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serverless technologies
Automation - DevOps - Editor's Pick - Infrastructure as Code - Kubernetes - Managed Cloud Services

What is “Serverless”?

In some cases, serverless is wrongly related to a context in which a server does not exist. However, a server does exist, but no management tasks on a server will be performed; its maintenance and execution is be done by a vendor. In other words, having a “serverless” architecture involves avoiding server management and as…

Availability & Scalability - CI/CD - DevOps - Infrastructure as Code

An Important Part of Cloud Migrations: Testing People

Probably we all understand that any migration should be preceded by simulations in order to provide the best possible opportunity for success. What is often missed or underestimated, however, is the importance of including people in this process.

Automation - DevOps - Infrastructure as Code - Packer - Terraform

Building and Running Custom AMIs on AWS Using Packer and Terraform

Introduction In this article we are going to talk about two open-source infrastructure-as-code tools that we use at Flugel. These tools are Packer, to build machine images for different platforms, and Terraform, to manage infrastructure resources.   By using the two in combination  it’s possible to create infrastructure-as-code solutions that automatically build and run custom…