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All tagged DevOps
“Wakeups”: the most important DevOps metric
“How many times were your people woken up by faults in production?” JAX DevOps talks to John about metrics, security, testing, and automation.
Build bridges, not walls
We live in a world of walls, unfortunately, and some people would like to build even more of them. Whatever you think about that, the walls between software developers and IT operations staff don’t do anybody any favours.
Sysadmins take note
Working scientists keep a lab notebook in which they write down everything they did, and what the results were. Sysadmin work is also about careful, scientific, detailed experimentation, especially when troubleshooting.
Put a little Pixie in your cluster
Pixie is a powerful troubleshooting and telemetry tool for clusters. Let’s see how it can help solve the Case of the Sluggish Service.
Checkly, Terraform, and automated site monitoring
Introducing the Checkly Terraform provider: what Terraform is and why you'd want to use it, and how to use Terraform to automate and manage your website monitoring with Checkly.
Should I buy or should I build?
Pop quiz, hotshot. How much does it cost to build a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster? If you thought the answer was “nothing”, go to the back of the class.
A reality check about cloud native DevOps
Wojtek Cichoń from Semaphore speaks with John about how adopting DevOps destroys walls, builds bridges, and influences company cultures for the better.
Night of the Runbooks: a DevOps horror story
Suddenly a harsh beeping jolted Morgan out of their reverie: "Service is CRITICAL". Morgan’s night of terror was about to begin.
“What would you say you do here?”
An interview with John on the Retro Time podcast, where we discuss the importance of British accents while consulting and discover how accurate Office Space is.
'Container Security' by Liz Rice
'Container Security' will give you a thorough grounding in the security principles and techniques you need to know when running containers in production.
What is GitOps?
It began with shell scripts and config management. Now GitOps brings new tools for managing containerized applications in Kubernetes clusters.
Kubernetes at work, with Torie Joy-Warren
Kubernetes is about solving real problems. We talk to 100% real software engineer Torie Joy-Warren about her experiences with k8s and cloud.
What is Kubernetes?
A simple introduction to Kubernetes, from eggs to the Borg, via a blue-green canary. Hold tight.
What's new, Kubernetes?
Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes has been out for a while, and though much has changed in the Kubernetes landscape, a lot is also the same.
The dawn of DevOps
The authors of Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes, John Arundel and Justin Domingus, explain the past, present, and future of the DevOps movement.
Got game? Secrets of great incident management
When his phone wakes him at two in the morning, operations engineer Andy Pearson knows it’s bad news. The next sixteen minutes are going to get intense.
“Just a big ol' cloud of compute”
How enterprises can use Kubernetes as a platform to power improved DevOps, and make cloud migration more process-oriented and straightforward.
What “uptime” even means anymore
If you’re focused on traditional uptime numbers, you’re missing the point: “nines” don't matter if users aren't happy.
“Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes” is out now
In this friendly, pragmatic book, Kubernetes consultant John Arundel and cloud expert Justin Domingus show you what Kubernetes can do—and what you can do with it.