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by Benny Cornelissen on Jan 3, 2022
As consultants we find ourselves getting started on new projects all the time. And it’s important to get the first week right. Not only do you want to make a good impression, starting off on bad information, bad assumptions, or with bad blood will make it very difficult to be successful on a project. In our first week, we’ll focus on trying to answer 3 questions: What is the landscape?
Read More »by Tom Kennes on Aug 30, 2021
When migrating to AWS, there are so many services you could use! Name any use-case, and probably AWS has got your back. With over 175 AWS services readily available for you to use, you might even have multiple options! Looking for human speech generation? Use Polly. Or are you into scaling your operation beyond the earth? Get busy with satellites using AWS Ground Station. Need to set up first-line support for your customers?
Read More »by Benny Cornelissen on Jul 23, 2021
How many Cloud Engineers do you need to implement the correct solution for managing secrets in Kubernetes? The answer: pretty much all of them, and you’ll rebuild your solution roughly every other month. Cheeky remarks aside, you can probably imagine that this is a returning topic within Skyworkz, and there are as many correct solutions as there are options out there, from Bitnami SealedSecrets to Mozilla SOPS to AWS Secrets Manager to HashiCorp Vault… But in the latest iteration of this discussion our Director (who still likes to be an engineer from time to time) Bas mentioned 1Password Secrets Automation.
Read More »by Tom Kennes on Nov 26, 2020
Since I am about to start at a new client as DevOps engineer, I have been busy digging through some of the tools they use. Unsurprisingly, one of those tools is Jenkins. In order to catch up, I found myself back zifting through articles and documentation regarding old and newer versions of Jenkins. Although reading the documentation before starting is a sometimes forgotten best practice, I also want to be able to hit the ground running from day 1.
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