According to the 2021 State of DevOps Report, 80% of organizations are failing to scale DevOps adoption, and that number hasn’t changed for 4 years. We took time out to talk to Cycloid founder Benjamin Brial about the path of DevOps and why it’s not always as smooth a journey as it could be.
Archives: Blogs
DevOps and the Bus Factor: Reducing Key-Person Risk
A while back, I wrote an ebook to help people work on the one part of the DevOps puzzle you can’t buy, outsource, or ignore – the DevOps mindset. During my research, I found an idea that really made me laugh – even though it probably shouldn’t. It was in the middle of coronavirus lockdown though, so I have my excuses.
The Inside Story: Terraform Module Handling
Francesc, a backend developer here at Cycloid and talented maintainer of TerraCognita, tells us what led to our recent launch of Terraform Module handling and what exciting developments it’s paving the way for.
The Inside Story: Roles & Policies
Nikola, a front end developer here at Cycloid, tells us what led to our recent shake up of Roles & Policies, why what we had could be improved, and how we went about improving it.
Dynamically adding and removing dedicated Concourse workers
Here at Cycloid, we use open-source pipeline engine Concourse in Kubernetes. Over time, we noticed a problem – every time we wanted to add a new worker (in Concourse, the worker is the entity responsible for executing the scheduler’s operations), the process seemed long and inefficient. We decided to see if we could improve it by contributing to Concourse.
DevOps thinking and the Ikea factor
I wrote an ebook series about creating better DevOps teams recently and had a lot of fun. I also learned a lot doing the research.
One thing that tickled me – there are some excellent buzzwords circulating around the world of business that you can use when it comes to talking about DevOps and software development. Grappled with the bus factor, Ikea effect, or ping-pong thinking recently? I hope not!
Announcing InfraPolicies – and a surprise!
We’ve taken our first steps into a new year and it is a new year from which we are expecting a lot. We’ve started as we mean to go on, and are really pleased to introduce InfraPolicies, the newest addition to the Cycloid stable.
What Are InfraPolicies? Cloud Governance Explained
InfraPolicies (infrastructure policies) are an implementation of Policy as Code. They provide fine-grained control over changes to an organization’s infrastructures while simultaneously defining validation rules.
Creating a better on-call culture in your tech team
This article has been updated and enriched for February 2022
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