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.

Rapid Application Development is a software development principle to use pre-given and frequently needed components of a software application to accelerate the software development process massively. These components are for example functions for user authentication and authorization, user management (self-registration of a user, deactivating an account) but also application designs. With the usage of pre-given component, a lot of development tasks are omitted what rapidly accelerates the software development. YOTRON put these development principles one step ahead and uses a Kubernetes-ready Rapid Application Development framework.

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.