This post is aimed at those interested in continuous compliance, an extension of cloud native principles to the area of software compliance, an under-developed field of software automation. My consultancy, Container Solutions is working on an open source project to help automate the management and reporting of controls, and this post arose from that work. OSCAL? OSCAL stands … Read more
What is Crossplane? If you don’t already know, Crossplane is billed as an: Open source, CNCF project built on the foundation of Kubernetes to orchestrate anything. Encapsulate policies, permissions, and other guardrails behind a custom API line to enable your customers to self-service without needing to become an infrastructure expert. Another way to view Crossplane is as … Read more
When I started my career as an engineer in the early noughties, I was very keen on developer experience (devex). So when I joined a company whose chosen language was TCL (no, really), I decided to ask the engineering mailing list what IDEs they used. Surely the senior engineers, with all their wisdom and experience, would tell … Read more
Jenkins Pipelines are becoming the standard way to programmatically specify your CI flow. I started playing with Jenkins Pipelines using the web interface, then hit a block as I didn’t really know the ropes. Here’s some things I wish I’d known first: 1) Wrap work in stages Want those neat stages to show up in … Read more