DevOps Toolbox
Flexible and Scalable Multi-tier Application Deployments
This is a guest post from Alberto Arias Maestro, CTO and co-founder of ElasticBox One of the biggest problems facing software engineers since the dawn of the multi-tier application is, well, how ...
How Ansible makes automation easy
Continuing our series of videos from the recent Gluecon 2014 conference, here is our next one again courtesy of CloudSoft. In this video Peter Sankauskas talks about using Ansible to make automation easy ...
Using Docker & Ansible by John Minnihan @Gluecon 2014
Continuing our series of videos from the DevOps track at Gluecon this past year, our next video is "Why Docker + Ansible Make Chef and Puppet 100% Unnecessary by John Minnihan, ModernRepo" ...
Amplifying Docker with AMP and Brooklyn
Here is the second video in our series of DevOps talks from Gluecon 2014. Again thanks much to our friends at CloudSoft for providing the video services and providing them to us ...
6 things you didn’t know about SaltStack
I recently had the pleasure of moderating the first day of the DevOps track at Gluecon 2014. As I wrote about in a previous post, the good folks at CloudSoft were kind ...
An open-source pipeline for trusted images
There are a lot of good reasons to use a trusted image (aka “foundation image”), including reliability, reduced time to launch, secure configuration. [We’ve discussed them previously] In this article we are ...
Let’s keep the countdown going: Reason #2 for StackStorm to join the fray
Stackstorm is a new company focused on automation, operations and DevOps. It’s co-founder and CEO Evan Powell has been keeping a running journal as the company made ready to emerge from stealth ...
Why Vertical Collaboration Matters for DevOps
Vertical collaboration is defined by Rick Defour as a team of people working interdependently toward a common goal for which they are all mutually accountable. Now that everyone is clear on the ...
Not all collaboration types are equal
Talking about collaboration in general terms is easy. I’ve done it and so has everyone else. It’s time now to dig deeper into the specifics of collaboration, meaning the different types - ...
Mobile Apps and Big Data Megatrends Drive Application Performance Management
As the megatrends of Big Data, mobility and cloud continue to reshape the IT landscape many companies are responding by refocusing their solutions to provide better visibility and support for these technologies. ...
MongoDB Replication Pro-tips: Reporting Instances
Any shop that has a DevOps culture, and that has MongoDB backed applications, uses replica sets… not just for production applications, but for those still in the prototyping phase. Replication is critical ...


