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Monitor Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere with Datadog

With vSphere and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG), VMware enables enterprise organizations to combine the economic advantages of virtual machines (VMs) with the agility, portability, and scalability provided by Kubernetes. vSphere is VMware’s platform for the provisioning and management of VMs.

JFrog Quick Tip How to install and connect the JFrog CLI

With the JFrog CLI, you have access to the functions of the JFrog Platform, such as Artifactory and Xray. In this way, for example, the extended security functions of Xray can be made available directly in a terminal on a laptop. In this quick tip, I will show you where to get the JFrog CLI, install it and connect it to your platform. This works with the free tier, the Enterprise Trial, and all other subscriptions and on-prem installations.

Cloud Monitoring: Create custom notification channels

Are you looking to learn how to send alerts from Cloud Monitoring to your custom notification service? In this video, we share the different ways of processing notifications from Cloud Monitoring. Watch this video to learn the steps involved in sending the notifications from Cloud Monitoring using Cloud Run to your custom notification service, including a description of the sample notification service and of the Cloud Run code.

Terraform With Multiple Environments: Key Benefits & Use Cases

Terraform is one of the most popular infrastructures as code (IaC) tools that allow users to define, configure, and deploy infrastructure resources in a safe, predictable, and repeatable manner. Using declarative configuration files, users can deploy resources across a variety of infrastructure providers, including public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as on-premises environments and third-party services.

How To Manage Multiple Environments With Terraform in 2023

Managing multiple environments with Terraform can be a complex and time-consuming task. An environment refers to a specific configuration or set of resources within a system, such as development, staging, or production environment. These environments often have different requirements and configurations, and managing them separately can be challenging.

Critical Metrics and Alerts in the Continuous Delivery Process

Continuous delivery is a software development approach in which code changes are automatically staged for production release. A foundation for modern application development, continuous delivery extends continuous integration by automatically deploying code changes to test and production environments after the build phase. When properly implemented, developers have deployable build artifacts that have passed a standardized testing process and can be deployed to environments as needed.

Puma + Sleuth = The Swiss Army Knife of Deployment Pipeline Orchestration

Michael Gaskin from Puma and Dylan Etkin from Sleuth discuss how Michael's team uses Sleuth to orchestrate its entire deployment pipeline and show engineering value, specifically for a major engineering initiative -- moving from a monolithic packaged software system to a new headless front end commerce solution.