The IaC Weight on DevOps’ Shoulders
It’s often challenging to adopt modern DevOps practices around infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Here’s how to make the journey smoother.
Platform Engineering: The 2024 Game-Changer in Tech
Platform engineering addresses the inefficiencies caused by the decentralization of tools and processes in DevOps, especially as organizations scale.
Survey: Significant Shift in IaC Tool Preferences
A Firefly survey suggests usage of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools is evolving rapidly in the cloud computing era.
Immutable Infrastructure: The Next Step for DevOps
For DevOps teams, immutable infrastructure offers a transformative approach to organizational security for companies of all sizes.
Cutting Costs, Boosting Efficiency: The Economic Benefits of Framework-Defined Infrastructure
Understanding the role of framework-defined infrastructure in defining and automating infrastructure—and its impact on the development experience in open source frameworks—is crucial.
OpsCanvas Generates Code to Automate DevOps Workflows
OpsCanvas unveiled a Draw & Deploy platform that generates code to provision cloud infrastructure via a chat interface.
Nitric Adds Support for Additional Languages to IaC Alternative
Nitric today announced it has added support for the Go and Kotlin programming languages to its application framework. The framework automatically creates code to provision infrastructure based on the way the code used to write an application has been developed. Rak Siva, vice president of engineering for Nitric, said that approach eliminates the need to […]
Rebellion Against Changes to Open Source Terraform License Mounts
A community that embraced open source Terraform software has called upon HashiCorp to reverse license changes that limit software usage.
How AI Transforms DevOps Infrastructure
AI can help manage cloud resources for DevOps by predicting future needs based on usage trends and automatically adjusting resources to optimize cost and performance.
Quali Adds Governance and Cloud Cost Control Tools to Automation Platform
Quali today revealed it added governance and cloud cost management tools to its Torque platform for automating IT infrastructure management. David Williams, senior vice president for market strategy at Quali, said the added governance tools will make it possible to enforce security, compliance and consumption policies as IT environments are launched using the automation blueprints […]
Pulumi Embeds Terraform Conversion Tool in Platform
At its virtual PulumiUP event, Pulumi this week announced it embedded an ability to convert instances of Terraform into its infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform via a simple command line interface (CLI) command. In addition, Pulumi added a Review Stacks capability that automatically creates a dedicated cloud environment to review code every time a pull request is […]
It Is Time for DevOps to Focus on Ops
The advent of both Agile development and DevOps were great steps in improving an IT process that had become ossified, with policies that alternated between resistance to change and trying to do things better/faster. Between them, Agile and DevOps broke the cycle of resistance … but only for development. The confusion around CI/CD is a […]
Cloud Drift Detection With Policy-as-Code
Cloud configurations can change and change often. Introducing new technologies, releasing new features and supporting new business requirements entail a constant flow of configuration changes in web application development. However, drift occurs regardless of how well-designed your IaC implementation is. The term “drift” is used to denote a state in which the actual state of […]
Microsoft Adds Slew of Developer Tools to Azure
At its Build 2023 conference this week, Microsoft announced general availability of an Azure Deployment Environment service that provides developers with a portal through which they can employ infrastructure-as-a-code (IaC) templates based on Terraform or Azure Resource Management files. In addition, Microsoft has enhanced Microsoft Dev Box, a workstation environment for developers that run Azure, […]
Infrastructure-as-Code Pitfalls in Platform Engineering
In the context of cloud operations, the last decade was ruled by DevOps and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). But what is true DevOps? Is it developers running their own operations? Is it operators learning development skills to automate infrastructure provisioning using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform? Though DevOps is widely understood to incorporate both of these, software […]
Implementing SLOs-as-Code: A Case Study
This article was co-authored by Stephan Lips, Devin Cunningham and Justin Hoang of Procore and is a preview of their talk for SLOconf 2023 on May 15-18, 2023. To watch this talk and many more like it, register for free at sloconf.com. By managing service level objectives (SLOs) as code, we can co-locate SLO definitions […]
Pulumi Brings Advanced Analytics and AI to IaC Platform
Pulumi today launched a platform that leverages analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to generate infrastructure-as-code (IaC) from natural language prompts in addition to automating infrastructure management. Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi Insights will substantially improve the productivity of DevOps teams in addition to ultimately reducing the total cost of cloud computing. At the core […]
env0 Extends Workflow Platform for Provisioning Infrastructure
env0 today announced it has added support for additional infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools and the Microsoft Azure DevOps platform to its workflow automation and management platform. Fresh from raising an additional $35 million in funding, env0 CEO Ohad Maislish said while Terraform remains the most widely used IaC tool, there are now more organizations using alternatives […]
Quali Update Strengthens Infrastructure Security
Quali today announced enhancements to its Torque automated infrastructure platform to add support for security scans and Open Policy Agent (OPA) software being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). OPA enables organizations to implement cybersecurity policies as code. The challenge many organizations have encountered is that not many developers have […]
The Differences Between DevOps and GitOps
The transition to a DevOps model has been welcomed by many organizations that are looking to implement more efficient development processes. However, there are multiple models to choose from, with GitOps a popular choice for many. So what is the difference, and which one is better? In this article, we will discuss what each model […]
Devs Increasingly Rely on IaC to Manage Multiple Clouds
A survey of more than 300 DevOps professionals conducted by Firefly, a provider of a platform for automating cloud provisioning, found that more than a third of organizations (36%) have allocated the equivalent of two or more full-time engineers per month to writing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates. A full 82% are also deploying the templates within […]
Best of 2022: Environments-as-a-Service: Free Your Devs
As we close out 2022, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Environments are the bane of a DevOps engineer’s existence and have been since the invention of the server. They can create giant bottlenecks that hamper […]
Fiberplane Notebook Tool Fosters DevOps Collaboration
Fiberplane today announced it is making available a public beta of a namesake real-time collaboration notebook specifically designed for DevOps teams that need to quickly debug IT infrastructure. Fiberplane CEO Micha Hernandez van Leuffen said in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s clear that the structure of DevOps teams has permanently changed now that […]