Preventing Incident Severity Progression
When service degradation and service outages go from bad to worse, it’s an awful feeling. It’s bad enough that something broke in general. ..
Best Practices for Status Pages
Status pages have become the end-users window into your team’s operations. Companies with status pages are doing the right thing for their ..
When You Shouldn’t Use Infrastructure Automation
Automation, automation, automation. If Steve Ballmer were doing his developers dance today, instead of in 2001, those are probably the words ..
Living in an Interrupt Driven Culture
I don’t know how the term “shaving the yak” caught on, but I’m willing to embrace it for all of its weirdness and meaning. We all spend ..
How Bulkhead and Sidecar Patterns Support Incident Response
How you build your application absolutely impacts the lives of those in charge of supporting it. This isn’t a correlation we generally ..
Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes for Single-Host Implementations
Most discussions about the merits of Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes focus on large-scale deployments. But, what if you’re running your containerized ..
Securely Keeping Kubernetes Secrets in Git
At first glance, storing Kubernetes secrets seems simple enough. Kubernetes stores them automatically in etcd, a key-value store. And, Kubernetes can ..
Network as Code: Ansible and Automation for an Agile Infrastructure
When considering application source code, the manner in which consistency is maintained throughout environments is fairly straightforward. ..
Setting up CI/CD With AWS Lambda and Python
The software development lifecycle is shrinking. It used to be that new versions of source code would be released every month or so. But now, ..
How to Use Vanilla Kubernetes
Once you’re deep into the Kubernetes ecosystem, Kubernetes becomes as defined by its boundaries as it is by its benefits. Kubernetes is a platform ..