Introduction When companies move to the cloud, most think the hardest part is the migration itself. Truth is — that’s just the start. Over the past few years, we’ve worked with startups, large-scale platforms, and everything in between. What have we learned? Cloud without solid DevOps is like buying a sports car but never changing […]
Introduction Management of sensitive information such as API keys, credentials and configuration secrets are an important part of developing safe and reliable Skylands applications. In Google Cloud Ecosystem, Secret Manager provides a centralized and safe way to save, access and manage these secrets.When running applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), including Secret Manager guarantees that […]
Introduction In today’s enterprise IT world, container orchestration often feels like magic. It takes a bunch of servers and makes them behave like a single, well-oiled machine. But what happens when you don’t have the cloud at all? That was exactly the challenge we faced: building a production-grade Kubernetes platform inside Samsung’s fully air-gapped, on-premises […]
Introduction Logs coming from different services often follow inconsistent formats, naming conventions, and structures. This makes it difficult to search, analyze, and correlate events across your systems. Datadog Log Management solves this challenge with Pipelines, Processors, and Standard Attributes, which let you extract key fields, normalize attributes, and enrich log data at scale. In this […]
Introduction If you’re still running MySQL 5.7 on Amazon RDS, it’s time to act. AWS started charging for Extended Support in March 2024. By mid-2025, that charge is no longer theoretical, and paying for it is kind of unacceptable. You’re likely already paying for it, and the cost will double by the end of this […]
Introduction At To The New, we help customers across various industries develop cutting-edge, scalable infrastructure. However, you must first tame the beast before you can scale anything. And in this case, the beast was Jenkins. Jenkins setups that have grown disorganized over time are a problem for many organisations. Engineers spend more time troubleshooting than […]
Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of enterprise IT, automation has transcended from being a “nice-to-have” to mission-critical infrastructure. While most organizations recognize Ansible as a powerful configuration management tool, its true potential lies in addressing complex, multi-dimensional challenges that traditional automation approaches often struggle with. This exploration uncovers Ansible’s lesser-known capabilities and presents innovative […]
Introduction If you’re using Terraform for IAAC with AWS, you might have probably declared the provider like this in your code: provider “aws” { region = “us-west-2” } And it worked. So you left it alone. Then one day, someone tries to use a newer module… and Terraform throws a special error: Error: unsupported argument […]
Introduction: What is Terraform State? Terraform doesn’t just apply your infrastructure code and forget about it. It keeps track of what’s been created — every EC2 instance, every S3 bucket, every RDS database, every security group, and many more. That data is stored in a file called terraform.tfstate. This state file is how Terraform knows: […]