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What is the difference between Flux and the GitOps Toolkit? Is Flux v2 simply a distribution of the GitOps Toolkit components (such as the source controller for polling/scraping git repos, the ...
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Is there a defacto understanding of what a golden image is? I've had it come up in requirements to satisfy cloud audits. What's the meaning of "Golden" when it comes to audit and compliance,...
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Provisioning is the process of setting up IT infrastructure. It can also refer to the steps required to manage access to data and resources, and make them available to users and systems. Provisioning ...
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I've inherited a project that uses local / staging / production. It is a simple project that lets users create a login and download customized PDF documents. We keep the document templates and the per-...
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The term build step is used everywhere, yet I searched both google.com and qwant.com to no avail. That baffles my mind. I also searched for a developer terminology index. Anyone has a good explanation ...
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I am familiar with the term buildpack from a platform called Heroku. But I am not sure if it's a Heroku-specific term, or if it exists more broadly in DevOps nomenclature? When I google, I see plenty ...
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After reading some articles about DevOps, I understand that DevOps engineers do write code. However, it's a bit unclear to me about what kind of code a DevOps engineer write. Assume that there are (...
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Recently, I have had a lecture at my university about advanced testing and CI. To understand all concepts, I was searching what artifact represents, specifically in DevOps sphere. I found many ...
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I often find myself in the position of mentioning gating CI systems and I thought it would be good to have a post I can easily reference explaining what that is. So here goes: What is a gating CI ...
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This site already has great answers for questions like What is DevOps and what is SecOps. Over time, I have come to be of the opinion that DevOps was born when the philosophy of the Agile methodology ...
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This is more of an english language question - we have various types of tests - unit tests, A/B tests, etc... Suppose I need to migrate code to a different language, machine, or any other different ...
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I am hearing nowadays a lot about GitOps. What is the difference between DevOps and GitOps? Is it just the SCM does the build and deploy when there is a commit instead of the CI/CD tool exclusively?
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I'm in the process of refining my DevOps skills, but my "Cloud" is more like a lot of scripted virtual machines and monitoring the system. For example, if I have Oracle VM Server, and I install ...
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According to https://events.static.linuxfound.org/sites/events/files/slides/cc15_mcguire.pdf p21-23, Kevin McGuire of New Relics classifies the containers in three categories: VM-like with a lifetime ...
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This is a vocabulary question. I know the concept of reproducible build as the guarantee we can build software from the sources on a different host or at a different time, but producing an end-product ...
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