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Watch what the hype is all about 🚀 Please drop your questions and DM for early access! 💙 And sign up to the waitlist!! (Link in the comments) #Kubernetes #K8sManagement #OpenSource #Scoutflo

Scoutflo started as a marketplace to increase the adoption of open source products. Eventually, we pivoted to enabling developers to be self-serve with Infrastructure and Deployments. We still owe a lot to the open-source community for the underlying technology we use like Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code & GitOps. There are many initiatives in our roadmap to give back to the community, one of them is our curated marketplace for Hacktoberfest Projects. (Link in the first comment) Scoutflo has curated 50+ Open Source projects for Hacktoberfest and we will keep updating the “top trending” projects for developers. If you’re a developer starting out your open-source journey, Hacktoberfest has one of the best communities to start your contribution. If finding the relevant project is challenging, you can see the best projects with your relevant language on Scoutflo. Feel free to reach out or comment on any project we should add to the platform! 💙

Hello! Sorry to be MIA 💙 Scoutflo has been going through changes - a lot of them. But first things first: Thank you so much for the tremendous response to our hiring post! We got a ton of applications – it wasn’t humanly possible to get back to each individual. [On that note, we’re still looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer (2+ years of experience)] We’ve also undergone some big and small product-related and structural changes in the org. Now, some announcements: - The waitlist for Scoutflo Deploy 2.0 is closing! (finally) ⏱ - If you’ve signed up, keep an eye out for the early access email 📩 - We’re gearing up for the official launch super soon 🚀 Thank you for sticking around. We genuinely appreciate you and your support all this while. Get ready for some fresh content and product posts coming your way! ✨ Open Source FTW 💙

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Scoutflo is looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer (3+ years of experience) 🚨 The application form is linked in the comments 💙 #Hiring #FullStackDeveloper #Scoutflo

Now that we know what's GitOps (link below if you missed it), let's talk about the advantages it offers. For now, here are 8 of them 1. Collaboration on infrastructure changes 🤝 Since every change will go through the same change/merge request/ review/ approval process, senior engineers can focus on other areas beyond the critical infrastructure management. 2. Faster time to market ⏱️ Execution via code is faster than manual point and click. Test cases are automated and repeatable, so stable environments can be delivered rapidly. 3. Simplified auditing 📝 When infrastructure changes are conducted manually across a set of multiple interfaces it can make auditing complex and time consuming. Data needs to be pulled from multiple places and normalized in order to conduct the audit. Using GitOps, all changes to environments are stored in the git log making audits simple. 4. Less risk 😨 All changes to infrastructure are tracked through merge requests, and changes can be rolled back to a previous state. 5. Less error prone ✅ Infrastructure by definition is codified and repeatable, making it less prone to human error. With code reviews and collaboration in merge requests, errors can be identified and corrected before they ever make it to production. 6. Reduced costs and downtime 💲 Automation of infrastructure definition and testing eliminates manual tasks, improves productivity, and reduces downtime due to built-in revert/rollback capability. It also allows for infrastructure teams to better manage cloud resources, which can also improve cloud costs. 7. Improved access control 🔓 There's no need to give credentials to all infrastructure components since changes are automated (only CI/CD needs access). 8. Collaboration with compliance ☑️ In heavily regulated contexts policy often dictates that the number of people who can make changes to a product environment remains as small as possible. With GitOps almost anyone can propose a change via merge request opening the scope of collaboration broadly-while limiting the number of people who can merge to the production branch. To summarize: 1. Collaboration on infrastructure changes 2. Faster time to market 3. Simplified auditing 4. Less risk 5. Less error-prone 6. Reduced costs and downtime 7. Improved access control 8. Collaboration with compliance. #GitOps #GitOpsAdvantages #K8sManagement #Scoutflo P.S. Scoutflo is a developer-first platform to make Kubernetes management easier.

"Scoutflo is a GitOps-first platform that makes Kubernetes management easier." ▶️ But what is GitOps? ▶️ How does it help? ▶️ What are its benefits? Let’s break it down 👇🏻 GitOps is an operational framework that takes DevOps best practices used for application development such as: - version control - collaboration - compliance - CI/CD and applies them to infrastructure automation. (as defined by GitLab.) But what does it exactly mean? 🤔 As the name suggests, GitOps combines Git + operations. Git: An open source version control system that tracks code management changes. Operations: Resource management (in a way). Like DevOps, the goal of GitOps is to use CI/CD to automatically deploy your resources by using code stored in your Git repositories. CI/CD: Continuous integration, continuous delivery/ deployment. CI and CD is the practice of automating the integration of code changes from multiple developers into a single codebase. "With GitOps, your infrastructure definition code, defined as JSON or YAML and stored in a .git folder in a project, lives in a Git repository that serves as a single source of truth. Using Git’s features makes it possible to see the complete change history for the organization’s infrastructure code, and teams can roll back to an earlier version if necessary." Source: GitLab In other words—it allows you to write code, commit it to your Git repository, and take full advantage of all the benefits of the DevOps process, but for your infrastructure. Do you want to know all the benefits of GitOps, too? 👀 P.S. Friendly reminder to sign up to the waitlist (link in bio and below) #GitOps #KubernetesManagement #Scoutflo

You want to deploy a production-ready open source product on your own cloud. What would you choose? A. A tedious and time-consuming process 🐢 B. A few clicks ⚡ But wait, why just deployment? How about management, monitoring, and optimisations too? 👀 . . You get all of this (and more) with Scoutflo Deploy 2.0 🚀 1. Production-ready app deployment - Identifying and fulfilling all requirements. - Making sure all the tools for monitoring, costs, and networking are set up, integrated, and variable-configured. 2. Database integration Connect with your existing database or create a new instance that will work best with your selected application. 3. Resource allocation as per your requirements—without having to go through documentation or repetitive manual tasks. But the best part? A GitOps workflow. Everything you do happens in YOUR git account! How does that help? - Control with you - Version control  - Audit - Tracing - Error handling - Easier debugging Watch open source product deployment in action using Scoutflo Deploy 2.0 ⬇ So, what was your answer again? Sign up to the waitlist if you haven’t 💙 #OSSDeployment #OpenSource #GitOps #ScoutfloDeploy2

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So far, we’ve known the basics of IaC and its benefits. It’s time to learn some of the challenges related to Infrastructure as Code! 💻 Some of the challenges with IaC — 1. Complexity 😥 Writing + maintaining IaC templates for large-scale deployments; handling dependencies between components gets tough—especially as infrastructures become more intricate. 2. Learning Curve 🎢 To adopt IaC, you need to learn new tools, languages and methodologies (eg: Terraform, Ansible) and understand concepts like declarative vs. imperative programming. It takes time and effort to learn these and follow the best practices. 3. High cost 💰 There’s a risk of overspending on cloud resources. If there are no monitoring and cost management practices in place, it can lead to provisioning excessive resources—increasing costs. 4. Versioning and Dependencies ⚠️ Managing different versions of infrastructure code and ensuring their compatibility can be complex. Changes made in one part can have unanticipated consequences elsewhere. 5. State Management 🗃️ IaC tools often maintain a state file tracking the current state of infra. resources. Managing it in distributed environments or within a team can cause sync issues. 6. Vendor Lock-in 🔒 Writing IaC templates specific to a particular cloud provider's services can make it challenging to migrate to a different provider in the future. 7. Configuration drifts 🥺 It’s challenging to keep track of changes and ensure consistent configurations across environments. The cool thing is Scoutflo Deploy v2.0 lets you skip most of the IaC-related challenges and just get the benefits! 🚀 What do you get with Scoutflo Deploy v2.0? - A clean, user-friendly interface simplifying configuration management—making IaC adoption easier. - Consistent and reliable infrastructure provisioning with IaC via GitOps. - A centralized configuration management for effective collaboration between developers and infrastructure teams. - Best practices for IaC development, promoting maintainability and scalability for your infrastructure. The best of IaC—without the hassle. Sign up to the waitlist if you haven’t yet! Launching soon 💙 #InfrastructureAsCode #IaC #GitOps #K8s #Scoutflo