Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

August 2024

HIPAA Compliance 101: Securing Patient Data with DevOps

In healthcare, protecting patient data isn’t just a requirement—it’s essential. As a tech lead or DevOps professional, understanding HIPAA compliance is crucial. This guide breaks down the essentials and shows how DevOps practices can streamline the process.

Day-0, Day-1, and Day-2 Operations: What Are the Differences?

Operations are the backbone of successful software delivery, but the specifics of each phase—Day-0, Day-1, and Day-2—often get overlooked. Understanding these phases can help you streamline deployments, reduce risks, and maintain robust, scalable systems. Let’s break down what each phase entails and explore their distinct activities, tools, and best practices.

The Essential Guide to Cloud Migration Planning

Cloud migration is the process of moving your infrastructure, applications, and data to the cloud. While the potential benefits—like cost savings, scalability, and modernization—are significant, the risks are just as high if you don’t have a solid plan in place. Without clear strategies, you could face unexpected costs, technical challenges, and security issues.

The Ultimate SOC 2 Compliance Checklist for 2024

Achieving SOC 2 compliance is not just an option—it’s a necessity. SOC 2 compliance demonstrates your organization’s commitment to data security, making it a critical component for businesses that manage sensitive customer information. Achieving this standard can be complex, but with the right guidance and tools, it becomes manageable. This guide will walk you through the key steps to achieving SOC 2 compliance.

3 Key Strategies for End-to-End DevOps Automation

DevOps automation is essential for speeding up delivery, minimizing errors, and boosting team collaboration. But selecting the right approach can make or break your organization’s agility and scalability. Let's break down three key approaches—DIY with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and DevOps Automation Platforms—so you can identify the best strategy for your needs.

Installing Karpenter: Lessons Learned From Our Experience

This article shares our experience migrating from the AWS Cluster Auto Scaler to Karpenter. We provide an overview of the steps we took to install Karpenter. This article is the first in a series dedicated to Karpenter. In future posts, we will cover other aspects of using Karpenter.

5 Best SOC 2 Compliance Solutions in 2024

SOC 2 compliance is crucial for any company handling sensitive customer data, but the process can be a headache. From managing your infrastructure to rigorous audits and ongoing monitoring, staying compliant demands a lot of time and effort. Thankfully, SOC 2 automation tools can make this process much smoother and faster. In this article, I’ll walk you through five top SOC 2 automation tools that can help you get and stay compliant with less stress.

Cut Cloud Infrastructure Costs By 5x - Guide For Startups

Managing costs while scaling operations is a challenging balancing act. One significant cost center is cloud infrastructure and its maintenance. This article aims to provide CTOs, VPs, and Head of Engineering with insights on optimizing these expenses. It highlights the benefits of leveraging DevOps Automation Platforms like Qovery to cut up to 5x their Cloud infrastructure costs.

The 6 Best GitOps Tools for Developers

GitOps is a game-changer for managing infrastructure and deployments using Git as the single source of truth. It makes DevOps processes more efficient, reliable, and traceable. For developers and organizations, GitOps not only speeds up development but also improves security and compliance. Today, I’ll break down what GitOps is, why it’s important, and review some top GitOps tools to help you on your journey.

Crafting User-Friendly Solutions: Our Step-by-Step Design Process

Creating user-friendly solutions is crucial as it enhances the overall user experience and increases customer engagement. By making products easier to use and navigate, we ensure that users are more satisfied and likely to continue using them. At Qovery, we continuously deliver new features to enhance the developer experience. In this article, I will present our design process.

DevOps Automation: What is it and How to apply it?

DevOps automation is essential for businesses aiming to accelerate software delivery, improve quality, and enhance operational efficiency. By automating repetitive tasks and integrating tools across the development and operations lifecycle, organizations can achieve significant gains in productivity and agility. So let's discuss DevOps automation in detail, exploring its benefits, tools, processes, best practices, and commonly asked questions.

Do You Still Need a DevOps Team in 2024?

In the early days of DevOps, building and maintaining infrastructure required a specialized team. DevOps engineers were essential for ensuring smooth development operations and bridging the gap between development and IT operations. Today, however, with mature markets and advanced tools becoming standard, the necessity of a dedicated DevOps team is being re-evaluated.

DevOps Checklist for Startups

This checklist is here to help startups evaluate and improve their DevOps practices. Based on our experience with over 200 startup customers, it’s tailored for teams with little or no dedicated DevOps staff. The aim is to highlight areas where you can make improvements, not to point out failures. Use this list to measure where you are now and to plan for future progress, ensuring your startup can grow smoothly and effectively.

Our migration from Kubernetes Built-in NLB to ALB Controller

Working with Kubernetes Services is convenient, especially when you can deploy Load Balancers via cloud providers like AWS. At Qovery, we initially started with Kubernetes’ built-in Network Load Balancer (NLB). However, we decided to move to the AWS Load Balancer Controller (ALB Controller). In this article, I explain why we made this switch and how it benefits our infrastructure.