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Conquering a Double-Barrel Webpack Upgrade

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve prioritized some sustaining product goals to polish the codebase and update some big ticket dependencies. Among those updates were: React, Redux, and Webpack - the biggies. The first two were pretty painless and inspired the confidence to approach updating Webpack from v2 to v4 like maybe no big deal! Though confidence level was on high, I felt a slight chill and a twinge of doubt by the prospect of making changes to our build configs.

December 2018 Online Meetup Introducing Rancher's New Multi Tenant Prometheus Support

In this meetup, we introduce our multi-tenant Prometheus functionality. Running Kubernetes clusters with multiple isolated tenants provides some challenges for the cluster operators. Rancher's new feature ensures consistent and secure monitoring for users in the cluster and project scopes.

OpsRamp Webinar - Preparing for a Cloud World - A review of the #CloudNative Skills report

OpsRamp recently released a report on how IT organizations are handling the massive gap in skills for moving to cloud-native technologies. Watch this webinar, Preparing Your Organization For a Cloud World to review the key findings and insights from the Cloud Native Skills Crisis report and see a quick demo of the OpsRamp platform.

How to Make Kubernetes Work for Everyone

Kubernetes is the de-facto container orchestration standard, used to manage Docker containers in production. With every cloud provider offering Kubernetes services, it is also shaping up to be a standard form of computing infrastructure. At Rancher Labs, we build products and technologies that drive the mass market adoption of Kubernetes.

Pre-Change Freeze: StackStorm 2.10

Thought you could wind down for the change freeze? Sorry, we’ve got one last thing for you to do: Upgrade StackStorm to 2.10! Orquesta is now ready for almost all workflow use-cases. We’ve also done a big update to our ChatOps internals, and we have early-access Ubuntu 18 + Python 3 packages (for test only!). Read on for full details.

Beginner's Guide to Deadlocks in Amazon RDS

Although AWS sometimes feels like magic, it’s just software that controls capacity and allocation on their previously provisioned hardware. RDS is one of the services that can feel especially magic, because of the general difficulty and drudgery required to set up and manage a production database. In a matter of minutes, anyone can have a production database, complete with replication, automatic failover, backup schedules, and point-in-time recovery.