DevOps - Andrew Matveychuk

Jul 22, 2020 Blogging DevOps

On selling (and buying) DevOps

Recently, I had a few interesting conversations with my fellow colleagues about marketing and selling DevOps expertise. After a lively thought exchange and hearing opinions from people with a different professional background, we had several distinct offering formats to evaluate.

Apr 2, 2020 PowerShell DevOps Azure DevOps

A sample CI/CD pipeline for PowerShell module

Following my post on embracing DevOps practices in PowerShell automation, I decided to share a sample PowerShell module project with CI/CD pipeline that would put theory in practice.

Mar 3, 2020 DevOps PowerShell

DevOps in PowerShell automation

Despite the wide usage of PowerShell by DevOps practitioners, most automation solutions I come across in organizations are implemented in a quick & dirty way. It is a paradox that automation with PowerShell is often itself completely ignores the practices DevOps encourages to use.

Feb 6, 2020 DevOps Incident Management System Design

Monitoring from the DevOps perspective

Despite the common misconception, monitoring in a DevOps-aligned organization is not about “Hey, let’s use Prometheus, ELK, Grafana or whatever else and output nice dashboards on big wall-mounted screens!” Moreover, monitoring is not about tools and underlying technologies.

Jan 9, 2020 Book Review DevOps

Notes on “The Unicorn Project” by Gene Kim (Book Review)

This winter holiday season, I spend some time listening to a new book by the author of the famous “The Phoenix Project.” As I really liked that book, a new novel about the DevOps movement was on my reading list long before the release.