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5 Reasons DevOps Needs NetDevOps

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Networking’s role in DevOps is not accurately defined. Up to this point, networking has been integrated into DevOps through infrastructure as code (IaC), which has been around since the beginning of the DevOps movement. Although important, this does not quite encompass all of what networking needs within DevOps. A few of the current terms being […]

Infrastructure-Testing Dominoes

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Understanding the artifacts of a given technology component is critical to an enterprise-class DevOps service offering. Second-most critical is understanding the dependencies between given components. Testing helps illuminate those dependencies. For example, let’s assume I have a server running the previous version of the Windows operating system (OS) that I now want to upgrade to […]

Infrastructure as Code is SDN for Ops

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As we continue to recognize the importance of DevOps—particularly its automation and orchestration aspects—to achieve the agility necessary for continuous deployment of apps, the question of how the term “Infrastructure as Code” (IaC) applies to traditionally network-bound systems and services is bound to crop up more frequently. After all, in addition to core IP-based networking characteristics […]

Agile Infrastructure: Because your Infrastructure Deserves Tests, Too

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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 the business from nothing but a source code repository, an application data backup, and bare metal resources.” And so it’s not for […]

Version your infrastructure

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Infrastructure is code, and like any code, you need to version it. Notice how that works:  If it’s infrastructure, then it’s a fundamental part of the system; nothing’s going to work without it, which makes it valuable. So valuable that in full-stack deployments, it is part of the application. And if it’s code, then it […]

Network Engineers as Programmers? Not so fast.

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It is interesting, as the triplet new waves of hype evolve – cloud, SDN, and DevOps – that we are repeatedly hearing The Voice of Reason say things like “All network engineers need to be programmers”. While this is certainly not the only voice that demonstrates what I’m talking about, an example of it is […]

Infrastructure-as-code, new rules for the old game

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There’s been a lot of discussion regarding DevOps and its role in fostering quality and continuous improvement through increased levels of automation. In turn, this automation is fostered through emerging infrastructure and software architectures that are exposing control plane and management programming interfaces, which has been dubbed in many circles as Infrastructure-as-Code. This movement allows […]

Meet Infrastructure as Code

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Maybe you have already heard the terms “Programmable Infrastructure” and “Infrastructure as code”.  But even if you have not, if you are interested in DevOps it’s something you need to know.   Most new lingo causes me to roll my eyes.  But in this case, it’s not just new lingo, it’s an entirely new concept. Besides making […]