Tag: application configuration

You Have a Box: The Impact of Containers on DevOps
To continue the discussion from my last blog post, you have a box. Increasingly, you only have to ask, "What do we want to put in it?" It is interesting to see ...

Choose Your Toolstack — and Manage It — Wisely
Every DevOps toolstack has a control point, be it a bus, an app, a management app or whatever. Something always is in control and driving the other pieces of the architecture to ...

Don’t Underestimate the Work
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 ...

FLAP, Part 2: Application Provisioning
In part 1Â of this series we talked about server provisioning tools. In that post, we mentioned some of the more prominent application provisioning tools on the market with regard to integrations. This ...

FLAP, Part 1: Server Provisioning
We have reached the state where end-to-end data center provisioning is a reality. It’s early yet, so there is a certain amount of work involved, but today a DevOps team essentially can ...

Rugged DevOps: Good, Bad & Ugly
The Good: DevOps has been a success for Dev. With higher expectations, better processes, more management focus and new tools like advanced PaaS and containers, developers are churning out more and more ...