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The relationships between ITOM and DevOps

As explained in the earlier “What’s ITOM?” blog, there are various definitions of IT Operations Management (ITOM). This variation has a knock-on for everything related to ITOM, including the relationship between ITOM and DevOps. This issue is further complicated when people and organizations have different views of what DevOps is and isn’t. Hence, we must start with a single definition for ITOM and DevOps.

Civo Update - August 2022

In July, we released two new enterprise offerings, CivoStack and Edge! CivoStack is an enterprise-ready hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution built for security, performance, and scale. To find out more visit our product page! Edge is our purpose-built Kubernetes hosted infrastructure, designed for on-location edge computing. Created with security, compliance and low latency in mind, find out more here.

How to Become a Site Reliability Engineer: Job Description, Roles & Responsibilities

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is still going strong in the world of software development. As a bridge between developments and operations, it’s a necessary part of any organization that wants to work like a well-oiled machine. Simply put, SRE tries to fix a widespread problem in organizations: siloing. But not much is known about the job requirements of becoming a site reliability engineer.

How to Use the Ping Command for Network and Troubleshooting

The ping command is one of network admins' most commonly used tools. It has served and continues to serve network admins as one of the best network troubleshooting tools since it was released almost 39 years ago. In this article, we cover what the ping command does, how to use it, and more. Read on to learn the basics about this simple but powerful networking tool that IT teams can’t live without.

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.

Cloudability Pricing: How Much Does Cloudability Cost?

Apptio announced on May 31, 2019, that it had acquired Cloudability, hoping to strengthen its mission through its new product. Cloudability is a multi-cloud financial management platform for enterprises looking for a more unified way to view, understand, and act on cloud cost insight. Cloudability lets enterprises analyze cloud costs across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Apptio Cloudability provides FinOps capabilities as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

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!

Setting up a Multi-Architecture Kubernetes Cluster

In the last post we covered the industry shift towards ARM machines for both local and production software engineering. Last time we learned how to create Docker images that would work on multiple architectures for dev machines. Now we want to take this portability and leverage it for cost savings in production. You may be able to transition some of your services into multi-architecture builds.