One of the most frequent questions in modern DevOps world is how to promote software from Development environment all the way to Production – via Test, UAT, Staging and other lower level environment if applicable. The challenge here is two-fold: Below I will show how we manage the above with Reliza Hub. This will be… Continue reading How To Promote Software to Production with Reliza Hub
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Reliza CD Tutorial: Deploying on Kubernetes
This tutorial describes Reliza CD – agent that connects Kubernetes clusters to Reliza Hub and allows to deploy software from the hub. This post continues my previous tutorial on Reliza Hub Ephemerals – but here I describe how to configure Persistent instances rather than ephemerals. Much of the same setup as in the Ephemeral tutorial… Continue reading Reliza CD Tutorial: Deploying on Kubernetes
DevOps Via Negativa
I have finally finished reading “Antifragile” by Nassim Taleb and while this is a great book in general, a lot of things about Via Negativa resonated with me in regards to the DevOps field specifically. In short, Via Negativa is a way to achieve things by not doing something, rather than by doing. Below are… Continue reading DevOps Via Negativa
My Dive Into DevOps Consulting
While I’ve been working as a consultant for more than 10 years, only 3 of those years went into DevOps consulting. If you’re curious, my other consulting experience was in recruitment, HR and Management Consulting. Here I want to share my observations specific to DevOps and more broadly IT and software consulting as well as… Continue reading My Dive Into DevOps Consulting
Why DevOps Discord Community?
DevOps, SRE, Platform Egnineering and DataOps are among the hottest trends of modern IT field. Many people want to get in, many professionals are already there and looking for ways to self-develop, ask questions, validate ideas. DevOps Communities Yes, I am talking about communities. The evolution of DevOps communities started with a well-known DevOpsDays movement.… Continue reading Why DevOps Discord Community?
On DevOps Thinking – 3 Soft Skills For DevOps Interviews
These are 3 soft skills that appear most important to me in DevOps interviews. The list is based on my 8 years working in DevOps and 10 years in recruitment and management consulting before that. It is mostly applicable for Senior DevOps positions. 1. Groking Things I was reading about groking many times when I… Continue reading On DevOps Thinking – 3 Soft Skills For DevOps Interviews
DevOps Trends for 2021
Traditionally at the year end I like to note most significant trends that I see unfolding in the DevOps world. I did not know about the level of disruption that Covid would cause when I put “Remote Asynchronous Workforce” on the last year’s list. As we now know this actually turned out to be the… Continue reading DevOps Trends for 2021
7 Best Practices of Modern CI/CD
This is a summary of my research of modern CI/CD practices while working on Reliza Hub. This list is rather opinionated but I try to provide explanations why I hold specific opinions. Finally, I’m making this an ordered list, but it’s not actually sorted by importance. So, let’s start: 1. Separate CI and CD –… Continue reading 7 Best Practices of Modern CI/CD
Lego World – No One DevOps Solution Fits All
I was entertaining the idea of Lego-style DevOps software for quite a while now. I wanted to write about this pretty much after success of my previous post about microservices, but then the whole situation with the virus started to unfold – which led me to a bit of paralysis. Today I’m trying to break… Continue reading Lego World – No One DevOps Solution Fits All
Reliza Hub Tutorial Using Our Playground
Reliza Hub is a DevOps Metadata Management System. It helps manage software releases in the era of kubernetes and micro-services. Tutorial covers the following: Projects and Products, and how to create releases for them How to connect CI script to generate new Project releases (we use GitHub Actions as an example) How to send data… Continue reading Reliza Hub Tutorial Using Our Playground