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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

The article promoted the idea of a new type of system administrator who would write code to automate maintenance, upgrades, and other tasks instead of doing everything manually. However, managing resources in the cloud may require knowledge of platform-specific tools and addressing cloud-specific security threats.

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7 DevOps Skills that are must-have for a DevOps Engineers

Openxcell

The engineers often combine system administration, operations, and software development in the full capabilities matrix. Automation is a crucial aspect of continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline, deploying infrastructure. Continuous integration and Continuous delivery.

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Continuous deployment without downtime

CircleCI

Unfortunately, this speed and efficiency can expose cracks in the delivery system as well as other bottlenecks to productivity. First, let’s note that continuous delivery is different from continuous deployment. The use of external resources and OSS helps reduce development time.

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AIOps and our Robot Kubernetes Kops

Linux Academy

The popularity of agile development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery has brought levels of automation that rival anything preciously known. By using the Kubernetes Metrics Server or metrics from tools such as Prometheus, a cluster may respond to resource demands when pre-programmed thresholds are surpassed.

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What’s Free At Linux Academy June 2019

Linux Academy

Splunk (Deep Dive) – As one of the early log aggregation products in the IT industry, Splunk has remained a popular choice among system administrators, engineers, and developers for operational analytics. We will cover best practices for security in a conventional Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.

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Docker image versus container: What are the differences?

CircleCI

The containerization platform’s popularity has increased among developers and system administrators because it encompasses the application’s complete filesystem with all its dependencies. A container is an isolated place where an application runs without affecting the rest of the system and without the system impacting the application.

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The Good and the Bad of Kubernetes Container Orchestration

Altexsoft

Each pod, in turn, holds a container or several containers with common storage and networking resources which together make a single microservice. A 2021 survey conducted by the CNCF and FinOps Foundation revealed that 68 percent of participants saw a rise in Kubernetes bills, with most spending falling on computing and memory resources.