If you have been working with Ansible Tower or AWX you know what are virtual environments and how they are crucial for Ansible lifecycle. When you are part of a big organization managing virtual environments could be a pain, especially if you have a dozen of projects what require different…

Trust no1 I love work in startups and greenfield projects, and one of the reasons is a free choice of tools and technology. It’s like a cradle for technology and innovation. A team defines comfortable and promising technology and lines of code starting to grow exponentially. Big companies a bit different story…

Incoming call from… CISO If you are a project lead and you see an incoming call from CISO or his deputy it’s not a good sign. And also I hope you never paid BTC to bad boys who stolen private information of your customers because one of your devs forgot to disable admin/admin on…

Cloud-Native Database GitOps on OpenShift Problem One of our teams decided to use centralised cloud-native database on OpenShift clusters and onboard all projects on it to avoid an issue with multiple operation points. For sure it’s not aligned with DevOps mantra “You build, you own”, but for big organisations “X-as-a-Service” is…

How to measure a network? Modern networks monitoring is all about metrics, considering that Ops needs rapidly react on network changes or incidents Telco needs something really fast with low granularity (down to milliseconds). If you are in Telecom or Networking for a quite some time, your obvious choice to measure network health and performance…

Overview Kubernetes is great tool and it has got a niche in IT segment. Almost everyone talks about containers, pods, services, ingresses and can find a use case what can be solved with Kubernetes. Nevertheless, it’s relatively new in Telecom segment, but eventually it will be in same row with well…