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Use Deployments in Jira to connect your CI/CD tool - Demo Den December

Gareth Wham, a Product Manager on the Jira Software team, gives an overview of the new Deployments in Jira view. Check out this demo to see how Deployments in Jira allows anyone on the team to get a real-time view of where a deployment is, across any CI/CD provider, as it moves through the pipeline.

Kubernetes Master Class - Provision Kubernetes in vSphere with Rancher

vSphere continues to be a popular destination for Rancher-provisioned Kubernetes clusters. In this Master Class, Rancher Staff Software Engineer, Luther Monson and Field Engineer, David Holder present updates on the capabilities of Rancher with vSphere. Follow along with a full cluster lifecycle demonstration showcasing template creation, provisioning, cloud providers and more.

Virtana Platform Demo Launch

The Virtana Platform’s embedded intelligence leverages machine learning and advanced data analytics to provide you with a deep understanding of application workloads so you can make data-driven decisions about their cloud migration. The platform is cloud agnostic so you can unify workload migration, optimization, and management across all the leading public cloud providers to meet your workload performance and cost requirements.

Setting up IT budget for 2021

The global COVID-19 pandemic crisis has proved to be a catalyst for change for organizations. Businesses have been spurred to continue investing more in IT budget to secure and support their remote workforce operations in spite of slow revenue growth due to the pandemic. According to a survey of more than 1,000 businesses by Spiceworks Ziff Davis, 76 percent of them plan on implementing long-term IT changes in their IT budget and 44 percent plan on accelerating their digital transformation plans.

Netdata and StackPulse: Per-second metrics meet automated remediation

Teams of all types use Netdata to monitor the health of their nodes with preconfigured alarms and real-time interactive visualizations, and when incidents happen, they troubleshoot issues with thousands of per-second metrics on Netdata Cloud. But based on the complexity of the team and the infrastructure they monitor, some parts of their incident management, such as pre-planned communication and escalation processes, or even automated remediation, need to happen outside of the Netdata ecosystem.

Case study: Genesys' journey to the cloud and DevOps excellence

Continuous improvement and learning are two of the core tenets of the Genesys Cloud Native solutions team. In this session, Kal Patel, Principal Architect at Genesys will discuss how they use Sumo Logic Analytics across the company (from engineering, ops to security to customer support). Kal will also share insights on how the continuous improvement and learnings mindset has influenced his organization.

Community update: Discourse, community efforts

Open source and community have always been in the DNA of Netdata, with the Agent starting as a very popular open-source project. Since then, a lot has changed, with Netdata maturing into a company, and the Netdata Agent finding its place as an open-source project in a wider offering that redesigns the monitoring experience from the ground up.

Cloud 66 Feature Highlight: Verified Backups

While backups are an excellent way to start protecting your data from disasters and human error, you can do more to ensure their integrity with Verified Backups. Verified Backups work by running a user-defined query against a restored backup to ensure the data is what you expected it to be. Once the query runs successfully, the backup is marked as verified.

Project Build: Custom CD Pipeline Tutorial (Node + TypeScript + Cycle API)

Need to create a CD pipeline for your containers running on Cycle? Learn the how to build a Node based API enabling you to automate the entire container reimage process. We are also in the process of creating a CD Pipeline builder to be used from within our Portal, which will be released very soon! Connect with us: Website: cycle.io Slack: cycle.slack.io Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/cycle-platform/ Twitter: twitter.com/cycleplatform Facebook: facebook.com/CyclePlatform