At its core, DevOps is a set of principles. There are certain types of tools and processes that reinforce those principles and put them into practice. But the tools and processes are just a means to an end. The end itself is DevOps principles. Thus, DevOps success boils down to understanding the key DevOps principles, then identifying the tools and processes that enable your team to achieve them.

Windows and macOS developers can now use MicroK8s natively! Use kubectl at the Windows or Mac command line to interact with MicroK8s locally just as you would on Linux. Clean integration into the desktop means better workflows to dev, build and test your containerised apps. MicroK8s is a conformant upstream Kubernetes, packaged for simplicity and resilience. It provides sensible defaults and bundles the most commonly used components for at-your-fingertips access.

This blog is an extraction of the session “Event-Driven Microservices with Azure Functions, Event Grid and Cosmos DB” presented by Martin Abbott, who is Azure MVP, Regional Director. We need to first have a deep understanding of all the services and components that are used to create the End to End application.

INTEGRATE has become part of our company culture since we started it back in 2013. We created a place for all Microsoft Integration people from across the world to get together and share experiences. This year, considering the Covid situation, we made a big decision to take INTEGRATE 2020 into a virtual conference with a new branding called “INTEGRATE 2020 REMOTE”. If you wish to get redirected to blogs based on each session on day 1 of the event, here is the quick guide to help you out.

In my Puppet travels over the last 10 or so years, one topic has continued to arise time and again, and that has been the ability to scale open source Puppet to thousands of nodes. While the best route is to use Puppet Enterprise for solid support and a team of talented engineers to help you in your configuration management journey, sometimes the right solution for your needs is open source Puppet.

In a previous article, we discussed KUDO and the benefits of it when you want to create or manage Operators. In this article we will focus on how to start to work with KUDO: Installation, using a predefined Operator and create your own one. Installing KUDO To install KUDO the first step is to install the CLI plugin in order to manage KUDO via CLI. Depending on your OS you can use a package manager like Brew or Krew, however installing the binary is a straightforward option to proceed.