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A continuous delivery pipeline moving a build artifact from a repository onto cloud servers
DevOps & Automation

CI/CD Pipelines That Deploy to Cloud Servers

A green build is not a deployment. This guide covers the machinery between the two: promoting one immutable artifact, giving…

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A cloud-config document being applied to a new Linux instance during first boot
DevOps & Automation

cloud-init for Server Provisioning

cloud-init turns a generic disk image into your server before you ever log in. This guide covers the cloud-config format,…

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An Ansible control machine applying a playbook to a group of cloud servers over SSH
DevOps & Automation

Ansible for Cloud Server Configuration

Ansible keeps the inside of your cloud servers matching a description you can review. This starter guide covers the agentless…

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Metrics, logs and alerts flowing from cloud servers into a monitoring stack
DevOps & Automation

Monitoring Cloud Servers: Metrics, Logs and Alerts

Useful monitoring answers questions rather than filling a wall with graphs. This guide covers the three kinds of signal, what…

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A fleet of cloud instances growing and shrinking behind a load balancer as demand changes
DevOps & Automation

Autoscaling Explained: Horizontal, Vertical and Scheduled

Autoscaling works only on workloads designed to be replaced at any moment. This guide separates horizontal, vertical and scheduled scaling,…

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A cloud spending dashboard with budget thresholds and tagged cost breakdowns
DevOps & Automation

Cloud Cost Monitoring and Budget Alerts

Cloud bills arrive weeks after the decision that caused them. This guide covers the tagging discipline that makes reports useful,…

5 min read
Traffic switching between two identical production environments during a blue-green release
DevOps & Automation

Blue-Green Deployments on Cloud Infrastructure

Blue-green deployment separates installing a release from exposing it. This guide covers the four places the traffic switch can live,…

6 min read
Container image layers stored in a cloud registry and pulled by application nodes
DevOps & Automation

Container Registries: Where Your Images Live

A container registry is a content addressed store of layers, not a folder of files. This guide explains image references…

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A cluster agent pulling declared state from a configuration repository and reconciling drift
DevOps & Automation

GitOps Basics for Cloud Teams

GitOps is not simply keeping YAML in version control. This guide covers the four defining properties, why configuration lives in…

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