Best Practices for Writing Dockerfiles

Dockerfiles are a key part of building Docker images. Here, we share the best practices for writing Dockerfiles so that your images are built efficiently but remain secure.

Cloud Workload Security: A Guide

Cloud workload security is a critical issue for businesses of all sizes. Protecting your cloud-based applications and data is essential to ensuring the safety and security of your business. However, securing cloud applications can be difficult.

Infrastructure as Code Tools: Managing the Cloud

Manually provisioning infrastructure simply isn't viable at the scale of modern cloud applications, and ClickOps will lead to spiralling costs and likely security vulnerabilities.

12 Factor Methodology: A Beginner's Guide

An app’s foundation impacts its performance. This beginner’s guide to the 12 factor methodology covers everything about this app building framework.

Domain Transfer: How to Prepare for the Switch

Are you thinking about transferring your domain? Learn all about the process, what to expect, and how to prepare for the switch in our beginner’s guide.

What is Kubernetes? An Introductory Guide

Kubernetes is closely associated with containers and virtualisation. But what exactly is it? What is it used for? And what are its benefits? Find out here.

What’s in a Container Image and How do They Work?

Container images are key to containerization. But what’s inside them? And how do they work? Read our guide to what’s in a container image to find out.

Beginner's Guide to Documentation: What to Know

Learn here everything you need know starting out on your documentation journey. Inside is an easy-to-use system that will guide you every step of the way.

What Does YML (YAML) Mean? A Quick Explanation

This is your quick guide to understanding yaml in less than 90 seconds! Commonly used by a number of big names, Docker compose files are written in YAML. Learn more about this data serialization language here.

Top 4 Best Practices For Cloud Ops

We talk a great deal about best practices and how important they are. Read our 4 best practice tips for effective ops that we've implemented here at Divio.

The Hacker News Effect - Handling Web Traffic Surges

We've found ourselves at the top of Hacker News a few times, increasing the amount of traffic. Read what we learned about handling sudden traffic surges here.

What is DevSecOps? What You Need to Know

What exactly is DevSecOps? We explore this development practice, as well as its relationship to DevOps and agile methodologies. Read about this all here.