Have you ever wondered how your computer connects to a network to send and receive information? A network interface card (NIC), a hardware component in the form of a chip or a circuit board enables your computer to connect to a network through a wireless or wired connection.
Read on to understand what cloud technology is, and discover the many benefits it offers when compared to a traditional IT setup. If your business is looking to have a greater presence on the cloud, this is a must-read piece for you.
This tutorial will help you get started using Terraform on a commonly used cloud virtual machine: the AWS Elastic Compute Cloud 2 (EC2) instance. You’ll learn how to install it, connect it to AWS, then provision some infrastructure and finally destroy it.
Welcome back to part 2 of our 3 part series on Azure DevOps! In the last article, you learned how to set up a project repository and create a build pipeline. In this article you’ll learn how to set up an Azure release pipeline. We’ll go over the environments, what they’re used for, and how to build out a basic release pipeline.
Stick around as we go through all the cloud tools HashiCorp offers. We’ll cover Terraform, the IaaC tool, Vault, the encryption tool, and Consul, the service mesh platform. We’ll also quickly cover Packer, a tool you can use to create machine images from source code. Learn about these tools and see how they can improve your DevOps tech stack.
YAML is a human-readable data serialization format. You can use it to store data for programs, and as an alternative to XML. YAML files are often used to store configuration files. YAML also allows you to break a string over multiple lines, which can be helpful when the string is too wide for our screen. Learn how to break a YAML string over multiple lines in this article.
You might be wondering what the difference between a DevOps Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer is. In short, it’s not a straightforward answer as the roles are very similar yet quite different. In this article, we’ll go through the roles, responsibilities, and pay scales.
In this first part of a three-part Azure DevOps tutorial series, you’ll set up a repo to store all your code and create a build pipeline. This article will give you everything you’ll need to start software development in Azure DevOps. In the next article, you’ll learn how to set up a release pipeline. Finally, in the third you’ll learn how to set up QA testing. Each tutorial will help you understand Azure DevOps basics that you’ll need for every software project.
This article explains the concept of load balancing and its importance to systems using Kubernetes. Here you’ll learn key terms in a Kubernetes network and the policies associated with load balancing.
In this article, I’ll cover Prometheus’ basic functionality. I’ll also explain the concept of time-series data, and the key Kubernetes metrics that can be tracked with Prometheus. Finally, I’ll show you why Prometheus isn’t enough to monitor complex environments.
