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JFrog ChartCenter: How to Include Helm Charts from Source

Dec 17, 2020 By JFrog In JFrog

Learn how you can add your Helm chart to ChartCenter directly from its Git-stored source. ChartCenter will host your Helm repository for you to share it with the world. Until the release of Helm v3, you might have submitted your Helm chart to the official `stable` or `incubator` chart repository to share it with the community. But this Helm chart archive is no longer actively maintained, and is not accepting new charts. Now all Helm charts must be in a hosted repository elsewhere.

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Mitigating Kubernetes Security Vulnerability when using ExternalIP Services (CVE-2020-8554)

Dec 17, 2020 By Bastian Hofmann In Rancher

Earlier this month the Kubernetes project discovered a security issue affecting multitenant clusters: If a potential attacker can already create or edit services and pods, then they may be able to intercept traffic from other pods (or nodes) in the cluster. An attacker that is able to create a ClusterIP service and set the spec.externalIPs field can intercept traffic to that IP.

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Finding Unstable Query Plans in SQL Monitor ("Bad" Parameter Sniffing)

Dec 17, 2020 By Redgate In Redgate

A common but tricky issue to identify in SQL Server is when something called "parameter sniffing" goes bad. In this video, Redgate's Kendra Little shows how to identify if a query has an unstable execution plan in SQL Monitor, where to find the parameters which were "sniffed" for each query plan, and gives tips on where to start to resolve the issue.

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Viewing and Interpreting Blocking Chains in SQL Monitor

Dec 17, 2020 By Redgate In Redgate

Blocking is like a traffic pileup: when it occurs, it's helpful to find the "lead blocker" and then step through the chain of who blocked who. In this video we step through an example blocking chain and give tips on how to find useful information in SQL Monitor.

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Performance tuning with SQL Monitor: tempdb usage, parameter sniffing, and blocking chains

Dec 17, 2020 By Kendra Little In Redgate

Looking to level up your performance tuning game? Check out three new videos on tempdb, unstable query plans, and identifying blocking chains with SQL Monitor. I got to work with some of my favorite folks from the SQL Monitor team last week to build some new workload patterns for our online monitoring demo site. Here are three videos sharing some highlights of performance tuning features in SQL Monitor.

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Integrate Datadog Compliance Monitoring with your AWS Well-Architected workloads

Dec 16, 2020 By Michael Yamnitsky In Datadog

Many of our customers rely on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Framework as a guide to build safe, secure, and performant applications in the cloud. AWS offers the Well-Architected Review (WAR) Tool as a centralized way to track and trend adherence to Well-Architected best practices. It allows users to define workloads and answer a set of questions regarding operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.

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What Is CI/CD/CD?

Dec 16, 2020 By Eleanor Bennett In Logit.io

Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and Continuous Deployment (CD) are three processes that automate integrating software development into a product and deploying the modified product to test and production environments.

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Use Amazon ECR Public and EKS-D to deploy LTS Docker Images

Dec 16, 2020 By Valentin Viennot In Canonical

It’s re:invent season already, and we had exciting news to announce with Amazon this year. With all these remote sessions, what’s better than a quick lab to play with the new stuff? It’s starting to feel like Christmas already! We’re going to kill two birds with one stone (just an idiom, keep reading) and experiment with two of our latest announcements.

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Response: Werner Vogels' Roadmap for the Future

Dec 16, 2020 By Chase Douglas In Stackery

On the third week of re:Invent, our Werner gave to us: three french hens important architectural insights. Let's take a look at each of these insights and how it will shape our future in application architecture and development!

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From SysAdmin to SRE: How to evolve your skillset

Dec 16, 2020 By Biju Chacko In Squadcast

Are you wondering what it takes to become an SRE from a SysAdmin background? Our latest blog, covers the growth areas and technical skills needed to successfully transition to an SRE role. The last decade has seen widespread adoption of SRE practices based on the best practices laid out by Google. Many SysAdmins have observed this trend and are now evaluating becoming SREs. Which gives rise to the question how much of a skills overlap is there between an SRE and a SysAdmin?

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