As the complexity of a microservice architecture grows, it becomes important to implement a service mesh for better insights into your cluster and microservices. In this blog, Kristijan explains how Istio can be used as a service mesh, along with a detailed installation steps & configuration setup. Service Mesh? You’ve heard about it, but does it solve something, or is it just another hot buzzword in the industry?

GCP is increasingly being used by teams all over. In this blog, Uzziah explains how CloudSQL is Google Cloud Platform’s solution that provides a managed PostgreSQL and MySQL server. Relational databases are the preferred choice for persisting data in most non-trivial applications. CloudSQL is Google Cloud Platform’s solution that provides a managed PostgreSQL and MySQL server.

Typically, an infrastructure is made up of numerous critical services which should not be exposed to everyone. In this blog by Uzziah, learn how Cloudflare Access enables you to protect internal services that you’d rather not expose to everyone.

The more prominent and complex Kubernetes deployments become, the more important it is to define strict access controls and tighter security. In this blog, Kasun has explained how RBAC can be implemented in Kubernetes clusters to restrict user permissions to relevant resources only.

Deploying infrastructure manually is an outdated practice. Using Terraform to automate manual deployment is the new normal. In this blog, we have explained in detail, how to create your first module using Terraform. Before the advent of cloud and DevOps, most companies managed and deployed their infrastructure manually. This used to be risky because not only was it error-prone, it also slowed down the entire infrastructure cycle.

Establishing a formal SRE practice can be either a 'nice-to-have' or a 'must-have' depending on org size, and team structure among other important factors. In this blog, Ricardo Castro shares his thoughts on the key SRE principles that every organization must incorporate and when they should incorporate in their SRE journey.

One of the tools we use internally at Squadcast for SLO and Error Budget tracking is now open-source. In keeping up with the SRE ideology of automating as many ops tasks as possible, we built this SLO Tracker. We made this open-source so that the SRE community can also use it too. Looking forward to get your feedback, suggestions and patches :)

It is difficult to stay completely reliable in an always-on world. So it's very important to choose the right Incident Management solution that can solve your problems. In this blog, we have highlighted the benefits of Squadcast and why you should adopt it. “Being on-call sucks!" Often incident response teams use this phrase when talking about their on-call experiences. Despite using best practices for managing infrastructure, incidents do occur from time to time.

When Squadcast was founded back in 2018, we had a concise yet clear goal—we wanted to make it as easy as possible for companies to manage their IT incident and reliability needs. In the spirit of continuing that mission, today I’m excited to announce our $6M fundraise led by DNX Ventures and backed by Wipro Ventures, Nexus Ventures, and Chiratae Ventures. We’re also pleased to announce the addition of DNX and Q Motiwala to our Board of Directors.

How different are DevOps and SRE? Are they related to each other? In this blog, James Samuel sheds light on the similarities & differences between SRE & DevOps followed by the possible ways to structure an SRE team in your organization. One of the terms that people often find confusing is SRE and DevOps. People often ask, should I hire a DevOps Engineer or a Site Reliability Engineer? What is the difference between SRE and DevOps and which one do I need? In this post, I attempt to shed some light.