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Overcome these 5 DevOps challenges

DevOps adoption isn't easy, but the results are worth it. Learn how to collaborate, cooperate and coordinate with better organization and DevOps tooling.

By Emily Mell • Aug. 24, 2020

A beginner’s guide to hosted and bare-metal virtualization

Choosing a virtualization approach isn't a matter of competition. Admins must consider their personal use cases to determine which hypervisor type suits their needs.

By Stephen Bigelow • Aug. 24, 2020

Kubernetes security defaults prompt upstream dilemma

As Kubernetes matures, community maintainers weigh enterprise demand for secure upstream defaults against concerns about sprawl and customizability.

By Beth Pariseau • Aug. 21, 2020

OpenTelemetry aids distributed tracing, Kubernetes monitoring

OpenTelemetry combines multiple CNCF observability projects, as well as multiple enterprise data collection mechanisms, simplifying Kubernetes monitoring.

By Beth Pariseau • Aug. 21, 2020

How to build a successful IT service desk

The IT service desk has a lot to manage. With a strong foundation and the right steps in place to handle issues, it can take on anything users throw at it.

By Adam Fowler • Aug. 21, 2020

Shore up defenses with help from Office 365 logs

Logging on Microsoft's productivity platform used in conjunction with other tools can form an effective shield from malicious actors looking to find a way into your organization.

By Reda Chouffani • Aug. 20, 2020

Understand the pros and cons of the IBM PowerVM

IBM's enterprise virtualization product, PowerVM, offers a host of benefits, but it also comes with challenges that admins should familiarize themselves with prior to implementation.

By Robert Sheldon • Aug. 19, 2020

GitOps gains momentum among Kubernetes deployment tools

The growing popularity of Kubernetes GitOps tools reflects increasing cloud-native maturity and complexity among enterprise shops such as American Express.

By Beth Pariseau • Aug. 19, 2020

Use Pulumi and Azure DevOps to deploy infrastructure as code

Follow this tutorial for an overview of Pulumi, an IaC tool, within the Azure DevOps toolchain, and how to use them together to define, build, test and deploy infrastructure.

By Deepak Dhami • Aug. 19, 2020

5 leading data virtualization tools offer integration strategy

Learn which features and capabilities your organization should consider in order to select the data virtualization platform that will best fits its needs.

By Brien Posey • Aug. 17, 2020

Slack integrations to form alternate UI for Atlassian tools

Atlassian plans to make Slack a full alternative interface for its software development and incident response tools, including single sign-on features.

By Beth Pariseau • Aug. 14, 2020

Infrastructure-as-code upstart boosts Kubernetes deployment

Pulumi has expanded its integrations with Kubernetes deployment tools including OPA, Helm v3 and Kustomize, offering a central collaboration point for DevOps container management.

By Beth Pariseau • Aug. 13, 2020

Microsoft Windows Azure Active Directory (Windows Azure AD)

Microsoft Windows Azure Active Directory (Windows Azure AD or Azure AD) is a cloud service that provides administrators with the ability to manage end-user identities and access privileges.

By Toni Boger, Wesley Chai • Aug. 13, 2020

Tools and techniques to master API management in production

APIs are a cornerstone of modern application development. IT ops teams must monitor and manage APIs in production to resolve issues that hinder performance.

By Clive Longbottom • Aug. 13, 2020

Terraform Cloud adds enterprise support, usage-based pricing

Terraform Cloud's new Business tier is a sign of what's to come for both Terraform Enterprise and IT ops teams overwhelmed with tools to manage, industry analysts say.

By Beth Pariseau • Aug. 12, 2020

Memory management techniques improve system performance

Prior to using memory management strategies, admins should familiarize themselves with approaches to ensure they implement techniques suited to their specific circumstances.

By Robert Sheldon • Aug. 12, 2020

Microsoft plugs 2 zero-days on August Patch Tuesday

In addition to the actively exploited flaws, IT workers must contend with a domain controller exploit that could give an attacker administrative access.

By Tom Walat • Aug. 12, 2020

Incident communication best practices for happier users

Proper communication around an IT outage or incident can prevent chaos. Use these techniques -- at home and abroad -- to keep users well-informed.

By Adam Fowler • Aug. 11, 2020

Implement simple server monitoring with PowerShell

Administrators who build a server monitoring framework with PowerShell can develop their own customized checks for deeper insights into their environment.

By Adam Bertram • Aug. 11, 2020

Value stream management tames DevOps chaos at Eli Lilly

The pharma firm straightened out disorganized DevOps processes, which now include data management for COVID-19 clinical trials, with a Plutora value stream management tool.

By Beth Pariseau • Aug. 7, 2020

Techniques to troubleshoot Active Directory issues

Active Directory runs several key operational duties, such as validating access to resources. Keep the system from breaking down with help from these diagnostic methods.

By Brien Posey • Aug. 7, 2020

How Kubernetes enhances DevOps practices

Kubernetes isn't necessary for DevOps, and you don't need a DevOps team to adopt Kubernetes container management. But, here are all the ways that these two are better together.

By Will Kelly • Aug. 6, 2020

DevOps pipeline consolidation continues among CI/CD tools

Bespoke DevOps pipelines are becoming a thing of the past as specialist vendors such as Harness and Drone.io merge to compete with large platform vendors.

By Beth Pariseau • Aug. 5, 2020

Microsoft unveils Open Service Mesh, vows donation to CNCF

Microsoft pledged to donate its service mesh to the CNCF in a stab at Istio, setting the stage for potential vendor collaboration around multi-cloud interoperability standards.

By Beth Pariseau • Aug. 5, 2020

What is a Docker container vs. an image?

Docker images, Dockerfiles and containers are all instrumental in a Docker setup. Learn what tasks each component completes and how they interact with each other to run applications.

By Chris Tozzi • Aug. 3, 2020