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Sleep through the night with self-healing infrastructure

What is self-healing infrastructure and why do you need it? The first part is easy; it’s exactly what the name implies. It’s a methodology for creating automation that allows systems to identify and repair errors and misconfigurations without any human action. The “why” is a little more complex, but, like self-healing infrastructure, is well worth the effort.

Pushing a project to GitHub

GitHub is a web-based platform used for project version control and codebase hosting. GitHub uses Git, a widely-used version control system. GitLab and Bitbucket are similar tools. Using GitHub is a prerequisite of most tutorials on the CircleCI blog, so it is helpful to learn to use it. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to push a project to GitHub.

Research Report Observability at the Speed of Innovation 2022

IT innovation is happening at a record pace. With today’s complexities, you need deep insights into your IT environment—more than traditional monitoring tools can provide. Enter modern observability, a critical application. Observability moves beyond monitoring to help teams understand what is actually happening in the system by bringing together and correlating information from all layers of your IT stack. Observability gives teams deeper, more actionable insights into both the state of a system and the reasons for its behavior.

Kubernetes Load Testing Comparison: Speedscale vs K6

In this article, you’ll be introduced to two different load testing tools that are both able to work with Kubernetes; Speedscale and K6. Throughout this post you’ll be given a comparative view of how each tool performs in five different categories: Ease of setup, developer experience, working with the CLI, creating tests, and integration into CI/CD pipelines.

Happy Systems Administrator's Day!

Happy System Administrator’s Day! July 29th is the day we thank and honor all the hard-working system administrators (and network administrators, network engineers, IT helpdesk staff – basically anyone who helps keep the networks up and running) for all their hard work. You’ve spent the last year fixing problems, onboarding users, integrating new systems and keeping the entire world connected.

Recapping Yalla! DevOps 2022

TL;DR Yalla! DevOps 2022 community event — Learning. Networking. Fun. Driven by the DevOps community. All about the DevOps community. Yalla! DevOps was back again this year with an exciting lineup of content ranging from DevOps, DevSecOps, professional development and more. Local speakers from the DevOps community and industry leaders from around the world took the stage making it one of the best DevOps community events this year. Keep reading for a recap of Yalla! DevOps 2022.

Let's get confidential! Canonical Ubuntu Confidential VMs are now generally available on Microsoft Azure

On behalf of all Canonical teams, I am happy to announce the general availability of Ubuntu Confidential VMs (CVMs) on Microsoft Azure! They are part of the Microsoft Azure DCasv5/ECasv5 series, and only take a few clicks to enable and use. Ubuntu 20.04 is the first and only Linux distribution to support Confidential VMs on Azure.