You’ve pored over the job descriptions. You’ve checked out the salaries. Your mind is made up, and you’ve decided to train as a DevOps engineer. And you have a good reason to choose this path. DevOps engineers have been in high demand since enterprises like Adobe and Amazon began shifting to the cloud and adopting […]
How to host PHP in your own Digital Ocean account with Convox
Cloud servers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and DigitalOcean (DO) are an integral aspect of every developer’s practice. They are virtual servers that reside and run in a cloud computing environment. By hosting or deploying your apps in the cloud, you can ensure better scalability, faster performance, auto-updates, and integrations, […]
What DevOps Engineer Jobs Does Convox Make Easier?
Successful DevOps teams have a lot to account for. First, they need organized processes that streamline the delivery of core services – builds, internal tooling, quality checks, testing, deployments, and automation. But this need also creates a gap for powerful DevOps tools to support engineer roles and empower them to manage dynamic workflows. When it […]
Convox Newsletter: Audit Logs, Proxy-Protocol, Gitlab, Load Balancer Migration, Latest releases.
It’s June! We are halfway through the year, 2022 is going fast! This month, we’re bringing you up to speed with the latest updates, releases, and information about Convox. Product updates: Please note that from now on, all actions done by a deploy key will be audited in the console and available on the Audit […]
AWS EFS — The Container Friendly File System
In April 2015 AWS announced a new cloud service: Elastic File System — a Shared File Storage for Amazon EC2. Fast forward to June 28th 2016, more than a year later, and AWS announced that EFS is finally available and production-ready in 3 regions (us-east-1, us-west-2 and eu-west-1). A day later, Convox’s David Dollar opened a pull request integrating EFS into Convox Rack, […]
Dev → Test → Prod Parity with Docker
The Twelve Factor App methodology is a series of best practices to follow when building your app to make it easy to deploy to the cloud. One of the factors is Dev/Prod Parity: Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible It argues that we should aim to reduce gaps between development and production to increase software […]
Monitoring Your ECS Containers with Datadog
We are big fans of Datadog at Convox and we loved their blog post on monitoring ECS. Reading this post also made me think, “Convox could make this even easier!” So that’s what we did. If you want to deploy a fully instrumented app on ECS follow these instructions and in just a few minutes you will: […]
Configuring APM on Kubernetes
Monitoring your apps In our previous post we gave you a general overview of infrastructure and application monitoring for Kubernetes. In this follow up post we are going to take a deeper dive specifically into application monitoring. The term used by most of the industry for application monitoring is APM which is an acronym for either Application […]
AWS ALB — The Container and Microservice Load Balancer
Amazon Web Services (AWS) just announced a new Application Load Balancer (ALB) service. I spent some time playing with the new service to understand what it offers and to see how it fits into our cloud architecture. In summary, ALB is a massive improvement over ELB in almost every way. For $16/month, a single ALB can serve […]
The True Cost of Running Kubernetes in the Cloud
Those of you who use Google’s Kubernetes Engine have likely received a notice recently about GCP adding a $0.10 per hour management fee for all GKE clusters. While this does not represent a significant amount of money for most deployments, it has triggered a bit of a discussion around what it really costs to run a Kubernetes […]