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.

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.

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.

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.

We are thrilled to announced that 4data has partnered with JFrog, a leading provider of DevOpsSec technology solutions. As a company, we understand the challenges that come with managing complex software systems, and are committed to providing our customers with the most effective tools to streamline their processes, and improve their developer experience.