Agile in the City: Birmingham – Political Tactics, Rockstars and Applying Music

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. Another chapter of Agile in the City events started in Birmingham today and I am glad I had an opportunity to be a part of it! Agile in the City are practical events run in Birmingham, London and Bristol for the Agile community from the organisers of AgileContinue reading “Agile in the City: Birmingham – Political Tactics, Rockstars and Applying Music”

Scale Summit 2017 – It’s not just microservices that need to scale

This post was written by Chris O’Dell co-author of Team Guide to Software Releasability. Friday saw another great Scale Summit event which Skelton Thatcher Consulting were proud to sponsor.  Scale Summit is an annual unconference which brings together operations and software development communities with a particular interest in scalable, high performance systems.  There’s no schedule createdContinue reading “Scale Summit 2017 – It’s not just microservices that need to scale”

Architectural and service considerations with AWS multi region design (Part 1) – Pilot Light

This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. The recent AWS service outage has renewed interest for enhanced resilience, particularly multi-region design. In this series of posts we explore considerations when designing and deploying multi-region architectures in AWS. Working knowledge of AWS is assumed, along with an awareness of n-tier architectures and DNS concepts.

Smart IoT London: All Emerging Technologies Under One Roof

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. This week I had an opportunity to visit Smart IoT London conference and expo. The event was organised by CloserStill Media and was co-located with four other events: Big Data World, Cloud Security Expo, Cloud Expo Europe and Data Center World. Altogether that was 500+ talks and 500+Continue reading “Smart IoT London: All Emerging Technologies Under One Roof”

Pipeline 2017

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. It is that time of the year and we are excited to be at PIPELINE again. Organised by Matthew Skelton, Steve Smith, Chris O’Dell, Beccy Stafford and Inka Howorth, the “unconference” is getting better and better every year!  After a quick opening by Inka Howorth and Chris O’Dell the conference started with theContinue reading “Pipeline 2017”

The DZone Guide to DevOps: Continuous Delivery and Automation, Volume IV

DZone has recently released the latest version of their free DevOps report: “The DZone Guide to DevOps: Continuous Delivery and Automation, Volume IV”, a collection of articles, reports and surveys by IT experts.

Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 5) – Automating the deployment of AWS infrastructure and Rancher with Terraform

This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. This is the fifth post in an on-going series exploring Rancher Server deployment, configuration and extended use. In the last post I detailed how to deploy and manage containerised GoCD continuous delivery using Rancher. In this post we look at automating deployment of Rancher and the supporting AWS components using Terraform. TerraformContinue reading “Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 5) – Automating the deployment of AWS infrastructure and Rancher with Terraform”

Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 4) – Deploying and Managing Containerised GoCD Continuous Delivery

This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. This is the fourth post in an on-going series exploring Rancher Server deployment, configuration and extended use. In the last post I detailed how to add an extra level of HA by configuring an AWS EFS volume for shared storage and mounting it using the Rancher-NFS service. In this post we focus onContinue reading “Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 4) – Deploying and Managing Containerised GoCD Continuous Delivery”

DevOps Showcase North: DevOps and Microservices

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. This Tuesday I had an opportunity to attend DevOps Showcase North conference in Manchester. The event was organised by UNICOM and was co-located with 2 other conferences – Testing Showcase North and Agile Showcase North. Due to the unique conference format, all keynotes were held together in a jointContinue reading “DevOps Showcase North: DevOps and Microservices”

Migrating Infrastructure to the Cloud using AWS and Chef

This is a guest post from Kamalika Majumder, an Independent Cloud and DevOps Consultant and founder of CloudKata (previously Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks). For the past seven odd years, she has been helping enterprise customers apply DevOps practices and culture in their organisations and have also been helping them go to Cloud securely with scale. YouContinue reading “Migrating Infrastructure to the Cloud using AWS and Chef”