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Ceph storage on VMware

If you were thinking that nothing will change in your VMware data centre in the following years, think again. Data centre storage is experiencing a paradigm shift. Software-defined storage solutions, such as Ceph, bring flexibility and reduce operational costs. As a result, Ceph storage on VMware has the potential to revolutionise VMware clusters where SAN (Storage Area Network) was the incumbent for many years.

Data science workflows on Kubernetes with Kubeflow pipelines: Part 1

Kubeflow Pipelines are a great way to build portable, scalable machine learning workflows. It is one part of a larger Kubeflow ecosystem that aims to reduce the complexity and time involved with training and deploying machine learning models at scale. In this blog series, we demystify Kubeflow pipelines and showcase this method to produce reusable and reproducible data science.

Git is About Communication

An SCM such as Git is more than just a database for source code. It’s not only the thing you need to interact with to get code to production, but also a log of changes on a project. It’s not just the last couple of weeks of commits that are worth looking at. Any commit remains relevant weeks, months and years later. A commit serves multiple purposes. The first one is to explain a change during its review and the second is to explain a change to a future reader.

LogicTalks - How to Approach Monitoring during a Crisis

In this episode of LogicTalks, Mark Banfield, Chief Revenue Officer at LogicMonitor, is joined by Nancy Gohring, Senior Analyst at 451 Research to talk about how today's new realities effect how IT organizations are approaching the tools and solutions they use to retain and grow their customer base, keep employees production and their businesses up and running. From the reasons why it's a good idea to continue investments in IT technologies, to tackling tool sprawl, to some unique ways your organization could be using your monitoring solution to find efficiencies and cost savings,

JFrog ChartCenter walkthrough with Rancher Labs

JFrog ChartCenter is a new central Helm chart repository that just launched! We will be working on adding great new features and content for the Helm community all summer. JFrog’s ChartCenter is the latest entry from the JFrog Community Team and was built to help the Helm community find immutable, secure, and reliable Helm charts and have a single source of truth to proxy all the charts from one location.

Deploying a Performant PHP Application on Kubernetes with Rancher

PHP is one of the most popular programming languages on the web. It powers many widely used content management systems like WordPress and Drupal, and provides the backbone for modern server-side frameworks like Laravel and Symfony. Despite its popularity, PHP has a bit of a reputation for being slow and hard to maintain. It has gotten better in recent years, but there are two features that high-performance PHP applications will likely need: OPcache and PHP FastCGI Process Manager (PHP-FPM).