A team of DevOps professionals working at DevOpsX had high expectations from the platform their organization just launched. The platform had promised to revolutionize workflows related to Git, CI/CD, testing, and a few others that the team used along with simplifying the entire process. The organization launched it with much fanfare, but the platform turned out to be a disappointment. The platform’s complexity and non-intuitive design proved to be confusing to the developers who found it difficult to devise a workflow. Whether it was creating or triggering a pipeline or managing deployment env ..read more

The evolution of DevOps to Platform Engineering is an interesting transformation occurring in the current technology landscape. Platform engineering includes the creation of innovative engineering solutions that help developers reduce the time spent on non-development activities such as infrastructure deployment so they can focus on application development and delivery. The adoption of platform engineering is supported by various engineering solutions such as the IDP (Internal Development Platform) - for example Backstage. Some of these tools focus on creating a central dashboard for developer ..read more

In the fast-paced world we’re living in, speed is the name of the game, whether you are running a 100m sprint at the Olympics or shipping software features to your customers. As an organization, you gain a competitive edge when you’re able to ship products and features faster to your customers. Synergies between DevOps, microservices, and service mesh have enabled us to ship features faster. While these have sped up the development and enhanced software quality, they have their own set of challenges. Integration of all of these can add complexity which can further lead to service failures, lat ..read more

In the fast-paced world of DevOps, the GitOps methodology coupled with tools like Argo CD has emerged as powerful tools that streamline the development process. GitOps, a modern approach to continuous delivery and deployment, leverages Git as the source of truth for managing infrastructure and applications. Argo CD, on the other hand, is a versatile GitOps tool that streamlines the deployment process, ensuring applications are always in the desired state. Argo CD can work with most standard Kubernetes resources such as Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, CRD’s etc. It also deploys and ..read more

In the dynamic landscape of Kubernetes application deployment, GitOps has emerged as a transformative methodology. At its core lies the concept of declarative configuration stored in version-controlled repositories, enabling consistent and automated application management. Argo CD, a leading tool in the GitOps ecosystem, empowers organizations to efficiently deploy and manage Kubernetes applications with precision and reproducibility. As GitOps gains traction, the need for real-time communication and collaboration surrounding deployment updates becomes increasingly apparent. In this blog post ..read more

The service mesh has become popular lately, and many organizations seem to jump on the bandwagon. Promising enhanced observability, seamless microservice management, and impeccable communication, service mesh has become the talk of the town. But before you join the frenzy, it’s crucial to pause and reflect on whether your specific use case truly demands the adoption of a service mesh. In this blog post, we will try to scratch the surface to view beyond the service mesh hype. We’ll explore the factors you should consider when determining if it is the right fit for your architecture. We’ll navig ..read more

In the continuously growing landscape of platform engineering, which emerged from the DevOps practices to provide self-service capabilities for software development teams, internal developer portals or IDPs are playing an increasingly important role. By improving collaboration and increasing visibility and control, internal developer portals are helping organizations deliver quality software quickly and efficiently. One of the popular tools out of the many different internal developer portals on the market is Backstage. Backstage aims to enhance the developer experience significantly by provid ..read more

In the decade of 2010 - the development & operations teams aligned with DevOps movement & technologies/paradigms such as containers, infrastructure as code, and policy as code enabled a whole new way of delivering software to end users faster. But one side effect was the explosion in technologies & tools available which added to the cognitive load of engineers. For the engineering teams, these new responsibilities demanded new skills and time for non-core tasks. Recognizing this, some early adopters and organizations rethought the practices and started building platforms that would ..read more

In the ever-evolving landscape of microservices architecture, organizations have a sheer number of APIs corresponding to different services. As the number of services and APIs within a Kubernetes cluster grows, maintaining security, monitoring, and traffic routing becomes overwhelming. It becomes challenging for organizations deploying applications on Kubernetes to manage these APIs efficiently. However, with the emergence of Istio, an open source service mesh platform, organizations can manage APIs using the API gateways and handle such issues head-on. In this blog post, we will explore how I ..read more

Argo CD is an open-source GitOps continuous delivery tool, which helps to automate the deployment of applications to Kubernetes clusters. With growing GitOps and Kubernetes adoption, Argo CD has emerged as one of the most popular choices in the GitOps ecosystem. This is one of the blog posts, where we dwell into different Argo CD related issues that we observed as part of our Argo CD enterprise support offering to our various customers. In this blog post, we will be diving deep into a specific problem that may occur with your Argo CD setup in case you’re using it to manage multiple clusters. B ..read more