4data is proud to announce its new partnership with Airlock. As a certified Airlock partner with in-depth technical expertise and years of practical experience, 4data helps customers operate secure, scalable, and efficient Airlock environments.

4data is proud to announce its new partnership with GitLab. While the partnership is new, 4data has a long history of using, maintaining, and promoting GitLab, dating back to GitLabs early days as a self-hosted Ruby on Rails application. With deep technical expertise and years of hands-on experience, 4data is now offering GitLab as a managed service helping customers to run secure, scalable and efficient GitLab environments. This partnership marks an exciting new chapter in delivering even greater value to DevOps teams.

This year we sponsored the DevOpsDays in Zurich-Winterthur. It was a pleasure and we appreciated the family atmosphere. We are also grateful to all participants who visited us and showed interest in our services and offerings. We are already looking forward to next year’s event and meeting the DevOps community.

In this blog post, we will demonstrate how to migrate a JFrog Artifactory PostgreSQL Database managed by Crunchy Operator to a CloudNativePG Operator online without having an outage (the only outage could be produced by reconfiguring your application to point to the new database). For PostgreSQL logical replication, we based it on a blog post written by Percona.

This blog post provides insight into our latest project: building the platform necessary to operate and maintain our new managed services. The platform integrates multiple tools for monitoring and secrets management, all deployed on AWS cloud infrastructure. Our goal was to establish a fully descriptive setup, leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Continuous Deployment (CD), enabling a comprehensive GitOps approach to set up and manage the platform.

You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs - and this also applies to the construction of our services. But what happens if we are not thorough enough when it comes to decommissioning? We regularly create JFrog instances dynamically for the development of our service and also dismantle them after testing. The process is automated using Terraform, Crossplane and it’s been deployed on Kubernetes. However, one small but crucial point has been overlooked: the deletion of all associated DNS entries.

Welcome to the second blog post about our new 4DIdentity service. In the first blog post, we reviewed our motivation to create this internal service and its architecture. Brief summary: We use it to enable single sign-on for internal applications and future managed services.

In this blog post series, we want to give you a sneak peek into how we develop and maintain our applications. We have recently developed an internal service called 4DIdentity. This service acts as our central identity provider for internally used tools like ArgoCD and HashiCorp Vault.

The KubeCon 2024 in Paris was, after 2019 Barcelona and 2022 in Valencia, our third attendance at the CloudNativeCon. We were very excited to hear that the KubeCon would be in Paris, finally a destination that can be easily reached by train. It seems we were not the only ones who liked the idea of taking the train instead of the airplane to travel to the KubeCon.

This year we joined the DevOpsCon in Berlin. Visiting together with our team the conference was a great experience. We can enjoy together the talks, the workshops, the networking and the city of Berlin. For most of us it was the first time in Berlin and we were very excited to visit the city.