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Fresh From the Labs: CloudHealth Product Updates January 2026

By TJ March posted 5 days ago
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Fresh From the Labs: CloudHealth Product Updates January 2026 For many, January represents a new start. “New Year, new you.” The CloudHealth team, however, has decided to keep building on the incredible momentum it had in the second half of 2025. CloudHealth’s January product update boasts 8 new features for our customers and partners. Headlined by the Public Beta of Custom Datasets and the addition of Dashboards to Content Packages for our Partners, the team has been hard at work delivering impactful and meaningful improvements. Let’s dive into the January 2026 updates. In the New Experience Public Beta | Custom Datasets CloudHealth ...
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What Happens When Your Kubernetes Cluster Can't Find Its initial DNS Server?

By Jorg Mertin posted 5 days ago
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In a healthy Kubernetes environment, the CoreDNS service is the silent resolver. It ensures that when your application tries to reach orders-db , it is routed to the correct internal IP. But what happens during those critical first seconds of a cluster start if your primary, configured DNS server is unreachable? Many engineers are surprised to find that instead of simply failing, the cluster often falls back to "Public Defaults" - specifically Google ( 8.8.8.8 ) and Cloudflare ( 1.1.1.1 ). While this keeps the cluster alive, it can create a “non critical” situation for security and internal service discovery. On critical in the way that the cluster ...
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Secure your Python deployments using Bitnami Secure Images minimal image

By Jota Martos posted 9 days ago
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Bitnami minimal images are distroless and optimized containers designed to include only the essential components required to run an application, excluding shells and package managers. Key benefits are: Performance : Smaller sizes lead to faster startup and pull times. Security : A reduced attack surface means fewer vulnerabilities and components for potential exploits. Efficiency : Simpler maintenance due to fewer dependencies requiring patches or updates. Best use cases include production environments where security and performance are critical, workloads that are regulated or highly sensitive to security risks, or applications built with ...
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Doing More with Less RAM: Cut Privileged Access Costs Without Sacrificing Security or Scale

By Joe Burke posted 10 days ago
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The global DRAM/RAM shortage has resulted in significant cost increases, +200% since August 2025. These higher prices are expected for the foreseeable future creating mounting pressure for organizations to reduce their overall memory consumption. CIOs and CISOs are challenged to extract as much value as possible out of existing infrastructure while keeping the environment secure in the face of rising threats and regulatory pressure. Many companies are now scrutinizing every available gigabyte deployed. Modern IT practices have fueled spikes in infrastructure demand and simultaneously boosted the need to continuously manage privileged accounts and ...
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The New CloudHealth Experience & the Operate Phase of the FinOps Framework

By TJ March posted 16 days ago
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The New CloudHealth Experience & the Operate Phase of the FinOps Framework Originally Published: August 6, 2024 Starting in June, leading up to FinOps X in San Diego, the CloudHealth team has been teasing a new CloudHealth user experience . While in San Diego at FinOps X, those in attendance were lucky enough to get a tech preview of it live at the CloudHealth booth in the Expo. Throughout the Summer, we have been bringing the new user experience into the context of a user’s journey in cloud maturity, and aligning it to the FinOps Phases developed by the FinOps Foundation. At the beginning of July, my colleague did a deep dive into ...
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CA Client Automation - Patch Management - Published Out-of-band Patches for Jan, 2026

By Sreekanth Chejarla posted 16 days ago
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On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that Windows OS Out-of-band security patches for January 2026 are now available and have been successfully published. The following cumulative updates are published: 2026-01 Cumulative Update - WinServer2025-kb5077793-x64-24H2 2026-01 Cumulative Update - WinServer2022-kb5077800-x64-21H2 2026-01 Cumulative Update - Win10-Server2019-kb5077795-x64-1809 2026-01 Cumulative Update - Win10-kb5077795-x86-1809 2026-01 Cumulative Update - Win10-kb5077796-x64-21H2-22H2 2026-01 Cumulative Update - Win10-kb5077796-x86-21H2-22H2 2026-01 Cumulative Update - Win11-kb5077797-x64-23H2 2026-01 Cumulative ...
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Singapore’s Digital Journey: From Regulation to Resilience

By Yi Xiang Tan posted 16 days ago
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Singapore’s digital ambitions have entered a new chapter. As Prime Minister Lawrence Wong noted at the launch of Smart Nation 2.0 , the next phase focuses on sharpening technology to transform our collective future. The upcoming Digital Infrastructure Act (DIA) is poised to establish a global standard, embedding digital resilience as the foundation for national trust and sovereignty. Rethinking Resilience and the Cloud Shift The infrastructure debate has evolved past the binary of "on-premises" versus "public cloud". Initially, organizations embraced the public cloud for non-Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) to gain agility. However, ...
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Scaling Sovereign AI Infrastructure in Australia

By Sean Huntley posted 16 days ago
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Australia’s AI maturity has taken a step forward with the release of the National AI Plan and the AI Plan for the Australian Public Service . Both plans have a clear focus on sovereign AI infrastructure as a key investment in Australia’s economic and security resilience. The public sector intends to lead from the front by moving away from widespread reliance on unapproved AI tools by investing in centralised procurement, training and AI infrastructure. Through directives to appoint Chief AI Officers in every agency, the intent is to give public servants safe access to AI that balances innovation with trust. However, scaling from policy and trials to ...
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Automate Your Helm Chart Assessment: Introducing the BSI Action for Renovate Pull Requests

By Alfredo Garcia posted 17 days ago
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By Pablo Galego On a recent blog called Beyond the Pull Request: How to Confidently Assess a Bitnami Helm Chart Update for Your Production Cluster , we discussed that GitOps and automation tools have come a long way to facilitate frequent updates for production services, but, for all the gained simplicity, we will still face outages if the risks are not properly assessed. You may not know that Bitnami Secure Images (BSI) provides the pre-validated software for the update, and also the missing link for an informed engineering assessment. Through access to detailed metadata like SBOMs, VEX documents, and automated test reports, not only ...
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How Network I/O Delays Suffocate Your Containers

By Jorg Mertin posted 17 days ago
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How Network I/O Delays Suffocate Your Containers in the world of microservices and Kubernetes, containers promise agility, scalability, and efficiency. We package our applications, deploy them, and expect lightning-fast performance. But often, there's a silent killer lurking beneath the surface, especially when our applications start to scale: network-induced I/O delays. It's easy to assume I/O is all about disk reads and writes. However, in a distributed container environment, a significant portion of "I/O" is actually network-bound. Every time your application needs to talk to another microservice, a database, or a persistent storage volume like ...
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Layer7 Work in Progess Update - PI 43

By Gregory Thompson posted 23 days ago
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PI Planning for PI43 is now complete and development has kicked off. Below you will find the list of items that are included in this PI and a summary of the releases completed in the previous PI. As always, we invite you to provide feedback. We would love feedback on both the current and future PI items to help us prioritize the items that will have the most benefit for our customers. Recent Releases The following product versions were released during PI42: API Portal 5.4 - Release Notes API Gateway 11.2 - Release Notes API Gateway 11.1.3 - Release Notes Mobile API Gateway MAG 4.3 - Release Notes ...
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Unleash the Potential of Custom Attributes with DX Operational Observability

By Anand Rajanala posted 24 days ago
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For DX Operational Observability (DX O2), the catalyst for the Custom Attributes capability emerged from a requirement articulated by a prominent European bank. Facing increasingly complex IT infrastructures and a growing array of applications, the bank sought a deeper, more nuanced understanding of their operational landscape. They needed to enrich monitoring data with business context for granular insights across various organizational silos. Specifically, they aimed to dissect usage patterns based on multiple dimensions such as individual departments, the diverse array of hosting environments (on-premises, cloud, hybrid cloud), and the distinct phases of the ...
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CA Client Automation - Patch Management - Published Windows OS and Office Security Individual Patches for January, 2026

By Sreekanth Chejarla posted 24 days ago
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On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that individual patches for January, 2026 is now available. The following Individual patches have been published: 2026-01 Office - mso2016-kb5002826-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-01 Office - word2016-kb5002829-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-01 Office - excel2016-kb5002831-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-01 Office - word2016-kb5002829-fullfile-x64-glb 2026-01 Office - mso2016-kb5002826-fullfile-x64-glb 2026-01 Office - excel2016-kb5002831-fullfile-x64-glb 2026-01 Security Monthly Quality Rollup - windows6.0-kb5073697-x86 2026-01 ...
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The New CloudHealth Experience and the Optimize Phase of FinOps of the FinOps Framework

By TJ March posted 24 days ago
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The New CloudHealth Experience and the Optimize Phase of the FinOps Framework Originally Published: July 22, 2024 At FinOps X in San Diego back in June, the CloudHealth team proudly introduced the brand new user experience for CloudHealth. The team behind this new experience poured their heart and soul into a solution purpose-built for the modern FinOps practitioner, providing you with unprecedented visibility and customization. Earlier this month, we also started a series of blogs to share how we will use this new user experience to align with users throughout the Phases of their FinOps journey. Maturing with the FinOps Framework In ...
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The New CloudHealth Experience and the Inform Phase of the FinOps Framework

By TJ March posted 25 days ago
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The New CloudHealth Experience and the Inform Phase of the FinOps Framework Originally Published: July 9, 2024 As announced in June, the CloudHealth team has been hard at work reimaging and engineering a brand new CloudHealth user experience. We unveiled this live for the first time at FinOps X in San Diego, and were so encouraged to see the excitement and positive feedback from this first look. As we continue getting closer to the availability of this new experience for all CloudHealth customers, we’ll be posting a series of blogs showing how it has been tailored to the needs of today’s FinOps Practitioner through all three phases of the FinOps ...
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State of FinOps 2025 Takeaways

By TJ March posted Jan 06, 2026
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State of FinOps 2025 Takeaways Originally Published: February 27, 2025 About the Author: Lucas Paratore (Product Manager, CloudHealth) The fifth FinOps Foundation State of FinOps results were shared last week, and it is clear FinOps teams have their work cut out for them this year! Although we see consistencies with last year’s results, there is one new significant trend: FinOps teams are going to be responsible for more than just public cloud going forward. I’ll dig into that and more below! FinOps = Cloud and… Back in November, 2024 as a part of FinOps X Europe, the FinOps Foundation introduced the concept of “Scopes” to address the growing ...
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Scopes, AI, and FOCUS: Unpacking FinOps X 2025

By TJ March posted Jan 06, 2026
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Scopes, AI, and FOCUS: Unpacking FinOps X 2025 Originally Published: June 25, 2025 About the Author: Lucas Paratore (Product Manager, CloudHealth) Same location, same energy, same passion. All the anticipated qualities of FinOps X 2025 returned even with it being the biggest FinOps X ever. In every keynote and every presentation, it was apparent. But, it wasn’t just that this was the most attended FinOps X. No, it was clear to everyone that FinOps has become larger than just public cloud. From beginning to end, we saw the topics of Scopes, AI, and FOCUS dominated the conference. Getting Deeper into Scopes Debuted at FinOps X Barcelona in November ...
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CloudHealth Intelligent Assist: Your FinOps Co-Pilot for Multi-Cloud Cost Intelligence

By TJ March posted Jan 06, 2026
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CloudHealth Intelligent Assist: Your FinOps Co-Pilot for Multi-Cloud Cost Intelligence Originally Published: July, 17, 2025 About the Author: Vani Chugh (Engineer, CloudHealth) In today’s rapidly evolving cloud landscape, managing costs across AWS, Azure, and GCP is no small feat. Enterprises often struggle with siloed billing dashboards, complex pricing models, and fragmented insights. That’s where FinOps comes in—to bring financial accountability to cloud spending. But as cloud usage scales, so do the challenges. What if you could ask questions and get instant answers about your cloud spend, usage patterns, and savings recommendations across ...
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