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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

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The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. But is five nines availability attainable? Downtime per year. 90% (one nine).

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Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

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Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps. In production, containers are easy to replicate. Here the overlap with Kubernetes begins.

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Container security: What it is, why it’s tricky, and how to do it right

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Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. In fact, the market research firm Forrester says that the average container image is comprised of 70% open-source software.[1] 1] And unfortunately, open-source software is often fraught with security vulnerabilities.

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Vulnerability assessment: key to protecting applications and infrastructure

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NMAP is an example of a well-known open-source network scanner. Host analysis focuses on operating systems, virtual machines, and containers to understand if there are software components with known vulnerabilities that can be patched. This also determines if identity management and access control policies are in place.

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What is OpenShift? And how to make OpenShift monitoring easy

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It offers automated installation, upgrades, and life cycle management throughout the container stack — the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications — on any cloud. Access a wide ecosystem of partners with open-source and cloud-native technologies. OpenShift, DevOps, and CI/CD.

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Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

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A microservices approach enables DevOps teams to develop an application as a suite of small services. Because monolithic software systems employ one large codebase repository, the service becomes a massive piece of software that is labor-intensive to manage. VMs require their own operating system and take up additional resources.

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What is AWS Lambda?

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It also enables DevOps teams to connect to any number of AWS services or run their own functions. As a bonus, operations staff never needs to update operating systems or hardware, because AWS manages servers with no stoppage of application functionality. How do AWS Lambda functions impact monitoring?

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