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August 2022

Your CI GitFlow is Broken

One of the great things about GitFlow is that it makes parallel development very easy by isolating new development from finished work. New development, such as features, is done in feature branches and is only merged back into the main body of code when developers have validated the feature and the code is ready for release. For most development teams, feature validation happens in a staging branch coupled with a single testing environment.

Ephemeral Environments: Explained, Benefits, and How to Get Started?

Ephemeral environments are getting popular among companies that need to scale their business efficiently. Traditionally, the deployment environments usually included development, QA, staging, UAT, and production. However, the bottlenecks with shared QA and staging environments have hindered the efficient workflow of IT teams. The first issue you will face is environment drift because it is a shared environment, and you cannot afford a separate static environment for each developer.

Qovery is a G2 High Performer for Summer 2022

We at Qovery are excited to announce that G2 has named Qovery as a Summer 2022 High Performer in the following categories: Continuous Deployment / Environment as a Service. G2 is the world’s largest tech marketplace. The High Performer Award recognizes companies with high customer satisfaction ratings relative to their market presence.

Heroku discontinued their free tier - what are the top 3 best alternatives?

Today, It's a sad day for thousands of developers that were able to host their applications for free on Heroku. Heroku (acquired by Salesforce) announced that they discontinue their free tier to focus on "mission critical" businesses. Heroku has undoubtedly changed how developers deploy their applications in the cloud - but now, what are the valid alternatives? Here is a list of the top 3 best Heroku alternatives.

My Feedback about Nixpacks - an alternative to Buildpacks

2 months ago, I discovered Nixpacks - an alternative to Buildpacks to build a final container image that simply works. I’ve tried it with multiple projects, and the promise is very good. I feel it is less black magic than Buildpacks and easily extensible. In this article, I will share my feedback on the pros and the cons of this emerging project. Let's go!

New Pricing that will give you peace of mind

Since the start of Qovery in 2019, a lot has evolved, the team got bigger, the product grew, a lot of new features were developed, and it’s now time for the pricing to change as well, but don’t worry, I’m not about to tell you that we are increasing our prices because of inflation, we’re just changing our approach in terms of pricing model and let me explain to you how this switch is going to remove plenty of stress from your shoulder!

Kubernetes Multi-Cluster: Why and When To Use Them

Application containerization has disrupted the way software applications have been built and deployed. Over the years, Kubernetes has stood out as one of the best platforms for container orchestration. It has helped many companies achieve scalability, resilience, portability, and better resource utilization in their products. However, managing Kubernetes is still complex. The first question which comes to mind is whether we should use a single cluster or a multi-cluster for Kubernetes.

17 Best DevOps Tools to Use in 2022 for Infrastructure Automation and Monitoring

You must adopt proper infrastructure automation if you want to enable your teams to achieve faster application delivery while eliminating human errors. Automation of servers, deployment environments, configuration management, and deployments play a vital role in getting a competitive advantage for your product. Monitoring both the infrastructure and application is equally important as well. In this article, we will discuss top tools for infrastructure automation and monitoring.

A Hundred Organizations Trust Us: Why and How they Use Qovery

Since our start in 2019, we are proud to say that a hundred engineering teams from fast-growing organizations trust us to deploy their Production, Staging, and Development Environments on AWS in a few seconds. But why do they use Qovery, and how? That’s what you’re about to discover today!

The Secret Ingredient for Faster Deployment: Use On-demand Environments

If you are part of a DevOps or Cloud engineering team struggling to set up and maintain proper environments, then this article is for you. We will discuss “On-demand” environments in detail. We will go through its benefits, how development teams can take advantage of it, and how Qovery’s on-demand environments give you a competitive advantage in the business.