In discussions of cloud computing and data center migrations, the question of “sticker shock” sometimes comes up. Sticker shock is real, but as we’ll show in this series of blog posts, it’s due to [...]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) publishes their opinions of best practice architectures, and has historically performed Well Architected Reviews for key customers. Recently, Amazon has enlisted a small group of partners to join them in performing [...]
Terraform as a Foundation Terraform is really great. As someone who has spent the better part of the past decade codifying cloud infrastructure, there is an inexorable groan from my vicinity when someone insists we [...]
In the wake of Google's Next '17 event and the AWS San Francisco Summit 2017, I wanted to continue the AWS vs GCP comparison series. In this part though, I wanted to focus on each public cloud [...]
One of the most interesting differences between GCP and AWS is how each vendor recommends you isolate the blast radius of functional teams. AWS will tell you that in all likelihood, you will need at [...]
Amazon recently announced some new features around tagging permissions that make tags considerably more useful. Although this just came out, I already see a few areas where we can simplify automation scripts. More importantly, since we [...]
At Foghorn, we've been writing modular DevOps code for many years. Over time, we have developed a set of modules that represent about 80% of our customers needs, and leveraged those modules to accelerate the [...]
As we approach the Crossfit games once again, I thought I'd share some detail on how Foghorn helped Crossfit update their DevOps processes for the 2016 games. Crossfit has been growing rapidly, and had [...]
Cloud Neutral DevOps HashiCorp makes some of our favorite DevOps tools. Along with being feature rich, stable, and well designed, they are cloud neutral. This allows DevOps teams to become experts with a single tool [...]
After designing, building and managing hundreds of environments, sometimes we get a little too deep in the weeds with our blogs. So I thought I'd share this article, which gives a high level perspective on how [...]
