Brigade is a platform for running scriptable, automated tasks in the cloud. Brigade runs as part of a Kubernetes cluster.

Explore Docker registries and manipulate Docker images! - ivanilves/lstags

Service Discovery is a mechanism to resolve the address of a service we want to communicate to. In last few years, with the rise of…

The CMDB has an image problem in the DevOps world, but with a little more mutual understanding, it could become a powerful tool for it.

DevOps poses a unique challenge and opportunity for IT governance. Traditionally we have governed IT in terms of projects. DevOps offers us a very different manner of execution. It is flow based, with new requirements being pulled into a pipeline, worked…

The Multi Cloud hype is increasing every day with both legacy vendors and public cloud providers (more specifically, Google which is lagging behind both AWS and Azure) talking about Multi Cloud, th…

Managing Service Health Through Scale

The top indicator of a successful team isn't tenure, seniority or salary levels. It's psychological safety. Here's how to build it into your organization.

I used to dread setting up email automation and email campaigns.

Today we are excited to announce the public availability of HashiCorp Consul 1.0. Consul is a tool for service discovery and runtime configuration for distributed applications and infrastructure. Consul joins Vagrant and Packer as the third HashiCorp product…

Argo workflows create pods and deployments on Kubernetes. When running on AWS, we use EBS for volumes. AWS provides some basic volume…

Root cause analysis is no longer acceptable. Simply looking for the root cause of an incident will not help you accurately understand your system failures. That's why teams more and more prefer the term

I recently spoke at ServerlessConf NYC on Managing Serverless Development. The slides are here (enjoy the cat pictures!):

Tips for developing and maintaining staging environments that will help you build more stable software systems.

As part of a two-day microservices workshop I’m putting together, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to explain monolith-application decomposition and what a transition to microservices might look like. This is a small subset of that material, but I want…

Let’s dive right in! In the previous post (part I) we set up the context for this blog. Basically, as we introduce a strategy to bring microservices to our architecture, we cannot and should not disrupt the current request flows. Our “monolith” applications…