Recently we worked with an amazing biotech client on an initiative to shutdown internal self-hosted systems and move all services to “the cloud”.
Read ArticleBack in April, Richard presented at LinuxFest NorthWest in Bellingham (Washington state) on using the Proxmox Hypervisor as a rich, easy to use, open source management platform for both LXC containers and KVM virtual machines.
Read ArticleJenkins is a core part of our Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for our clients. Here are the top 3 reasons we love Jenkins:
Read ArticleContainer based micro-service deployment has been a logical evolution of better managing large software systems and getting the most out of your server resources.
Read ArticleWith many diverse server systems to deploy, configure, and maintain for our clients, it is important to have a Managed Configuration and Orchestration platform.
Read ArticleKnowing what went wrong in the event of a failure is incredibly important. Elasticsearch provides storage for log level events across systems, creating a reliable and redundant way to store, search, and query critical system events.
Read ArticleIf you are just getting into DevOps, here is some reading and light homework to get you started: Read the Phoenix Project book by Gene Kim etc.
Read ArticleAs a team we have many years of experience using a plethora of different solutions for storing code. Everything from paid solutions like Jira and Bitbucket, all the way to hand-written custom solutions to store assembler code.
Read ArticleHere is the training that we like our fledgling baby Crafty Penguins go through. This gives solid exposure to Linux, Networking, and Development concepts required to fill a DevOps or SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) role.
Read ArticleWim had the pleasure of moderating the “Props to DevOps!” panel meetup on March 21st, 2017, presented by BC Tech Jobs in partnership with the BC Tech Association.
Read ArticleHere is an example of a High Level Help Desk interaction with a client. This client is US based company with internal software development and operations team.
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