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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.

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!

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.

Albane here, Product Marketing Manager at Qovery 👋 Yesterday we joined forced Pierre Olive (CTO and co-founder of Spayr) to talk about how they manage multiple environments on Kubernetes with Qovery and much more; if you missed it or would just rather read than listen, here is the recap.

Consider the scenario where a complex product is being developed by dozens of engineers working on different features of a product. Not only the development environment is the same, but the staging environment is also shared. As different features are merged into the shared environment, they break the code. So QA has to wait until this is fixed. A feature or bug fix may be working perfectly on the developer’s own machine, but there is no way for the QA team to test that one feature in isolation.

It's common practice that development environments for the same product are kept the same (or at least compatible) for smooth software development life cycle (SDLC) workflow. That brings the question, why do we need more than one environment for the same product. In today’s modern software development, it is crucial for product development teams to maintain an effective and rapid workflow if they want to gain a competitive edge in the product market.

Qovery V3, which is the most significant product evolution of the last twelve months, was launched in Alpha testing about two weeks ago now. We started gathering some feedback and also added some new functionality since then so let’s take a look on how’s going.

My team and I built Qovery to empower DevOps engineers and Developers to better work together - without compromises. In 2022, DevOps engineers need to build reliable infrastructure on top of the best cloud service providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP), dealing with security concerns, productivity, reliability, and many services. DevOps engineers are responsible for a lot of things in an organization. From CI/CD, to the run of the apps in production and the backup of databases.

Some people spend hours on a spreadsheet and call themselves “Excell Ninja” here at Qovery; we spend hours on our console because, in case you don’t know yet, we test and deploy using Qovery for Qovery. After a year of using our console almost every day, I started to make a list of all the small tips and tricks that I was able to gather, and because sharing is caring, here are my top three tips to use on Qovery.

One of the most exciting things when using Kubernetes is the ability to scale up and down the number of nodes based on application consumption. So you don’t have to manually add and remove nodes on demand and let it go on usage. Obviously what you want is to keep control on the minimum and the maximum number of nodes to avoid an unexpected bill.