Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

A lot of engineers think a project is done once the code is live. In a perfect world, that could be true—alas, commits are rarely free of problems. For companies that have a lot of focus on dev but little on ops, this can quickly turn into a nightmare. Fortunately, there are a lot of infrastructure monitoring tools out there that can help marry DevOps and keep your apps, websites, and processes running smoothly.

We are about to install and manage Argo CD through a CD pipeline. “Why would we do that? We can just as well accomplish that through a command like kubectl apply or helm upgrade --install.” I’m glad you asked. The primary objective of Argo CD is to help us apply GitOps processes when deploying applications. It is directing us towards the world in which everything is defined as code, and all code is stored in Git.

If you are a part of an engineering organization it is highly likely that you have heard the latest buzz words “containers”, “docker” and “kubernetes”. Today we will try to demystify these terms for you. Sit tight, it's going to be very interesting.

In this three-part blog postseason, we will describe the different development tools that are available or the different development approaches that we can use to create how Logic Apps. And for each approach/tool, we will describe: First of all, and rephrase Microsoft description: Azure Logic Apps is a cloud service that automates the execution of your business processes or workflows (sequence of tasks that produce a specific outcome).

It makes it easier to validate any server’s status without flipping between program and tools if you have one platform to track the servers. Besides, every server with remote server monitoring from a single application viewing window is provided with an accurate and real-time status. You will have the option of simplicity to decide what sort of services you want to track on each server. For instance, only a network storage server used for data backups could control a drive storage area.

VictorOps is an incident response tool whose mission is straightforward: “To make being on call suck less.” It enables teams to quickly detect and respond to problems like a service degredation or outage. VictorOps supports a wide range of external integrations to extend its capabilities by connecting different parts of your DevOps toolchain.

Latin America’s cloud ecosystem stands on the brink of change. Traditionally, businesses in the region have relied on access to cloud infrastructure and services hosted in the US. But the acceleration of cloud adoption in Latin American markets, such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Mexico, is attracting the attention of hyper-scale cloud providers and leading to new investment in data centres.

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every aspect of life, uniting governments, the scientific community, and healthcare workers around the world in the struggle to get it under control. The pandemic has been a forceful catalyst for healthcare IT Ops change. Infrastructure health and performance optimization has never been more critical to serve the needs of life science research, drug discovery, and hospital care.

This week, Hashicorp announced the launch of their new product - Waypoint - aiming to simplify the way developers build and run apps in the Cloud and on any platform (like Kubernetes). The project is open source and is well adopted by the dev community. As CEO and co-founder of Qovery, I am enthusiastic to see this product live. At Qovery, we believe in making the developer’s life easier, and seeing big Open Source companies moving in this direction is a good thing for all of us.