DevOps

Want to know the CPU use of a container in a Kubernetes node three months from now? Want custom alerts based on thresholds or failures?

Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD for short) has tons of potential! WatchKelsey Hightower deliver an awesome presentation on Kubernetes via several demos during his keynote talk on the KubeCon 2017:

Today is World Penguin Day! As our Crafty Penguins company name is obviously derived from Penguins, and particular Tux who is theLinux Mascot, we are giving these lovely birds some homage today.

I came across this recent blog post on OpenSource.com about the Top 10 Grafana Features. We too love Grafana of course (blog post).

The culture in many companies (not just technology) is to blame an employee for mistakes, not doing a good enough job, being sloppy, being slower than expected, etc.

Today we received the following impromptu and unsoliciated testimonial from one of our clients. “Also, I can’t stress enough how thankful I am that last year went so well.

As announced in a previous blog post, Richard and myself presented at the BC Tech Association several months ago. We shared our story on how we repurposed DevOps, software development, and system monitoring tools (like Grafana) to transform our business by visualizing the key drivers to our business model.

WHY DO WE USE LINUX? We posed this question to our team during a weekly meeting. We are so embedded in the Linux ecosystem that it actually took most of us a while to think about reasons that would make sense to people unfamiliar with Linux, or really with any operating system (OS) other than Windows.

We have recently launched a new service to help new clients who need some help with a (semi-)urgent server, network, or code issue which might only need a few hours of an expert’s time to resolve.

Myself and Richard will be presenting at the BC Tech Association next Thursday. We will be sharing our story on how we repurposed DevOps, software development, and system montioring tools to transform our business by visualizing the key drivers to our model.

In Summer 2018, our Crafty Penguins team visited theOpen Source Summit here in Vancouver BC. Here are some gleanings of “what’s cool” from the post-event journal notes from the sessions we attended and found interesting.

The videos from the recent Chilliwack.Tech/Next event have been posted, including Richard’s presentation on ChatOps. It’s very fast paced due to the 30 minute time limit for each technology demo.