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As your AWS usage grows, so will your stockpile of EBS snapshots and AMI images. Many of these are used for backups, while others are used to launch EC2 instances from Auto Scaling groups and EC2 launch templates. As your collection of AMI images grows, you will need to start rotating out the old AMI images.
If you google “DevOps tools,” you’ll see a dizzying litany of software applications, all promising to simplify your life as a DevOps engineer. This can be an intimidating experience — not only because there are so many DevOps solutions available that it can be difficult to know which ones are the best for your needs, but also because the idea of having to learn and “carry around” so many tools is itself unnerving.
With AWS Lambda, we can deploy and scale individual functions. However, we as engineers still like to think in terms of services and maintain a mapping between business capabilities and service boundaries. The service level abstraction makes it easier for us to reason about large systems. As such, cohesive functions that work together to serve a business feature are grouped together and deployed as a unit (i.e. a service) through CloudFormation.
In this blog post, I will focus on configuring OpenEBS as a persistent storage option on the open-source self-managed OpenShift Origin and deploy a stateful workload (MongoDB) both from CLI and custom catalog template using OpenEBS storage classes.
I started Blue Matador in 2016 to help people like me. Site reliability engineers and devops engineers time is in short supply while the demands keep growing. We support an increasing number of applications, microservices, tools, libraries, languages, runtimes, pipelines, analytics and BI suites, and more. At the same time we’re supporting more applications, the applications themselves are growing more and more complex both from a deployment and a management angle.
Today we are happy to announce StackStorm v2.10.4. This is another bug fix release in the v2.10.x release series. It includes the following bug fixes and improvements...
Containers are no longer the next big thing in the industry. They are mainstream now. This means they should be treated seriously and not like a novelty. What are the main areas of concern when you want to add a new tool to your stack? For most of us stability, security, and observability are the things that matter the most. This article will focus on security.
