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Kubernetes Upgrades at LogicMonitor

Managing Kubernetes version upgrades can be a formidable undertaking. API versions are graduated, new features are added and existing behaviors are deprecated. Version upgrades may also impact applications needed by the Kubernetes platform; affecting services like pod networking or DNS resolution. At LogicMonitor, we ensure our Kubernetes version upgrades are successful through a process designed to instill collaboration and due diligence in a repeatable fashion.

Eastman Discusses Their Voice Network Modernization Journey and Decisions

Founded in 1920, Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. The company's innovation-driven growth model takes advantage of world-class technology platforms, deep customer engagement, and differentiated application development to grow its leading positions in attractive end-markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables. As a globally inclusive and diverse company, Eastman employs approximately 14,000 people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries.

Deploying a Web App in any cloud using Terraform and Multy

In this tutorial, we'll deploy a simple web app to the cloud of your choice - composed of a database and a virtual machine where the frontend code will run. So that the configuration is reusable and consistent, we'll write it in Terraform. Usually Terraform configurations are cloud-specific, and changing clouds requires a complete rewrite. In this case, so that you can reuse the same configuration across clouds, we'll be using Multy.

mRemoteNG: Using the Remote Connections Manager for Windows

mRemoteNG is a simple tool popular among IT professionals for efficiently managing multiple connections. The popularity of password managers has shown how much people don’t like typing in passwords every time they want to connect to a service. And IT professionals are all too familiar with the annoyance of manually typing in credentials every time they want to connect to a remote service. mRemoteNG solves this problem for SysAdmins and IT teams, and in this article, we’ll explore how.

JFrog Providers Support the Terraform Community

If you’re reading this blog you’re probably at least somewhat familiar with Hashicorp Terraform and the value it brings to managing the deployment and provisioning of infrastructure resources at scale. We’re big fans and users of it ourselves here at JFrog (see how in our recent webinar!).

Your CI GitFlow is Broken

One of the great things about GitFlow is that it makes parallel development very easy by isolating new development from finished work. New development, such as features, is done in feature branches and is only merged back into the main body of code when developers have validated the feature and the code is ready for release. For most development teams, feature validation happens in a staging branch coupled with a single testing environment.

Ephemeral Environments: Explained, Benefits, and How to Get Started?

Ephemeral environments are getting popular among companies that need to scale their business efficiently. Traditionally, the deployment environments usually included development, QA, staging, UAT, and production. However, the bottlenecks with shared QA and staging environments have hindered the efficient workflow of IT teams. The first issue you will face is environment drift because it is a shared environment, and you cannot afford a separate static environment for each developer.