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How to Choose the Right Tool for Kubernetes Deployment

The benefits of using Kubernetes (K8s) at an enterprise level are numerous. K8s is portable, extensible, scalable and reliable. When it comes time for your enterprise to deploy its K8s clusters, there are several deployment frameworks and tools to choose from. But which solution is right for your enterprise? Read on as we break down deployment solutions into categories and demonstrate how each framework and tool can enable you to operate, manage and deploy your K8s clusters in different ways.

Better together: Continuous Delivery for PE and ServiceNow flows

Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise (PE) is a tool for streamlining and simplifying the CI/CD process of your Puppet code. Continuous Delivery for PE offers a prescriptive workflow to test and deploy Puppet code across environments. ServiceNow includes a powerful Flow Designer. Why not combine Continuous Delivery for PE pipelines with the ServiceNow Flow Designer to improve and automate your change management process even further?

Four Use Cases for Optimizing Your Cloud Operations With PagerDuty Runbook Automation

The cloud is easy and powerful—until it’s not. Once companies have customers, commitments, and compliance concerns, they often have to create cloud operations teams to manage the cloud on behalf of their fellow employees. Often, organizations that migrate to the cloud find themselves hampered by inefficient cloud operations if they haven’t standardized their IT procedures for operability.

Why Build a Transport Network

Since the days of voice calls transmitted along the top wire of a cattle fence, telecom providers have been looking for new and better ways to transport their service offerings. Today there is a wide array of alternatives from optical to switched and routed, logical mesh, ring, and star architectures to choose from. How do you know which is right for you? What is the best mix of design, build and manage features to carry you into the future? Moreover, how do you keep your project cost-effective?

Understanding and Implementing a Software Bill of Materials

Software programs today can be likened to a complex stew, with multiple ingredients sourced from disparate places. In software, open-source tools are a major ingredient. According to the 2020 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report produced by the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center, 99 percent of the codebases contain at least one open source component, with open source comprising 70 percent of the code overall.

Continuous integration for Go applications

Go, an open-source programming language backed by Google, makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Go’s efficiency with network servers and its friendly syntax make it a useful alternative to Node.js. All network applications need well-tested features, and those developed in Go are no different. In this tutorial, we will be building and testing a simple Go blog.

DevOps - it's not dead yet

It’s one of those questions that’s tossed around the internet quite regularly. “Is DevOps dead?” Is there a genuine reason to think that DevOps is on its last legs? Or are authors just trying to get clicks by making controversial statements? Let’s look at some of the main justifications given for raising this question: I’ll come back to these points shortly.

Containerizing and Modernizing Windows Apps using CloudHedge's OmniDeq

Heritage applications are critical to any business, and ensuring that they are running exceptional in the latest environment is a priority. Heritage applications nesting on Windows Server 2008 R2 do not get support from Microsoft directly, and that’s a major concern for enterprises who have their entire business running on such platforms.