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Cloud Foundry Summit, Google Cloud Next, Container World, DockerCon and more

April was one of our busiest and exciting month of events so far. Here’s a recap of where we were, what we saw and where you can catch us next. While writing this, we are on the road at both DockerCon and Open Infrastructure Summit so if you are there, don’t hesitate to find our pink shirts to meet us and get a demo!

Savings with monitoring: what costs will my company save?

Are you the type of person who wonders why things happen? When you were a child, did you look into the clouds when it rained and wonder what was the mechanism behind it? This is an intelligent attitude. We cannot go through life relying only on chance and our intuitions; sometimes it is convenient to ask ourselves about things before doing them, especially when it comes to making some important decisions.

What Is CICD? What's Important and How to Get It Right

We’re on the verge of something here, people. A growing number of companies are shipping software in minutes. Yeah, you read that right. Minutes. Not hours, not weeks, months, or longer. Minutes. Often, teams struggle to ship software into the customer’s hands due to lack of consistency and excessive manual labor. Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) deliver software to a production environment with speed, safety, and reliability.

Chef Server Logging with the ELK Stack - Part 1

How many recipes do you have in your cookbook? This isn’t off topic, for today I’ll be exploring the ins and outs of Chef logging to help you maintain the state of your kitchen. (Last of the bad puns.) For those unfamiliar, Chef is a configuration management and platform automation tool that sits in the same space as Puppet (which we wrote about previously).

Introducing cf-remote: Tooling to deploy CFEngine

About a year ago, I wrote a small python script to automate installing and bootstrapping CFEngine on virtual machines in AWS. It had some hard coded IP addresses that I needed to update when I spawned new hosts, but other than that, it worked well. During manual testing, it saved me a lot of time instead of having to do things manually.