Posts Tagged: devops
Learn how to implement DevOps practices, tools, and methodologies to improve collaboration, automation, and continuous delivery in your organization.
- Observed No. 12 - Removing Pre-Commit Dependencies With Docker
May 1
The 12th edition of Observed shows you how to remove dependencies when using Pre-Commit by utilizing docker images.
- Observed No. 11 - Saving Costs on AWS
Apr 24
The 11th edition of Observed shows you some simple strategies for saving costs on AWS
- Observed No. 10 - Chaos Engineering on AWS
Mar 20
The 10th edition of Observed explains how to run chaos engineering on AWS
- Observed No. 9 - SLIs vs SLOs vs SLAs
Mar 13
The 9th edition of Observed explains the differences between Service Level Indicators, Service Level Objectives and Service Level Agreements
- Observed No. 8 - Continuous Integration vs Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment
Mar 6
The 8th edition of Observed explains the differences between Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment. These practices lead to safer and smoother releases, reduce integration conflicts, save time, and improve software quality
- Observed No. 7 - Well Architected
Feb 27
The Well-Architected Framework consists of six pillars to build and operate reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems on AWS. The framework offers best practices for each pillar.
- Observed No. 6 - Service Meshes
Feb 20
Service meshes use sidecar proxies to manage microservices communication. They provide benefits like traffic management, security, observability, and simplified deployment. They work best for larger architectures, and implementation depends on the use case.
- Observed No. 5 - MACH Architectures
Jan 30
Welcome to the fifth edition of Observed! Your weekly newsletter, where I bring you a tip you can implement in your infrastructure across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices. This week's edition looks at MACH architectures
- Observed No. 4 - Emerging Pattern: Centralised Ingress
Jan 23
Welcome to the fourth edition of Observed! Your weekly newsletter, where I bring you a tip you can implement in your infrastructure across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices. This week's edition looks at a common pattern emerging across the industry: Centralised Ingress
- Observed No. 3 - Understanding Split Horizon DNS: How it works and How to Implement it in AWS
Jan 16
Welcome to the third edition of Observed! Your weekly newsletter, where I bring you a tip you can implement in your infrastructure across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices. This week's edition looks at Split Horizon DNS.
- Observed No. 2 - Upgrade Your Terraform Modules
Jan 9
Welcome to the second edition of Observed! your weekly newsletter, where I bring you a tip you can implement in your infrastructure across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices. This week's edition looks at a technique you can use to upgrade your Terraform modules.
- Observed No. 1 - VPC Endpoint Policies
Jan 2
Welcome to the very first edition of Observed! Each week I bring you a tip you can implement in your infrastructure across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices. This week's edition looks at VPC endpoint policies in AWS.
- Building a Zero Trust Architecture In AWS
Dec 5
As companies grow, moving to a zero-trust architecture is majorly important. This article explores how to build it in AWS.
- Quick Tip: Accessing a Azure DevOps secret from within a scripted step
Dec 26
Learn how to access a Azure DevOps library secret inside of a scripted step
- Building a custom build agent image with Docker and Azure DevOps pipelines
Dec 24
Learn how to use a custom dockerfile as the bases for a customised Azure DevOps build agent.
- Building Service Fabric Apps With VSTS YML Build Definitions
Jun 30
Publish an Service Fabric application using a VSTS YML build definition.
- Automated Builds in VSTS with YML Build Definitions
Jun 17
Publish an ASPNET Core website using a VSTS YML build definition.
- Ensuring samesite cookies with URL Rewrite
Jun 11
A handy URL Rewrite snippet to mark cookies as samesite.
- Ensuring secure cookies with URL Rewrite
Jun 11
A handy URL Rewrite snippet to mark cookies as secure.
- Ensuring httpOnly cookies with URL Rewrite
Jun 6
A brief overview of cookies, why we want them to be httpOnly and how we can ensure this via URL Rewrite.
- Removing trailing slashes with URL Rewrite
Jun 5
A quick explanition of why consistent urls are important and how to achieve them with url rewriting.
- Canonical host urls with URL Rewrite
Jun 4
A quick explanition of canonical host urls and how to achieve them with url rewriting.
- Up and running with URL Rewrite - going from HTTP to HTTPS
Jun 3
A quick introduction to URL Rewrite module for IIS and a snippet from going from HTTP to HTTPS.
- DevOps
Jan 24
I have recently been getting to grips with the build and deployment features of both Teamcity and Octopus Deploy. This has been making me think about the industry buzz word DevOps and exactly what that means.