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Incident monitoring and response How would one define an incident? Well, let me posit this to you: what would you do if a bear attacked you? Does this sound stupid?
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We can now create a separate alarm for our test 1 instance and it will be shown graphically to give you an idea of what is happening with the metric
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Running runbooks When we talk about incident response, one of the most common responses to an incident that affects your resources is to turn it on and off again. This
Read MorePattern analysis of monitored logs – Security and DevSecOps with Python
Pattern analysis of monitored logs Monitored logs can give you insights into how an application has performed and if there are some unusual patterns detected within the timeline. For example,
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Automating server maintenance and patching I once had a friend whose only job most days was to wait for a website to go down, check why it had gone done,
Read MoreSample 2: Centralizing OS patching for critical updates – Automating Tasks
Sample 2: Centralizing OS patching for critical updates OS are like any brand, really. Well, at least among most of the tech community, it’s like Coke and Pepsi – except
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Automating container creation Containers – in the eyes of many – are magic. You can put all the stuff you need for a smaller application or a section of a
Read MoreValidating and verifying container images with Binary Authorization – Security and DevSecOps with Python
Validating and verifying container images with Binary Authorization The amount of time I have now spent harping on about containers has probably clued you into the fact that containers may
Read MoreSample 2: Spinning up Kubernetes clusters – Automating Tasks
Sample 2: Spinning up Kubernetes clusters I will start off with a personal note: when I first got into Kubernetes, it was probably the hardest thing in the world for
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