What is GitOps The term GitOps was coined by Weaveworks in 2017. GitOps is a logical extension of DevOps. GitOps builds on DevOps with Git as a single source of truth for the whole system. In other words, Git is a secure library repository that holds the best, most complete version of a system’s infrastructure […]
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What is AWS App Runner? AWS App Runner is a fully managed service for deploying container images and source code directly to a scalable and secure web application in AWS, with no prior infrastructure experience required. In other words, with App Runner, you can produce a container and run it automatically without thinking about it. […]
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Slash commands allow users to invoke an app by typing a string into the message composer box. The forward slash (or simply slash) is also used in command line syntax to indicate a switch. For example, in the DOS/Windows Xcopy statement Xcopy *. For the context of this blog, “Slack Slash Commands” means that a […]
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YAML is a straightforward, machine-parsable data serialization format designed for human readability and interaction, which can be used in conjunction with all programming languages. YAML is popular because it is optimized for data serialization, formatted dumping, configuration files, log files, and internet messaging and filtering. Since YAML works in concurrence with any programming language, it […]
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AWS Lambda (Lambda), a fully managed serverless computing service provided by AWS, runs functions packaged as container images to build serverless applications. It takes care of infrastructure build and maintenance. Each Lambda function runs in its isolated environment, with its resources and file-system view. It uses the same techniques as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon […]
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nClouds’ engineers have extensive experience with CloudFormation and infrastructure as code (IaC), and we’ve found that AWS CDK is an invaluable tool as we build solutions for our clients. We used to think in terms of AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) vs. Terraform for provisioning infrastructure — but with AWS CDK for Terraform (cdktf), […]
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In this blog, I’ll provide a step-by-step tutorial on automating a runbook to reduce MTTR by using Amazon EventBridge (EventBridge) and Datadog. Datadog is used as a monitoring tool, and EventBridge is used to remediate issues and automatically resolve any alerts. EventBridge is a serverless event bus. It makes building an event-driven workflow for applications […]
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In 2003, Benjamin Treynor Sloss, generally credited with coining the term “site reliability engineering (SRE),” was put in charge of running Google’s production team, consisting of seven engineers. Before the DevOps movement, this first team of software engineers was tasked to make Google’s already large-scale sites more reliable, efficient, and scalable. Today, SRE is a […]
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At nClouds, we understand that overhead is a company’s greatest asset or its greatest liability. A company’s overhead is time and money. Overhead becomes an asset when it is time well used and money well spent. Overhead is best understood with four letters, c-o-s-t. In other words, what does it cost in terms of time […]
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As our clients build and deploy workloads on AWS, they often use a multi-account strategy. Multiple AWS accounts serve as a resource container to segregate workloads for rapid innovation, simplified billing, flexible security controls, and to meet the needs of business processes. You may already be familiar with using AWS Organizations for a multi-account structure. So, why […]
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