as well as the business. COVID-19 has made IT-sector office culture’s shift to remote work prominently. The tech teams, who already have DevOps processes in place, got huge benefits and did not get much impact while shifting their workplace from regular office to home.

Making The Most of Helm 3 with Codefresh

Building upon the success of Helm 2, Helm 3 has recently been released and the server-side component, Tiller, is finally gone (yay)! Helm works out-of-the-box with Codefresh, so releasing your Helm 3 applications is as easy as pie. In this webinar, you will see how engineers use Helm 3 to develop software faster. Learn how to build Helm pipelines, view Helm releases, and monitor Helm environments.

Protecting Critical Infrastructure in Kubernetes and Rancher

“As we expand, it’s critical for our team to have both a fast and automated rollout process for each customer environment. In the end, each of our user’s access experience must be identical. Rancher is one product that’s critical to that strategy.” – Jeff Klink, VP Engineering, Cloud and Security Specialist, Sera4 Security worries keep many of us awake at night – no matter our industry.

Custom Alerts Using Prometheus in Rancher

This article is a follow up to Custom Alerts Using Prometheus Queries. In this post, we will also demo installing Prometheus and configuring Alertmanager to send emails when alerts are fired, but in a much simpler way – using Rancher all the way through. We’ll see how easy it is to accomplish this without the dependencies used in previous article.

You've launched your first Kubernetes cluster, now what?

As Kubernetes continues to grow in popularity at a staggering rate, it’s only natural more and more people want to see what all the fuss is about. We’ve seen first hand how excited people are to try it out since launching #KUBE100 (our Kubernetes beta) – we’ve had tremendous interest and some great feedback so far. If you’re reading this and you have no idea what #KUBE100 is, it’s the name we gave to our k3s-powered, managed Kubernetes beta program.

Monitoring Amazon EKS logs and metrics with the Elastic Stack

To achieve unified observability, we need to gather all of the logs, metrics, and application traces from an environment. Storing them in a single datastore drastically increases our visibility, allowing us to monitor other distributed environments as well. In this blog, we will walk through one way to set up observability of your Kubernetes environment using the Elastic Stack — giving your team insight into the metrics and performance of your deployment.

How to deploy an app to AWS: Getting started

Launching a production app onto the cloud is a big task with a ton of tiny sub-tasks, and it can all be pretty overwhelming. We're here for you. We've launched an app ourselves (Blue Matador, our cloud infrastructure monitoring software). In the coming weeks, we will walk you through everything you need to know and do to successfully launch your app—with the least amount of effort.

Designing On-Prem Kubernetes Networks for High Availability

Designing and maintaining networks is hard. When deploying Kubernetes in your on-prem data center, you will need to answer a basic question: Should it be an overlay network on top of an existing network, or should it be part of an existing network? The Networking options table provides guidelines to choose the right type of networking based on various factors.