Tag: Devops
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Creating a load-balanced web service on cloud with Ansible
Posted on August 7, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Alex Callejas from RedHat wrote quick tutorial about Ansible as a tool for creating of load-balanced web service on cloud. Through a practical example, author will show how to automate creation of one of the most basic web services, with three instances of Apache as a backend and a load balancer as frontend.
Tags ansible programming devops
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A sysadmin's guide to Ansible: How to simplify tasks
Posted on July 26, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Jonathan Lozada De La Matta from RedHat wrote this article about sysadmin tasks automation. There are many ways to automate common sysadmin tasks with Ansible. In this article you will find several of them.
Tags cicd ansible devops
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CI/CD with Kubernetes: tools and practices
Posted on July 8, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Rob Scott intro into Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with Kubernetes. Setting up a CI/CD pipeline on top of Kubernetes will speed up your release life cycle — enabling you to release multiple times a day -- and enable nimble teams to iterate quickly.
Tags kubernetes containers devops cicd
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How to build your own serverless platform
Posted on June 5, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this post, Tomasz Janczuk, will provide a blueprint for building your own serverless platform, based on the lessons learned from working on Auth0 Extend in the recent years.
Tags serverless devops containers
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Locking down Kubernetes workers: hardening Kubernetes security
Posted on June 1, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Kontena's blog on ht topic of Kubernetes security. One of the trickiest parts in setting up a proper Kubernetes cluster is making it secure. There are numerous communication paths that must be secured.
Tags kubernetes devops containers
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Beyond CPU: horizontal pod autoscaling, custom metrics in Google Kubernetes Engine
Posted on May 25, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Interesting article by Maks Osowski addressing common problem for enterprises and their need to autoscale their environments based on more than just CPU usage. Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) on Kubernetes Engine 1.10+ will enable you to configure your deployments to scale horizontally in a variety of ways.
Tags kubernetes containers devops
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Advanced logging on Kubernetes
Posted on May 22, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Sandor Guba article diving into Kubernetes logging. The article covers some advanced techniques and visualizations of the collected logs. It is part of the series of articles on Kubernetes topic. Banzai Cloud puts huge efforts to monitor large and federated clusters and they push large amounts of logs of the distributed applications to Kubernetes.
Tags kubernetes containers devops
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Fact vs. fiction: 6 myths about container security
Posted on May 21, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
David Lawrence wrote this article to help you to quell these myths so you can find default security and secure coding at the heart of well-architected containers. In this article, authors take a look specifically at the myths surrounding container security -- and the opportunities container technology presents to integrate security at each stage of the application lifecycle that otherwise would be hard to achieve.
Tags programming containers infosec devops
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Twitter Lite and high performance react progressive web apps at scale
Posted on May 4, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Paul Armstrong interesting article about a look into removing common and uncommon performance bottlenecks in one of the worlds largest React.js progressive web apps, Twitter Lite. Creating a fast web application involves many cycles of measuring where time is wasted, understanding why it's happening, and applying potential solutions.
Tags web-development app-development devops react
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Splitting up Terraform & state file separation
Posted on April 12, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Site reliability engineer Matt Ouille's article about terraform state files. Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. State files literally are the single source of truth, as far as Terraform is concerned, in regard to your infrastructure.
Tags programming devops aws serverless
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Want to increase your worth as a developer? Learn to impact the business.
Posted on March 19, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Brandon Gregory thoughts on how to increase your worths to the business. As developers, working toward better positions and better salary means increasing your worth to your employer. Getting better at the technologies you use is a given. How do we tangibly increase our value to the companies we work for?
Tags programming devops
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Addressing the Theory of Constraints with DevOps
Posted on March 4, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
In his article Stefan Thorpe focuses on Theory of Constrains and DevOps. "Theory of Constraints" was originally conceived by Israeli business management educator and philosopher, Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt. Theory of Constraints inspired the development of new business management concepts and systems to revolutionize production procedures in manufacturing. These practices of systems management all seek to improve on or, where possible, remove bottlenecks through process analysis.
Tags devops programming software-architecture