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Container Management: A Closer Look at Rancher Desktop's Settings

Rancher Desktop is equipped with convenient and powerful features that make it stand out as one of the best developer tools and the fastest ways to build and deploy Kubernetes locally. In this blog, we will tackle Rancher Desktop´s functionalities and features to guide you and help you take full advantage of all the benefits of using Rancher Desktop as a container management platform and for running local Kubernetes.

PromQL Cheat Sheet: A Quick Guide to Prometheus Query Language

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit that has gained significant popularity in DevOps and systems monitoring. At the core of Prometheus lies PromQL (Prometheus Query Language), a powerful and flexible query language used to extract valuable insights from the collected metrics. In this guide, we will explore the basics of PromQL and provide query examples for an example use case.

Kubernetes Architecture Part 3: Data Plane Components

This Kubernetes Architecture series covers the main components used in Kubernetes and provides an introduction to Kubernetes architecture. After reading these blogs, you’ll have a much deeper understanding of the main reasons for choosing Kubernetes as well as the main components that are involved when you start running applications on Kubernetes.

Predictive Modeling: The Next Big Thing for ITPA, Intelligent Automation

If you had the power to predict the future, how would you use it? Gartner refers to the predictive modeling process as that which collects data, formulates a statistical model, makes predictions, and then validates the model as additional data becomes available. In the world of intelligent automation, teams use predictive modeling to formulate how future outcomes or behaviors will be, by using historical data, machine learning (ML) algorithms, and analytical techniques.

Canonical extends its commercial OpenStack offering to small-scale cloud environments with project Sunbeam

June 13, Vancouver, OpenInfra Summit – Canonical today announced the extension of its commercial OpenStack offering to small-scale cloud environments with a new project Sunbeam. The project is 100% open source and is available free-of-charge. Early adopters can also opt-in for comprehensive security coverage and full commercial support under the Ubuntu Pro + Support subscriptions once they complete the deployment themselves.

Canonical solutions reduce SmartNIC time-to-market and drive efficiency in enterprise data centres

Data centre efficiency is a central cost factor in enterprise IT environments. So, in the face of rising energy costs and increasingly resource-intensive workloads, it is more important than ever for businesses to seek out greater optimisation. Traditionally, CPUs have been used for the majority of data centre workloads, including network related tasks.

Demo of Jira Software's CI/CD integration | Atlassian

Integrating your CI/CD tools with Jira Software is one of the easiest things you can do to get more value out of Jira Software for free, whether you’re using Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI, Octopus Deploy or others. Did you know that integrating your CI/CD tools with Jira Software unlocks several highly valuable and free native Jira Software features? During this office hours, we demo and talk through.

Atlassian DevOps Talks: Fireside Chat with Feature Flag Experts | Atlassian

Join Atlassian and our partner experts as we take a deeper dive into feature flags. We will be discussing use cases, best practices, and management of feature flags. Learn how feature flags help teams avoid buggy product releases while moving faster, reducing risk, and taking a more experimentation-oriented approach to software development.