Earlier this year, we surveyed over 5,700 global IT professionals and asked them what the most pressing challenges they faced in Database DevOps and Monitoring are. We also asked specific questions to gauge what trends we could spot in the industry and compared the responses to the last 3-5 years of data we have.

Curious about DevOps Workflow? We explain the DevOps process, how automation relates to workflow, and best practices for workflow design DevOps is a methodology that involves Development and Operations working together during the development process. Workflow is the sequence in which tasks occur. DevOps workflow relies heavily on automation and involves: Using DevOps, teams can increase collaboration and improve processes to create more stable and manageable processes.

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.

Deploying packages to distributed Kubernetes clusters is time-consuming. Those in charge of provisioning and preparing infrastructure for application teams know the pain of preparing clusters for production. Provisioning is only the start of a laborious process required to prepare a cluster. Once the cluster is up and running, deploying tools for things like monitoring and security is a DevOps imperative.

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.

Have you always wanted to have different settings between production and staging but never knew how? You can do this with Kustomize! Kustomize is a CLI configuration manager for Kubernetes objects that leverage layering to preserve the base settings of the application. This is done by overlaying the declarative YAML artifacts to override default settings without actually making any changes to the original manifest.

After many weeks of work, we're delighted to announce the latest feature of the incident.io platform: Workflows. Configure your processes once, and we'll make sure you follow them, every time ✨ A little while ago, I was asked the question: “what makes a good incident response?”. Whilst there’s infinite nuance in the answer, mine was pretty straightforward. The best incidents are founded on principles of communication, coordination, and clear roles and responsibilities.