Waste is never a good thing. And rumblings of an economic downturn, alongside dire warnings of climate change, are making it increasingly necessary to address waste. As a society, we need to reduce consumption, data included. First, we all must acknowledge the high cost of data. Despite the prevailing opinion of the 2010s, data isn’t free. There’s a monetary and carbon cost to keeping data alive.

“Lead time to deploy” means the interval from when the code gets written to when it’s been deployed to production. It has also been described as “how long it takes you to run CI/CD.” How important is it? It’s nigh-on impossible to have a high-performing team if you have a long lead time, and shortening your lead time makes your team perform better, both directly and indirectly.

We are happy to announce the first minor release of Kubewarden v1.0: v1.1.1 is now available! For those of you new to Kubewarden, it is a policy manager for Kubernetes.

When considering application source code, the way you maintain consistency throughout environments is mostly straightforward. You write application code, commit it to source control, and then build, test and deploy via a CI/CD pipeline. Since the application is defined by the source code living in source control, the build will be identical in all environments to which it’s deployed. But what about the infrastructure on which an application runs?

Last month we announced the 3 major features we are adding to the Codefresh platform. Dashboards for DORA metrics, support for any external Continuous Integration system and a hosted GitOps service. The hosted GitOps experience (powered by Argo CD) is now available to all new Codefresh accounts (even free ones) so that simply by signing up you can start deploying applications right away to your Kubernetes cluster without having to maintain your own Argo CD installation.

Joining a new dev team can be an exciting but somewhat intimidating experience. On one hand, you’re jumping into new adventures and opportunities. On the other hand, most onboarding experiences are fraught with stress and a sense of overwhelming from how much you have to learn, fast, to be able to contribute to your new team. To be honest, I’d never worked at a place where the developer onboarding experience was particularly memorable – until I joined Helios.

We have covered a plethora of topics on Active Directory (AD) in parts one to nine of this series on Active Directory Domain Services. In this final and 10th part, we will look at one other crucial aspect of AD—Group Policies and Group Policy Objects (GPOs). We will discuss what Group Policies are and what role GPOs play in the effective setup of any AD environment.

Sysadmins, short for system administrators, serve as a crucial subset of IT engineers and support staff and are often under-appreciated. Sysadmins are the lynchpins that provide continuity, performance, and security to the systems that connect every corner of the world. When COVID-19 scattered large workforces in offices across small home office networks, organizations relied on their sysadmins more than ever before to maintain work processes.