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Build a FIPS-enabled Ubuntu EKS image with EC2 image builder

A step-by-step demo using Ubuntu Pro and AWS Image Builder. In this video, we show how to create your own FIPS-enabled Ubuntu EKS image using EC2 Image Builder. The demo walks through creating an image pipeline, defining a recipe, and selecting a custom Ubuntu Pro AMI using SSM Parameter Store to automatically pull the latest available image. The process includes enabling FIPS updates on an Ubuntu Pro machine, validating that FIPS is enabled, and testing that the system is running in FIPS mode.

Why the "artisanal" approach to coding is holding engineering teams back

(01:20) The hidden costs of artisanal development(03:41) What 1907 Detroit teaches us about DevOps(08:46) Golden Paths vs. rigid mandates(14:08) Aligning platform goals with business outcomes(19:26) Using constraints to drive creativity(26:13) Why platforms need a product mindset(33:23) Treating AI agents as junior engineers(39:55) Learning from common platform failures.

KubeCon Atlanta 2025 & the AI-Native Shift

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta marked a definitive moment for cloud-native infrastructure. Over four days, celebrating the 10th anniversary of both CNCF and Kubernetes, more than 9,000 attendees witnessed the ecosystem’s evolution from container orchestration to AI-native operations. The conference delivered a clear message – AI workloads are no longer experimental.

How To Connect Your Prometheus Server to a Grafana Datasource

Prometheus is one of the most popular open-source monitoring systems in the world. It’s lightweight, easy to deploy, and pairs beautifully with Grafana for dashboards and alerting. If you're running applications or infrastructure on Linux, Prometheus plus one of many Exporters (Redis, NVIDIA GPU, Nginx, etc.) gives you deep visibility into service performance - quickly and reliably.

Generating EdgeOps Tasks with Code Assist

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use Copilot to streamline operations on your MCP server. Learn how Puppet’s Edge Code Assist helps you automate repetitive tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce errors, while keeping your infrastructure secure and compliant. Subscribe at ⁨‪@PerforcePuppet‬ Website: puppet.com LinkedIn: /perforce-puppet.

How LinkedIn modernized its massive traffic stack with HAProxy

Connecting nearly a billion professionals is no small feat. It requires an infrastructure that puts the user experience above everything else. At LinkedIn, this principle created a massive engineering challenge: delivering a fast, consistent experience across various use cases, from the social feed to real-time messaging and enterprise tools.

Scaling Kubernetes GitOps with Fleet: Experiment Results and Lessons Learnt

Fleet, Rancher’s built-in GitOps engine, is designed to scale up to thousands of clusters. However, “how far” can it scale in a real world scenario, you might ask? Earlier this year, we wrote about the Fleet benchmark tool and we made a few discoveries that were very instructive, especially concerning resource consumption and its impact on deployments’ performances.