Fifteen years ago IT professionals experienced a drastically different day-to-day on the job. While the main mission has always remained constant—to take charge of all internal infrastructure—the infrastructure itself has moved off-premises over time. The complexity rested in networking for IT professionals. Routers, switches, firewalls and other gear needed to be managed so the network […]
SSH Key Management and Your Organization
It always starts out the same way: a few machines, a few users and a few SSH keys to manage. You manually copy their keys (and your own) to the appropriate machines. You might even say, “Screw it,” and share one key for root access. Admit it. It’s OK. Well, no, it’s not OK, but […]
Setting Up Google Authenticator on Multiple Servers
Google Authenticator is pretty great. It allows me as an administrator to set up and configure multi-factor authentication into my UNIX boxes without having to spend money on a tool like YubiKey or RSA tokens. It’s easy to set up on any type of phone—no specialized hardware or dongles needed. It’s also pretty cool in […]
SIOS Technology Automates Rebooting of AWS EC2 VM Instances
SIOS Technology Corp. this week launched SIOS AppKeeper, a tool that automatically reboots instances of EC2 virtual machines anytime they fail. Michael Bilancieri, senior vice president of products and marketing for SIOS, said SIOS AppKeeper is an extension of the work SIOS has historically done to enable servers and clusters to failover. However, many organizations […]
Perfect Sense Open Sources Gyro to Automate Cloud Provisioning
Perfect Sense has launched an open source project dubbed Gyro that provides an alternative approach to automating cloud infrastructure provisioning and management. Gyro was developed as an alternative to other open source projects such as Terraform and Pulumi, said CTO Jeremy Collins. It is designed from the ground up around a programming language that allows […]
The Disservice of Cloud Consolidation
There’s no secret that over the past five years especially, the major (“tier 1”) cloud infrastructure players—Amazon, Microsoft and Google—have been snatching up smaller specialty providers, particularly cloud migration and security services. While this acquisition strategy immediately aims to strengthen and expand the provider’s direct and tangential cloud infrastructure offerings, the long-term goal is customer […]
HashiCorp Tools Bridge DevOps, Legacy IT Environments
At its HashiConf EU 2019 conference this week, HashiCorp extended the reach of its Terraform Enterprise tools for automating the management of IT infrastructure beyond the realm of DevOps into legacy IT environments. Via integration with the Service Catalog from ServiceNow, IT administrators working with a traditional ITIL-based framework now can invoke Terraform Enterprise to […]
DevOps Chat: Identity Management with ForgeRock’s Peter Barker
Two megatrends for 2019 and beyond is scale and automation. The identity management space is a perfect example. Considering all of the IP-enabled devices (machines) coming online and the billions of people and their identities, managing these billions and billions takes systems that will redefine scale and, almost by definition, have to be automated. Enter […]
DevOps and the Identity Conundrum
“Who am I?” It is perhaps the most basic question of consciousness. The answer could be subdivided by aspects of my life story … my career, my family, my beliefs, my education … the list could continue. But since I am unique, the challenge in this digital age is for me to somehow remain unique, […]
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