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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
FLAP, Part 2: Application Provisioning
In part 1 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
