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DevOps

DevOps Best Practices:  Managing Repository Configuration

You can't just say "we do DevOps" anymore. If DevOps best practices aren't followed, teams inevitably waste the potential gains that DevOps practices enable, and infrastructure problems still aren't resolved.

With the continued success of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code(IaC) conversions, it's no wonder that IT teams across the world are adopting these new practices.

Ready to get started? The first DevOps best practice you need to know is the separation of application and operations repositories. Avoid common pitfalls by using Bitovi's recommended DevOps practices. You'll learn what an OpsRepo is and why and how to separate your application and operation logic into their own repositories.

What Happens Without Best Practices?

When your DevOps team doesn't invest in proper operation management practices, you end up with slow, unaware infrastructure provisioning, redundant resources eating up infrastructure budget, and a critical failure point where all the knowledge of the infrastructure and its configuration is held by just one or two people.

Managing application infrastructure can be frustrating and prone to error. Configuration, builds, tagging and deployments are just a few of the many vectors SREs need to consider to create successful CI/CD pipelines.

And if these resources are handled through logging on to a server or clicking buttons on a cloud console, aka  ClickOps, the complexity of configuration management and the likelihood for error grows.  

Phil Henning

Phil Henning

Angular

Get Started with Tailwind CSS for Angular v12

Tailwind CSS is an easy-to-use CSS framework for quick UI development on anything from small projects to enterprise level applications. It's great for all CSS experience levels and since Angular v12 finally offers support for Tailwind, there's nothing getting in the way of giving this excellent framework a try. Here's a primer on Tailwind's features and how you can set it up with Angular v12. 

Idris Shedu

Idris Shedu

DevOps

How to Deploy a HeyEmoji Slack App to AWS using Terraform

Last Updated: December 07, 2022

HeyEmoji is a fantastic reward system teams can use to recognize each other's accomplishments, dedication, and hard work. Once you get it set up, you can mention a colleague's Slack username in any channel along with a pre-configured reward emoji - you can even include a short description of what they did that was so awesome it deserved a shoutout.

The best part? When you send an emoji to a colleague, they get emoji points, which can be tracked on a leaderboard. Competing to see who can be most helpful, considerate, or skilled at their jobs is a pretty fun way to make the day fly by. 

Want to get HeyEmoji on your own work Slack channel? This tutorial walks you through how to deploy the HeyEmoji Slack app to AWS using Terraform+Ansible so your team can enjoy Slack-generated kudos. 

Phil Henning

Phil Henning

Angular

TypeScript Features Every Angular Developer Needs to Know

If you’re an Angular developer, you’re missing out if you’re not using advanced TypeScript features to help you build better code. 

Fábio Englert Moutinho

Fábio Englert Moutinho

Angular

Manage Form-Driven State with ngrx-forms (Part 2)

This post is a continuation from Part 1, where we set up a test project with NgRx and ngrx-forms in our Angular application. For part 2, we will validate our form.

Kyle Nazario

Kyle Nazario