Scaling your team alongside Kubernetes is intense. Everything is all over the place. You have to get application configuration management right. You have to make a decision about using Helm, Kustomize, or an Internal Developer Platform? Not to mention resource provisioning, IaaC, permissions management, and environment management. We’ve recently had a great webinar on the topic of “how to scale your team alongside Kubernetes” and jotted down the key learnings from our discussion in this article.

So that’s the application layer, and that receives most attention if we look from the angle of DevOps or DevEx. But what all of us are actually not talking much about is the database layer and with it, lots of questions that are hugely important in day to day operations:

• Is there a way to let developers test against a database without actually being able to access it?
• Can you spin up new database instances with fresh environments?
• How do I think about databases in a multi-cloud context?

True continuous delivery requires you to think about the entire stack holistically and includes the database. So we’re hosting a webinar with our friends at Aiven, the DBaaS company. We’ll answer the above questions and show pretty impressive stuff, such as one-click migration of database and application layer between AWS, Azure, and GCP.

We also have a couple of things to announce from the Humanitec-front:

We’ve worked incredibly hard throughout the last weeks to update several of our outward-facing resources. Last night, we shipped:

• A new free trial flow
• A new documentation site
• A new video tutorial section
• A new homepage
• A new intro video
• An updated website design

A big thanks to the entire team for working nights and weekends to push this out. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Kaspar