IT Operations
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...
Practical advise for DevSecOps, its just DevOps with strings attached
At a high level we understand that DevOps and DevSecOps are two approaches to software development that aim to deliver high-quality products faster and...
ITIL 4 and DevOps. A marriage made in heaven?
In our article “DevOps is stalling, is ITIL a solution?” we posited whether the latest iteration of the ITIL framework version 4 could help...
DevOps is stalling, is ITIL-4 a solution?
Over the last couple of years, I have noticed that the shiny new paradigm of DevOps has started to have lose its lustre, it...
Top IoT security aspects that pose a risk for your organization
As more and more companies invest their time and money in IoT devices, the more they depend on them for their day-to-day business operations....