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Backstage, Developers, Self-Service Environments, and Platform Engineering Introduction The #1 KPI is not how fast a developer codes, but rather how long it takes from the time a developer starts to work on a new feature till it gets to production. In this blog I’d like to describe… Read More

In this edition of the Cloudify Tech Talk Podcast, we delve into a unique discussion of ‘where did Terraform Enterprise go wrong?” with special guest Elliot Graebert – VP of Engineering at Convictional.  Transcript: COMING SOON… Read More

Let’s simplify the developer experience and scale DevOps workflows without compromising the security of multi-Kubernetes environments. Organizations are eagerly adopting containers and Kubernetes, investing in cloud-native to foster innovation and growth. According to the CNCF and Slashdata, nearly 5.6 million developers use Kubernetes. That’s 31% of… Read More

CI/CD is a way of developing software and deploying it so that changes occur quickly, frequently, and with high quality. It has become increasingly important as organizations move towards digital transformation and the need for instant feedback on ideas or products. Agile testing is an approach to testing software where… Read More

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns have enabled velocity, repeatability, and codification of best practices for our environments. However, using IaC has introduced new challenges, especially around security. Securing manually deployed infrastructure is already difficult. This problem rapidly multiplies when organizations adopt IaC patterns, since they must now contend with the… Read More

By implementing CI/CD in your software development process, you can build high-quality software faster and easier than ever before. However, despite its many benefits, many challenges still arise when scaling up CI/CD pipeline process, such as increasing throughput or reducing wait times, just to name a couple. CI/CD Pipeline… Read More

Check out this edition of the Cloudify Tech Talk Podcast! In this episode, Dan Moore a Solution Architect at FusionAuth compares and contrasts his experience in managing their SaaS offering with Terraform, and unexpected challenges. Transcript: COMING SOON… Read More

As enterprises adopt cloud-based technologies, their IT infrastructure becomes more complex. The need to constantly scale up the CI/CD pipeline presents new challenges for IT teams. This blog post will share best practices and learnings from our work with enterprise customers who have successfully scaled up their CI/CD pipelines and… Read More

Introduction Cloudify offers a set of GitHub actions that can be used to interact with your managers. You can combine and use those actions based on your needs. You can check them out in the GitHub marketplace. This brings us to the main point where a developer would require… Read More

When I speak with customers, one of the most common goals that they describe is making their existing automation available to their internal developers and customers in a self-service way. Most organizations invested countless hours in developing scripts and playbooks for performing common “Day 2” operations, such as patching servers… Read More

Argo CD is now a standard tool for deploying workloads in Kubernetes. Argo easily integrates with source code management (SCM) repositories, syncs Kubernetes state with repository manifests, and provides monitoring and visualization capabilities for running workloads. These features make Argo CD an essential part of many organizations’ Kubernetes strategies. Deploying… Read More

The Story Behind the Cloudify 6.4 Release  Platform engineering teams are now being tasked to build internal development platforms to simplify the development process, specifically in the area of Kubernetes and Terraform-based environments. Building such an internal platform is still a complex task – as noted in the Dan… Read More