Inspired by this this year’s VeriConf, Albert reflects on what makes Verifa an awesome place to work and how that benefits our customers as well as the crew.

VeriConf is our annual offsite bringing the whole crew together to work, chill and learn together!

Developer Experience promises improved productivity, satisfaction, engagement and retention of development teams. We conducted a study of existing material and in this post we share the summary together with our real-world experience.

A Q&A with the Founder & CEO of Verifa, Jacob Lärfors.

A talk at DevOps Finland on the SLSA framework, SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) and the current state of software supply chain security in general.

A talk at DevOps Finland on what different Service Level concepts mean and how a software development team could use them effectively in the software delivery process.

Presenting at DevOps Malmö to share experiences on DevOps Teams and Platform Teams, and how to break the hype and become a real Platform Team (not just by name).

Learn how Trivy can be used to secure your Terraform code and integrated into your development workflow.

My wonderful one-week experience at Verifa was incredibly enriching. I learned a great deal and had the opportunity to meet awesome people.

In this fundamental level blog post I will explain what different Service Level concepts mean and how to use them effectively in the software delivery process.

Bringing the crew together to learn, grow and chill under the sun at VeriConf, our annual offsite!

In this blog post we will take a look at Steampipe, which is a tool that can be used to query all kinds of APIs using an unified language for the queries; SQL. We’ll be querying a Kubernetes cluster with Steampipe and then building a beautiful dashboard out of our queries without breaking a sweat.

Recorded session at the Nordic Game conference, Malmö, May 2023

In this blog, we will try to explore how a sample application like Elastic Stack can be scaled based on metrics other than CPU, memory or storage usage.

Neat git tricks in bite-sized chunks.

How to Compile and Deploy Custom CI Tools via Docker images in GitLab

A summary of the sixth Helsinki HashiCorp User Group (HUG) including presentations on Infrastructure as Code in early stage startups and Azure Landing Zone.

This post is a short overview of my adventures and my first impressions of ORAS.

Join us on 19 April at 18:00 for the sixth Helsinki HashiCorp User Group meetup!

Create purposeful CI environments using Docker to optimise your CI pipelines

Keep your workload secrets clean and your value delivery lean, with HashiCorp Vault and Kubernetes.

Karpenter is an exciting Kubernetes autoscaler that can be used to provision “nodeless” AWS EKS clusters.

Hassle-free artifact retention policies through FileSpecs

A summary of the fifth Helsinki HashiCorp User Group including presentations on Vault, UpCloud CDK for Terraform, Vault, Kubernetes, and HashiCorp Rift.

Introducing Lauri Suomalainen, one of our Cloud Architects.

Join us and HashiCorp to learn how HashiCorp Vault can keep your secrets in Kubernetes secure.

In this article we’re going to see how to fix a corrupt index which was not automatically recovered.

Introducing Mike Vainio, one of our Cloud Architects based in Helsinki.

Join us on 30 November at 17:00 for the fifth Helsinki HashiCorp User Group meetup!

We're officially certified to help with all your HashiCorp Terraform needs.

Exposing services in AWS EKS clusters via Load Balancers can be done in many ways. In this post we explore using the AWS Load Balancer Controller to dynamically bind nodes to existing Application Load Balancers.

In this blog we explore several approaches for getting secrets from HashiCorp Vault into Jenkins running in Kubernetes

Run your Jenkins Controller and Agents as Pods in Kubernetes, all Managed as Code!

VeriConf is our annual offsite bringing the whole team together to work, chill and learn together!

In this blog I cover challenges teams face while improving their release process, and how Value Stream Mapping can be used to overcome them.

In this episode of The Continuous & Cloud Podcast, Jacob and Lauri chat with Ville Törhönen, Product Owner at UpCloud, about UpCloud’s upcoming managed Kubernetes Service (UKS).

Build pipelines like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD and ol’ Jenkins have become ubiquitous these last few years. While they are certainly useful, it’s surprisingly easy to burn your fingers on them. Here’s my three rules to keep pipelines more manageable.

Almost a year to the date of announcing our partnership with HashiCorp, we have gained our Certified HashiCorp Implementation Partner for Vault.

In this post we’ll give an example of what makes Infrastructure as Code (IaC) so powerful, by using Terraform to provision resources in UpCloud.

Rancher is a platform for managing Kubernetes clusters and workloads. This short post covers a recent experience trying to remove Rancher from a cluster. This approach can be used to either remove Rancher itself, or for cleaning up a cluster that was imported into Rancher.

In this post we will walk through an implementation using a Kubernetes CronJob to take daily snapshots and store them in an AWS S3 bucket for safe keeping.

Our Open Salary Policy has taken many months to develop, but is now part of who we are and how we work. Let’s explore some of the changes this brings to us as a team.

A summary of the fourth Helsinki HashiCorp User Group (HUG) including presentations on Terraform, Kubernetes, and ArgoCD.

Join us on 22 March at 17:30 for the fourth Helsinki HashiCorp User Group meetup!

After five years in business it was time to take a long hard look at ourselves, delving deep into what Verifa is today and where we're headed.

In this blog we'll explore some ways of getting secrets into Jenkins which we deploy in Kubernetes, without the use of an external secrets manager.

Our Cloud Architect, Lauri takes a look back at his first year as a consultant at Verifa.

A summary of the third Helsinki HashiCorp User Group (HUG) including presentations on Vault and Boundary, Packer and Terraform.

In this blog we'll look at how to assume an AWS IAM role from a Service Account that exists within an AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster. All provisioned with Terraform.

Join us on 7 December at 18.00 for the third Helsinki HashiCorp User Group meetup!

In this blog we'll look at how to build an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster with a private Load Balancer.

A summary of the second Helsinki HashiCorp User Group (HUG) including presentations on Terragrunt and Terraform.

Bringing our whole team together to learn, grow and chill at Verifa's annual get together.

Let's look at the key considerations when moving existing applications to Kubernetes.

A summary of the first Helsinki HashiCorp User Group (HUG) including presentations on HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) and Application identity and authentication with Vault.

A step-by-step process for debugging failing Jenkins Build Agent Pods in Kubernetes.

In this episode of The Verifa Podcast, Andreas chats with Lars Geyer-Blaumeiser, Senior Expert Open Source Program Office at Bosch, who shares his insights on open source compliance and tooling.

GitOps is a modern approach to automate deployments using Git as the single source of truth to define the deployment.

In this episode of The Verifa Podcast, Jacob and Andreas get into a deep discussion about GitOps, how it works, and its applications and benefits.

We're Verifa delighted to announce our partnership with HashiCorp, the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software.

In Verifa's first podcast we discuss Google's new Autopilot for Kubernetes, and what it means to have a managed Kubernetes service.

From recruitment to product launches, it proved to be a most eventful 12 months

How to know your code is always in a releasable state

This article describes the problem of automatically deploying code to a private GKE cluster and my workaround solution to it.

How to run JCasC without using an orchestrator.

How to develop an effective CI process

Familiar and unfamiliar tasks in a new but recognisable environment.

Nomad allows you to deploy and manage applications across on-premise and cloud-based platforms. Its power comes with its flexibility yet ease of operation and use.

Conan is an open source project for managing software components (or packages) for C and C++. Supporting C and C++ packages requires a flexible model, especially to allow packages to be pre-compiled into binaries, and Conan really hits the mark. This blog gives a short introduction to Conan and how it could help your project.

Verifa will be hosting a 3-hour hands-on basic training course in Conan.

One of the things that sets Verifa aside from traditional consultancy companies is our strong internal communication and knowledge sharing

The current mainstream approach for solving enterprise-scale open source license compliance involves more and more open source tools and less commercial ones.

Become a Lean, Mean Dev Machine

Verifa is proud to be invited to present and exhibit at DevOps World 2019 in San Francisco this year.

Verifa is proud to be invited to present at DevOps World 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal this year

By building applications on top of an existing landscape of established open source components, we can spend our valuable time innovating rather than reinventing the wheel

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This week Verifa released the first in a series of white papers designed to help you bring DevOps to your organization.

An engineers take on the latest buzzword in tech

These days a big part of enterprise and other software projects' code bases form out of open-source code, it is crucial for enterprises to follow open-source license obligations and restrictions.

Preparing tweets for machine learning

Having worked in several projects with varying levels of maturity in Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery, I have experienced that in practically all cases, a green build is a trusted build.

All complex software is designed before it is developed. Unlike software, however, design documents tend to stay static and not evolve together with the software.