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Grafana Annotations with Prometheus (a Deep Dive)

2020-11-05T14:21:00+00:00

Grafana is often used in conjunction with Prometheus to visualize time series and compose dashboards for monitoring purposes. In this blog article, I will dive deep into the specifics of Grafana annotations for data that does not fit into time series graphs – and how to use them with Prometheus as a data source.

Grafana is often used in conjunction with Prometheus to visualize time series and compose dashboards for monitoring purposes. A variety of data fits really well into

Grafana Annotations with Prometheus (a Deep Dive)2020-11-05T14:21:00+00:00

Testing Your Kubernetes Infrastructure

2020-08-11T20:40:19+00:00

Automated tests in software development are regarded as an integral quality measure. In our experience, the same cannot be said for infrastructure tests. We believe that there is too little information on how to use and extend existing tools to test Kubernetes clusters, so we'll share our experiences in this article.

Automated tests in software development are widely regarded as an integral quality measure. In our experience, the same cannot be said for testing infrastructure. We

Testing Your Kubernetes Infrastructure2020-08-11T20:40:19+00:00

End-to-End Image Captioning

2020-05-01T15:23:28+00:00

We had the unique opportunity to develop an image captioning system combining computer vision and NLP from a prototype model to a fully scalable data product with a team of five interdisciplinary students from the TUM Data Innovation Lab during a period of six months as part of an educational research experience.

tl;dr Data Science, Machine Learning Engineering, Software Engineering, and IT-Operations know-how is required to turn a prototypical machine-learning model into an end-

End-to-End Image Captioning2020-05-01T15:23:28+00:00

Unraveling Kubernetes Security Tools

2020-08-13T11:11:00+00:00

When securing K8s based environments, many different issues arise. And there are even more tools that try to tackle these issues. Don't waste your time searching and checkout these open source Kubernetes Security Tools instead!

When securing K8s based environments many different issues arise—from checking the actual cluster configuration to configuring K8s features like Network Policies, Pod

Unraveling Kubernetes Security Tools2020-08-13T11:11:00+00:00

Spinnaker vs. Argo CD vs. Tekton vs. Jenkins X: Cloud-Native CI/CD

2020-03-09T17:53:02+00:00

With tools like Kubernetes becoming essential, there is high demand for cloud-native CI/CD. Many tools try to offer solutions―in this blog post, we’ll have a look at four of them: Spinnaker, Argo CD, Tekton Pipelines and Jenkins X. We introduce their inner workings and how they help you to perform CI/CD in the cloud.

With tools like Kubernetes becoming essential for most modern cloud deployments and companies adopting their take on DevOps culture, there is high demand for cloud-na

Spinnaker vs. Argo CD vs. Tekton vs. Jenkins X: Cloud-Native CI/CD2020-03-09T17:53:02+00:00

4 Ways to Manage Your OpenStack Secrets with Terraform and git

2019-04-02T13:46:42+00:00

Terraform and OpenStack provide some clever ways of authenticating to OpenStack and configuring your clouds. This article shows you four easy ways so you never have to worry about accidentally uploading secrets to places where they shouldn't be.

Uploading secrets (i.e. passwords and usernames) to version control is an obviously terrible idea. Yet, there are almost 450,000 commits to github for the search term

4 Ways to Manage Your OpenStack Secrets with Terraform and git2019-04-02T13:46:42+00:00

trovilo: Decentrally Configuring Prometheus Alerts

2019-04-02T13:48:28+00:00

This article highlights trovilo, a simple helper tool collecting ConfigMaps via the Kubernetes API and writing them down into the filesystem for further processing by apps like Prometheus or Grafana.

This article highlights trovilo, a simple helper tool aiming to collect ConfigMaps (files) via the Kubernetes API and writing them down into the filesystem for furthe

trovilo: Decentrally Configuring Prometheus Alerts2019-04-02T13:48:28+00:00

Modern CI/CD with Jenkins 2 and GitLab CI [Comparison]

2019-07-15T09:00:25+00:00

With CI/CD, you don't have to constantly struggle with the build and deployment processes of your software project.

Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) are a great help, providing the flexibility needed for agile software development methods like Scrum and Kanb

Modern CI/CD with Jenkins 2 and GitLab CI [Comparison]2019-07-15T09:00:25+00:00

D’oh! My Vagrant NFS is slow…

2019-04-02T18:06:01+00:00

Vagrant is great for various reasons. This blog post discusses options which help to optimize the performance.

Vagrant is great for various reasons. One of them is that you can describe, version and share your virtual development environments as code. By doing this, you can ma

D’oh! My Vagrant NFS is slow…2019-04-02T18:06:01+00:00

Deploying Windows Server with Foreman in vSphere

2019-06-07T15:33:00+00:00

We learned how to deploy CentOS Linux Hosts with Foreman. Now what if we instead need to deploy Microsoft's Windows Server?

In Foreman Provision: A Comfortable Resource Management Tool for Foreman we learned how to deploy CentOS Linux Hosts with Foreman. Now what if we instead need to depl

Deploying Windows Server with Foreman in vSphere2019-06-07T15:33:00+00:00

DevOps: Agile Entwicklung und Betrieb Hand in Hand

2019-04-02T16:59:21+00:00

Wie erklären die Verbindung zwischen der Performanz eines Unternehmens, der Performanz der Unternehmens-IT und der Verwendung von DevOps-Praktiken.

DevOps steht schon seit einiger Zeit im Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit, hat sich aber noch nicht so weit verbreitet, wie es sollte. Dies könnte sich aber ändern: Puppet L

DevOps: Agile Entwicklung und Betrieb Hand in Hand2019-04-02T16:59:21+00:00

DevOps: Kostenloses Webinar mit Fallbeispielen

2019-04-02T17:01:42+00:00

In unserem kostenlosen Webinar geben wir Tipps für die Umsetzung von DevOps, deren Erfolg wir an zwei Fallbeispielen aus Unternehmensprojekten darlegen

DevOps ist als Schlagwort in aller Munde, die konkrete Anwendung aber deutlich weniger verbreitet. In unserem kostenlosen Webinar geben wir deshalb Tipps für die Umse

DevOps: Kostenloses Webinar mit Fallbeispielen2019-04-02T17:01:42+00:00

Foreman Provision: A Comfortable Resource Management Tool for Foreman

2019-04-02T18:06:28+00:00

Foreman Provision is a comfortable wrapper that uses the Foreman REST API to create and manage resources in Foreman.

At inovex we use open source technology on a daily basis and try to give back to the community in return. One great example is the Foreman Provision project that was

Foreman Provision: A Comfortable Resource Management Tool for Foreman2019-04-02T18:06:28+00:00

Rex 1.0: Das Automatisierungs-Tool unter der Lupe

2017-11-28T16:32:07+00:00

Parallelausführung von Skripten, Konfigurationsmanagement und Deploymentwerkzeuge sind die Antworten des Zeitalters der Automation, die Rex zusammenführt.

Bei der heutigen Zahl an Systemen und darauf laufender Anwendungen in einer IT-Abteilung ist deren manuelle Verwaltung keine ernsthafte Option mehr für Systemverwalte

Rex 1.0: Das Automatisierungs-Tool unter der Lupe2017-11-28T16:32:07+00:00
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