Tag: cloud infrastructure
The Most Destructive Cloud Cost Pitfall: Discounts Before Optimization
Organizations under pressure to cut cloud costs often reach for discount programs first as the simplest lever. It feels like a win to commit to reserved capacity or enterprise agreements because it ...
Common IaC Security Issues and How to Fix Them
Durojaye Olusegun | | audit logging, automated compliance, CI/CD pipeline security, cloud infrastructure, cloud misconfiguration, cloud security incidents, CloudFormation, configuration drift, devsecops, drift detection, hardcoded secrets, IaC automation, IaC best practices, IaC governance, IaC security, IaC vulnerabilities, infrastructure as code, least privilege access, policy as code, secrets managementLearn the top five Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security vulnerabilities, their fixes, and best practices to prevent misconfigurations, drifts, and breaches ...
From Firefighting to Forward-Thinking: My Real-World Lessons in DevOps and Cloud Engineering
Bhanuteja Somarouthu | | CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, devops best practices, observability in devops, Real-world DevOpsTools change, but the fundamentals stay — plan for failure, treat infra and pipelines like code and make observability a first-class citizen ...
The Problems With Golden Templates That No One Wants to Talk About
Lauren Rother | | catalogs, cloud infrastructure, golden images, golden templates, infrastructure as code, network infrastructure, standardsGolden templates make it easier to get started with IaC, but they don’t effectively fit users’ needs. Let’s fix that ...
Navigating the Multi-Cloud Ecosystem
Multi-cloud environments involve businesses using services from multiple cloud providers to meet diverse operational needs ...
Massdriver Adds Cloud Cost Controls to Internal Developer Platform
Mike Vizard | | bill of materials, cloud costs, cloud infrastructure, IBOM, IDPs, internal developer platform, MassdriverMassdriver has made available tools for tracking cloud costs and generating a cloud IBOM to IDPs as part of an ongoing effort to streamline platform engineering workflows ...
Technical Debt is Inevitable. Here’s How to Manage It
Eventually, your organization will accumulate technical debt. It doesn't matter what programming language, software stack, computing style, host, or slick hybrid mix you use. It doesn't matter if you're using a waterfall ...
Top Three DevOps Tools for Cloud Infrastructure
A survey from Canonical of 326 IT executives found the most widely employed DevOps tool for managing cloud infrastructure is the Bash shell and command language (53%), followed by the Ansible automation ...
Infrastructure Abstraction Will Be Key to Managing Multi-Cloud
There's no doubt we're now living in a hybrid multi-cloud age. Companies are using major cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCP with niche cloud computing providers emerging within the market. Simultaneously, ...
TidalScale Enables Hot-Swapping of Failed Servers
TidalScale has updated its namesake software for automating server management to include the ability to detect and prevent impending failures and enable IT teams to hot-swap another server. Version 4.1 of TidalScale ...
Oracle’s Free Managed Service Integrates With Microsoft Azure
Oracle today extended its alliance with Microsoft to include a managed service that makes it simpler for IT organizations to embrace hybrid cloud computing. Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure integrates Windows ...
DevOps and Hybrid Cloud: Life in the Fast Lane?
Benjamin Brial | | application automation, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, devsecops, hybrid cloudScream if you want to go faster! When it comes to a dual hybrid-cloud-and-DevOps rollout, most organizations would admit they're eager to get going a little bit faster. But what started so ...
