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8/22/2023

How to build dashboards of your Kubernetes cluster with Steampipe

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.

Blog

Kubernetes

Cloud

5/30/2023

The Lazy Game Dev's Guide to Automation

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

Event

Game Dev

5/29/2023

How to scale Kubernetes with any metrics using Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA)

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.

Blog

Kubernetes

Elastic

Cloud

5/15/2023

Bag of Git tricks

Neat git tricks in bite-sized chunks.

Blog

Git

4/28/2023

Supporting GitLab CI with custom tools in containers

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

Blog

Containers

Continuous Integration

GameDev

4/28/2023

Helsinki HashiCorp User Group Meetup #6 summary

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

Event

HashiCorp

4/27/2023

Exploring ORAS: OCI Registries as Storage

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

Blog

Open Source

3/28/2023

Helsinki HashiCorp User Group Meetup #6

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

Event

HashiCorp

3/16/2023

How to optimise GitLab CI runtime environments using custom Docker images

Create purposeful CI environments using Docker to optimise your CI pipelines

Blog

Containers

Continuous Integration

GameDev

3/7/2023

Comparing methods for accessing secrets in HashiCorp Vault from Kubernetes

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

Blog

HashiCorp

Kubernetes

Vault

3/7/2023

How to create nodeless AWS EKS clusters with Karpenter for autoscaling

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

Blog

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

1/23/2023

How to automate Artifactory clean up

Hassle-free artifact retention policies through FileSpecs

Blog

Artifactory

Continuous Delivery

12/16/2022

Helsinki HashiCorp User Group Meetup #5 summary

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

Event

HashiCorp

11/30/2022

Veri-nice to meet you, Lauri

Introducing Lauri Suomalainen, one of our Cloud Architects.

Blog

Verifa Culture

11/22/2022

Accessing HashiCorp Vault credentials in Kubernetes [webinar]

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

Event

HashiCorp

Vault

Kubernetes

11/21/2022

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes: How to fix a corrupt index exception

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

Blog

Elastic

Kubernetes

Cloud

11/10/2022

Veri-nice to meet you, Mike

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

Blog

Verifa Culture

10/28/2022

Helsinki HashiCorp User Group Meetup #5

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

Event

HashiCorp

10/25/2022

Verifa is now a Certified HashiCorp Implementation Partner for Terraform!

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

Blog

HashiCorp

Terraform

10/19/2022

How to use the AWS Load Balancer Controller to connect multiple EKS clusters with existing Application Load Balancers

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.

Blog

AWS

HashiCorp

Terraform

10/12/2022

Secrets handling in Kubernetes using HashiCorp Vault

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

Blog

Kubernetes

Vault

Jenkins

9/27/2022

Quickstart - Jenkins (JCasC) in Kubernetes

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

Blog

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Terraform

9/20/2022

VeriConf 2022 - Lisbon, Portugal

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

Blog

VeriConf

Verifa Culture

9/7/2022

Unlock your Continuous Delivery potential with Value Stream Mapping

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

Blog

Continuous Delivery

Value Stream Mapping

8/16/2022

A sneak peek into UpCloud Kubernetes Service

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).

Podcast

Kubernetes

Cloud

UpCloud

7/7/2022

Keep your pipelines simple, stupid

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.

Blog

Continuous Integration

Continuous Delivery

6/14/2022

Verifa is now a Certified HashiCorp Implementation Partner for Vault!

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

Blog

HashiCorp

Vault

6/1/2022

The power of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

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.

Blog

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

5/19/2022

How to remove Rancher from a Kubernetes cluster

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.

Blog

Kubernetes

Rancher

4/26/2022

How to automate HashiCorp Vault OSS backups in AWS EKS

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.

Blog

HashiCorp

Vault

AWS

Kubernetes

4/13/2022

Verifa adopts an open salary policy

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.

Blog

Verifa Culture

3/25/2022

Helsinki HashiCorp User Group Meetup #4 summary

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

Event

HashiCorp

3/10/2022

Helsinki HashiCorp User Group Meetup #4

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

Event

HashiCorp

2/16/2022

We've got a fresh new look

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.

Blog

Verifa Culture

1/24/2022

Secrets handling in Kubernetes - A Jenkins story

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.

Blog

Kubernetes

Jenkins

1/8/2022

One year at Verifa: A retrospective

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

Blog

Verifa Culture

12/18/2021

Helsinki HashiCorp User Group Meetup #3 summary

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

Event

HashiCorp

12/7/2021

How to assume an AWS IAM role from a Service Account in EKS with 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.

Blog

HashiCorp

AWS

Kubernetes

11/21/2021

Helsinki HashiCorp User Group Meetup #3

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

Event

HashiCorp

11/2/2021

How to create an Azure Private Link to a Load Balancer in AKS with Terraform

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

Blog

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

10/5/2021

Helsinki HashiCorp User Group Meetup #2

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

Event

HashiCorp

9/27/2021

VeriConf 2021: (re)connecting, learning and teamwork

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

Event

VeriConf

Verifa Culture

9/6/2021

What to consider when migrating to Kubernetes

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

Blog

Kubernetes

GitOps

Open Source

Containers

7/12/2021

Helsinki HashiCorp User Group Meetup #1

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

Event

HashiCorp

7/5/2021

How to Debug Failing Build Agent Pods in Kubernetes-enabled Jenkins

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

Blog

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Continuous Integration

Containers

6/27/2021

OSS Compliance and Tools with Lars Geyer-Blaumeiser

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.

Podcast

Open Source

OSS Compliance

6/13/2021

GitOps: All you need is Git (and Continuous Deployment)

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

Blog

Git

GitOps

Continuous Delivery

5/4/2021

What is GitOps anyway?

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.

Podcast

Continuous Delivery

Git

GitOps

Continuous Integration

5/3/2021

Verifa announces partnership with HashiCorp

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

Blog

HashiCorp

3/30/2021

A first look at GKE Autopilot

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

Podcast

DevOps

Continuous Delivery

2/23/2021

Our recap of a busy 2020 – and a few words about 2021

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

Blog

Verifa Culture

1/28/2021

Release Readiness

How to know your code is always in a releasable state

Blog

DevOps

Continuous Integration

Continuous Delivery

11/5/2020

How to automatically deploy applications to a private GKE Cluster using CloudBuild

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

Blog

Kubernetes

GCP

Continuous Delivery

10/1/2020

Getting started with Jenkins Config as Code

How to run JCasC without using an orchestrator.

Blog

Jenkins

Continuous Integration

9/21/2020

Getting started with Jenkins Pipelines

How to develop an effective CI process

Blog

Jenkins

Continuous Integration

9/7/2020

Challenges, experiences and progress: My first 100 days as a CEO

Familiar and unfamiliar tasks in a new but recognisable environment.

Blog

Verifa Culture

9/5/2020

Nomad: The workload orchestrator you may have missed

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.

Blog

HashiCorp Nomad

HashiCorp

Containers

Continuous Delivery

9/4/2020

The C and C++ Package Manager

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.

Blog

Conan

Open Source

Continuous Integration

2/19/2020

The first ever ConanDays 2020 in Madrid!

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

Event

Continuous Delivery

DevOps

Conan

Verifa Culture

11/8/2019

VeriConf 2019 - Quinta de São Pedro, Portugal

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

Event

Verifa Culture

VeriConf

11/6/2019

Follow-up: OSS Compliance 2.0

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

Blog

Open Source

OSS Compliance

7/19/2019

JFrog User Conference

Become a Lean, Mean Dev Machine

Event

Continuous Delivery

DevOps

JFrog

7/10/2019

DevOps World

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

Event

Continuous Delivery

DevOps

Conference

2/19/2019

Implementing Modern CI in an Embedded Medical Project

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

Event

Continuous Delivery

DevOps

Jenkins

1/14/2019

Open Source will Rock your DevOps World

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

Blog

DevOps

Open Source

1/10/2019

Deep Dive into a Modern CI Pipeline

Join Our Live Webinar!

Event

Continuous Delivery

DevOps

11/26/2018

DevOps News Roundup | Deploy to Production

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

Blog

DevOps

11/11/2018

What DevOps Really Means

An engineers take on the latest buzzword in tech

Blog

Open Source

Continuous Delivery

8/20/2018

OSS compliance

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.

Blog

Open Source

8/13/2018

Feature generation from tweets

Preparing tweets for machine learning

Blog

Machine Learning

Data Science

8/2/2018

Trusting Your Software Build - Immutable, Repeatable Build Environments

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.

Blog

Continuous Delivery

DevOps

8/1/2018

Keeping Documentation and Code Synchronized

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.

Blog

Continuous Integration

DevOps

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