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The Curious Connection Between Cloud Repatriation and SRE Ops
I have a fondness for philosophy. I’m about three classes short of a degree, and every few years I tell myself one day I’ll finish it. Thus, I am very familiar with what is known in statistics—and logic—as a post hoc fallacy, from which we get the saying “correlation is not causation.” This is the […]
Sep 13, 2022 · 3 minAll articles by Lori MacVittie
Showing 1–4The Dark Side of Infrastructure as Code
We spend a lot of time extolling the virtues of infrastructure as code. All of it is true. Treating infrastructure as code can add great value in terms of its ability to promote consistent, predictable and repeatable results during the application deployment process. One of the ways in which infrastructure is treated as code is […]
Is SDN just DevOps for the network?
The answer depends on your definition of SDN. There have been several vibrant discussions via Twitter of late on the relationship between SDN and DevOps, with some calling for a distinction to be made by referring to the marriage of the network and DevOps as “NetOps”, others dismissing that as unnecessary, and a whole lot […]
Automation versus Orchestration
Yes, Virginia, there is a difference. One of the things devops practitioners are tasked with is the provisioning and configuration of all sorts of infrastructure. Application servers, web servers, load balancers, proxies and database servers are among the lengthy (and no doubt growing) list of “boxes” devops needs to get up and running to support […]