Identity-Based micro-segmentation boosts cloud security
Companies increasingly execute cloud-first strategies for their core business applications. Some organizations even put a deadline on when they want to close down their data-center in the near future. DevOps teams...
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....
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.
Quick recap...
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...