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19 Questions To Ask Your Cloud Cost Management Vendor

Not all cloud cost management tools are equal. Whether you’re in the process of evaluating cloud cost management vendors or already have a tool in place, here are 19 questions you should ask to ensure you have all the capabilities needed to maximize performance and minimize cost of your hybrid cloud deployment across the following.

Improving Environmental Sustainability Through Cloud Migration

With rising awareness and increasing calls for action, the pressure is on to improve your organization’s energy sustainability. While frequently overlooked, moving your IT workloads to the cloud is one of the quickest ways to achieve a material reduction in your carbon footprint. Organizations typically look to the cloud to improve agility, scalability, and reduce costs.

My First Impressions with SUSE Rancher Kubernetes Projects

I recently started working at SUSE. Before joining SUSE, my Kubernetes experience included vanilla Kubernetes, AKS and EKS but mostly OpenShift and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management. I worked in technical pre-sales, so I knew about Rancher, K3s and RKE and their key features but I never spent time with them. When I joined SUSE, I started testing Rancher, Rancher Desktop, K3s, k3d and RKE2 and I had a great time with them. First things first, I will

Achieving Website High Availability

When someone says a website is available, they mean that they can access that website. The application they’re trying to reach is up and working properly. High availability means that the website is up most of the time throughout the year. Companies can even put a percentage on this, striving for 100% availability, but typically getting somewhere a bit less, such as 99.9% or 99.99%.

The importance of SemVer for your applications

For some developers, SemVer can look just cosmetic, nice to have, or simply useless. But SemVer format is mandatory to make reliable software. I'll explain how over one year, we encountered 2 issues related to SemVer. The first one was critical and led to a production outage, while the other was a lot of trouble for several companies to upgrade a managed service.

Deploy ImageLabeller with Bitbucket

Follow along with this step-by-step video series as Warren Marusiak, a senior technical evangelist, demonstrates pushing a code change to production using Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD. To demonstrate how to develop, deploy, and manage applications using Jira Software and various connected tools, our team created ImageLabeller, a simple demo application built on AWS that uses machine learning to apply labels to images.

Deploy ImageLabeller with Github

Follow along with this step-by-step video series as Warren Marusiak, a senior technical evangelist, demonstrates pushing a code change to production using Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD. To demonstrate how to develop, deploy, and manage applications using Jira Software and various connected tools, our team created ImageLabeller, a simple demo application built on AWS that uses machine learning to apply labels to images.

Deploy ImageLabeller with Gitlab

Follow along with this step-by-step video series as Warren Marusiak, a senior technical evangelist, demonstrates pushing a code change to production using Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD. To demonstrate how to develop, deploy, and manage applications using Jira Software and various connected tools, our team created ImageLabeller, a simple demo application built on AWS that uses machine learning to apply labels to images.

Practical Tips & Tricks for Speeding Up Your CI/CD Pipelines

When developing software and maintaining CI/CD and testing pipelines we are often compelled to increase our test coverage by adding more tests, and therefore improve our apps’ quality. After all, more automation equals better software, right? There’s a flipside to this equation however, and a point at which we start seeing diminishing returns from each test we add. Taken to extreme, these diminishing returns begin to actively harm our ability to deliver working software.