Category Archives: DevOps

30 Days of DevOps : Gitflow vs Github flow

Deciding what’s the right branching strategy can always be painful. From it, depends not only how your source code is being merged and maintained, but also how software is going to be built, tested, released and how hotfixes and patches … Continue reading

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30 Days of DevOps: Azure resources, environments and Terraform

Managing Azure Resources is a piece of cake, isn’t it? Just log into the Azure portal, select or create a resource group and begin administering your resources. Quite straightforward, right? But, let’s say we have a case where we have … Continue reading

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30 Days of DevOps: Elastic cloud vs AWS PaaS ELK

Some time ago I read an interesting article titled: “Is It the Same as Amazon’s Elasticsearch Service?“ It was quite a good article, to be honest, it compared perfectly 2 great elastic implementations: Elastic cloud from Elastic.co and Elasticsearch services from … Continue reading

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30 Days of DevOps: Test Automation and Azure DevOps

Coding best practices are becoming the norm. More and more development teams are acquiring habits during their developments such as TDD and even BDD. Despite this meaning having to shift left completely the testing, it’s something that for some teams … Continue reading

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30 days of DevOps: Jenkins and Jira

Another DevOps day at MagenTys. Part of DevOps is to increase transparency and improve the end 2 end traceability of our user stories from the conception to the release out of the pipeline. There are different ways to bring that … Continue reading

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30 days of DevOps: DC/OS

Let’s start with a typical scenario…We have multiple teams requiring multiple services on different clouds. One team comes to you and asks about deploying a new Kafka Rest Proxy server to support an integration microservices solution. Another team asks you … Continue reading

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What the duck is DevOps?

I wrote my first article about what DevOps is and how to start with it in October 2015. Back then, there were not much information about DevOps, but Agile was peaking up, and some processes like Application Lifecycle Management and … Continue reading

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Bitbucket vs GitHub

In keeping with our journey around DevOps @MagenTys, today I wish to focus on DevOps tools. It’s not the first time that someone has come to me with the same problem, they want to move their version control solutions from … Continue reading

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A DevOps journey

We recently finished another DevOps work, this time in a Microsoft house, so we wanted to share with you the challenges we faced during our journey. As usual at Magentys the traditional DevOps engagement doesn’t take longer than 6-8 weeks … Continue reading

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All you need to know to start with DevOps

The main purpose of this post is to share with you the main resources that will drive you through the journey of DevOps, but first, a quick intro to DevOps. INTRO TO DEVOPS What is DevOps? DevOps (a clipped compound … Continue reading

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