IT Operations
Explore what’s important when running data workloads on Kubernetes
Not long ago, Kubernetes aimed primarily to serve stateless workloads. With the steady increase in projects that focus on big data processing, the role...
Advanced topics for Product Owners
Many articles have been written about the core competencies of Product Owners. These include owning and communicating a road map for their product(s), backlog...
Terraform providers: how deal with organizational complexity
It’s no surprise that Terraform is an increasingly popular IaC tool for many organizations. This is partly due to its broad support for cloud...
Will 2024 be the year of AI for DevOps and its cousins
As we approached the year 2024, the time for the traditional technology introspective has arrived. In this post I thought I would do a...
Moving up the stack – time to learn Python – part 11
In our eleventh article in this series, we continue our journey into learning Python. I am happy you are still with me, we finished...
Ephemeral workspaces is now available as a public beta in Terraform Cloud, but why is that important?
HashiCorp, the company behind Terraform, has recently announced the release a public beta of a new feature called ephemeral workspaces in their flagship cloud...
HashiCorp are unpacking packer
As you know HashiCorp Packer is an awesome tool for building repeatable Windows and Linux based VM or Docker images, be those, built to...
Options and considerations to connect your on-premise data center to the cloud
Cloud computing quickly becomes the preferred method to host ever-changing workloads. It enables them to react faster to external changes, scale up their infrastructure...
Moving up the Stack – time to learn Python – part 10
As we enter into double figures on your journey into Python, we finished our last article by learning how to use Pyinstaller and converted...
A checklist for your log collector
Applications that run in production need to be monitored for (potential) problems and other issues. Without logging events from infrastructure components or the actual...
So, you want to be a DevOps Engineer
It seems today that everybody wants to be a DevOps engineer or, lesser animal, the platform engineer; these two roles offer a challenging and...
CI/CD and Machine Learning – a great marriage
CI/CD-related processes are a commodity for software companies nowadays. In modern companies, applications are not developed, tested, and deployed without CI/CD pipelines. Projects which...
Moving up the stack – time to learn Python – Part 4
In our last article on my journey into Python, we talked at depth about the various operators that Python can use. If you managed...
DevOps and Edge security: How to achieve automation and visibility in a distributed environment
When I started in IT many moons ago, the concept of DevOps was not even a glimmer in the eye of Patrick Debois, My...
These cheat-sheets are a must-have for every IT infrastructure specialist
The everyday work of IT infrastructure guys all around the world become more complex as we speak. It’s not enough to just learn how...