OpsMx Blog “Everything about CI/CD is a search away” Search for: Featured Post Mastering ASPM in DevOps: Strategies for Enhancing Application Security In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, ensuring the security and compliance of applications is paramount. DevOps and SRE engineers are constantly on the lookout for strategies and tools that can bolster their application security posture management (ASPM). The core of ASPM revolves around identifying vulnerabilities, adhering to compliance and regulatory requirements, enhancing the […] Mark LevyMarch 11, 2024 Share Most Recent Post Transforming AppSec posture with DevSecOps Compliance automation Amidst this growing tension around emerging cyber threats, one of the hottest topics in the software industry is ASPM (Application Security Posture Management). And rightly so, organizations must have a conversation around their ongoing AppSec practices and how to improve their security posture further. Need for a strong AppSec posture According to this report by […] Vardhan NS March 19, 2024 Share OpsMx Updates Case Studies Spinnaker Argo CI/CD DevOps Security Flux Spinnaker Basics for Effective Continuous Delivery Continuous Delivery (CD) is a process of deploying shippable code through the various phases of code check-in, building, testing in staging, and releasing them to live environments in a quick, safe, and sustainable manner. Spinnaker is a popular CD tool that provides you visibility and control into your software delivery process. In this blog, we will […] Shashank Srivastava December 9, 2020 Share Basic Authentication for Prometheus and Alertmanager on a Spinnaker CD pipeline What is APM ? APM tools are used to monitor and track the overall health, performance, and behavior of the deployed app and the environment where it runs. For applications and microservices running in Kubernetes, Prometheus is a popular APM tool that provides detailed actionable metrics for the DevOps teams on the performance of containers, pods and […] Vardhan NS December 4, 2020 Share Top 4 Challenges for Broad Spinnaker Success Many developers, DevOps engineers, and SREs are clearly excited about using Spinnaker to modernize their overall software delivery (CI/CD) process. And the primary reasons for this excitement are Spinnaker is open-source software and the only tool to offer hybrid and multi-cloud deployment in the marketplace. At the same time, many organizations are hesitant to move […] Shashank Srivastava December 3, 2020 Share Securely deploy Kubernetes manifests using Spinnaker pipelines and Vault Our applications have secrets. These are credentials to remote systems like a database, or tokens to infrastructure like Kubernetes systems or keys used within the application for CI/CD process. And the question always is, how can we secure this data during the process of deployment using Spinnaker? How do we manage different secrets for different […] Shashank Srivastava December 1, 2020 Share Spinnaker CD Pipeline – Blue/Green strategy with external versioning and Kubernetes Deployment object Introduction and Scope Spinnaker supports multiple deployment strategies for deployments to Kubernetes. Among them, Canary Analysis and Blue-Green are popular and widely used. In Canary Analysis, an application or a service is incrementally released to a subset of users. All infrastructure in a target environment is updated in small phases (e.g: 2%, 25%, 75%, 100%). A canary release is the lowest risk-prone, compared to […] OpsMx November 30, 2020 Share Configuring groups from a file in Spinnaker with restricted permissions for cloud services While deploying Spinnaker in the cloud, often we have a situation in the production environments where-in all the developers, QA, and DevOps team members belong to the same group in LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol). But ideally, every team member should not have the authorization to create/deploy applications. There is a way by which we can prevent people without proper […] Srinivas K November 25, 2020 Share Create and update the service principal key for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) While deploying an application to the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters with Spinnaker, users need Azure accounts with proper authorization ( service principal key ) to access the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) resources. An Azure service principal (a special user) is an identity created for use with applications, hosted services, and automated tools to access Azure resources. This access key is restricted by the roles assigned to the service principal, giving you control over which resources can be accessed and at which level. Yugandhar Kumar Pidugu November 24, 2020 Share ServiceNow integration with Spinnaker continuous delivery Why do we need a ServiceNow Custom Stage in the Spinnaker CI/CD pipelines? In today’s fast-paced world of software delivery business with high release cadence, organizations need to have the proper audit and approvals in place before releasing any applications into the production environments while using Spinnaker CI/CD pipelines. The release items need to undergo […] Vardhan NS November 23, 2020 Share OpsMx Enterprise for Spinnaker 3.2 is Generally Available The month of November has started and startled all with the hint of incessant efforts humanity has made towards progression; “effective and safe” covid-19 antidote to stop the pandemic. We at OpsMx similarly did not cease to make progress in software delivery in our own way. Increasing number of customers are downloading and using OpsMx […] Vardhan NS November 20, 2020 Share What is Spinnaker and How to Manage Release using CD Pipeline? Spinnaker is a Continuous Delivery (CD) platform that was developed at Netflix where they used it to perform a high number of deployments ( 8000+/day). Later they made it available as an open-source tool. Previously enterprise release cycles used to be stretched for 7/8 months. But with the availability of the Spinnaker CD tool, enterprises […] Shashank Srivastava November 19, 2020 Share Previous 1 … 21 22 23 24 25 … 37 Next