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Become FIPS Compliant with HAProxy Enterprise on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Guarantee strong encryption by enabling ‘FIPS mode’ with RHEL and HAProxy Enterprise. SSL and its successor TLS are protocols that safeguard web traffic as it crosses the Internet, encrypting communication and protecting it from tampering. However, the encryption algorithms within these protocols are subject to change over time as vulnerabilities are discovered or as better encryption methods become available.

Client-side chaos: Making your front end more reliable

Get started with Gremlin’s Chaos Engineering tools to safely, securely, and simply inject failure into your systems to find weaknesses before they cause customer-facing issues. The concept of Chaos Engineering is most often applied to backend systems, but for teams building websites and web applications, this is only half of the story.

Building Images Faster and Better With Multi-Stage Builds

There is no doubt about the fact that Docker makes it very easy to deploy multiple applications on a single box. Be it different versions of the same tool, different applications with different version dependencies - Docker has you covered. But then nothing comes free. This flexibility comes with some problems - like high disk usage and large images. With Docker, you have to be careful about writing your Dockerfile efficiently in order to reduce the image size and also improve the build times.

How Canonical remotely delivers and supports customer cloud deployments

The widespread shift to remote working in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a disruptive change for countless businesses; some 13% of organisations say they have faced major disruption. But at Canonical, remote working has long been the status quo for many of our teams. In spite of the challenging circumstances in which we all find ourselves, Canonical has been able to continue to operate and support our customers despite their working practices undergoing significant changes.

How to Seamlessly Switch AWS Partners

Working with the right AWS provider can make or break a company, but many companies discover that after a few years, what was once a great fit just doesn’t work anymore. Over time, your needs change, and the provider you’ve been with for years might not be able to provide what you need. Alternatively, maybe your AWS provider simply isn’t living up to your expectations, or perhaps your company is looking to redesign their cloud infrastructure. When this happens, what are your options?

Monitoring as code with Terraform

We try to automate as much as possible in our environments, but we often treat monitoring as an afterthought. In this episode of Stack Doctor, we show you how to automate your monitoring configurations via Terraform. Watch to learn how you can automate the creation of common resources - such as uptime checks, alerting policies, and dashboards - with Terraform!

Calculating IOPS Utilization for EBS Volumes

When looking at an EBS volume in CloudWisdom, you’ll notice that in addition to the metrics we collect from AWS, we also create a number of computed metrics, one of which is netuitive.aws.ebs.iopsutilization. Simply put, IOPS Utilization compares the current number of IOPS that the disk is performing against the total IOPS capacity, and expresses this as a percentage. Thus, if you are currently running 1050 IOPS against a volume whose capacity is 3000 IOPS, the IOPS Utilization would be 35%.

LogicTalks - How Harvard Gained Visibility and Operational Confidence through Monitoring

In this episode of LogicTalks, Mark Banfield, Chief Revenue Officer at LogicMonitor, is joined by Ken Perry, Product Manager and Technology Monitoring Architect at Harvard University to discuss how LogicMonitor has shifted Harvard's monitoring strategy. Ken explains how LogicMonitor has helped to break down monitoring silos between departments, solve unique challenges and use cases within such a large organization, and how LogicMonitor aided Harvard in it's transition to remote learning during the COVID pandemic all while helping to build operational confidence throughout Harvard and it's leadership.

Architectural decisions that impact Kubernetes costs

One of the mistakes organizations make related to Kubernetes costs is addressing them primarily after-the-fact, once the application is running successfully. There are certainly changes that can be made to improve efficiency once the application is running, but cost-control measures are best considered at the beginning, not middle or end, of the application lifecycle.