With 99 episodes in the can, the Cloud Pod podcast has become my weekly go-to for up-to-date cloud news and analysis. With equal parts intelligence, humor, and honesty these...
6 Ways to Reduce Anxiety During Releases
It’s 7:00pm on a Friday evening and it’s release night, a night 6 months in the making. You have been tasked with releasing version 3.0.0 of your company’s latest...
Introducing Story Based Pricing
At Foghorn, we do tons of engineering work for our clients. That engineering work includes cloud architecture design and validation, building proofs of concept to test...
re:Invent 2020- AWS EBS General Purpose Volumes- GP3
This post is part of a larger series that highlights the greatest hits from AWS’s re:Invent 2020. In each case, we will share the topline details of the release and share...
Top Releases from 2020’s AWS re:Invent (so far)
AWS CEO Andy Jassey Kicks off re:Invent 2020 Virtually A free, virtual event this year, the always inspiring and exciting AWS re:Invent runs for 3 weeks from November 30 to...
Terraform AWS Provider 3.14.0 Regression
A new version of the AWS provider for Terraform, 3.14.0, was released on November 5th which introduced a regression that was causing builds to fail with an error like the...
Ask a FogOps Architect: Auto Subscribing Cloudwatch Log Groups to an ES Cluster
A few years ago, I was working with a customer, whose application team solely used Cloudwatch Logs. As a heavily regulated company, their security team required a SIEM...
Azure DevOps YAML Pipeline with Terraform – Part 2 – Integrating Secrets Management
In my last post, I discussed the power of using Azure DevOps YAML pipelines and Terraform together. Today, I would like to look at how to improve the security of this...
10 Steps to Protect Sensitive Data
In light of the recent Uber data breach, I thought it would be a good time to review common techniques used to properly secure sensitive information. The steps below are...
The View of the Cloud is Sunny from Hightower
At Foghorn we’ve followed Google Cloud Platform’s Kelsey Hightower for years, and always treasure his insights on cloud, Kubernetes, and cutting edge tools and...
