The Cloudify Blog
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The Entire Software Development Process, Open-Source and Automated via Backstage
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 -
Podcast | Episode Twenty Six – ‘Evolution and approaches to Infrastructure as Code’ Ft. Elliot Graebert @Conviction
- By Nati Shalom
- October 19, 2022
- Cloudify
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 -
Bridging the Gap Between Applications and Kubernetes Environments
- By Nati Shalom
- October 18, 2022
- DevOps Kubernetes
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 Testing Done Properly (Agile Testing)
- By Team Cloudify
- October 4, 2022
- CI/CD CI/CD Continuous Deployment Continuous Integration
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 -
Securing Terraform Modules with tfsec
- By Anthony Critelli
- September 29, 2022
- Infrastructure as Code Terraform
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 -
Setting Up Goals for CI/CD Scale Up
- By Team Cloudify
- September 22, 2022
- Continuous Deployment Deployment
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 -
Podcast | Episode Twenty Five – ‘Building Authentication As A Service – The end of Terraform as a golden hammer’ Ft Dan Moore @FusionAuth
- By Team Cloudify
- September 19, 2022
- Cloudify
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 -
Scaling up your CI/CD Pipeline as your Organization Grows
- By Joshua Margo
- September 15, 2022
- CI/CD Cloud Automation Cloud Deployment Cloudify CMP Deployment Developers DevOps GitHub
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 -
Running Cloudify Github Actions Locally
- By Ahmad Musa
- September 13, 2022
- Automation CMP Developers DevOps GitHub
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 -
Turning Ansible Playbooks into Self-Service Workflows with Cloudify
- By Anthony Critelli
- September 8, 2022
- Ansible Cloudify
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 -
Integrating Cloudify & Argo CD
- By Anthony Critelli
- September 6, 2022
- DevOps Kubernetes
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 -
Bridging the Gap Between Applications & Cloud Environments
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