In this guest article John Arundel, consultant and author of Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes, introduces the Checkly Terraform provider. He explains what Terraform is and why you'd want to use it, and shows how to use Terraform to automate and manage your website monitoring with Checkly. What is Terraform?…
When adding a new feature to Checkly or refactoring some older piece, I tend to pick Heroku for rolling it out. But not always, because sometimes I pick AWS Lambda. The short story: Developer Experience trumps everything.AWS Lambda is cheap. Up to a limit though. This impacts not only…
Update 14-08-2019: Greenlock is awesome but needs support. If you don't want to code this yourself consider donating $100 or so on their indiegogo page so they can ship Greenlock v3 and stay compatible with the Let's Encrypt API. Recently I pushed a long overdue feature for Checkly: SSL for…
Update 13-03-2019: We moved our browser Checks to AWS Lambda! There will be a new write up!At Checkly, we run our browser checks on AWS EC2 instances managed by Terraform. When shipping a new version, we don’t want to interrupt our service, so we need zero downtime deployments.…
The world of DevOps is a pretty confusing place for folks just starting out. Even figuring out what “DevOps” means can be hard. Is it CI/CD with Kubernetes and Serverless to drive Agile™ product iterations? Or is it SSH-ing into a box and restarting Apache? You guessed it. All…