Cloud Migration: Questions to Answer Before You Migrate

Planning to move to cloud? Migrating to the cloud is not an easy task. There are a lot of decisions to be made before you take your first steps on the Cloud. The right tools and processes will ensure your first steps onto the cloud are successful. Answering the 5 W’s before you migrate will guarantee success:

Get more out of your DevOps with Containers!

Opcito’s recent blog, DevOps A Culture More Than A Practice, accentuated how DevOps aims to establish a culture and environment to revolutionize the IT industry by improving performance, increasing productivity and efficiency, and encouraging innovation.

Connect the dots with AIOps - Making intelligent DevOps work for you

“Software is eating the world” - Marc Andreessen

Software is everywhere. Every company today depends on software to deliver its services to end users. There is a lot of pressure on companies today to move faster and be more agile, all while delivering better reliability without sacrificing security.

To Microservice or Not To Microservice Is Not The Question

Microservices are a way of breaking large software projects into loosely coupled modules, which communicate with each other through simple protocols. Microservices is a fairly familiar term, but do people understand the term fairly? It can be a fair question. I see a lot of companies approaching Opcito for consultation related to microservices architecture, and I like all the buzz around microservices.

Secure your Kubernetes clusters with RBAC

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration tool to manage applications in a clustered environment. In its latest release (version 1.6), Kubernetes introduces new features such as DaemonSet, ETCD v3, scalability updates, advanced scheduling, and improvements to Kubeadm. In addition, the new RBAC authorizer is another interesting feature of Kubernetes 1.6. Within Kubernetes, authorization happens as a separate step from authentication.

AIOps - Minority Report of IT world

Minority Report is a 2002 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg. Why am I talking about movies all of a sudden? The movie had a very interesting theme where a special police unit can arrest murderers before they commit their crimes; for me, system failures, or any failure, for that matter, in IT is a crime. Even though we can’t predict the future in real life, we can at least analyze real-time data and stats to reach a conclusion and avoid or stop crime before it affects your system.