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platform engineering

Platform engineering is a specialized discipline within software development that focuses on designing, building, maintaining and improving the toolchains and workflows software developers use.

By Stephen Bigelow • Nov. 16, 2023

Digital footprint management: Tools, laws and strategies

Digital footprint management can be hard with the abundance of apps that collect consumer data. Data privacy apps simplify the process, according to state laws.

By Ben Lutkevich • Nov. 15, 2023

Microsoft halts 3 zero-days on November Patch Tuesday

Microsoft addresses 67 vulnerabilities, including six critical, and shuts down four bugs in the Exchange Server email platform this month.

By Tom Walat • Nov. 15, 2023

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023 cloud-native vendor highlights

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023 served as a hub where vendors and IT pros discussed the latest advancements in cloud-native technologies.

By Paul Nashawaty • Nov. 13, 2023

What should admins know about Microsoft Entra features?

Microsoft Entra combines new and existing cloud-based products and packages them under a new name. Learn how this change affects identity access management in your organization.

By Brien Posey • Nov. 13, 2023

Generative AI brings changes to cloud-native platforms

Generative AI took over tech in 2023, and cloud-native platforms are no exception. The need to support LLMs is already affecting CNCF projects, including Kubernetes.

By Beth Pariseau • Nov. 9, 2023

Intel exec affixes OpenSSF, CNCF open source security efforts

Intel's Arun Gupta, now governing board chair of both the CNCF and OpenSSF, discusses his plans to bring all three organizations together to improve open source security.

By Beth Pariseau • Nov. 8, 2023

Behind the scenes, Spotify’s Backstage a work in progress

Spotify-created Backstage, now a CNCF project, is popular as enterprises add developer portals to internal platforms, but setup is hard, and getting dev buy-in can be even harder.

By Beth Pariseau • Nov. 7, 2023

client-server network

A client-server network is a distributed communications architecture in which a centralized server receives and responds to requests for services and data from multiple clients.

By Paul Kirvan • Nov. 3, 2023

IT pros size up Microsoft Radius app developer platform

As the platform engineering era dawns, enterprises seek better ways to tie apps to distributed infrastructure across clouds. But can Azure's owner build multi-cloud consensus?

By Beth Pariseau • Nov. 2, 2023

Emergent observability topics at KubeCon 2023

New use cases like cost management, sustainability and scalability will lead observability discussions in the North American KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023 conference.

By Jon Brown • Nov. 2, 2023

WebAssembly vs. Kubernetes: Understand the relationship

WebAssembly provides an avenue for the creation of highly portable web applications. Pairing Wasm with Kubernetes can make that process easier to orchestrate and manage.

By Stephen Bigelow • Nov. 2, 2023

platform

In IT, a platform is any hardware or software used to host an application or service.

By Margaret Rouse, Stephen Bigelow • Nov. 2, 2023

Set up a Terraform S3 backend with this video tutorial

Storing your state files remotely makes for more stable infrastructure. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to build a Terraform AWS S3 backend to properly secure state files.

By Christopher Blackden • Nov. 1, 2023

Assign GPUs to virtual machines with VMware vGPU mode

Resource delegation across an IT system can be troublesome, but it doesn't have to be. Follow this guide to assign the right amount of GPU to support virtual machines on VMware.

By Stephen Bigelow • Oct. 27, 2023

LaunchDarkly feature management adds built-in workflows

Large enterprises use feature management to cope with traffic spikes and speed up releases but must plan carefully to avoid technical debt. LaunchDarkly updates could help.

By Beth Pariseau • Oct. 26, 2023

Rancher founders’ new venture recasts Kubernetes management

While Rancher focused on simplifying Kubernetes management, Acorn Labs looks to remove it entirely from developer workflows by embedding it within a new kind of application image.

By Beth Pariseau • Oct. 26, 2023

Generative AI gets AIOps closer to ultimate goal

BigPanda's generative AI-driven root cause analysis keeps it at crux of IHG's AIOps. Glean's natural language processing and suggestions will free up time for Cruise devx team.

By Beth Pariseau • Oct. 25, 2023

How to use ChatGPT with PowerShell to write code for admins

Use of artificial intelligence tools is on the rise in many industries, and administrators can tap into these digital helpers to improve their scripting attempts.

By Anthony Howell • Oct. 24, 2023

Learn how to use Terraform modules with examples

Running modules can benefit Terraform usability. Explore what a module in Terraform is, when you should use them, and run through some Terraform module examples.

By Anthony Howell • Oct. 24, 2023

site reliability engineering (SRE)

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the application of scripting and automation to IT operations tasks such as maintenance and support.

By Paul Kirvan, Emily Mell • Oct. 19, 2023

Prisma Cloud analytics, automation boost DevSecOps speed

Prisma Cloud's Darwin update looks to address DevSecOps communication and velocity lags with centralized analytics and by ditching tickets for automated pull requests.

By Beth Pariseau • Oct. 18, 2023

Automate IT operations with VMware and Ansible

When paired with VMware, Ansible software can help automate IT tasks. Learn the steps to install Ansible and how to set up a virtual machine through vCenter.

By Rob Bastiaansen • Oct. 16, 2023

Pulumi, HashiCorp competition expands to developer platforms

Developer platform choices for enterprise IT continue to proliferate as infrastructure-as-code rivals rush to create tools targeting platform engineers.

By Beth Pariseau • Oct. 12, 2023

Exec: Key new HashiCorp Terraform feature enabled by BSL

HashiCorp Terraform Stacks will be available in the free Community Edition in part due to development funded by its recent license change, one company official says.

By Beth Pariseau • Oct. 11, 2023