Canary Deployments with Istio: Best Practices
Guide to safe Istio canary rollouts: traffic splitting, monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, automation with Flagger/Argo, and rollback tactics.
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Blog posts in the Automation category
How to Build KPIs for Cost Reporting
Define, measure and automate cloud cost KPIs—tagging, unit economics, baselines, forecasts and governance—to reduce waste and improve financial clarity.
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IaC Drift Detection: Techniques and Tools
Continuous drift detection and automated remediation are essential to keep IaC-aligned infrastructure secure, compliant and cost-effective.
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How to Automate Compliance Across Clouds
Enforce and automate compliance across AWS, Azure and GCP using Policy-as-Code, IaC scanning, centralised monitoring and automated remediation.
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5 Steps to Implement RBAC in Cloud
Five-step guide to assess, define, assign, test and monitor RBAC in cloud environments using least-privilege principles and UK compliance.
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Release Governance vs. Compliance: Key Differences
Explains how governance aligns release decisions with business strategy and risk tolerance while compliance enforces laws like GDPR—automated checks bridge both.
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How to Manage Hybrid Cloud Scaling Costs
Practical steps to control hybrid cloud scaling costs: monitor spend, rightsize resources, automate scaling, use reserved and spot pricing, and reduce data transfer.
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How Fault Injection Improves Cloud Resilience
Simulate controlled failures to uncover weak points, validate failovers and improve monitoring so cloud systems recover quickly and reliably.
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Checklist for Cost-Efficient Scaling in the Cloud
Audit usage, right‑size resources, automate scaling and enforce governance to cut cloud costs without reducing reliability.
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How Spot Instances Reduce Multi-Cloud Costs
Spot instances can cut multi‑cloud compute costs by up to 90% using spare capacity, automation and a mixed capacity strategy while managing interruption risk.
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How to Automate Kubernetes Audit Logging
Automate Kubernetes audit logging: define policies, configure log or webhook backends, integrate with CI/CD and alerting, and manage retention and costs.
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Automated IAM Role Provisioning with IaC
Define, validate and deploy least-privilege IAM roles with IaC and CI/CD to improve cloud security, auditability and compliance.
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