Increasing importance of cross-functional teams and TestOps

Software development lifecycle has come a long way from a linear sequential design approach to an incremental and much more efficient one. The journey from the waterfall model to a more agile meant the teams involved also had to adapt themselves to the changing demands and arrangements. A typical development process involves phases such as requirements gathering, designing, coding, testing, and implementation-deployment phases.

Development redefined with Docker

Docker is one popular technology amongst people working on containers. And why not, considering the advantages it offers when it comes to portability, isolation, standardization, and choices for programming frameworks? These features make Docker a perfect tool to play around for developers and help clients. In this blog, I am talking about how we at Opcito help our clients to set up a development environment using Docker and Docker Compose.

Orchestrating with Kubernetes in Azure Container Service

The last time I wrote about Azure Container Service, little did I know that Microsoft would be coming up with the container service in the same week, specifically focused on Kubernetes as an orchestrator. Microsoft had already made its intentions clear as to what it wanted as its orchestration expert.

Manage your cloud with ServiceNow

The IT challenge

Cloud has been the hottest commodity for the past two decades now, and everyone is embracing the cloud to stay ahead of the competition. Apart from the inherent advantages, the cloud is turning out to be the most economical way to operate your business. In addition to this, there is an ever-increasing arsenal of services to support the cloud initiatives by giants like AWS, Azure, and VMware. All these services are making it easy to use the cloud even for a layman.

Fast forwarding your DevOps

Fast forwarding your DevOps

Trace your applications on the go with StatsD and Jaeger

“Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important” –Seth Godin.

What more can you do with Ansible AWX?

In my last blog, I discussed how you could set up autoscaling infrastructure using Ansible AWX for AWS autoscaling group configuration and deployment. You can use this to update your existing autoscaling groups as well without touching user data. In this blog post, I will mainly focus on what value you can add with Ansible AWX and how it can help you to manage your infrastructure in better ways.