Tag: maintenance

You Still Have to Make Time for Maintenance

Don Macvittie | March 2, 2020 | Automated Data Center, Data mobility, data storage, devops, hardware maintenance, maintenance, software maintenance

I’m going to take a side trek today into home computing with applicability to IT. Bear with me. We maintain a pretty complex home network, as home networks go. With three NAS ...

The Beauty of Inheritance Architectures

Kristian Nelson | May 11, 2016 | Administration, architecture, cost reduction, enterprise devops, governance, Inheritance, maintenance, scalability, security

Spoiler alert: This article is not about inheriting your great-grandparent’s estate. It is rather about how embedding the principles of inheritance into the architecture of your chosen DevOps toolset can yield exponential ...

Resurrecting the CMDB Through a Singular Path to Production

Kristian Nelson | March 28, 2016 | asset location, CMDB, devops, DevOps Continuum, documentation, engineering, maintenance, real time change

Change consistency (or the predictability of how change is deployed) followed by change transparency (or the visibility into the state of change at any stage in the software development life cycle [SDLC]) ...

DevOps doesn’t end at deployment

Tony Bradley | June 23, 2014 | deployment, implementation, maintenance, monitoring

If you ask five IT admins the question “What is DevOps?” you maybe get eight different answers. We’ve attempted to define and explain the term DevOps here on DevOps.com a few different ...