Tag: Devops
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Change management in SAP projects: How employees drive transformation
Posted on February 28, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Unfamiliar systems, new processes, completely different ways of working: an SAP implementation may unsettle users. That's why change management is crucial for the success of any IT project, especially in the course of a business transformation. By Thomas Jenewein.
Tags ansible teams career software-architecture devops cio management
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Ansible tutorial for beginners: Playbook & examples
Posted on February 27, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Ansible is one of the most used tools for managing cloud and on-premises infrastructure. If you are looking for a flexible and powerful tool to automate your infrastructure management and configuration tasks Ansible is the way to go. By Ioannis Moustakis.
Tags ansible software-architecture devops cio cicd
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Five ways to get started with network automation
Posted on February 22, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
However, even though network automation has become increasingly popular, most organizations are still managing their network infrastructure manually by a CLI or GUI. Why is this? By Sean Cavanaugh.
Tags cloud devops cicd ansible
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A cloud-like on-prem load balancer for Kubernetes?
Posted on February 21, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Everyone knows that using a Kubernetes Load Balancer is a challenge. Back in the day when I was responsible for network operations, the load balancer management was under my team's responsibility too. By Alex Saroyan.
Tags cloud devops cicd kubernetes
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An introduction to the Azure DevOps toolset
Posted on February 19, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this post, we start to delve into DevOps toolsets, specifically Microsoft Azure DevOps Services. This is the third in a series of blog posts about DevOps. By Ron Callahan.
Tags azure cloud cicd devops kubernetes servers
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DevSecOps: Why you should care and how to get started
Posted on February 7, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
The increasing popularity of DevOps software development methodologies has led to shorter and more agile life cycles, in which software is released and deployed in minutes or hours rather than the days, weeks, or even months required under traditional practices. However, many development teams still experience delays in getting releases into production due to the security considerations that are traditionally brought to bear at the end of the life cycle. To address this, organizations are more and more frequently adopting a DevSecOps approach. By Katrina Novakovic, Chris Jenkins.
Tags devops cloud app-development infosec
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Distributed tracing with Istio, Quarkus and Jaeger
Posted on February 6, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In this article, you will learn how to configure distributed tracing for your service mesh with Istio and Quarkus. For test purposes, we will build and run Quarkus microservices on Kubernetes. The communication between them is going to be managed by Istio. Istio service mesh uses Jaeger as a distributed tracing system. By Piotr Minkowski.
Tags devops kubernetes monitoring cloud apis microservices
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How to automate API testing with Azure Devops and Postman?
Posted on February 4, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
I have been using Postman for a long time to test API requests from my local machine. I started to investigate during one project what kind of automated integration test possibilities could Postman offer. Actually it offered very nice features what I haven't used before. Best finding was possibility to integrate everything very easily to Azure DevOps pipelines. By Kalle Marjokorpi.
Tags devops azure cloud apis programming
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Platform Engineering: Building AWS landing zone with Pulumi
Posted on January 30, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this blog, I will cover some key concepts and architecture of Pulumi. We will be building and provisioning the AWS landing zone. By A B Vijay Kumar.
Tags devops distributed aws containers
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How using same programming language for IaC made AWS Step Function testable
Posted on January 28, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
AWS Step Functions are difficult to test. I found an approach to testing that helped in one particular scenario. It relies on using the same programming language for both testing and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). I hope the idea helps others tame their Step Functions into a testable submission. By Graham Allan.
Tags nosql cloud devops microservices tdd serverless
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Best practices for using AWS StepFunctions
Posted on January 24, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this post you will learn some of the best patterns/tricks author has learned during my time creating Step Functions workflows. By Lukas Fruntke.
Tags aws devops cio containers javascript serverless
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How Kubernetes creates and runs containers: An illustrated guide
Posted on January 18, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Understanding how Kubernetes handles containers gives you greater flexibility to create custom configurations for specific needs. Kubernetes enables you to do a lot of productive work without having to understand a lot about the underlying details. By Bob Reselman.
Tags cloud devops software-architecture cio how-to