Cloud Governance Best Practices: 5 Ways to Prevent Drift
As a DevOps professional, you’ve likely spent weeks carefully designing and documenting your infrastructure to ensure everything runs smoothly. But over time, unexpected issues and vulnerabilities begin to surface. These aren’t just bugs—they’re symptoms of inconsistent cloud governance, especially common in fast-scaling DevOps environments. Without adopting cloud governance best practices, your once-reliable applications start to […]
What to Do When Atlantis Doesn’t Meet Your Scale
Scaling Challenges with Atlantis and when to start looking for Atlantis alternatives Terraform is a crown jewel when it comes to infrastructure as code. Despite its recent license changes and the evolution of OpenTofu, Terraform remains the top choice when it comes to infrastructure management. As adoption accelerates, teams are challenged to scale Terraform usage […]
How to Become a Director of Devops
Driving DevOps career growth, skills development and cloud governance Are you a DevOps engineer today and you are looking to move up to become Director of DevOps? Do you want to transition from building CI/CD pipelines to leading DevOps strategy, optimizing cloud governance, and making high-impact business decisions? The role of a Director of DevOps […]
Cloud Disaster Recovery for DevOps Team: Best Practices
Most disaster recovery plans for DevOps fail—not because of data loss, but because critical infrastructure is overlooked. Is your team ready to tackle this hidden risk? You have cloud disaster recovery (DR) data backups. However, your servers, networks, or security groups are not ready to start. Suddenly, you’re facing missed SLAs, reputational damage, and steep […]
Your Enterprise Disaster Recovery Plan Might Be a Disaster
Every major enterprise has a cloud disaster recovery plan–not news. What is news? Most of them are disasters. Or, at least half a disaster… And half a disaster is still a disaster. Why? Because most enterprise DR plans are incomplete. Right now, even the most sophisticated cloud teams are probably skipping something critical. They’ve meticulously […]
Compliance Made Simple with Terraform
Most companies confront compliance as an onerous task, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed by what’s at stake. Your cloud infrastructure, industry standards, and security controls must all fit together perfectly, or you risk gaps that can lead to downtime, reputational harm, and staggering fines. But what if you reframed compliance — approaching it as a […]
CI/CD for Terraform on AWS: What Should You Know?
The use of infrastructure as code (IaC) has grown in tandem with the adoption of cloud computing over the past decade. IaC tools have revolutionized the way users manage cloud resources, ensuring consistency, scalability, and automation. Terraform is a popular IaC solution, known for its declarative approach to defining cloud infrastructure and its ability to […]
PCI DSS 4.0 – A Compliance Checklist for DevOps
PCI DSS is a set of security standards designed to protect cardholder data and reduce fraud. The latest version, PCI DSS 4.0, replaces PCI DSS 3.2.1, and organizations must fully transition by March 31, 2025. What’s Changing from PCI DSS 3.2.1 to 4.0? Clearly, DevOps teams should care about this compliance update, so what is […]
