Inside DevOps with Anton Zagrebelny from Stigg

Anton Zagrebelny, co-founder and CTO at Stigg, shares his insights on DevOps, emphasizing its role in the entire software product lifecycle from development to production, focusing on scalability and cost-effectiveness. At Stigg, they embraced a DevOps culture early, implementing automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to enable rapid product iteration and deployment. Anton's DevOps journey began with his own software services company, where he navigated multi-cloud complexities using Kubernetes and Terraform. He highlights the challenges of adapting to both internal and external changes in the tech landscape and finds the automation of processes from code push to deployment rewarding. Stigg utilizes AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and Octopus Deploy for managing infrastructure and deployments, with a CI/CD pipeline that ensures seamless integration. For newcomers to DevOps, Anton advises starting with foundational skills like Docker, containerization, and networking, and recommends "The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit" by Victor Farcic for further learning.