Are you one of the 73 million developers who build, ship, and maintain their software on GitHub? Most tech companies now use it in their workflows. In this blog, I’ll show you how to use two features to automate your CI/CD pipeline: GitHub Pages and GitHub Actions. What are GitHub Pages? GitHub Pages provide a […]
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What is observability? Observability is a process that examines the properties of a system. A system is observable if its current state can be determined in a finite time period using the system’s outputs. The meaning of “observability” has changed as development models have evolved. Before cloud computing and DevOps, on-premises data centers were exclusively […]
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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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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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AWS Premier Consulting Partner Ranks as 10th Fastest-Growing IT Solution Provider SAN FRANCISCO, August 31, 2021 — nClouds (www.nclouds.com), a provider of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and DevOps consulting and implementation services and an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, announced today the expansion of its executive team with the addition of Mark Solomon as Vice President, DevOps […]
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As a result of working on hundreds of projects, nClouds’ engineers have extensive experience with AWS CloudFormation (CloudFormation) and building infrastructure as code (IaC). Though CloudFormation is efficient, reliable, and effective, it is not easy to test or debug, nor is it easily scalable or reusable. In a short time, AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS […]
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At nClouds, we build modern cloud infrastructure on AWS for lots of organizations — from startups to Fortune 10, and across virtually all industries. Building cloud infrastructure for SaaS companies has some unique considerations. These organizations host their primary workload — in many cases their business — on the cloud. So considerations for performance and […]
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GitOps or DevOps? You’re likely more familiar with the concepts of DevOps than the more recently coined term GitOps. Among the goals of DevOps are to reduce friction within development, testing, and operation departments, and to improve the iteration efficiency of application deployments and versions to reduce human errors. With advancements in cloud computing and […]
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Learn how to use Argo CD, a GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. At nClouds, we care about GitOps because we strive to use the latest and greatest technologies where they help our clients deliver innovation faster. It’s one of our core values at nClouds: Innovation culture that delivers client value. And, we’re using Argo […]
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