Puppet Makes Development Kit Available to Advance DevOps

August 22, 2017 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

Organizations that embrace DevOps often find themselves moving from having a paucity of IT automation tools to an embarrassment of riches in short order. As a result, many of the teams involved in those DevOps processes wind up making different IT automation choices. Before too long, the organization finds itself trying to bridge too many […]

Don’t Underestimate the Work

August 11, 2017 by Don Macvittie 0 Comments

It is relatively common in human endeavor to attempt to figure out how much work will be involved in a project, and be wrong. The more complex the work being done and the organizational system doing it, the further off estimates can be. This was one of the drivers for both Agile and DevOps: to […]

Empower Developers to Build Security into DevOps

September 26, 2016 by contributor 1 Comments

Over the past 10 years, as more organizations have made the transition to DevOps, there has been a cultural shift in which security and development teams agree quality is a priority. Yet, even with a shared quality focus, Development, Security and Operation teams still find themselves at odds on the road to continuous delivery of […]

Why DevOps Should Care About SDN

September 2, 2016 by Logan Rivenes 0 Comments

Software-defined networking (SDN) and DevOps are not mutually exclusive. Actually, DevOps wants SDN, whether it knows it yet or not. Why? If software is going to eat the world, then SDN is going to eat networking. Networks are becoming more complex, and one way to manage them more effectively is through SDN. Also, organizations are […]

5 Reasons DevOps Needs NetDevOps

June 22, 2016 by Logan Rivenes 1 Comments

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

June 17, 2016 by Kristian Nelson 1 Comments

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

April 22, 2016 by Lori MacVittie 2 Comments

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

November 13, 2015 by Martin Etmajer 2 Comments

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 […]