Category: open source
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Ubuntu Pro now available on Amazon Web Services
Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock Canonical announced on Tuesday that Ubuntu Pro is available in a subscription-included model on Amazon Web Services. With Ubuntu Pro on AWS, users can launch Ubuntu Pro on-demand instances and purchase Ubuntu Pro compute savings plans directly from the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud console. The new product is available in all…
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Top Certifications For DevOps Engineers
Source: ArtemisDiana/Adobe Stock If you hope to become or are already a DevOps engineer, certifications can strengthen your resume, sharpen your skill set, make you more attractive to employers, and increase your bottom line. This guide will reveal some of the top certifications for DevOps engineers that you can start researching to move further in…
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How to deploy a Podman container with persistent storage
If you’re either transitioning to Podman or are new to container development, Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to deploy a container with persistent storage. [embedded content] Hello, container developers, Jack Wallen here to help you make tech work. If you’re either transitioning to Podman or are new to container development, I want…
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Google Cloud offers Assured Open Source Software for free
Image: Google Open source software and software supply chain security risks continue to be a primary concern for developers and organizations. According to a 2022 study by electronic design and automation company Synopsys, 84% of open source software codebases contained at least one known vulnerability — a nearly 4% increase from last year — and…
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Running WordPress on Azure for secure, fast and global content delivery
Learn about Microsoft’s WordPress on Azure App Service, as well as an interesting alternative from WP Engine. Image: Hugo Baeta Twenty years old this year, WordPress remains one of the most popular content management tools. Running a WordPress instance requires a web server and a database, an ideal combination for moving to a virtual infrastructure…
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Kubernetes is the key to cloud, but cost containment is critical
What’s driving the growth of open source container orchestrator Kubernetes? A study by Pepperdata shows how companies are using K8s and the challenges they face in getting a handle on cloud costs. Image: LuckyStep/Adobe Stock With the rush to cloud enterprise comes increasing use of Kubernetes to get applications up and running on the web.…
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How to deploy your first container with the Cockpit GUI
Learn how to use the Cockpit GUI for your first container with this brief tutorial from expert Jack Wallen. Image: TechRepublic In a recent TechRepublic video, Jack Wallen shows how to deploy your first container using the Cockpit GUI that ships with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux. The following is an edited…
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How to easily deploy a full-stack application in Portainer with templates
Deploying a complex Docker stack isn’t nearly as challenging as you think, at least when Portainer is your GUI of choice. Find out how easy this is with Portainer templates. Image: BalanceFormCreative/Adobe Stock When you think of deploying a full-stack, containerized application, you probably expect it to be a tedious and complicated task of manually…
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How to create and manage Kubernetes Secrets in Portainer
Instead of keeping Secrets in Kubernetes manifests, store them separately. Portainer makes this quite simple; I’ll show you how in this tutorial. Image: tostphoto/Adobe Stock When you’re building and deploying Kubernetes services and pods, you sometimes have to use a secret, such as a password, an API key or a third-party access token. You certainly…
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How to add a new development environment to Portainer
If you’ve deployed Portainer as a Kubernetes development platform and want to add a different environment, you’re in luck — the process is quite simple. portainer-add-development-environment Recently, I outlined how to deploy Portainer to a MicroK8s Kubernetes cluster. The process is surprisingly easy and goes a long way to strip the complications from Kubernetes. That…