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Difference Between Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud

Cloud computing is vast. It encompasses a huge range of architectural styles, classifications, and types. This complex computing network has transformed the way we work and is a crucial part of our daily lives, both at home and at work. For organizations, there are many ways to “cloud”, but let’s start with the basics of cloud computing; the internet cloud.

Optimize your resource classes with the CircleCI resources dashboard

CircleCI cloud offers over 20 resource classes (varying CPU and RAM) across multiple execution environments. Finding the best resource class size for your job — not too big and not too small — can sometimes be a challenge. But now, you can view CPU and RAM usage for Docker executors within the UI. The new dashboard, found in the new Resources tab on the job details page, displays the CPU and RAM, for all parallel runs in your Docker job.

Platform.sh consolidates its management team with appointment of Ori Pekelman and Fabien Potencier as CSO and CPO

A major player in European cloud, created in 2015 with presence in Europe and the United States, Platform.sh is entering a new growth stage. With a team of more than 300 employees and 150 more to be added in 2022, Platform.sh is developing and consolidating its management team. Ori Pekelman, co-founder and previously Chief Product Officer (CPO), passes the torch to Fabien Potencier and becomes Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). In 2021, Platform.sh acquired Fabien Potencier's company Blackfire.io to consolidate its position as a leading platform for the management of web app fleets-making this move a logical next step.

The Top 7 Open Source Tools for Securing Your Kubernetes Cluster

This article explores how to secure production Kubernetes clusters with the help of open source tools. As a prerequisite, you’ll need to have basic beginner-level knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes. In a nutshell, Kubernetes is a container orchestration tool and Docker is a containerization platform. Some of the most famous Kubernetes clusters managed by cloud providers include AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and Google CKE.

What Is a System Administrator? A Complete Guide to SysAdmin Roles and Responsibilities

System Administrators (SysAdmins) often represent the core of IT organizations. SysAdmins manage the organization's computing infrastructure, encompassing servers, virtualization, networking, and storage. For many years, the term System Administrator, or SysAdmin, was typically associated with Linux or UNIX systems.

The Impact of CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Vulnerability on Popular Kubernetes Engines

Last week, a critical vulnerability identified as CVE-2022-0185 was disclosed, affecting Linux kernel versions 5.1 to 5.16.1. The security vulnerability is an integer underflow in the Filesystem Context module that allows a local attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the kernel, thus leading to privilege escalation, container environment escape, or denial of service.

Best Large File Transfer Tools

At a time when so much of business is digitized, it’s becoming critically important for organizations to have a way to transfer large files over the internet without compromising security. While it may seem like the importance of these transfers would lead to an abundance of great large file transfer options, finding a quality large file transfer tool can be tricky.

5 Cloud Tagging Best Practices Every SaaS Company Should Use

Ask anyone who’s managing any cloud environment of any size, and they will undoubtedly bring up the stress they experience on a regular basis over tags. Since the dawn of cloud, every cloud user has struggled with the challenge of tagging — essentially the only mechanism that exists for you to apply metadata to your cloud environment. The fact that tags themselves are an imperfect tool — both inflexible and hard to manage — makes no difference.