Being on call – tips & tricks to get most out of alerts
DevOps teams are responsible for their workloads from the early stages of development up until production. All team-members now face what sysadmins already know: being on call. In a true DevOps...
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...
CockroachDB is a hassle-free SQL database for multiple clouds
Everyone knows: cockroaches are annoying, highly persistent bugs. They can live under extreme conditions and always keep coming back even if you eliminated them all. When it comes to your valuable...
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...
Why you must shift left security in the software development lifecycle
This is post 3 of 4 in the Amazic World series sponsored by GitLab
1. Toolchain tax: just the tip of the iceberg?
2. Why the Pipeline is key for Cloud Engineers
3. Changing...
Best practices for modern CI/CD pipelines
CI/CD is not new anymore. The hype slowly cools down and is now entering a mature state. Software development companies incorporated their CI/CD processes to fully support their DevOps teams. There...
Switch on or switch off, feature flags helps DevOps teams deliver fast
Developers often need to quickly gather customer feedback about new features they deliver. However, when doing so it's easy to forget a critical aspect which leads to an undesired error. If...
Why the Pipeline is key for Cloud Engineers
CI/CD pipelines are a common workflow automation tool for software developers. These pipelines generally build, integrate, and deploy new software versions, while doing code quality checks, security checks, integration tests, and...
Coming out of the dark – what is shadow IT and how to deal...
Everyone who works in a large organization knows it: there are (probably) a lot of IT projects that are not officially sanctioned. Although not a new phenomenon, it is important to...
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...
