Infrastructure and Operations

Back to basics - Logging

The log: the disliked, the neglected, the misunderstood and yet probably your best friend.

Let's automate your infrastructure management using Terraform and Ansible

Loïc Rodier
18 Min To Read
09 Oct, 2019
- Infrastructure and operations

Do you need automation?

It might be an option to start managing an infrastructure “by hand” because it is small, easier, simpler, important for learning. OKAY
However, in a industrial context it is important and required to have industrial processes. Scaling people is not an option.

Kumori: an overlay to reinforce inter-datacenter connections resiliency

Networking: an essential aspect of cloud computing infrastructures

If you landed on this technical blog, it shouldn’t be a surprise to you if I tell you that cloud computing is the major trend that has shaped the IT world since its appearance in the form of Amazon’s “pay as you go” computing platform offerings. From then on, Cloud computing delivers its users and customers flexibility and adaptability to demand. Cloud services providers also promise a better resilience in the event of a failure, arguing that as their platform exists in datacenters distributed all around the world, their infrastructure can cope with large failures in a better way than a standalone computing rack that companies’ IT departments might run on their premises.

Goodbye Docker, hello Containers

Romain Philibert Loïc Rodier Thomas Langlois
4 Min To Read
19 Feb, 2018
- Infrastructure and operations

This year, the DockerConEU took place in Copenhagen, this event was a great opportunity to learn more about containers evolution. Through a lot of very interesting talks and two keynotes (described here ), we noted the following main events in the container ecosystem:

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Unified logging process: How to write logfile?

Some history

For the past 20 years, the primary consumer of log data shifted from humans to machines - Who reads log with tail –F nowadays? No-one! The reason is quite simple: with the multiplication of available softwares, we simply do not have time to read and compute logs with our own eyes.