A quick start guide to explain Terraform backends and how your deployments can benefit from a non-local state file storage.

2018 was a significant year for the DevOps community. Kubernetes became the first project to graduate from the CNCF; Pivotal IPO-ed…

New Relic sponsored this post. Here’s a statement any engineering manager can agree with: Reliability is complicated. Modern software teams face no shortage of edge cases and variations across the service categories and tiers of their ever-evolving architectures.…

Come and read 7.5 tips to help you ace the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam on Kubedex.com. The number one site to Discover, Compare and Share Kubernetes Applications.

GKE application-layer secrets encryption now integrates with our hosted Cloud Key Management service.

"How HTTPS Works" a comic featuring Browserbird and Certificat (via @DNSimple): https://t.co/arikycVY20

So, what's next for DevOps? As more companies optimize their software delivery environments, where will the true competitive differentiators lie? Charles Betz, Forrester Principal Analyst and DevOps Lead, offers up his thoughts on the next 12 months in the…

Learn how the OpenTracing, OpenCensus, and OpenMetrics projects contribute to application performance monitoring.

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Given that coordination and communication swamp all other costs in modern software development it is a pressing area to invest in, especially as your team scales.

A case-study at the Swedish Police Authority

Rethinking Security at NeuVector - Micro-Perimeters. Microservices now require 'micro-perimeters' for protection, how will security adapt?

We recently migrated our production applications from Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) to Amazon Kubernetes Service (EKS). We wrote…

I’m managing applications inside Kubernetes for more than 2 years for MySocialApp a social news feed solution and recently Referlab, an impressive referral marketing solution. If you follow me, you certainly know that I’ve made multiple Helm charts on distributed…

At smallstep we've been focused, lately, on building technology that makes it easier for you to access your stuff. As things stand today, access is really hard. It's really hard for developers to access internal services in production and pre-production environments…

Pomerium is an identity and context-aware access proxy. - pomerium/pomerium

At my workplace we are heavily using GitLab CI pipelines to orchestrate infrastructure as code on AWS. To reduce the blast-radius inside…

CVE-2019-5736: runc container breakout (all versions) - the underlying container runtime underneath Docker, cri-o, containerd, Kubernetes, and so on https://t.co/fUvTQqhbmn Patch your system ASAP. #Linux #security #infosec #sysadmin