GitOps, is it the next big thing after DevOps?
There is a new kid on the block, and I am not talking about a collaboration with the Backstreet Boys here. DevOps has a new buzz word and that word is...
Announcing HCP Vault Public Beta
You will most likely know that Hashicorp Cloud Platform can allow the creation of a cloud-based Consul deployment on the AWS and Azure clouds. This enables the quick and significantly easier...
Styra is Open Policy Agent’s big, enterprise brother for policy-as-code
Developers have more access to, and control over, compute resources than ever. Public cloud, infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native development and consumption models are great accelerators of what developers can achieve in short...
Testing Terraform code with terratest – part 1
This is the first post on productionalizing your Terraform environments with Terratest.
This builds on our original set of articles that show how to build out a traditional LAMP stack using terraform...
GitOps is more than Git: IaC, Merge Requests and Pipelines
GitOps is a way-of-work that takes application development best practices like version control, code collaboration and automated pipelines and workflows, and applies them to IT infrastructure automation. Its technical premise is...
Empowering development teams to make the most of Kubernetes’ potential
Kubernetes infrastructure is democratizing and commoditizing container platforms for software developers, serving as the core for modern, cloud-native applications.
Its standard APIs and the standardized container image format it uses to ensure...
What’s new with Hashicorp Nomad 1.0?
On the 8th of December 2020, Nomad came of age, reaching the venerable milestone of 1.0. Nomad is a simple and flexible workload orchestrator to deploy and manage containers and non-containerized...
New trends and buzzwords in the DevOps era: are you ready for 2021?
As the year 2020 comes to an end, it's nice to look back at the trends and hypes we got so far. It is even more exiting to see which trends...
How Kubernetes is changing the divide between Dev and Ops
Kubernetes is changing the divide between operations and development. Where traditionally, provisioning and managing infrastructure was a task exclusive to IT Operations, Kubernetes is shifting infrastructure towards developers. Even though public...
DevOps tool sprawl: is ‘tool tax’ just the tip of the iceberg?
DevOps tools make the world go ‘round. Too many tools make the DevOps engineers go mad. The first one is true. The second one, too. Fact is: tooling that helps you...