Migrating a database is a typical task for many DevOps engineers and one we do frequently for our clients. Amazon has this great, aptly named service called AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) https://aws.amazon.com/dms/ that we use to migrate databases like Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server from one server to another. But there are databases that […]
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nClouds is honored to be included in the CIOReview annual listing of “the best vendors who provide technologies that help design, migrate, manage, and optimize workloads on AWS.” The list is compiled by a panel of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, industry analysts, and the CIOReview editorial board. We’re all in on AWS, so this is especially […]
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5 ways to do change management at the speed of DevOps. Change is inevitable. In fact, if you’re practicing Agile and DevOps, of all the “continuous” states that you aspire to, there’s one you can count on, and that’s continuous change. Your team is continuously changing the infrastructure to deliver value to your customers in […]
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At nClouds, we’re thrilled to be included in the CIOReview annual listing of “20 companies that are at the forefront of providing IT Service Management solutions and impacting the marketplace.” The list is compiled by a panel of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, industry analysts, and the CIOReview editorial board. They were particularly excited about nOps and […]
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nClouds recently kicked off the 5C’s Series of webinars that presents customer case studies on CI, CD, Containers, Cloud and Culture, in collaboration with co-sponsors, Amazon Web Services (AWS). In our first session, I was joined by Jarrod Sinclair, Chief Architect, Prodea; Doug Cliche, Solution Architect, AWS; and Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief, DevOps.com. We explored key […]
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In Part 1 of this blog series we introduced you to Helm. Then, in Part 2, we saw how to specify parameters for a particular Helm release and showed examples that could be applied to other Kubernetes components like stateful and daemon sets. Earlier we created the files and templates for deployments and services that […]
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In our first installment of this blog series we introduced you to Helm and gave you an overview. Need a quick refresh? Read “Simplify Kubernetes deployments with Helm (Part 1)” Now let’s dig a little deeper. Let’s investigate the Chart we have been using for our example. Instead of installing the Chart like we did […]
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Here at nClouds we work extensively with AWS while assisting our clients with cloud migration, building deployment pipelines, or just managing their cloud infrastructure. We all know that AWS innovates fast. They are always adding new services and then updating them. Even for an organization like ours that specializes in AWS consulting, it’s sometimes hard […]
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Cloud adoption is on the rise. According to a recent study, 85 percent of enterprises adopted a multi-cloud strategy in 2017, up from 82 percent in 2016. The business benefits of cloud computing are quickly becoming well understood, especially in the financial sector, where personal security and compliance play a significant role in ensuring customer […]
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nClouds has appointed Randy Newell as chief marketing officer. Newell previously led IBM’s DevOps, IT service management and cloud management marketing. Randy brings domain expertise in DevOps and cloud, and a proven record in category creation and revenue growth. His executive experience with startups and mega brands in software, cloud and professional services is invaluable […]
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nClouds was honored by CIOReview as one of the “20 Most Promising DevOps Solution Providers – 2017.” A panel of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, industry analysts and the CIOReview editorial board shortlisted companies who “exhibited expertise in solving the impediments in software development.” It’s a pretty short list — even shorter when you consider only the […]
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In this multi-post blog series, I’ll share best practices for simplifying Kubernetes deployments using Helm. In this first post in the series, we’ll give you a basic introduction to Helm. Mainly, we’ll discuss why you need a tool like Helm. Separately, we’re also releasing a series of blog posts on best practices for provisioning and […]
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Since its inception in 2009, Chef has quickly become the go-to configuration management tool for developers and companies. While the tool is highly successful at streamlining the tasks of configuring and maintaining a company’s servers, handling sensitive data within Chef continues to be a bit of a challenge. For companies that are dealing with extremely […]
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“What’s Mailvelope?”, asked one of our DevOps engineers we recently hired. I showed him how this Chrome extension makes it super easy to encrypt and decrypt secrets using PGP keys. Does he love the extension? You bet he does! Engineers normally know they need to install Chef, Ansible, or Sublime, but there are some additional […]
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Optimizing the on-call process is as important as fixing repetitive incidents. The on-call process must eliminate the need to interact with multiple systems and enable engineers to provide effortless feedback on incidents. In this blog post, we’ll talk about two improvements we made to our on-call process to reduce alert fatigue and simplify post mortem. […]
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The practice of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) allows projects to integrate, test and release software in short cycles. Along with version control and automated tests, CI/CD forms the backbone of modern software development projects. Among existing CI/CD tools, Jenkins has emerged as the de-facto leader. Jenkins, which began as a collaborative and […]
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In our business of building and maintaining cloud infrastructures, there is considerable interest among our clients in building and deploying apps across multiple clouds. This idea is appealing because some clients don’t want to be tied to a single cloud, or they want to take advantage of credits provided by a different cloud provider. In […]
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Terraform_remote_state resource allows the state produced by one config to be consumed by another so that you can test your changes in isolation. If you’re testing something in QA, you can feel pretty confident that you are not going to affect production resources. If you are managing route53 domains using Terraform, you should have a […]
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Building fully automated local development increases the feedback loop because finding and fixing issues earlier in development lifecycle prevents issues from becoming catastrophic in production. Here at nClouds, we focus on building a local environment that’s similar to your production environment. Or else you continue to run into issues like “it works on my machine`. […]
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nClouds is proud to announce that we have earned the Amazon Web Services (AWS) DevOps Competency Partner status. This achievement is granted to organizations who consistently deliver fast, high-quality software using a scalable and robust continuous delivery pipeline. AWS DevOps Competency Partners must have proven technical proficiency and success in helping customers implement CI and […]
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