Puppet Labs talks Docker and containerization
Last week Puppet Labs released a new version of Puppet Enterprise that brought forward a number of new features, including those to Puppet Node manager that helps automate the provisioning of infrastructure from containers to bare metal, as well as a new AWS module that helps automate provisioning, configuration and management of AWS resources using […]
11 DevOps start-ups funded for a busy 2015
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Scripts or Machine Images, What is the Best Way to bootstrap
Between the advent of handy tools, like Chef and Puppet, and virtual machine infrastructures, like VMWare and AWS, I feel like there has been a great debate about how to bootstrap machines. It seems like there are two extremes. On one side is heavy reliance on machine images (AMIs, in AWS speak) or scripting (recipes, […]
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 […]
Trolling PuppetConf: Surveying Configuration Management
Troll (Internet) In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord … by starting arguments or upsetting people,[1] by posting inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in a… community …with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[3] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[4] -Wikipedia When I stopped by […]
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 […]
Security automation with DevOps: show me the code!
Last week Andrew Storms put up a good post hinting at the promise of security automation in [SecDevOps: Security Automation By Example – The Firewall Change]. He included an example of automating a series of actions when a firewall rule is changed. It’s a good article, although I’m increasingly convinced there’s no such thing as […]
Microsoft’s DevOps Gambit and DevOps.com’s Business Directory
Last week was a big one for Microsoft in DevOps. At the Build conference they unveiled several new features and functionality in both Azure and Visual Studio Online to make give them more DevOps chops and DevOps friendly. At just about the same time they announced partnerships and integrations with both Chef and Puppet Labs […]
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 […]
Is DevOps a Title?
So, I’ve wanted to write on this topic for a while as I think it deserves a little attention! I’ve heard numerous times that you shouldn’t have DevOps in your title or that job reqs shouldn’t be “DevOps Engineers”. This came up again at the DevOps State of the Union event that we hosted in […]
Partnership Between Tufin, Puppet Labs Indicates Need for Security Baked Into DevOps
A recent partnership between the IT automation developers at Puppet Labs and the security policy orchestration gurus at Tufin Technologies could start setting the pace for how orchestration of security policies can more easily be baked into DevOps practices. Announced at last month’s RSA Conference, the partnership yielded an integration between Puppet Enterprise and Tufin […]
Docker as a framework for your DevOps culture
If you’re like me and spend a lot of time evaluating new technologies with the goal of “doing more faster” with your engineering organization, then you’re certainly aware of the many choices of DevOps tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc. In my opinion each of these tools is amazing at one piece of the […]
Hello World
The DevOps Cup o’ Joe blog appears a few times a week with a look around the DevOps blog world, highlighting the authors choices for top blog posts of the period. Hello World! It’s been many years since I thought it was pretty cool to have a computer print that during my own days of […]
Ops is dead, long live DevOps
Yes, that’s a bold statement, but if the vibe at the recent AWS re:Invent conference was any indication there are a number of methodologies, technologies, and companies working to make that a reality. This article isn’t focused on whether this is a good or bad thing (my personal belief is that ops will always be […]
Puppet Labs Announces Puppet Enterprise 3.2
Helps Deliver Value Faster, Simplifies Deploying and Upgrading Agents, and Extends Automation into More Parts of the IT Infrastructure Lifecycle March 4, 2014 – Portland, OR – Puppet Labs, the leading provider of IT automation software, announced today the availability of Puppet Enterprise 3.2, which simplifies and accelerates IT organizations’ ability to meet the demands of their […]
Tufin Partners with Puppet Labs to Automate and Orchestrate Security Policies for Host-Based Firewalls
Joint Customers Can Now Increase IT Agility and Improve Security Through Central, Automated Management of iptables Firewalls By Tufin Technologies Published: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 – 5:08 am MORRISTOWN, N.J., Feb. 25, 2014 — /PRNewswire/ — Tufin Technologies, the market leading provider of Security Policy Orchestration solutions, today announced an integration that enables Tufin customers to leverage the IT automation […]
Approaches to Application Release Automation
This is a guest post by Phil Cherry from Nolio A discussion of process-based, package-based, declarative, imperative and generic approaches to application release automation. Application Release Automation is a relatively new, but rapidly maturing area of IT. As with all new areas there is plenty of confusion around what Application Release Automation really is and […]