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OpsRamp Using OpsRamp for SaaS Ops Excellence

Like many of its customers, OpsRamp needs to ensure 24 x 7 availability and performance for key services and applications. Challenges include how to effectively manage multiple pods across different geographies, how to control access and security, and how to ease alert management and improve metrics such as response and resolution times. In this live video discussion, OpsRamp's director of cloud operations, PVV Raju, shares best practices and tips from our internal use of OpsRamp.

Rancher: Kubernetes Master Class: Provision Kubernetes in vSphere with Rancher

vSphere continues to be a popular destination for Rancher-provisioned Kubernetes clusters. In this Master Class, Rancher Staff Software Engineer, Luther Monson and Field Engineer, David Holder present updates on the capabilities of Rancher with vSphere. Follow along with a full cluster lifecycle demonstration showcasing template creation, provisioning, cloud providers and more.

Rancher November 2020 Online Meetup - GitOps with Rancher Continuous Delivery

As the number of clusters under management increase, application owners and cluster operators need a programatic way to manage deploying to their clusters. Rancher Continuous Delivery allows an administrator to create groups of clusters and link them to Git repositories. This means an application owner only ever needs access to the Git repository and not the management cluster. Deployment manifests can be defined in Helm, Kustomize or K8s yaml files and can be tailored based on attributes of the target clusters.

Graylog: Getting Value Out of Graylog

Join Graylog's experts and Technical Evangelist, Brad Six, for Season 2 of our Tech Talk series. In this season, the conversations will cover how our customers get immediate value out of Graylog. In four short sessions, you will learn how key features and functionality in Graylog work together to help you quickly identify potential security and operations issues before they impact your business.

ManageEngine: Back to work: Re-strategizing your network monitoring practices

Get your network ready for the paradigm shift With restrictions being lifted, returning to the workplace could mean recalling furloughed employees or transitioning away from remote work or ramping back up towards full productivity. For many companies its a combination of all three as they are focusing on calling only the employees who really need to work from office while the rest of them are remote. This has led to an imbalance in IT infrastructure once again. Apart from employee safety, factors like VPN and configuration management, network security, etc. need to be taken into consideration.

Resolve: Live Panel Discussion: 7 Automations Every IT Team Should Prioritize

IT teams face a myriad of operational challenges right now. Some have intensified in the wake of the pandemic. Others are brand new. And some remain status quo. The conundrum persists: How do you deliver quality IT services faster and accelerate digital transformation initiatives without increasing costs or headcount? Tune in to our panel webcast to see how forward-thinking enterprises are addressing these challenges with automation.

Dealing with data glut: Why ROT data is an issue, and how to manage it

As file storage grows rapidly year after year, new challenges arise around keeping data safe and maintaining control over data storage systems. Who owns which files? Whose files take up what volume of enterprise storage? Which files have become obsolete? How many copies of a file exist, and where? Are there any stale files that contain sensitive data? These questions require up-to-date answers to ensure that business, compliance, and data security needs are easily and effectively met.

The Future of AIOps: 2021 Trends and How to Get Started

Technology trends transform human behavior permanently. In the past decade, we have improved as a society by embracing digital lives that drive faster collaboration and automation and save us a significant amount of time. The IT Operations landscape is not any different, and artificial intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of that.

Understanding and mitigating CVE-2020-8563: vSphere credentials leak in the cloud-controller-manager log

While auditing the Kubernetes source code, I recently discovered an issue (CVE-2020-8563) in Kubernetes that may cause sensitive data leakage. You would be affected by CVE-2020-8563 if you created a Kubernetes cluster over vSphere, and enabled vSphere as a cloud provider with logging level set to 4 or above. In that case, your vSphere user credentials will be leaked in the cloud-controller-manager‘s log.