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Authenticate Puppet Enterprise with FreeIPA using LDAP

Using a Linux Domain controller such as Red Hat Identity Management or FreeIPA? If so then the fields are a bit different than some other LDAP interfaces, which makes it difficult for some to connect to for authentication. Here is a quick how-to on setting up Puppet Enterprise with authentication from FreeIPA. I am assuming that you already have Puppet Enterprise installed with eyaml configured. If not, then you may want to visit these prerequisites.

August 2020 Online Meetup - Rancher 2.5 Preview - EKS Lifecycle Management

Hosted cloud provider Kubernetes services like EKS alleviate the operational burden of Kubernetes. The cluster operator is still responsible for upgrades and all the day 2 operations for the applications running on the cluster. In this meetup we'll discuss how Rancher can help manage the lifecycle of EKS clusters, and will walk through importing existing and provisioning new EKS clusters through Rancher. We will also look at how to deploy Rancher logging and monitoring onto the cluster to handle day 2 operations on the cluster.

Azure Durable Functions CI/CD Issue Solved!

This blog explains a peculiar issue faced when Azure Durable Functions are deployed using Azure DevOps. In case you need to know what Azure Durable Functions are, please refer to Microsoft’s documentation on Durable Functions here as the explanation of it, is not under the scope of this blog. Durable functions work best when built with versions .NET Core 2.2 and above. After developing and testing a durable function, it can be deployed to Azure in many ways.

KMC - How Helm 3 and Helm Charts Create Reproducible Security

Helm 3 is developing a set of best practices that help make Kubernetes applications more secure. As a recent graduate from incubation to full-fledged project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Helm has been developing its own ecosystem and is working towards mature tooling. Join Rancher and JFrog as they provide more details into updates in Helm 3 and how Helm Charts create reproducible security in the Kubernetes ecosystem.

How to Provision Cloud Infrastructure

One of the best things about cloud computing is how it converts technical efficiencies into cost-savings. Some of those efficiencies are just part of the tool kit, like pay-per-use Lambda jobs. Good DevOps brings a lot of savings to the cloud, as well. It can smooth out high-friction state management challenges. Sprucing up how you provision cloud services, for example, speeds up deployments. That’s where treating infrastructure the same as workflows from the rest of your codebase comes in.

Automatically (or manually) tag your Sleuth deployments

All deployments are not created equal, but you'd never know it from your Slack channel notifications. In reality, some deployments you really care about, as they contain things like API changes or database migrations, and you want that information to surface. We created tags in Sleuth for this very reason. Out of the box, Sleuth matches files in your deployment with known patterns, and if any are found, tags your deployments automatically.

community.icinga.com

The community forum is a place where you can meet and chat with other Icinga users. It’s hosted by Icinga and moderated by both the Icinga team and members of the community. It’s mostly being used as a platform to ask and answer technical questions about Icinga, which is a great way to learn more about the tool stack! What does it look like? It’s a discourse platform, so it’s a collection of threads or topics which are open for anyone to leave a comment on!