How Automation Improves Compliance Vulnerability Scanning
How continuous, automated vulnerability scanning speeds detection, prioritises risk, and simplifies audit-ready compliance for UK organisations.
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Blog posts in the Automation category
Test Data Automation in CI/CD Pipelines
Treat test data as code, provision ephemeral databases and use synthetic data or masking to speed CI/CD, reduce flaky tests and maintain compliance.
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Argo Rollouts: Traffic Shaping for Kubernetes Deployments
Run canary and blue‑green deployments with Argo Rollouts: percentage, header and mirror traffic shaping, metrics-driven automation and automated rollbacks.
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Ultimate Guide to Multi-Cluster CI/CD Observability
Practical guide to centralising telemetry across Kubernetes clusters with Prometheus, Grafana and Jaeger; covers automation, baselines and cost optimisation.
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Challenges in Cloud-Native Monitoring for Zero Downtime
Tackle cloud-native monitoring pain points—dynamic scaling, massive telemetry, fragmented data and alert fatigue—with tracing, AI detection and standards.
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How Often Should Vulnerability Scanning Policies Be Reviewed?
Align scan frequency to risk and compliance: continuous/daily for cloud and internet-facing assets; quarterly minimums; automate scans and integrate with CI/CD.
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Mapping CI/CD Pipelines with Feature Toggles
Implement feature toggles in CI/CD to decouple deployment from release, enable safe canary rollouts, quick kill switches, automated cleanup and monitoring.
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5 Steps to Add Image Scanning to CI/CD Pipelines
Prevent vulnerable container images reaching production: add image scanning to CI/CD—choose tools, enforce policies, scan and monitor runtime.
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Spot Instances for Batch Workloads: Cost Savings
Cut batch-processing costs up to 90% with AWS Spot Instances; use diversification, checkpointing and AWS Batch to manage interruptions and keep jobs running.
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Challenges in Cross-Region CI/CD Pipelines
Fix latency, tooling drift, observability gaps, security and cost in multi‑region CI/CD using automation, IaC, regional agents and centralised monitoring.
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Real-Time APM: Best Practices for DevOps Teams
Practical guide for DevOps: implement real-time APM with P95/P99 metrics, distributed tracing, RUM and synthetic monitoring to reduce downtime and MTTR.
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AI in Real-Time Vulnerability Detection
AI enables continuous, real-time vulnerability detection, faster remediation and prioritisation — but relies on quality data and human oversight for accurate fixes.
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