Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Rishab Kumar, a Developer Evangelist at Twilio, shares their insights on implementing SMS alerts for GitHub actions during an informative talk. Their presentation primarily focuses on using GitHub Actions for build and CI/CD tasks due to its efficient cost structure. However, Rishab points out a feature gap: the platform lacks the capability for SMS alerts or phone calls. To address this, they demonstrate how to configure SMS alerts in a manner akin to enterprise tooling such as OpsGenie or PagerDuty.

In this talk, Tamika Reed discusses the future skills needed to succeed in the tech industry beyond coding. As the founder of Women in Linux, she shares insights into Linux administration, infrastructure building, and investing in tech to secure a prosperous career. Discover the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in the ever-evolving tech world.

Ashley Davis, Senior Software Engineer and Maintainer of cert-manager, discusses the capabilities of cert-manager, an easy way to manage certificates in Kubernetes clusters. Ashley highlights the importance of Trust-manager for managing trust bundles, enabling clients to verify certificate legitimacy. Additionally, he explores the potential of using x509 certificates as a universal identity control plane in distributed systems through the concept of "SPIFFE" (Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone).

In this talk, Alan Vailliencourt, a Senior Solutions Engineer with Teleport, discusses the importance of moving away from passwords and securing access to cloud-native resources using short-lived certificates. He highlights the risks associated with passwords and showcases the benefits of identity-native access, incorporating proof of presence, mutual authentication, and device security. The talk provides practical steps for adopting certificate-based authentication and improving security posture for Kubernetes, databases, and other cloud resources.

In this talk, Alex Olivier shares their personal experience with the challenges of constantly changing authorization requirements in software systems. They discuss the drawbacks of traditional if-else statement-based authorization logic and propose a more efficient and scalable solution using an authorization service called Cerbos. The talk explores the benefits of decoupling authorization logic into policies, providing a centralized and maintainable approach with a clear audit trail.

Learn how to monitor MLOps workflows effectively with Flyte-powered Grafana dashboards in this talk from Navigate NA 2023. Shivay Lamba discusses the importance of monitoring in the MLOps journey, highlighting the unique challenges in monitoring machine learning models compared to standard software development. Discover how Flyte, an open-source project, can help manage and monitor ML tasks efficiently, and see a live demonstration of setting up Grafana dashboards to visualize system metrics like CPU and GPU utilization. Take advantage of this opportunity to enhance your MLOps monitoring skills and optimize your machine learning workflows.

Nuno do Carmo introduces three ways to run K3s: K3D, which excels in CI/CD pipelines with its impressive CLI; Rancher Desktop, offering full-featured Kubernetes on desktops with a UI and control functionalities; and Civo, a community-centric platform using K3s for their Kubernetes service with transparent pricing.

In this presentation, Laszlo Fogas, the founder of Gimlet.io, introduces "ClickOps over GitOps." Discover how ClickOps revolutionizes cloud operations, enabling infrastructure as code changes with dashboard actions. Learn about the benefits of this approach, its role in platform engineering, and see practical use cases with live demos. Streamline your DevOps processes and avoid configuration drift by exploring ClickOps in this Navigate NA 2023 talk.

In this Navigate 2023 talk, Matt Dupree discusses various challenges in data work and machine learning and proposes potential solutions. He highlights the importance of static analysis to address the problem of refactoring in data notebooks. Dupree emphasizes the need for automated testing workflows using IPython's hooks and profiles to minimize errors and missed opportunities. Furthermore, he suggests the development of Jupyter Bridge plugins to alleviate the repetitive typing of code and simplify the interaction between Python and JavaScript.

In this video @KunalKushwaha goes through how to deploy the Kubernetes Dashboard using the Civo Marketplace. Discover the step-by-step process of accessing your cluster, obtaining the necessary token, and starting the server on your local system. The Kubernetes Dashboard offers a user-friendly interface for managing clusters, deploying applications, and monitoring workloads. Explore its benefits such as centralized management, simplified troubleshooting, and resource management.