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How to Automate Kubernetes Deployments?

The motivation behind automating Kubernetes deployments stems from the need to accelerate development cycles, minimize manual errors, and achieve consistent deployments. In today’s application development where container orchestration is a crucial aspect, automating the Kubernetes deployment is inevitable. Despite challenges such as maintaining security and handling complex dependencies, automation remains a powerful solution.

How Can Developer Happiness Transform Your Tech Team's Success? - Insights from Ramiro Berrelleza

Discover the transformative power of developer happiness in this talk from Navigate North America 24. Join Ramiro, founder and CEO of Okteto, as he delves into the crucial link between developer well-being and business value. Learn practical strategies for reducing friction, fostering a healthy work environment, and proving the ROI of investing in developer satisfaction.

Mattermost's cloud optimization journey: Pillars of success, future strategies & lessons learned

Mattermost has embarked on a transformative journey in cloud optimization. This journey is marked by strategic initiatives, innovative approaches, and valuable lessons, all aimed at enhancing efficiency and reducing costs. This blog post explores the successful strategies that have guided our cloud optimization efforts. It also highlights our future direction with an emphasis on ARM/Graviton workloads and shares insights from our experiences, particularly regarding spot instances.

Why data anonymization is important to organizations - and their customers

The rise of the digital era has led to increasing concerns among individuals around the protection of their personal data. In 2022, for example, 24% of individuals exercised their right to Data Subject Access Requests, and this rose to 28% in 2023 according to Statista research results.

FinOps Automation Tips And Best Practices - Part 3

After watching part one and part two of our FinOps Automation Series, hopefully you’re chomping at the bit to adopt your first automation solution. In part three below, our experts — Erik Peterson (CTO and Founder of CloudZero), Alan Hand (Founder and CEO of Xosphere), Steven O’Dwyer (Senior FinOps Specialist at ProsperOps), and Mike Fuller (CTO of the FinOps Foundation) — are going to walk you through what you need to know before you take any concrete steps.

Product Release Notes March 2024

Access to critical business data, such as cloud cost data, is both incredibly important for finance, engineering, and DevOps teams, but also a privilege that should be managed carefully. This month, our engineering teams put a major focus on developing industry-leading capabilities related to access control, while also making it easier for people who require certain kinds of data to get it where it needs to be.

Azure Storage Updates FY24

In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, the importance of robust and scalable cloud storage solutions cannot be overstated. Enterprises across the globe are increasingly leveraging cloud technologies to drive innovation, streamline operations, and reduce costs. Microsoft Azure, as a leading provider of cloud services, continues to enhance its storage solutions to meet the diverse and growing needs of its users.

A guide to scaling Grafana Alloy deployments across multiple hosts

Last week we introduced Grafana Alloy, our distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector with built-in Prometheus pipelines and support for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. We’re excited to see the community embrace Alloy, and we want to help them use and scale it as easily as possible. Many developers that need to deploy and manage software across several hosts turn to Ansible for its ease of use and versatility.