Grafana is a widely used tool for monitoring applications and infrastructures. In addition to the visualization of metrics in dashboards, it also offers functions for alerting. We have been working very successfully with Grafana as a monitoring solution in our customer projects for many years. However, people often underestimate how much effort goes into creating invested in creating customized content such as dashboards and alerts. We have started an open source project in GitHub with the Grafana Content Manager, with which the development and backup of Grafana content such as dashboards, Unified Alerting but also data sources is supported.

Kubernetes native BigData platform with S3 There is a wide range of tools which allows the analysis of BigData, like Hadoop or other NoSQL databases like MongoDB. All have in common that they are providing functionality for preparing (enrichment, analysing) and persisting data for exploration and visualization. With the usage of cloud services like AWS, other cloud based persistent layer are used to store the data. Amazon S3 (SimpleStorageService) in AWS is one of these newly used layer.

Securing your Kubernetes Cluster with SSO When you are using Kubernetes in your company you are wondering how to secure your Kubernetes Cluster against an unauthorized access of users. Most user of Kubernetes don’t know that the Access Tokens used in Kubeconfig files are stored as secrets within Kubernetes in plain text. To secure these secrets you must block the reading of secrets for your developer. This sound easier as it is in reality, because Kubernetes RBAC does not know deny permissions.

IONOS SE as part of United Internet Group has the approach to anchoring their own services provided by IONOS more deeply in the company. One aspect of that approach is the usage of their own Cloud provider “IONOS Cloud”. YOTRON supports the BI/BigData-department in the usage of the Cloud for their services. YOTRON supports DevOps, Cloud and Kubernetes Goal of the usage of Kubernetes and IONOS Cloud is the seamless integration into the IONOS network.

VERBI GmbH is the software provider of MAXQDA, a software to support academic, scientific and business institutions in their daily research with worldwide distributed teams. To support the team work of their customers, VERBI developed with MAXQDA TeamCloud a cloud strategy for a frictionless collaborate work on common research tasks between members of the research teams. This strategy shall be developed entirely in the public cloud. VERBI chose YOTRON as their consultant to introduce the public cloud into their strategy because of our experience in Cloud topics.