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Blogs
The move to using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for automated, reliable cloud deployments is a necessity in modern cloud computing.
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Application Performance Management/Monitoring
Cloud configurations can change and change often. Introducing new technologies, releasing new features and supporting new business requirements entail a constant flow of configurat…
API
In this week’s The Long View: More than 100,000 tech workers leave Russia, Perforce buys Puppet, and Intel moves faster than planned.
Blogs
I was doing some research over the weekend, and it became abundantly clear that you can find an Ansible script to do pretty much any repetitive task in your infrastructure. This is…
Application Performance Management/Monitoring
I arrived early to a meeting, and the pleasant security guard at AT&T suggested I take a look at their innovation museum while I wait. Among motion picture sound technology and lif…
Blogs
When DevOps appeared on the scene, configuration file management tools already existed. They weren’t used by everyone, but a fair number of organizations saw the power of configura…
Blogs
Patrick McClory has been writing code, managing DevOps and designing scalable application infrastructures for more than 10 years. Most recently, as COO and CTO of DualSpark, he ser…
Features
The gap between the number of organizations that have invested in DevOps is starting to narrow, and IT organizations that made the transition to DevOps earlier are starting to see…
Blogs
In Part One of my article on big, bad mistakes in configuration management, I reviewed the dangers of using the wrong tools for the configuration management job. Provisioning manag…
Blogs
Configuration problems come in many flavors. Some are mere nuisances. Often though, configuration errors can lead to more serious mishaps like application performance problems, pol…
Business of DevOps
What our surveys told us about the state of DevOps, Reliance on Scripting and IT Automation DevOps Survey Results: Scripting & IT Automation A lot of IT Operations teams including…
Features
When we think of CD, we typically think of continuous deployment as a result of continuous delivery, which is a goal of DevOps. In this article, I coin the phrase, “Continuous Deli…
DevOps and Open Technologies
In the first two parts of this series (Part 1, Part 2), we covered server provisioning and application provisioning. Knowing a bit about each of these tools is useful (although one…
Blogs
The Good: DevOps has been a success for Dev. With higher expectations, better processes, more management focus and new tools like advanced PaaS and containers, developers are churn…
Blogs
According to IBM’s Cyber Security Intelligence Index, 95% of all security incidents involve human error. That’s beyond significant, and when rapidly deploying multiple iterations i…
Blogs
Organizations are increasingly migrating to cloud-based services to handle sensitive data and business processes, meaning security teams need to carefully review and understand wha…
Latest News Releases
Austin, TX September 17, 2015 – www.orcaconfig.com Announcing Orca v 2.0: Application Configuration Automation with New Linux Support and New Job Summary Views for Reporting and Co…
Blogs
5 Steps for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday Readiness Ho. Ho. Ho. It’s that time of year again. Seriously. It is. It’s too late for April Fools but it’s definitely not too e…
Blogs
What is Ansible? Ansible is an IT automation engine, and a trouble-free model-driven configuration management and command execution framework. Made for multi-tier deployments, it d…
Features
“His job was one simple thing—press a button. That’s all he had to do; press one button and sit back.” – Joe Barbera I wanted to be George Jetson when I grew up. Back in the days w…
Blogs
This is 3rd part of the multi-part series covering Automation, provisioning and Configuration Management. In this follow up article best practices for Puppet shall be covered. Why…
Blogs
We’ve all said it. We’ve all done it. We’ve all shook our heads at it. PEBKAC. Problem exists between keyboard and chair. User error. While generally applied to the end-user commun…
Blogs
When I speak with information security organizations faced with the prospect of moving to DevOps, one of the most common fears I hear is that this transition will degrade security…
Features
This is a guest post by Phil Cherry from Nolio A discussion of process-based, package-based, declarative, imperative and generic approaches to application release automation. Appli…
