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This blog post defines SRE by explaining SLOs and error budgets, highlighting the innovation vs. reliability tradeoff.
One more “ops” phoneme like DevOps is ChatOps; or conversation-based development/operations. ChatOps has been growing in popularity as communication platforms such as Slack is ingrained in our day-to-day engineering lives. A team lead once told me “if it didn’t happen in Slack, it didn’t happen” showing the emphasis of communication platforms as a system of record.
A common DevOps use case involves alerting when hosts stop reporting metrics, aka a deadman alert. This can be done using the monitor.deadman() Flux function. One can easily create a deadman (or threshold) check in the InfluxDB UI Alerts section or craft a custom task to alert as well. Check out InfluxDB’s Checks and Notifications system post for more details. It’s also possible to use the monitor.deadman() function directly in a dashboard cell.
HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) provides fully managed versions of some of HashiCorp’s most popular offerings, including Vault. With Vault, users have a centralized way to secure, store, and manage access to secrets across distributed systems. HCP Vault handles the day-to-day cluster maintenance, patches, and overall system security, making it easy to deploy a cluster without needing to host or manage your own infrastructure.
The integration of Development and Operations is a powerful recent approach to software development. If you're new to DevOps practices, or looking to improve your current processes, it can be tough to know which tool is best for your team. We've put together this list to help you make an informed decision on which tools should be part of your stack. Read on to discover the 15 best DevOps tools, from automated build tools to application performance monitoring platforms.
