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AWS CloudWatch Configuration Guide: Getting Started

If you remember getting an Erector Set as a kid, I’m sorry. In a stocking full of toy building systems, an Erector Set is the proverbial lump of coal. The instructions are complicated, and the pieces are made of metal, connected together with tiny screws. Few children have ever completed one of these sets successfully.

Introduction to Kubernetes Network Policy with Use Cases

In Kubernetes, Network Policy allows you to define a policy determining what traffic is allowed to flow to and from specific workloads. By default, Kubernetes permits ingress and egress traffic to and from all pods in a namespace. Without correct configuration your risk of a significant security breach is high. Attend this webinar and learn best practices in configuring Kubernetes network security.

Postmortems and Retrospectives (class SRE implements DevOps)

Even after a service has been restored, SREs still have a bit of work to do. In this video, Liz and Seth discuss the postmortem process that SREs follow. Blameless postmortems and retrospectives are key to learning from failures and preventing recurrence. You will learn about the importance of conducting a postmortem, strategies for conducting a blameless postmortem, and techniques for trending retrospectives across your entire organization to gain better insights to prevent service disruptions in the future.

Improve Heroku Geolocation Performance with the Geolite2 Buildpack

Recently, we began using IP geolocation within StatusGator to learn where are users are located. We are happy to say that it’s working out well. We hoped to use these insights to tune our marketing. To that end, we added the Ahoy gem to help collect information related to how our advertising campaigns are going. The Ahoy gem also uses the geolocation gem to lookup IP addresses. This significantly increased the number of IP geolocation lookups.

An Opinionated List of Skills You Need for a DevOps Job in 2018

The world of DevOps is a pretty confusing place for folks just starting out. Even figuring out what “DevOps” means can be hard. Is it CI/CD with Kubernetes and Serverless to drive Agile product iterations? Or is it SSH-ing into a box and restarting Apache? You guessed it. All of the above and most things in between.

Jenkins in a Nutshell

In many projects, the product development workflow has three main concerns: building, testing, and deployment. Each change to the code means something could accidentally go wrong, so in order to prevent this from happening developers adopt many strategies to diminish incidents and bugs. Jenkins, and other continuous integration tools (CI) are used together with a source version software (such as GIT) to test and quickly evaluate the updated code.

The Future of DevOps Observability: The Evolution of Logging, Monitoring and Metrics

LogDNA is uniquely positioned to have enabled thousands of customers to gain deep insights into their DevOps infrastructure. As the industry has shifted to microservices and Kubernetes we have helped our customers migrate and deploy world-class infrastructure. Based on our experience we see three main pillars when it comes to the future of DevOps: Monitoring, Analytics, and Logging.