DevOps and Open Technologies
It’s Time to Slay the Universal Installer Unicorn
While many people want a universal "easy button installer,” they also want it to work on their unique snowflake of infrastructures, tools, networks and operating systems. I call them snowflakes because their ...
Backup and Recovery of Next Gen Apps in MongoDB
Shalabh Goyal | | backup and recovery, cloud-based backup and recovery, global devops platform, mongodb, Platform 3This blog is the first in a two-part series about MongoDB backup and recovery. In this first part, I will discuss the motivations for protecting data that resides on MongoDB and the ...
Data Protection for Operational Reporting Platforms
Shalabh Goyal | | agile, automation, AWS, cloud, continuous delivery, continuous integration, continuous testing, development, devops, devops culture, QA, security, testingMaking real-time business decisions based on data from social, mobile and cloud platforms is a requirement in today's world. That's why an ecosystem of next-generation operational reporting platforms such as Spark, Apache ...
To Be Continuous Podcast: Open Source Economics
Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about continuous delivery and software development, hosted by Heavybit members Paul Biggar, founder of CircleCI and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this episode of ...
FLAP, Part 3: Full Data Center Provisioning
Don Macvittie | | Application provisioning, automation, Configuration Management, datacenter, datacenter automation, devops, Provisioning, server provisioningIn 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 blog ...
FLAP, Part 2: Application Provisioning
In part 1 of this series we talked about server provisioning tools. In that post, we mentioned some of the more prominent application provisioning tools on the market with regard to integrations. This ...
FLAP, Part 1: Server Provisioning
Don Macvittie | | application configuration, Application provisioning, automation, devops, Provisioning, server configuration, server provisioningWe have reached the state where end-to-end data center provisioning is a reality. It’s early yet, so there is a certain amount of work involved, but today a DevOps team essentially can ...
Top 5 Reasons to Back Up Your OpenStack Environment
David Safaii | | backup, cloud, data protection, devops, devops process, enterprise devops, open source, openstack, recoveryI am a big fan of lists. If you recall the movie "High Fidelity," John Cusack’s character Rob and his co-workers—armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things musical—compile "top five" lists ...
How To Maintain Open Source Code Hygiene
To maintain good open source code hygiene in the development process, you must first establish what you mean by open source code hygiene, including good and bad hygiene. “By hygiene, we just ...
DevOps Chat: Rachel Reinitz, IBM Bluemix Garage Method
In advance of InterConnect next week in Las Vegas, I had a chance to sit down with Rachel Reinitz,Distinguished Engineer & CTO of IBM Bluemix Garage. I have met Rachel several times ...
DevOps Stack on a Shoestring Budget
There are competing products, both open source and licensed, in any DevOps area that you can think of. The Operations groups in companies tend to accumulate such applications over time as determined ...
To Be Continuous Podcast: The Clash in Open Source
Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about Continuous Delivery and software development hosted by Paul Biggar, Founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this episode, Edith and Paul talk about ...
