So Long to Configuration Management Systems?
When I was an operations architect at Ning way back in 2009, we were struggling to manage our deployments and configurations of more than 50 different application servers, or what the cool kids today call microservices. Applications were deployed across three distinct environments: development, staging and production. None of these environments were exactly the same […]
Orchestration: How To Get Everyone in Tune
Automation is key to success in the cloud. When your entire infrastructure is accessible via an API, it doesn’t make sense to configure and install your applications by hand. This is where orchestration tools come into play. Simply put: You will not have long-term success in the cloud unless an orchestration tool is a core […]
Red Hat Launches Ansible-Native Container Workflow Project
RALEIGH, N.C.–(Business Wire)–Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the launch of Ansible Container under the Ansible project, which provides the leading simple, powerful, and agentless open source IT automation framework. Available now as a technology preview, Ansible Container allows for the complete creation of Docker-formatted Linux […]
Continuous Delivery: The Atlassian Way
Sonatype’s Mark Miller (@TSWAlliance) caught up with Ian Buchanan (@devpartisan) for our 2016 DevOps Leadership Series. Ian discussed his experiences at Atlassian, including continuous delivery, ChatOps, and use of tools such as Bamboo, Nexus, Puppet and Datadog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRaYKHGqeQ Buchanan: I’m Ian Buchanan. I’m a Developer Partisan at Atlassian, which is developer advocacy for our developer tools. Miller: Ian, most people know […]
Red Hat Brings DevOps to the Network with New Ansible Capabilities
Red Hat extends Ansible’s agentless automation framework to network infrastructure devices; At launch, Ansible supports devices from Arista, Cisco, Juniper, and more February 18, 2016 03:00 AM Eastern Standard Time RALEIGH, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it is bringing DevOps to networking by […]
Agile Infrastructure: Because your Infrastructure Deserves Tests, Too
Editor’s Note: This post was updated Aug. 4, 2018, to reflect an updated slide presentation at the end of the article. Infrastructure as Code is a truly powerful concept whose significance is best described with the words of Adam Jacob, CTO at Chef, in Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time: “Enable the reconstruction of […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Gov Does DevOps
This past week, I had the opportunity to catch up with some more industry thought leaders at the DevOpsDays DC event in our nation’s capital. This was the first major DevOps Days event to feature a large audience of government participants. It was an awesome event and is certainly going to be on my must-attend […]
Ansible Best Practices : Automation, Provisioning and Configuration Management
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 designs your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems are interrelated instead of just managing one system at a time. Written in Python, Ansible does not use any agent. […]
Netskope Draws Strength from DevOps In Support Of Scrum Development
Netskope keeps enterprises and their data secure despite the unbridled mix of approved and unapproved mobile apps in the market and on employee devices. Employees use unapproved mobile apps (BYOA) on their BYOD smartphones, tablets, and laptops when connected to networks away from the enterprise. IT professionals are keenly interested in tools that help them […]
Ansible Tower in the Software Development Lifecycle
Ansible Tower is used in a variety of different ways, from traditional configuration management, to custom application deployment, to the orchestration of zero-downtime rolling updates. Companies like Gawker Media use Ansible to deploy their sites more than 10 times an hour. NASA uses Ansible to update security vulnerabilities and to patch manage nasa.gov weekly. Enterprises […]
DevOps with Purpose: It’s about your tools!
This is Part Three in a four-part series. In Part One, I focused on the critical first step of defining DevOps with a purpose by thinking about DevOps in the context of your organization’s applications. In Part Two, I provided four tips to fostering a DevOps culture in your organization. By now you’ve hopefully noticed […]
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” Again many thanks to CloudSoft for recording and making these videos available to us to post. Also the picture above is from the […]
Config Management & F***ing Shell Scripts
Joke tech projects pop up all the time. Some, like the lamentable titstare, should never have seen the light of day. Others, like Mark Zuckerberg’s Facemash start out as a joke and grow into something that is anything but. Most come and go without anyone really noticing. Whilst their lives are typically short we often […]