Posts by Greg Arnette

Configuration Management

Config Sprawl and Developer Toil

Configuration Sprawl and Developer Strain: Abstraction, Not Interference Developers face cognitive strain regardless of the configuration tools they have at their disposal.... Read More

Configuration Management

GitOps and Centralized Config: Like Peanut Butter & Chocolate

GitOps is a relatively new methodology for automating infrastructure management through Git. It is a way of using Git as a single source of truth for your infrastructure,... Read More

Configuration Management

Configuration Versioning: Why You Need a Config DVR

Configuration data, which includes secrets and parameters, is critical to any modern IT infrastructure. For DevOps teams, tracking config changes is necessary for running a... Read More

Secrets

Rotate Secrets Quickly with Centralized Config

A production data password just leaked into a log file. The "we must rotate secrets quickly" countdown timer begins!Cybersecurity is a critical concern for businesses of all... Read More

Configuration Management

Introducing 7-Factor Config

7-Factor Config is a set of principles that describes an efficient way to manage secrets, parameters, and templates, enabling teams to deploy reliably, scale quickly, and... Read More

Secrets

Dynamic Config Injection Benefits

Dynamic config injection using a late binding design pattern allows a system to defer the resolution of a configuration secret or parameter until runtime. This pattern is... Read More

Application Configuration

It's Time for Configure Once Deploy Everywhere

What is Configure Once Deploy Everywhere? "Configure once deploy everywhere" (C.O.D.E) is a configuration management practice that minimizes the time and effort required to... Read More

Configuration Management

Config Sprawl's Negative Impact on Mean Time to Resolution MTTR

Why you should focus on your MTTR Cloud outages can significantly impact businesses, resulting in lost revenue and damaged reputations. One of the key challenges in quickly... Read More

Configuration Management

3 Tips to Increase Developer Productivity

There is a lot of recent focus on "developer productivity" as it relates to the divide between application developers, DevOps, and the "newish" platform engineering concept. ... Read More

Configuration Management

Avoid the Hidden Config Sprawl Tax

Cloud computing and Kubernetes have revolutionized organizations' operations and provided them unprecedented flexibility and scalability. However, with the increasing... Read More

CI CD

Why Deployment Velocity Matters

Rethink Deployment Velocity Whether you're building enterprise or consumer applications, deployment velocity is one of the most important factors to measure and improve to... Read More

Application Configuration

Consistent Deployments with CloudTruth

The ability to consistently deploy applications reliably is challenging for DevOps engineers and software developers. Teams struggle to ensure their dev, staging, and... Read More