Teleport Tutorial for Beginners Reading about what Teleport does is one thing. Actually standing up a cluster, logging in, adding your first server, and SSHing into it through a short-lived certificate is what makes the concept click. If you haven’t already, our overview of what […]
What Is Teleport in DevOps? Most DevOps teams inherit the same access problem eventually. Someone needs SSH into a production box, so they get added to an authorized_keys file. Someone else needs kubectl access to a cluster, so they get a kubeconfig emailed to them. […]
Authentik vs Keycloak: Key Differences If you have spent any time researching self-hosted identity providers, you have probably landed on the same two names over and over: Authentik and Keycloak. Both are open source. Both handle single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and user management. And both […]
What is Authentik? Complete Guide What is Authentik? Learn how this open-source identity provider works, its flow-based authentication engine, and how it compares to Keycloak. If Keycloak’s admin console felt more complex than your project actually needed, or you’ve been searching for a self-hosted identity […]
Keycloak vs Okta: Key Differences Keycloak vs Okta compared: deployment model, pricing, protocol support, and which identity and access management tool fits your team. Choosing an identity and access management platform usually comes down to a fairly fundamental question: do you want to run it […]
What is Keycloak and How Does It Work? What is Keycloak? Learn how this open-source identity and access management tool handles SSO, OAuth2, and OIDC, and how it actually works. If your team has ever debated whether to build yet another login system from scratch, […]
Backstage Tutorial for Beginners This Backstage tutorial for beginners covers installation, running your first instance, registering a component, TechDocs, and templates. If you already know what Backstage is and why organizations adopt it, this tutorial is where you actually build one. We’re going to scaffold […]
What is Backstage in DevOps? What is Backstage in DevOps? Learn how this open-source developer portal works, its software catalog, plugins, and templates, and why teams adopt it. If your engineering org has grown past a handful of services and nobody can quite answer “who […]
OpenTelemetry Architecture Explained OpenTelemetry architecture explained: API, SDK, instrumentation, the Collector, and OTLP, with a full walkthrough of how telemetry data actually flows. Understanding what OpenTelemetry does is one thing. This OpenTelemetry architecture explainer goes a level deeper: how it’s actually put together, which pieces […]
What is OpenTelemetry? Complete Beginner’s Guide What is OpenTelemetry? This beginner’s guide explains traces, metrics, logs, and how OpenTelemetry gives you vendor-neutral observability. If you’ve ever had a slow API endpoint in production and no real way to figure out which of the six services […]