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  The No. 1 Rule of Disaster Recovery
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  Let’s imagine you are running a hosting shop with highly visible production applications. Your team has backups, and you have a disaster recovery (DR) policy. You think you are ready to handle any real-world scenario in addition to checking all your compliance boxes. Your third-party backup tools are creating backups, and your implemented solutions have a brochure indicating restore capability. So, You Think You’re Ready for a Disaster? A year later, your primary data center or hosting cloud goes out; the city is underwater; someone forgot to refill the generator.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/number-one-rule-disaster-recovery/
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  Secure Access to PostgreSQL with Pgweb
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  Introduction to PostgreSQL and Pgweb PostgreSQL is an open source database known for its reliability and performance. It’s used across many industries and applications, and is especially a favorite of web developers. All major web frameworks support PostgreSQL natively, from node.js and Django to Rails and Spring, so its adaptation is relatively broad across the internet for site backend systems. As with any database, developers need tools to work with them.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/access-postgresql-quickly-securely-pgweb/
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  Monitor and Optimize Your Rancher Environment with Datadog
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  Many organizations use Kubernetes to quickly ship new features and improve the reliability of their services. Rancher enables teams to reduce the operational overhead of managing their cloud-native workloads — but getting continuous visibility into these environments can be challenging. In this post, we’ll explore how you can quickly start monitoring orchestrated workloads with Rancher’s built-in support for Prometheus and Grafana. Then we’ll show you how integrating Datadog with Rancher can help you get even deeper visibility into these ephemeral environments with rich visualizations, algorithmic alerting, and other features.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/monitoring-optimizing-kubernetes-clusters-datadog/
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  Global Energy Leader Transforms Technology and Culture with Kubernetes
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  “When I look at the most advanced digital organizations such as Google, Netflix, Amazon and Facebook, they’re running service-orientated architectures, with estates of microservices, completely decoupled from one another but managed centrally. We aspire to reach this point and Rancher is an important part of the journey.” Anthony Andrades, Head of Global Infrastructure Strategy, Schneider Electric When your company is born in the first Industrial Revolution, how do you stay relevant in the digital age?
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/schneider-electric/
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  Deploy an Ingress Controllers on K3s
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  Deploy an Ingress Controllers on K3s Kubernetes provides a powerful networking model for microservices. One of the pillars of this model is that each pod has its own IP address and is directly addressable within the cluster. As a consequence, each Kubernetes cluster usually has a flat virtual network that external hosts can’t reach directly. That means routing traffic from clients outside the cluster to services deployed inside the cluster requires some additional work.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/deploy-an-ingress-controllers/
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  Connecting the World’s Travel Trade with Kubernetes
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  “We needed the flexibility to run any technologies side-by-side and a way to run clusters in multiple clouds, and a variety of environments – depending on customer needs. Rancher was the only realistic choice.” Lorena Sánchez Ballabriga, Senior Technical Architect, Hotelbeds When you book a hotel online or with a travel agent, you’ve probably got a wish list that has to do with the size of the room, view, location and amenities.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/hotelbeds/
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  The Power of Innovation
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  CEO and Co-Founder Sheng Liang has a saying about how we approach open source at Rancher Labs: “Let a thousand flowers bloom.” When we set out to build something, we don’t know if it will turn into a successful product, spark another product idea or be a good idea that doesn’t get traction. The joy is in the journey. Take K3s, our lightweight Kubernetes distribution. We didn’t start out developing K3s – it grew organically out of a project called Rio.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/power-of-innovation/
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  Automate k3OS Cluster Registration to Rancher with Argo Workflows and Scripting Magic
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  Introduction As the Kubernetes ecosystem grows, new technologies are being developed that enable a wider range of applications and use cases. The growth of edge computing has driven a need for some of these technologies to enable the deployment of Kubernetes to low-resource infrastructure to the network edge. In this blog post, we are going to introduce you to one method of deploying k3OS to the edge. You can use this method to automatically register your edge machine to a Rancher instance as a control plane.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/automate-k3os-cluster-registration/
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  A Clear Path to Automated Optimization of Application Performance
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  Rancher has helped thousands of organizations manage their transitions to containerized applications and Kubernetes. With its innovative distribution and suite of services, Rancher has given IT and DevOps teams the roadmap they needed to drive Kubernetes success. Given the complexity of Kubernetes and the shortage of engineers with Kubernetes-specific skills, Rancher’s offerings meet a critical and growing market need. The main driver of this growth is the growing momentum of cloud adoption among enterprises.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/clear-path-to-automated-optimization/
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  Prometheus Metric Federation with Thanos
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  Prometheus is a CNCF graduated project for monitoring and alerting. It is one of the most widely used monitoring and alerting tools in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Rancher users can leverage Prometheus quickly by using the built-in monitoring stack. Prometheus stores its metrics as a time series database on the local disk. Prometheus local storage is limited by the size of the disk and amount of metrics it can retain.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/prometheus-metric-federation/
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  MPAC Cuts Cloud Costs by 40 Percent with Rancher
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  “Rancher has solved a host of issues facing us as a publicly funded organization – driving predictability, easing cluster management and upholding the right security profile. Rancher was the obvious choice to meet these goals.” Chruz Cruz, Senior Infrastructure Architect, MPAC Every day, thousands of property owners in Ontario access an online application to view their property profiles, assessment information and comparable properties. Managed by the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC), the application is used in the organization’s work of assessing more than five million properties in Ontario.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/mpac/
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  Create Reproducible Security in Kubernetes with Helm 3 and Helm Charts
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  With the growing popularity of containerized applications, organizations and startups at all levels need to manage their Kubernetes deployments more safely at scale. Today, there is an expanding list of tools and services that can help do this. One of these services is the package manager known as Helm. As a recent graduate from incubation to a full-fledged project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, some estimate that Helm is used by more than 70 percent of Kubernetes developers and is building a fingerprint all its own in helping to secure containerized applications.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/helm-security/
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  Why SUSE Acquired Rancher Labs
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  Why SUSE Acquired Rancher Labs My favorite ice cream store is just off Richmond Green, close to where I live in West London. On sunny days, locals queue around the block to buy their fantastic gelatos and sorbets. Every one of their customers knows that they could easily nip into the supermarket around the corner to buy hermetically sealed chocolate ice cream, but they queue anyway. Why? Because my favorite ice cream store offers a huge selection of delicious flavors that customers can combine in innovative ways under the expert guidance of their friendly staff.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/os-agnostic/
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  SUSE Enters Into Definitive Agreement to Acquire Rancher Labs
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  I’m excited to announce that Rancher has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by SUSE. Rancher is the most widely used enterprise Kubernetes platform. SUSE is the largest independent open source software company and a leader in enterprise Linux. By combining Rancher and SUSE, we not only gain massive engineering resources to further strengthen our market-leading product, we are also able to preserve our unique 100% open source business model.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/suse-to-acquire-rancher/
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  Install SAP Data Intelligence 3.0 on an RKE Cluster
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  Rancher and SAP have been working on a dedicated verification of SAP Data Intelligence 3 (SAP DI) on Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) cluster and Longhorn storage platform. This blog will guide you on how to properly install SAP DI on an RKE cluster. Learn more about at Installation Guide for SAP Data Intelligence. Install an RKE Cluster First, we need to install an RKE cluster where we’ll install SAP DI.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/sap-validation/
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  Deploy HAProxy Ingress Controller from Rancher’s Apps Catalog
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  In Kubernetes, Ingress objects define rules for how to route a client’s request to a specific service running inside your cluster. These rules can take into account the unique aspects of an incoming HTTP message, including its Host header and the URL path, allowing you to send traffic to one service or another using data discovered in the request itself. That means you can use Ingress objects to define routing for many different applications.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/deploy-haproxy-ingress-controller/
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  Kubernetes Everywhere Enables Simplified Heterogeneous Deployment: Edge, Prem, Cloud
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  Since almost the beginning of programming, the idea of write-once and deploy everywhere, on all platforms, has been an unreachable ideal to minimize development costs for cross-platform applications, drive UI consistency and reduce security service area. In programming, the cross-platform languages Java and Python have topped developer utilization charts for decades. Kubernetes provides the next step in that evolution, providing a consistent platform that can be used for development in the cloud, on prem and in edge devices, allowing many modern application languages to be used.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/kubernetes-everywhere/
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  Deploying a Performant PHP Application on Kubernetes with Rancher
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  Introduction PHP is one of the most popular programming languages on the web. It powers many widely used content management systems like WordPress and Drupal, and provides the backbone for modern server-side frameworks like Laravel and Symfony. Despite its popularity, PHP has a bit of a reputation for being slow and hard to maintain. It has gotten better in recent years, but there are two features that high-performance PHP applications will likely need: OPcache and PHP FastCGI Process Manager (PHP-FPM).
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/deploy-php-application/
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  Upgrade Your K3s Clusters Smoothly in Rancher 2.4
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  In Rancher 2.4, the latest release of Rancher Labs’ open source Kubernetes management platform, you can now manage K3s cluster upgrades from the Rancher UI. K3s is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution from Rancher that you can use to set up your development Kubernetes environment within minutes. It is great for production use cases and is built primarily for IOT and Edge devices. In Rancher 2.4, you can import K3s clusters and can manage the upgrades for it via Rancher itself.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/upgrade-your-k3s-clsuter/
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  Upgrade Your K3s Clusters Smoothly in Rancher 2.4
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  In Rancher 2.4, the latest release of Rancher Labs’ open source Kubernetes management platform, you can now manage K3s cluster upgrades from the Rancher UI. K3s is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution from Rancher that you can use to set up your development Kubernetes environment within minutes. It is great for production use cases and is built primarily for IOT and Edge devices. In Rancher 2.4, you can import K3s clusters and can manage the upgrades for it via Rancher itself.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/upgrade-your-k3s-cluster/