Everything on your company’s DevOps checklist is accounted for. It’s got the vision and the talent. It’s identified the problems and mapped out a solution. It’s got a culture that allows the flexibility that such a plan requires. Now’s the time to put the plan into action and let the benefits begin. The truth is […]
Fighting federal agencies culture shock to get over cloud and DevOps hump
As federal agencies face budgetary pressures that drive them toward more agile IT pushes around cloud deployment and DevOps practices they must first tackle big perceptual and cultural roadblocks. Case in point is a survey out last week that showed that 89 percent of federal IT professionals still feel apprehension about migrating to the cloud, […]
How Change Management Serves the Developer
Change management first comes to mind as a means to keep errant, untested, unapproved code from entering production. But did you know that what is good for IT operations is good for developers, too? Developers appreciate change management. They enjoy the change management benefits of Linus Torvald’s popular Git version control system http://git-scm.com/, which maintains […]
Three essential elements to maximize business value with DevOps
DevOps is fast becoming the winning strategy needed to accelerate the continuous delivery of exceptional software without sacrificing quality and cost efficiency. With its focus on better communication, collaboration and feedback within and across development and IT operations, DevOps is gaining many fans – even in the business, where performance is seen as being directly […]
DevOps with Purpose: It’s about your culture!
Four practical tips to fostering a DevOps culture in your organization. This is Part Two 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. Today, we find more and more businesses putting pressure […]
Conjur up some agile, automated authorization management
One issue that has plagued IT since its inception is adding and removing authorized users. Most network and application security rely on somehow validating credentials to confirm that an individual is authorized to access the resources, but in a rapidly changing environment it is a serious challenge to keep authorization and authentication systems up to […]
Chasing consistency across the wild seas of enterprise IT
Despite seemingly never-ending arguments to the contrary, DevOps has firmly arrived in the enterprise. No, the question is no longer if DevOps is appropriate for the enterprise anymore – the more appropriate question is to what extent has DevOps made its impact on the typical enterprise. But the enterprise move to DevOps isn’t a straight […]
A How to Guide on Modern Monitoring and Alerting
syslog-ng, riemann, collectd-notifications, elasticsearch: putting it all together Context At our organization (CCIN2P3) we are building an event-based infrastructure to push structured messages to different subsystems for alerting, reporting and storage. Using syslog-ng, each message is normalized into a structured event, optionally correlated with other messages, and conditionally routed to the next systems, including: a […]
Being Agile is all about controlling the flow
For businesses, Agile is the new fashionable initiative as was E-business was in the 2000’s, Six Sigma was in the 90’s and Total Quality Management (TQM) was in the 80’s. If we look back across the spectrum of these initiatives, we need to examine how many of these initiatives met the goals the business was […]
Four open source tools to help keep you cooking with Chef
If you’re even a little familiar with DevOps concepts, you’ve probably heard of Chef. If you’ve started experimenting with or implementing DevOps, there’s a pretty good chance you’re using Chef. Chef is an awesome platform for managing a DevOps environment, but it isn’t perfect. Thankfully, missing features or gaps in the capabilities of a platform […]
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