Opsani Blog
Continuous Optimization & Autonomous Operations, tips to increase performance of cloud applications, DevOps and Machine Learning industry articles, lessons learned and more.
I Can’t Open My AWS Bill
Like all startups, we spend a LOT of time talking to potential customers, trying to understand their pain points around infrastructure provisioning, spend and performance. He can’t open his AWS bill because the file is too large for his laptop to handle Many of our...
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The Seductively Simple Metric To Avoid When Tuning Apps on AWS
A quick search online will find lots of tools that examine your AWS logs or bills and provide a list of vm’s with low utilization. The idea, of course, is if you reduce the vm size or even delete them you’ll save money. Increasing utilization is a...
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Happy New Year from the team at Opsani!
It's been an exciting year for our team at Opsani with the launch of Skopos to kick off our Intent Based Operations vision. We wanted to thank our customers, partners and investors for their tremendous support as we look forward to another great year...
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Skopos for Kubernetes is Here
The news is out! Today we launched Skopos Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes combining the power of K8S and simplicity of visual ops to help enterprises adopt containerized apps. Joseph Jacks, KubeCon Founder and CNCF Founding Member shared this: “Opsani...
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Opsani at DeveloperWeek Austin
Next week, Opsani will present at DeveloperWeek Austin conference, which will take place November 8th & 9th at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, Texas. We're offering free passes to the event and sessions to anyone in the industry. Just reach out to us...
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Opsani at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
Next week, Opsani will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st Cloud Expo, which will take place on October 31 through November 2nd 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. We're offering free passes to the event and sessions to anyone in...
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Getting back ‘depends_on’ in docker-compose
Traditional enterprise apps are architected in a way that don't always comply with the 'perfect' microservices architectures we expect to see with Dockerized apps. For example, Docker expects services to be stateless and self-configuring whereas...
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Docker Compose Generator
I saw a few posts to Docker Community Slack asking for help with creating a compose v3 formatted file. Since Skopos already reads v2, 2.1 and 3, and can convert those to v3, our team put in a quick feature to help you auto-generate your compose file from...
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Skopos is now Docker Certified
We are excited to announce that Opsani is now a Docker Store Certified Publisher and Skopos Continuous Deployment is Docker Certified and available on Docker Store! Our inclusion into the Docker Certification Program indicates Skopos has been tested and...
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Thoughts on Requirements for a Continuous Deployment System
A while back I wrote about the problems associated with using scripts for deployment. Scripts are error prone, require frequent updates, don’t provide meaningful error messages, and when they fail they don’t clean up after themselves. The solution is to use a...
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Discover and Visualize Your App Architecture
App architecture shouldn’t be something written on a whiteboard or powerpoint and forgotten about afterward; it’s a living, breathing thing that oftentimes is needed to be shared with other teams. With containers, microservices and continuous delivery, an...
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We’re Now Opsani!
That’s right, we’re changing our name. If you’re reading this, I know you’re wondering what it means. Opsani derives from the Slavic root for "description" which speaks to our vision of declarative systems for modern management. When we started Datagrid a...
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Continuous Deployment for Docker: Lessons Learned
First Hand Experience on the Path to Continuous Deployment for Docker Containers
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New Features in Skopos 0.14.16 & 0.14.18
With more feedback comes more releases. This month many new users have put Skopos through its paces and helped identify new use cases we need to solve for. Here are some highlights for you: Skopos 0.14.16 was released on May 11, 2017. This minor update adds support...
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New Features in Skopos 0.14
Earlier this month we released Skopos 0.14 adding some key features requested by our community. From autopilot for models and environments to GitHub integration and Amazon ECS support, Skopos 0.14 drives transparency for infrastructure-as-code while adding confidence...
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Ops in the Era of DevOps
Spend a little bit of time reading about DevOps and you’ll no doubt discover the term NoOps. That’s right, the idea that eventually we’ll have “no Ops” seems to be attractive to some Dev folks. At the same time though it’s easy to find posts from DevOps managers...
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Introducing Skopos – Continuous Deployment System to Enable Autonomous Operations for DevOps
The Datagrid team announced the availability of Skopos today at DockerCon and we couldn't be more excited to share this cool technology within the container world. In a sentence... Skopos Enables Fast, Reliable and Repeatable Production Deployments for Container-based...
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Deployment scripts aren’t sufficient
Stefana Muller had a good post recently titled 5 challenges to continuous deployment in which she discusses the use of scripts for deployment. Most of the folks I’ve talked with recently are using deployment scripts and many do have issues with them so I thought it’d...
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5 Challenges to Continuous Deployment with Docker (and a way to address them)
Containers are a hot topic. Most companies are adopting or evaluating the technology - Docker in particular - to speed up application deployment, drive down cost, ease management and make application delivery more flexible overall. As with most new architectures, this...
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Join us at DockerCon
We'll be exhibiting at DockerCon 2017 in Austin April 17th to 20th and we're hoping to see you all there. Stop by and discuss DevOps, containers, cloud native development, serverless and all the latest trends, plus we'll be demonstrating our Skopos continuous...
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Auto-Pilot for Deployments
For most companies, deploying containerized applications seems simple at first. Once you build the containers, you’re just a quick script away from a live app. But as the number of services increases and the instances start replicating, the once simple 10 line script...
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Declarative vs Imperative (or, do we really need a model for deployment )
As companies begin their transition to DevOps and CI/CD they typically don't spend much time thinking about their delivery pipelines. After all, pipelines don't seem difficult at first glance so folks assume they'll simply script their pipelines. An engineer is...
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Announcing VCTR-Pro extension for Plesk
It's been just over four months since we announced our VCTR extension for Plesk back in May, yet more than 1300 subscribers have already signed up. The support from the team at Plesk has been wonderful and the users have proven to be a very professional and adept...
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How does your deployment system measure up to Uber’s Micro Deploy?
We've been talking with users about CI/CD recently and we've noticed that although numerous tools are available, both open source and traditional license, the required integration causes difficulty for many. Although advanced users are able to use the integration to...
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VCTR passess usage milestone
It’s only been a few months since we introduced VCTR, our free server configuration scanning and vulnerability reporting service, but in July VCTR surpassed 500 active users. There are multiple configuration scanners already on the market but the combination of ease...
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We scanned Docker repository images and found . . .
We run Datagrid services on Docker. Not only are containers efficient but we find them easier to use for implementing immutable infrastructure as well. And, like many Docker users, we often start with the standard images in the Docker Hub repository. It’s very...
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Start to Release in Three Weeks
A couple weeks ago at WHDusa we introduced a our reliability and vulnerability extension for Plesk based on our VCTR service. We were excited to work with Plesk because of their expertise and large loyal customer base. However, we only got the go ahead to build the...
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200 Plesk users in 2 weeks
We released our VCTR reliability and vulnerability scanning extension for Plesk just a couple weeks ago and we’ve already had well over 200 users activate the extension. The community engagement has also provided useful input for improvements. Based on field feedback...
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Datagrid Reliability and Vulnerability Scanner for Plesk
Today we're extending the reach of VCTR reliability intelligence for system operators with the immediate availability of our Datagrid Reliability and Vulnerability Scanner for Plesk. Datagrid and Plesk are at WHDusa in Phoenix to promote the new partnership. Plesk is...
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Try VCTR in minutes
When we tell folks beta users get VCTR running and receive useful data in 30 to 60 minutes, many are skeptical. So we’ve rolled out a page where you can try our VCTR DevOps server vulnerability service in just a few minutes without creating an account, or even...
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