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March 1st, 2022 — Canonical announces that Pacific Textiles chose Canonical Charmed OpenStack for its infrastructure upgrade. The new private cloud environment allows keeping the legacy workloads running continuously and launching new cloud-native services simultaneously. The professional services team from Canonical helped Pacific Textiles during this migration, from making architectural choices to launching the live cloud.

Today, we’re starting Relay by Puppet, a new initiative to build the future of cloud-based DevOps automation. This post captures our musings about the evolving world of cloud-native infrastructure and how Relay addresses this evolution.

Running successful cross-functional projects, when teams are no longer co-located in the same physical space, requires a different approach. Read on to find out how we used this as an opportunity to improve how the Marketing Division at Redgate collaborates with other parts of the business and how you can apply some of our learnings in your own organization.

This is the first part of a multi-part post focusing (mostly) on front end search and Command Palettes. If you are not familiar with Command Palettes, they are a power-user's dream: a universal overlay on your webpage that's triggered with a key shortcut (usually Command + K) and allows your users not only to search the content but also perform actions on your website. The goal here is to "keep the user's hands on the keyboard" (and away from the mouse), when using your application.

DevOps plays a critical role in today’s business landscape, enabling organizations to automate and innovate swiftly at a time when digital transformation projects put a premium on those capabilities. The benefits of DevOps, though, can only be relied on when related security risk mitigation is considered and embedded into DevOps processes.

In this article, we will explain what system performance metrics are and why you need to monitor them. Then we will look at Graphite and Grafana monitoring systems, which make it easy to collect, save and visualize metrics. Finally, we will consider why you should choose MetricFire to monitor your system’s metrics. If you would like to learn more about the benefits of MetricFire, book a demo with our experts or sign up for a free trial today.

Creating a DevOps workflow to optimize application deployments to your Kubernetes cluster can be a complex journey. I recently demonstrated how to optimize your local K8s development workflow with Rancher Desktop and Skaffold. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can watch it by viewing the video below. You might be wondering, “What happens next?” How do you extend this solution beyond a local setup to a real-world pipeline with a remote cluster?