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10 New DevOps Tools to Watch in 2024
10 New DevOps Tools to Watch in 2024
Boost engineering productivity, cut down cost, enhance security — let’s cover 10 DevOps tools to watch and try for 2024. Get started now!
Tiexin Guo
Nov 4
How to Handle Secrets in Helm
How to Handle Secrets in Helm
Step-by-step guide and best practices to handle Helm chart secrets safely and effectively. Level up your Helm deploy today. Get started…
Tiexin Guo
Oct 25
Handling Secrets with AWS Secret Manager
Handling Secrets with AWS Secret Manager
This tutorial helps you better understand AWS Secrets Manager, how it works under the hood and how to access it from Kubernetes clusters.
Tiexin Guo
Sep 10
Handling Secrets with Google Cloud Secret Manager
Handling Secrets with Google Cloud Secret Manager
An insightful introduction to GCP’s Secret Manager and a tutorial on creating secrets and securing access within VMs and CI pipelines.
Tiexin Guo
Aug 29
Handling Secrets with Azure Key Vault
Handling Secrets with Azure Key Vault
This tutorial details how to manage secrets effectively using Azure Key Vault. You‘ll learn how to access secrets in VM and K8s/AKS.
Tiexin Guo
Aug 18
Securing your CI/CD by Removing Long-Lived Passwords: an OIDC Tutorial
Securing your CI/CD by Removing Long-Lived Passwords: an OIDC Tutorial
Securing CI/CD systems and offers three best practices; use OpenID Connect (OIDC) to employ short-lived tokens for improved CI security.
Tiexin Guo
Aug 9
Platform Engineering: Building Your Developer Portal with Backstage — Part 2
Platform Engineering: Building Your Developer Portal with Backstage...
Enhance your portal’s capabilities with plugins and unlock custom functionalities in the second part of our Backstage tour.
Tiexin Guo
Jul 12
Argo CD: a Revisit — Continuous Deployment with GitOps Automagically
Argo CD: a Revisit — Continuous Deployment with GitOps Automagically
An overview of CI/CD/GitOps/Argo CD, and some reasoning and stories behind them.
Tiexin Guo
Jul 3
Platform Engineering: Building Your Developer Portal with Backstage — Part 1
Platform Engineering: Building Your Developer Portal with Backstage...
Build a developer portal with Backstage. In this tutorial, learn how to create a secure-by-default software catalog for repo bootstrapping.
Tiexin Guo
Jul 1
Platform Engineering and Security: A Very Short Introduction
Platform Engineering and Security: A Very Short Introduction
Is DevOps really dead? Learn about the rise of platform engineering and how it differs from DevOps.
Tiexin Guo
May 29
Supply Chain Security: Secrets and Modern Security Frameworks (Part III)
Supply Chain Security: Secrets and Modern Security Frameworks (Part...
In this final part, we’ll discuss more software supply chain security frameworks and the critical role of secrets detection in them.
Tiexin Guo
Apr 23
AWS Cognito: Integrating Cognito with a Web App
AWS Cognito: Integrating Cognito with a Web App
In this article, we will do a quick intro to AWS Cognito, and see a real-world example of how to integrate your Web App with it.
Tiexin Guo
Mar 22
Building Your Developer Portal with Backstage: a Comprehensive Tutorial
Building Your Developer Portal with Backstage: a Comprehensive Tuto...
A complete guide from the ground up: using backstage to build YOUR developer portal.
Tiexin Guo
Mar 7
Supply Chain Security: Sigstore and Cosign (Part II)
Supply Chain Security: Sigstore and Cosign (Part II)
The ability to sign and verify the integrity and origin of software artifacts, such as Docker images, is critical to supply chain security.
Tiexin Guo
Mar 2
Backstage is not user-friendly. I want something better.
Backstage is not user-friendly. I want something better.
As you guys all already know, I’m a DevOps engineer, if that’s still a thing. Because apparently nowadays, “DevOps is dead; long live…
Tiexin Guo
Feb 20
DevOps with Python: Python “concurrent.futures” Concurrency Tutorial — A Real-World Example
DevOps with Python: Python “concurrent.futures” Concurrency Tutoria...
A tutorial of Python’s concurrent.features with an real-world DevOps issue.
Tiexin Guo
Jan 31
A Comprehensive Tutorial on Service Mesh, Istio, Envoy, Access Log, and Log Filtering
A Comprehensive Tutorial on Service Mesh, Istio, Envoy, Access Log,...
Learn how to install Istio locally, play with Envoy’s access log and log filters, and apply those changes in your Istio’s sidecar.
Tiexin Guo
Jan 19
Open Policy Agent with Kubernetes — Tutorial (Pt. 1)
Open Policy Agent with Kubernetes — Tutorial (Pt. 1)
Let’s get our hands dirty with policy as code and write our first OPA policies for a Kubernetes environment.
Tiexin Guo
Jan 1
What is Policy-as-Code? An Introduction to Open Policy Agent
What is Policy-as-Code? An Introduction to Open Policy Agent
Learn the benefits of policy as code and start testing your policies for cloud-native environments.
Tiexin Guo
Nov 29, 2022
State of Kubernetes Secrets Management in 2022
State of Kubernetes Secrets Management in 2022
Everything you need to know for effectively managing Kubernetes Secrets.
Tiexin Guo
Nov 21, 2022
SBOM: a Brief Introduction and How to Use with CI
SBOM: a Brief Introduction and How to Use with CI
Learn about what is a Software Bills Of Materials, why use it, what are the standards and how to automate it with Continuous Integration.
Tiexin Guo
Nov 1, 2022
10 New DevOps Tools to Watch in 2023
10 New DevOps Tools to Watch in 2023
With less than two months left in 2022, today, I’d like to look at some new (relatively) DevOps tools we might want to follow in 2023.
Tiexin Guo
Nov 1, 2022
10 Best DevOps Tools for Start-ups
10 Best DevOps Tools for Start-ups
OK. You are in a small start-up, and you want to move fast. Here are the 10 DevOps tools that could increase the speed of the SDLC.
Tiexin Guo
Sep 29, 2022
A Comprehensive Guide to SOPS: Managing Your Secrets Like A Visionary, Not a Functionary
A Comprehensive Guide to SOPS: Managing Your Secrets Like A Visiona...
Have you heard of SOPS? If you are in a situation where you needed to share sensitive information with your teammates, this is for you.
Tiexin Guo
Sep 21, 2022
Doppler: A Brief Introduction to Secrets Managers
Doppler: A Brief Introduction to Secrets Managers
A quick introduction to secrets managers: what are they, how to choose them, and a quick demo with the new kid on the block: Doppler.
Tiexin Guo
Aug 10, 2022
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