Behavox Engineering

CIS Benchmark In Behavox: Part1 - Linux

Introduction Hello, my name is Timokhin Maksim. I am a DevOps engineer at Behavox. Today I would like to talk about how we successfully implemented the CIS Benchmark for Linux at Behavox on our servers. I will discuss the goals we set for ourselves, the results we achieved, and how

Monitoring Infrastructure at Behavox: Alerting

Monitoring Infrastructure at Behavox: Alerting

Greetings! My name is Alex Konyukov, the DevOps Engineering Manager at Behavox. Today, I am excited to share our journey of enhancing our monitoring processes. It starts with an important decision: moving away from Zabbix. I will explain the reasons behind this change and shed light on the limitations and

Microservices Management in Behavox: Part 2 - Nomad

Microservices Management in Behavox: Part 2 - Nomad

Hey, it's Kirill Proskurin, Head of DevOps Engineering at Behavox. In the previous post of this series, we wrapped up on the note, that, while Kubernetes is great - it's overly complex and we need something simpler. There are not many other options left on the

Configuration Management in Behavox: Part 3 - CCMS

Configuration Management in Behavox: Part 3 - CCMS

Hi, it's Rory Geoghegan, a software developer in the DevOps Team at Behavox. I want to talk about our latest achievement in configuration management, specifically about how we use SaltStack across all our production environments. How Things Were About Two Years Ago We have a lot of clients

Microservices Management in Behavox: Part 1 - Why not Kubernetes?

Microservices Management in Behavox: Part 1 - Why not Kubernetes?

Hey, it's Kirill Proskurin, Head of DevOps Engineering at Behavox. Not choosing Kubernetes in 2022 sounds like a radical position - and it raises a lot of questions. Everywhere you go, it seems like everyone is using Kubernetes for container management. Here at Behavox, we're trying

Configuration Management in Behavox: Part 2 - SaltStack

Configuration Management in Behavox: Part 2 - SaltStack

Hey, it's Kirill Proskurin, Head of DevOps Engineering at Behavox. In Part 1, I talked about Behavox's experience with Ansible. The conclusion was that while Ansible is a good tool for what it does, we wanted something more scalable. It was 2018 and we looked into

Configuration Management in Behavox: Part 1 - Ansible

Configuration Management in Behavox: Part 1 - Ansible

Hey, it's Kirill Proskurin, Head of DevOps Engineering at Behavox. Five years ago when I joined Behavox, Ansible was all the rage. It promised a very easy to use and powerful configuration management tool, and it didn't come as a surprise that Behavox already used it.

Hello from Engineering!

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Hello from Engineering!

Hi! My name is Kirill Proskurin, I'm the Head of DevOps Engineering at Behavox. I'm excited to announce the beginning of our Behavox Engineering blog, where we'll talk about some of the technical challenges Behavox engineers have to overcome in both Operations and Development