--- title: "Blog | Clarive" description: "DevOps insights, tutorials, and best practices from the Clarive team." url: "https://clarive.com/blog" --- # Blog DevOps insights, tutorials, and best practices from the Clarive team. [![A figure walks away from an open bank vault, pulling out a long ribbon of paper ruled with short lines like indented code.](https://clarive.com/images/blog/clarive-configuration-as-hcl.webp)October 2, 2026·8 min readClarive 7.22 Can Write Its Configuration as Plain TextClarive 7.22 writes an installation's configuration as HCL files that refer to each other by name instead of by database id. The files can be reviewed in Git and imported into another Clarive installation, from the cla command line or from new HCL views in the interface.![Rodrigo Gonzalez](https://clarive.com/images/authors/rodrigo.jpg)Rodrigo GonzalezCEO](https://clarive.com/blog/clarive-configuration-as-hcl) [![A dockside crane lowers a coral shipping container toward the largest of three moored cargo ships. Each ship already carries a grey container of the same shape.](https://clarive.com/images/blog/deploying-to-kubernetes-with-clarive.webp)October 1, 2026·10 min readDeploying to Kubernetes Takes One Clarive RuleA Clarive pipeline rule with a handful of steps deploys an application to Kubernetes. It applies the manifests with kubectl, waits for the rollout and undoes it if the new pods never come up. Project variables pick the cluster and namespace for each environment, and the whole setup is written in Clarive HCL.![Rodrigo Gonzalez](https://clarive.com/images/authors/rodrigo.jpg)Rodrigo Gonzalez](https://clarive.com/blog/deploying-to-kubernetes-with-clarive) [![Pale, faceless figures stand in the water of a reservoir held back by a large dam. A small brass tap in the dam wall fills a single glass.](https://clarive.com/images/blog/where-the-test-data-comes-from.webp)September 30, 2026·15 min readA Deploy Job That Fetches Its Own Test DataMany teams still test against a copy of production that someone restored into staging over a weekend. We move that work into the deploy job, where a step in a Clarive pipeline rule calls a Gigantics pipeline that masks and trims production data and loads it into the environment about to be tested.![Rodrigo Gonzalez](https://clarive.com/images/authors/rodrigo.jpg)Rodrigo Gonzalez](https://clarive.com/blog/where-the-test-data-comes-from) [![Rule Execution Monitoring with Clarive Keeper](https://clarive.com/images/blog/rule-execution-monitoring-with-clarive-keeper.webp)June 28, 2025·8 min readRule Execution Monitoring with Clarive KeeperAt Clarive, we're always striving to make our platform more transparent, debuggable, and user-friendly. We're excited to announce the latest update: Rule Keeper, a powerful monitoring and debugging tool that provides real-time insights into your rule...![Rodrigo Gonzalez](https://clarive.com/images/authors/rodrigo.jpg)Rodrigo Gonzalez](https://clarive.com/blog/rule-execution-monitoring-with-clarive-keeper) [![Enhance Your Clarive Server Performance with Brotli and Gzip Compression](https://clarive.com/images/blog/enhance-your-clarive-server-performance-with-brotli-and-gzip-compression.webp)June 20, 2025·3 min readEnhance Your Clarive Server Performance with Brotli and Gzip CompressionWe’re always looking for ways to help you squeeze every bit of performance out of your Clarive instance. That’s why we now recommend enabling both Brotli and Gzip compression in your NGINX configuration. With these two working in tandem, your web ass...![Ricardo Martinez](https://clarive.com/images/authors/ricardo.png)Ricardo Martinez](https://clarive.com/blog/enhance-your-clarive-server-performance-with-brotli-and-gzip-compression) [![SAML 2.0 Support](https://clarive.com/images/blog/saml-2-0-support.webp)September 3, 2024·7 min readSAML 2.0 SupportAt Clarive, we're always striving to make our platform more secure, flexible, and user-friendly. We're excited to announce the latest update: SAML 2.0 (Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0) support. This new feature allows you to configure Single S...![Ricardo Martinez](https://clarive.com/images/authors/ricardo.png)Ricardo Martinez](https://clarive.com/blog/saml-2-0-support) [![New Git Timesync Rule Operation](https://clarive.com/images/blog/new-git-timesync-operation-in-clarive.webp)November 2, 2023·3 min readNew Git Timesync Rule OperationWe're excited to introduce you to the new operation in Clarive: Git Timesync available in the upcoming \`7.10.6\` release. This operation is specifically designed to update the file timestamps in your job directory to match their respective Git commit ...![Rodrigo Gonzalez](https://clarive.com/images/authors/rodrigo.jpg)Rodrigo Gonzalez](https://clarive.com/blog/new-git-timesync-operation-in-clarive) [![Introducing ClaX: Your Swiss Army Knife for Remote Deployment](https://clarive.com/images/blog/introducing-clax-your-swiss-army-knife-for-remote-deployment.webp)October 19, 2023·9 min readIntroducing ClaX: Your Swiss Army Knife for Remote DeploymentAs a DevOps engineer, having the ability to securely and reliably execute commands, transfer files, and automate workflows across your infrastructure is absolutely essential. That's why we're excited to announce the release of ClaX - an open source r...![Rodrigo Gonzalez](https://clarive.com/images/authors/rodrigo.jpg)Rodrigo Gonzalez](https://clarive.com/blog/introducing-clax-your-swiss-army-knife-for-remote-deployment) [![Bantotal DevOps is here](https://clarive.com/images/blog/bantotal-devops-is-here.webp)April 9, 2019·2 min readBantotal DevOps is hereOne of the great initiatives this year for Clarive is the new Bantotal-Clarive integration packaged into a ready-to-use solution and distributed directly through the new and exciting BDevelopers marketplace.![Rodrigo Gonzalez](https://clarive.com/images/authors/rodrigo.jpg)Rodrigo Gonzalez](https://clarive.com/blog/bantotal-devops-is-here) [![A Guide to Orchestrating Endevor from Clarive](https://clarive.com/images/blog/orchestrating-endevor.webp)April 5, 2019·3 min readA Guide to Orchestrating Endevor from ClariveThe Endevor plugin for Clarive Enterprise Delivery 7.4 has just been updated and we wanted to share with you how easy it is to orchestrate mainframe changes from Clarive as part of a enterprise-wide DevOps strategy.![Alfonso de Esparta](https://clarive.com/images/authors/alfonso.png)Alfonso de Esparta](https://clarive.com/blog/orchestrating-endevor) [![Clarive 7 went through a complete UI/UX revamp](https://clarive.com/images/blog/clarive-7-released-with-a-complete-ui-revamp.webp)April 1, 2019·5 min readClarive 7 went through a complete UI/UX revampSince last summer we've embarked on a complete revamp of our user interface and experience.![Ricardo Martinez](https://clarive.com/images/authors/ricardo.png)Ricardo Martinez](https://clarive.com/blog/clarive-7-released-with-a-complete-ui-revamp) [![Quick check your continuous delivery maturity](https://clarive.com/images/blog/quick-check-your-continuous-delivery-maturity.webp)May 11, 2018·6 min readQuick check your continuous delivery maturityHave you jumped into DevOps wagon already? You probably have. But perhaps you still not sure if you are lacking a certain tool in your toolbox if you are working currently with DevOps.![Rodrigo Gonzalez](https://clarive.com/images/authors/rodrigo.jpg)Rodrigo Gonzalez](https://clarive.com/blog/quick-check-your-continuous-delivery-maturity)