Close your DevOps loop – Playbooks as Code can help
DevOps is all about enriching your end-user experience. Continuous feedback to improve your applications is an important discipline. The faster you respond to (external) changes the better. Disruptions in production need...
DevSecOps is not easy, but it is moving forward
DevSecOps is not easy but it is moving forward
For the fifth year in a row, GitLab on May 4 2021 releases the DevSecOps report. The report is drawn up by requesting...
Cyrès: How Building and Using software factories are very different
CI/CD has been a major turning point in software development methodologies. It standardizes the workflows and tooling developers use, not unlike how a factory standardizes its work and machines to achieve...
Packer 1.7: dynamic data devotion
Packer is a wonderful little secret developed by HashiCorp. At its core, it is an image builder. However, it has of late been the secret stepchild of the company, hidden and...
Terraform 0.15 is GA – a major step forward in stability
On the 14th of April Terraform passed another milestone and released to General Availability their 0.15 version of the product. This is a very powerful release but not for the additional...
The art of Multi-Cloud enablement – is it worth it?
The big three cloud vendors will have you believe that Multi-Cloud is too difficult, nay impossible. But to many, it's considered a form of vendor lock-in and similar in terms of...
What is Consul-Terraform-Sync?
HashiCorp has announced yet another new beta product in Consul-Terraform-Sync. This product appears to allow the automation of Consul services using Terraform. Personally, I struggled long and hard on this concept....
Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes is now GA
HashiCorp has moved to production the Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes in Terraform Cloud. This product was first announced in March 2020 as an alpha product. At the time they stated...
An introduction to Predictive Analytics
Is it "just a hype" or a new trend to watch for? A relative new movement is predictive analytics. All kinds of organizations become increasingly aware of it and use it...
Hashicorp knocks the ball to the Boundary
It only seems 5 minutes ago that Hashicorp released Boundary at their October 2020 Hashiconf online extravaganza. But like the rest of their products, it evolves at a serious pace.
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