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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

Managing IaC-based infrastructure always brings a risk of having a significant impact on the environment. The slightest change may result in unexpected costs, security flaws, or a code that does not comply with the organization’s standards.  The most effective way to be protected from these misconfigurations is to detect them… Read More

Cloudify released on August 18th, 2022, version 6.4 of its open source Cloudify DevOps automation platform, which bridges the gap between applications and their cloud environments. This will enable teams to develop and manage environments and remove obstacles between developers and production. The rise of Platform Engineering Platform engineering… Read More

AWS has grown from a simple storage service to over 70 services that can be used to build, deploy, run and manage applications in the cloud. Some of the common problems for companies working with AWS lie with automation. Cloudify is an open-source multi-cloud Application Deployment and Management Solution that… Read More

Kubernetes is an open-source plan for automating deployment, managing containerized sorts of applications, and scaling. It helps you manage your containers as well as your stateless microservices.     It is a powerful tool that can be used for both development and production environments. One of its most useful features… Read More