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Kubernetes Master Class: Creating RKE2 Cluster Templates

Rancher 2.6 introduces a new Cluster-API based provisioning mechanism for RKE2 and K3s clusters. This also brings a completely new cluster templating system, which is based on Helm charts and is much more flexible compared to the old RKE1 cluster templates. In this master class, you will learn how the Cluster API works, how you can leverage it in Helm Charts, how to do versioning and how to create a nice UI wizard for them.

What Are the Differences Between Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, and Fargate?

Life before containerization was a sore spot for developers. The satisfaction of writing code was constantly overshadowed by the frustration of attempting to force code into production. For many, deployments meant hours of reconfiguring libraries and dependencies for each environment. It was a tedious process prone to error, and it led to a lot of rework. Today, developers can deploy code using new technology such as cloud computing, containers, and container orchestration.

DevOps State of Mind Ep. 9: Recruiting for a DevOps Culture

Liesse Jones: Today we're joined by Anna-Marie Gutierrez-Lee, affectionately known as AMG, who's the Director of Talent Acquisition at LogDNA. She's passionate about mentoring recruiting teams and connecting talent to their dream careers, while fostering a genuine and positive candidate experience. Today, we're going to talk about how to recruit for a DevOps culture and why it's so important to bring more underrepresented talent into tech.

Rancher Desktop Now Includes The Rancher Dashboard

With the 1.2.0 release of Rancher Desktop, there are two new features available as a Feature Preview. Rancher, the multi-cluster Kubernetes manager, includes a dashboard which enables you see and interact with resources in a Kubernetes cluster. Rancher Desktop now includes this dashboard. The dashboard will enable you to view and interact with resources in your local cluster provided by Rancher Desktop.

A practical approach to Active Directory Domain Services, Part 2: Active Directory and the Domain Name System

For readers who have returned to this blog after understanding the basics of Active Directory (AD) in part 1 of this series, welcome back! For all new readers: Hello! Get ready to jump into the world of AD. It would be good to take a quick peek at what was covered in part 1 before you continue. Be sure to read through part 1 as it will be your guide to: Part 2 of this series aims to introduce the interrelation of AD with the Domain Name System (DNS).

The Ugly Truth About (Most) Cloud Rightsizing Recommendations

Rightsizing is about finding the optimal cloud configuration options to ensure that you get the performance you need—within any given constraints you are operating under—at the lowest possible cost. This is a simple proposition, but deceptively so. For one thing, business requirements are constantly changing, meaning that your workloads must adapt to support them, which in turn changes their operating parameters.

CI/CD Benchmarks for High Performing Teams in 2022

Software delivery has never been more critical to the success of business in every industry. It’s also never been more complex. With the growing challenges of complexity, how can engineering teams succeed? CircleCI examined 55 million data points from more than 44,000 organizations and 160,000 projects to help guide team development and software delivery decisions. Benchmarks from the report show that the highest performing teams prioritize being in a state of deploy-readiness, deploy more often and recover faster.

Build an automated invoice generator application

As a software engineer and technical content creator, I work with a lot of companies on many different contracts. To get paid for my work, most companies require that I send an invoice. Sometimes they want one daily, at the end of the week, or even when the project has been completed. Sending an invoice to my clients is crucial because it determines when and if I will get paid on time. If this sounds like a repetitive task that can eat deep into my productive hours, you are right.