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Bare metal Kubernetes hands on tutorial with MAAS and Juju

In this video tutorial, you will go hands-on and build your own simulated bare metal Kubernetes cluster using just a single computer 💻 with Anton Smith, product manager for MAAS. Along the way, you’ll get to use and learn about some Linux networking, MAAS, LXD, Ceph, Juju and Kubernetes, and at the end deploy an application to your new K8s cluster ✨.

The Need for an Agile Services-Driven Network: Part 1 in the IP Wave Series

The major challenge facing communications service providers (CSPs) is not about handling ever-growing bandwidth demands without increasing Capex. Smart selection of network technologies that leverage advances in aggregating, routing, and transmitting bits largely have the answer for that. The much more pressing challenge is on the services front, from competition, substitution, and the inability to maximize revenues. These concerns reduce the top line and restrict CSPs’ ability to maneuver.

Puppet helps Singapore speed up technical deployments for governments

Around the world, the pandemic tested the ability of governments to transform digitally in order to deliver uninterrupted services and to respond effectively to the demands of citizens, businesses, and global leaders in a time of crisis. From contact tracing to disbursing support packages to sharing best practices on how to contain the pandemic, governments needed to deliver these mission-critical services in a timely, secure, and compliant manner.

Testing shift left observability with the Grafana Stack, OpenTelemetry, and k6

Development is no longer a linear journey from point A to point B. As more projects shift into a state of organic growth, user feedback and constant experimentation are increasingly becoming the norm, if not the standard for engineering. “In order to support this rapid experimentation, we’re beginning to embrace new working methods and practices,” said Vinodh Ravi, Executive Director of Platform Engineering at JPMorgan Chase.

CircleCI Scheduled Pipelines | Getting Started

In this demo, Zan Markan, CircleCI developer advocate, explains how scheduled pipelines work, common use cases, and how to get started. In a hurry? Skip to what you're looking for: What are scheduled pipelines? Scheduled Pipelines are a new functionality from CircleCI to help customers run scheduled work. They are intended to replace scheduled workflows, which will eventually be deprecated. if you have been using CircleCI for some time you likely have encountered them.

Deploying a Gatsby site to Netlify using CircleCI

Gatsby is a static website and application generator that makes building powerful React-based frontend applications easy and effective. With over fifty thousand stars on GitHub (51.5k as at the time of this writing), Gatsby stands as one of the most widely used React frameworks. Gatsby is so popular that most hosting platforms offer custom support for the framework. Netlify is one of those platforms.

Get the best out of Azure Data Factory - Part 1

Azure Data Factory is a cloud-based data integration service that allows you to orchestrate and automate data movement and transformation using cloud-based data-driven workflows. It provides a cost-effective solution whenever a dependable code-free ETL tool on the cloud with numerous integrations is required. This blog will highlight how users can use Serverless360 to manage and monitor multiple Azure Data Factories with different pipelines. Azure Data Factory consists of a variety of components like.

Cloud Cost Management: A Compendium of 49 Stats, Benefits, Hard Truths, Tips, and Requirements

Cloud computing has many benefits. But there are also challenges, and cloud cost management may be one of the biggest. Here are 49 stats, benefits, and hard truths you need to know about cloud cost management, along with tips and requirements to help you take control and keep your spending in check while delivering on all the value you’re looking for.

Deploy Container on Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud

Since I wrote Launch Ubuntu Desktop on Google Cloud last week, I kept thinking about putting Ubuntu Desktop into containers. A container is an independent unit of software packages and their dependencies so that the application on the container can run reliably in different computing environments. Docker, an open-source project launched in 2013, made Container technology popular all over the world in just a few years. Why? Let’s compare Containers and Virtual Machines.