The latest News and Information on Continuous Integration and Development, and related technologies.
Emojis are finally useful for more than sentiment or sass. Cloudsmith Engineering can now be raised in emergency situations via a single emoji - SOS. And it’s been used for the first, and so far only, time. At Cloudsmith, we pride ourselves on our reactive (and in many cases proactive) support. We architected and built the platform with monitoring in mind allowing us to provide transparency of internal operations to you and us.
There are many articles and videos about practicing Continuous Delivery (CD) with applications, but not nearly as many for infrastructure. The same can be said for GitOps applied to infrastructure. That is a bit strange given that applications and infrastructure are almost the same today. Both are defined as code, and everyone stores code in Git repositories. Hence, GitOps is just as good of a fit for infrastructure as for anything else.
IoT is slowly, quietly taking over the world. A few years ago, self-ordering fridges, driverless cars, and fully automated homes seemed like the stuff of dreams. And while the technology exists, rollout and adoption is slower than anticipated, amidst security and privacy concerns. That said, IoT is the future, and growth is steady, as the challenges of building and maintaining hundreds of thousands of devices per vendor are getting solved.
The ability of Kubernetes to easily deploy and manage containerized software has given organizations tremendous capabilities in their cloud services, with clusters multiplying into the hundreds or thousands and extending out to the edge for any number of purposes. But its growing popularity has also led to challenges in managing complexity in an environment that is conducive to cluster sprawl.
