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IT Modernization and DevOps News Week in Review

 

A few weeks ago we wrote about the growing demand for DevOps skills and this month’s Index by TIOBE affirms the greater thrust with Python now ranking third in its index of most popularly searched for programming languages. According to reporting by DevOps.com, 43% of developers are using Python for DevOps projects, as well as system administration and writing automation scripts--an 8% increase from 2017. Both Java and C remain more popular than Python, with C++ moving down a spot to make room for Python. 

Feb 18, 2019 2:35:01 PM Flux7 Labs DevOps, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda

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IT Modernization and DevOps News Week in Review

Thanks to everyone who reached out following last week’s inaugural IT Modernization Week in Review blog. Containers and container orchestration were in the news this week and that should come as little surprise as container adoption continues to grow. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2020, more than 50% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, up from less than 20% today.  

Apr 23, 2018 1:52:51 PM Flux7 Labs Docker, AWS ECS, Amazon EC2, Infrastructure as code

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Flux7 CTO Ali Hussain Analyzes AWS ReInvent 2017 News

Dec 8, 2017 1:35:41 PM Flux7 Labs AWS Reinvent Announcements, AWS ECS, Amazon Aurora DB, Amazon Dynamo DB

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Inspect Docker Images with Anchore for DevOps Security

At Flux7, we are passionate about sharing the power of DevOps. In that vein, we recently gave a workshop introducing developers to the power, ease of use, and governance that comes with moving to a DevOps model reinforced with well-architected tooling. The goal of the workshop was to teach developers more about AWS and Docker-based microservices architecture. And, how using Amazon services like EC2 Container Service, CodePipeline, and CodeBuild can come together to create a platform for developer teams to focus on their application. We highlighted the Anchore solution as part of our microservices architecture for security and will share in today’s blog why we deployed Anchore, how we used it to ensure DevOps security and policy compliance, and our overall experience with the tool.

Dec 5, 2017 2:05:00 PM Flux7 Labs Docker, Security, AWS ECS, AWS CodePipeline, Microservices Architecture, AWS CodeBuild

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AWS, Flux7 Present Workshop on Microservices Architecture and Amazon ECS

Join us Thursday, August 24th in Austin, TX for a dynamic one-day microservices architecture and Amazon ECS workshop session.  

Aug 4, 2017 9:22:08 AM Flux7 Labs Docker, Docker Tutorials, AWS ECS, Amazon EC2, Microservices Architecture

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AWS ECS and Vault Paired for HIPAA-Compliant Secret Management

 

Controlling access to sensitive information, or secrets, required by your applications is a ubiquitous architectural requirement. Your applications need information like passwords, API keys, and certificates, and as the application owner you need to ensure this information is only accessed by the correct application. You also need to know when this information was accessed and by which entity.

Apr 25, 2017 11:00:00 AM Flux7 Labs DevOps, Security Identity and Compliance, AWS ECS

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Flux7 Achieves AWS Consulting Partner Recognition For Amazon Aurora

Today we are delighted to be recognized as having achieved AWS Service Delivery Partner status for Amazon Aurora. As you can see from thenews release we issued, the AWS Service Delivery Program is designed to highlight AWS Consulting Partners who have a track record of delivering verified customer success for specific Amazon Web Services (AWS) products.

Mar 9, 2017 11:22:41 AM Flux7 Labs Security Identity and Compliance, Data, Scalability, AWS ECS, Amazon Aurora DB

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AWS Developer Tools Provide Continuous Deployment to Amazon ECS

To support the business as best as possible, it’s important for Development to issue new features -- or greenfield solutions -- to market as quickly as possible. It’s not a stretch to say that many organizations’ ability to compete successfully depends on their speedy delivery of new products to customer. And in some cases first mover status is the difference between owning a market or bowing out of one.

Feb 21, 2017 10:05:00 AM Flux7 Labs SAP, Developer Tools and Processes, Scalability, AWS ECS, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, Microservices Architecture

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Container Instance Draining in Amazon ECS

AWS recently announced that Amazon ECS now supports a state for container instances that can be used to drain a container instance in preparation for maintenance or cluster scale down. AWS reports that the draining state prevents new tasks from being started on the container instance and notifies the service scheduler to move tasks that are running on the instance to other instances in the cluster. This is great news that we expect to save a lot of time and scripting when it comes to updating or removing containers from a cluster.

Feb 7, 2017 11:24:46 AM Flux7 Labs Automation, Compute, Developer Tools and Processes, Scalability, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, Microservices Architecture, AWS ELB, Amazon Machine Image

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AWS re:Invent 2016 and Container-Powered Migrations

At the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas last week, we had the opportunity to present a Flux7-powered case study of a successful containerized migration to AWS. As part of the session, “Getting Technically Inspired by Container Powered Migrations”, Flux7 CEO, Aater Suleman, shared Flux 7’s recent work with Rent-A-Center to perform a Hybris migration from their datacenter to AWS.

Dec 9, 2016 12:53:00 PM Flux7 Labs Docker, Migration, Company News and Events, SAP, AWS Reinvent Announcements, Retail, Scalability, AWS Service Catalog, AWS ECS, AWS Accounts, AWS CloudFormation

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Rent-A-Center SAP Hybris Solution Enabled by Amazon ECS Service Auto Scaling

We are excited to see that today our customer, Rent-A-Center, has been featured on the AWS Blog.  Rent-A-Center was interested in quickly introducing a new ecommerce platform that was secure, PCI compliant, and highly scalable to ensure it would cater to online web based demand.

Oct 13, 2016 10:03:56 AM Flux7 Labs Docker, SAP, Retail, Compute, Scalability, AWS ECS

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Furthering Elasticity with Automatic Scaling for Amazon ECS

Amazon announced its Elastic Container Service (ECS) at re:Invent 2014 using Pristine as a case study. Given Flux7’s Amazon expertise, it’s likely no surprise to frequent readers of this blog that Pristine is a Flux7 customer who we have been working with for some time now.

Jul 20, 2016 10:00:00 AM Flux7 Labs Manufacturing, Automation, Compute, Developer Tools and Processes, Scalability, AWS Services Reviews, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda, Microservices Architecture, AWS ELB, Amazon Machine Image

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Microservices Security: AWS Increases Container-Enabled App Security

As AWS experts we work closely with organizations who handle a wide variety of sensitive information – from patient health records to credit card data and more. Resultantly, we are always on the look-out for technology and best practice-based improvements to ensuring cloud-based security. With more and more of our clients looking to embrace a microservices architecture, cloud security and compliance naturally didn’t stop being a focus which is why we are happy at the news from AWS today that they’ve addressed how to help secure container-enabled applications with IAM Roles for ECS tasks.

Jul 15, 2016 9:00:00 AM Flux7 Labs Healthcare and Life Sciences, Security Identity and Compliance, Compute, Developer Tools and Processes, HashiCorp, AWS ECS, AWS IAM, Amazon S3

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re:Invent 2014: What AWS Users Must Know to Plan for Agile Infrastructure

Last week was AWS re:Invent 2014, the annual Amazon Web Services conference. Every year, the event brings with it the newest announcements in Amazon cloud products, services and strategies.

Nov 20, 2014 12:28:00 PM Flux7 Labs Docker, Company News and Events, AWS Service Catalog, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS ECS, AWS CodeCommit

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AWS Route 53 - A walk through

Amazon Route 53 is a highly scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service that converts word-based website addresses like www.example.com into IP addresses like 11.22.33.44.

Jan 9, 2014 7:05:42 AM Flux7 Labs Disaster Recovery, Compute, Networking and Content Delivery, Globalization, Amazon CloudFront, AWS ECS, AWS Tips and Tricks, Amazon Route 53

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