Despite the difficulties we’ve all experienced during this pandemic, it has been fascinating to watch how human beings have come together as communities all over the world to support each other, and our Cloud Native community is no different.

Mirco Hering is principal director of APAC DevOps and Agile with Accenture. He supports major public and private sector companies in Australia and overseas in their search for efficient IT delivery. Mirco blogs about IT delivery at NotAFactoryAnymore.com and is author of “DevOps For The Modern Enterprise: Winning Practices to Transform Legacy IT Organizations.”

The traditional method of planning server, network, and storage capacity is to look at the usage peaks and then add a safety margin. Most cloud hosting is planned this way. The idea that you only pay for what you use is not based on actual usage, rather on the capacities you initially specify. Most cloud migrations involve a ‘lift and shift’ approach of moving an application to a different host with minimal maintenance.

Terms such as DevOps, Agile and LEAN are now used in a single bundle. If a project is created according to the LEAN methodology, all processes become more efficient with DevOps and Agile, making it possible to remain flexible and respond quickly to changes. In this article, we will share seven best practices you need to follow when adopting a DevOps model.

Helm is a popular open-source tool used to manage and configure your Kubernetes cluster. Basically, it is a package manager (think Homebrew or NPM) built for Kubernetes. It helps automate processes like installing, configuring, upgrading, and removing items. This post will give you a brief introduction to Helm and how it might help you manage your Kubernetes cluster.

Service Request Automation – Fulfil Cloud Requests The Easy Way The typical Service Desk model consists of 1st line support contemplating how a call should be answered, and then passing it to 2nd and 3rd line to fulfil the requirement. In the new world of Cloud and AI Ops, there is a more streamlined; efficient and autonomous process.

To manage your Windows desktops and servers based on the version / edition of Windows installed across your organisation, we’ve introduced Windows build-specific facts to Puppet. If you have a mix of Windows servers (Core and ServerStandard) and Windows desktops with varying versions and editions Windows, using Windows build-specific facts allows you to: Let’s see what all this looks like in some Puppet code.

If you've spent days (or even weeks?) trying to spin up a Kubernetes cluster for learning purposes or to test your application, then your worries are over. Spawned from a Kubernetes Special Interest Group, KIND is a tool that provisions a Kubernetes cluster running IN Docker.