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Manage OpenStack Using Terraform And Gitlab

Follow this tutorial to see how using GitLab can further enhance collaboration in your OpenStack cluster. One virtue of GitOps is Infrastructure as Code. It encourages collaboration by using a shared configuration and policy repository. Using GitLab can further enhance collaboration in your OpenStack cluster. GitLab CI can serve as your source control and orchestration hub for CI/CD, and it can even manage the state of Terraform. To achieve this, you need the following: GitLab and Terraform state The goal is to achieve collaboration through Terraform, so you need to have a centralized state file. GitLab has a managed state for Terraform.…

3 min

Are Your CICD And DevOps Tools Really Helping Developers?

If you are responsible for your team’s CICD and DevOps tools, have you ever asked yourself if the tools you built are really making developers’ lives easier? Or are they there just to reinforce the rules you’ve set? It’s your responsibility to make sure the tools and procedures you’ve implemented are truly helping software developers do their job. After setting your CICD tools, how frequently have you asked the developers for feedback? How many times have you changed/updated those based on feedback from the developers? Or are all your changes to support new requirements, infrastructure, and analysis tools? You might…

5 min

For A Successful Cloud Transformation, Change Your Culture First

Twenty years ago, organizations discovered the magic of server virtualization. Among the many benefits of virtualization, it heralded the end of the need for one physical server per application and the beginning of managing software-defined infrastructure. It helped automate building and installing systems, and it helped lay foundations for today’s Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery mechanisms and DevOps practices. However, the adoption of virtualization was not always smooth and several hurdles stood in its path. Today’s organizations are facing similar obstacles in their journey to the cloud. Organizations that wanted to virtualize their server environment two decades ago faced a significant challenge…

3 min

Skaffold V2 GA: Further Enhancing Developer Productivity

For years, Google has been committed to maximizing developer productivity. In 2019, we announced the general availability of Skaffold, a command-line tool that facilitates continuous development and delivery for containerized applications. Today, we’re excited to announce that Skaffold V2 is now generally available. Skaffold V2 expands Skaffold’s supported platforms and architectures with the introduction of Cloud Run as a supported deployer, and now supports building from and deploying to both ARM and x86 architectures. Skaffold V2 also offers enhanced support for CI/CD and GitOps workflows, with the introduction of the skaffold render phase, verify phase, and kpt integration. Best of…

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Accelerating App Development Lifecycle With Managed Container Platforms, Firebase And CI/CD

We understand that for startups in the build phase, the highest priority task is to continuously ship features based on your users’ needs. There are three main focus areas when building applications: Development: When it comes to development, focus on tasks that make your app unique by offloading backend setup and processing to someone else. For example, instead of setting up your own API servers and managing backend services, Firebase offers a managed experience. Hosting: Once you’ve built your app, the next step is to host it. Containers have become the de facto way of packaging applications today. You can…

6 min

Introducing Software Delivery Shield For End-To-End Software Supply Chain Security

Organizations and their software delivery pipelines are continually exposed to growing cyberattack vectors. Coupled with the massive adoption of open source software, which now helps power nearly all of our public infrastructure and is highly prevalent in most proprietary software, businesses around the world are more vulnerable than ever. Today’s organizations need to be more vigilant in protecting their software development infrastructure and processes. Development and IT teams are all asking for a better way to secure the software supply chain across the code, people, systems, and processes that contribute to development and delivery of the software.For many years, Google…

10 min

How To Setup Blue Green Deployments With DNS Routing

The applications that we use today have evolved greatly over the years. The way we write code has improved considerably along with the way we deploy them too. Gone are the days when software deployments were planned at odd hours when active users were the least. It was done to ensure that application downtimes were kept at the minimum without affecting the user experience. However, with the agility in the way we build software today, we needed systems that were fast, automated and intelligent. Most modern day CI/CD tools offer similar capabilities. These not only automated the deployment process but…

7 min

Securing CI/CD Pipelines Through Security Gates With Kubescape

DevOps and modern engineering have enabled us to provide higher quality code at greater speeds by introducing guardrails and checks into our automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) processes. However, with security becoming a more pressing matter as more critical zero-day threats arise and misconfigurations are introduced to production systems, while at the same time as application and development processes all moving to more automated CI/CD processes––this is becoming a critical point for enforcing security validations and checks. With DevSecOps coming a long way as a discipline, there are now great frameworks and best practices for applying security…

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Engineering

Building A Secure CI/CD Pipeline Using Google Cloud Built-It Services

DevOps is a concept that allows software development teams to release software in an automated and stable manner. DevOps itself is not just one thing; it’s a combination of culture and technology, which together make the implementation of DevOps successful. In this blog, we will be focusing on the tools and technology side of DevOps. At the core of the technical aspect of DevOps, the concept is Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). The idea behind CI/CD concept is to create an automated software delivery pipeline that continuously deploys the new software releases in an automated fashion. The flow begins…

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Google Cloud Deploy Gets Continuous Delivery Productivity Enhancements

Since Google Cloud Deploy became generally available in January 2022, we’ve remained focused on our core mission: making it easier to establish and operate software continuous delivery to a Google Kubernetes Engine environment. Through ongoing conversations with developers, DevOps engineers, and business decision makers alike, we’ve received feedback about onboarding speed, delivery pipeline management, and expanding enterprise features.Today, we are pleased to introduce numerous feature additions to Google Cloud Deploy in these areas. Faster onboarding Skaffold is an open source tool that orchestrates continuous development, continuous integration (CI), and continuous delivery (CD), and it’s integral to Google Cloud Deploy. Through…

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