How to backup and restore your Jenkins data — Part 4 We are discussing disaster recovery scenarios. CI/CD is one of the main components of the software development life cycle therefore we decided that we must carefully discuss keeping Jenkins data safe and secure. We have already explored ways of backup and restore options using free tools. We have used Duplicati…

How to backup and restore your Jenkins data — part 3 We continue exploring how to backup and restore Jenkins data. This time we will have a closer look at how to automate Jenkins data backup to S3 and restore from EC2 using free and open-source tools. We have already discussed how to backup and restore Jenkins data across bare-metal public…

How to backup and restore your Jenkins data — part 2. We continue exploring how to backup and restore Jenkins data using free and open-source tools. We have two scenarios. First, we backup Jenkins data regularly and make the same available on another server where we can run the Jenkins from the backup data. We have explained in detail how to…

How to backup and restore your Jenkins data — part 1 — What is Jenkins? According to the Jenkins documentation, Jenkins is a self-contained, open-source automation server that can be used to automate all sorts of tasks related to building, testing, and delivering or deploying software. Jenkins can be installed through native system packages, Docker, or even run standalone by any machine with Java…

We have decided to utilize Portainer recently. And I must admit that the experience been a positive one for us. We have been using DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, Prometheus, Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, etc. however for containerized applications we wanted to try one of the…

Portainer? Decision making journey before start using Portainer Here where I work until very recently, we were a very happy family. We were very happy with our pipelines, very happy with our microservices and most importantly we were very proud of our docker containers and Kubernetes. …

We’ll take a brief look at automation tools in this article and compare two basic approaches to designing automation processes. We have a range of options when it comes to automation technologies. However, it would be better to see the categories that exist to better understand the structure and determine…

Git Practices for Daily Use

Here are some of the DevOps technologies and tools used these days. Don’t worry if you are new to DevOps and microservices because I will be using as simple and plain language as possible. Some of these tools mentioned are very popular, and some of them are ordinary. You will…