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Keynote talk from Agile Portugal 2018. A trip through the history of how Devops became a think, what devops really is, and where it might be going.

A few weeks ago, I attended and spoke at KubeCon EU. It was a massive event attended by around 4,700 people...However, I felt there was an underlying problem with the whole spectacle: everyone I talked to was either an operator or an SRE. Where were al...

Our industry has spent the past 7-8 years proclaiming the need for better integration of Dev and Ops to improve flow and quality. Despite this work — or perhaps because of it — there is a new type of rift forming between Dev and Ops.

Docker is more than a scalable backend technology; it can also be used to encapsulate and execute tools.

Congratulations, if you are reading this article this means that you made it to the point where the efficiency and cost your Kubernetes…

A tool to help forensicate offline docker acquisitions - google/docker-explorer

Why it's important to protect the interfaces used to manage your infrastructure, and some recommendations on how you might do this.

If you ask what a service desk is you might get any of these responses: IT operations or IT service management (ITSM) team: “The team we give the responsibility of dealing with IT issues.” And the more cynical among them might add “… but little in terms of…

Every time you deploy a piece of software, you’re unknowingly taking an infant on a crazy ride — you expect the deployed software to become…

In this post, I look at the various Docker base images available for .NET Core development, how they differ, and when you should use each of them.

Logs are a commonly used source of data to track, verify, and diagnose the state of a system. In the current landscape, typically all application and system logs are collected in centralized logging systems and exposed via APIs and Web UIs. Centralized logging…

Joker Picture courtesy:  https://tyrite.deviantart.com/art/Why-so-serious-92162678 There is one thing that links the sudden l...

Fostering DevOps talent starts at the very early stage...knowing what to look for. How can you know who will be a good fit for your organization? What skills and experience are key? Consider this your crash course in hiring DevOps talent...

If you are using S3 and CloudFront to host your content and noticed that your bills are increasing, read this !

In last one year, I have met close to a dozen C suite executives who are either running their workloads on cloud, planning to migrate…

10 Must-Attend DevOps Conferences OpsGenie recommends and participates in. Events are worldwide, and included in this post is some information on what each event may have in store for attendees.

On June 6, 2014 I checked in the first commit of what would become the public repository for Kubernetes. Many would assume that is where the story starts. It is the beginning of history, right? But that really doesn’t tell the whole story.
The cast leading…