All too often we hear about a site going down or suffering problems because they've let their public x509 certificate expire. SSL certificates, which are required for HTTPS to work for secure connections using TLS to domains, expire after a number of years.…

While extending a VMDK file is a fairly easy task that can be performed right in Disk Manager, shrinking a virtual disk is a bit tricky. And, you need to be really careful because unless done properly, reducing virtual disk size may cause data loss! Sure…

Threat actors are exploiting a Jenkins vulnerability (CVE-2018-1000861) disclosed in 2018 to deliver a cryptocurrency miner using the Kerberods dropper

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation sponsored this post. A number of studies have confirmed how cloud-based development and service deployments have seen a significant increase in the adoption of containers. According to a Cloud Native Computing Foundation…

F5, the application services and application delivery networking, has just bought NGINX, best known for its speedy open-source web server.

D E A D L I N E… As a developer, this is one of your biggest nightmares or should I say your enemy? Name it whatever you want. Admit it. It scares you a lot. Even now, while you are reading these sentences, it makes your hair stand on

Before automation, publishing the artefact was like running on a mine field.

We shed some light on what GraphQL is and give you an opportunity for some hands-on experience with Apollo and React.

This article presents "support functions" - a new feature in PostgreSQL v12 that allows the query optimizer to plan function calls better

A blog post by Saad Ali, senior software engineer at Google, drew considerable attention early year when Ali first described Kubernetes GA in “Container Storage Interface (CSI) for Kubernetes GA." In that post, Ali described how “CSI was developed as a standard…

Using a step-by-step example in Java, this article provides a practical example of how to use test-driven development (TDD) to divide, test, and conquer larger problems when coding.

If you make use of Secure Shell, you'll want to run down this checklist of five quick tips to make that Linux server a bit more secure.

pgBackRest is a backup and restore solution for PostgreSQL that takes away much of the mundane admin and policy tasks. Jobin Augustine explores its use.

When Jenkins appeared, its pipelines were called FreeStyle jobs. There was no way to describe them in code, and they were not kept in version control. We were creating and maintaining those jobs th…

Release candidate 1 of Terraform 0.12.0 is now available for testing. Unless testing identifies a significant blocker, we expect to publish the final 0.12.0 release a few weeks from now.

Take a look at this step-by-step guide with examples that demonstrates how you can get up and running with Jenkins Job Builder.

GitHub today announced the launch of a limited beta of the GitHub Package Registry, its new package management service that lets developers publish public and private packages next to their source code. To be clear, GitHub isn’t launching a competitor to…

This is the final part of the series on Google Cloud Run. In this tutorial, we will explore how to deploy a Cloud Run service that interacts with existing services already deployed on a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. When the Cloud Run service targets…

Interested to learn more? Then check out our detailed article on Three Main Hostings for IT Projects: Which one wins the race!

Extensive list of the best open source dashboard monitoring tools available in 2019 including tools such as Grafana or Kibana.