Security of data and applications whether stored on-premises or in the cloud has always been a supreme issue of influence. To date AWS has provided it’s customers with services that help in securing and encrypting the data e.g., Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Block Store(EBS) which is a server-side encryption service, Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS for […]
AWS Best Practices – Enterprise Perspective
Amazon AWS has changed the IaaS game for startups and growth companies. There are several practices we must acknowledge the importance of during the adoption and implementation of AWS services. Readers are more than welcome to comment, suggest modifications and even add their own little practices they follow during roll outs and implementations. As clients […]
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, […]
The evolution of built-in DevOps features in cloud platforms
These days DevOps is being widely adopted by many IT organizations. Such IT organizations become more agile and reliable, deploying code more frequently with fewer bugs and failures. DevOps helps to get better IT performance and build additional competitive advantages, and companies with high-performing IT organizations are twice as likely to exceed their profitability, market […]
How Ansible makes automation easy
Continuing our series of videos from the recent Gluecon 2014 conference, here is our next one again courtesy of CloudSoft. In this video Peter Sankauskas talks about using Ansible to make automation easy especially with AWS. Hope you enjoy it.
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 […]
Using AWS CloudWatch for Anomaly Detection
Based on my unscientific poll of friends, one of the least used and most overlooked features of AWS is CloudWatch. Not only can CloudWatch be used to monitor the availability of your AWS services, but it can also be used as anomaly an detection tool. Did I mention that these feature are free? Since the […]
Bootstrapping Chef (or Whatever) for Autoscaled EC2 Instances
I realize it is traditional to start writing a new blog with some background and a deep introspection as to the author’s personal motivation for writing said blog, but I’ve never been one for tradition. Thus, for my first official DevOps post, I think I’ll jump write in with a technical tutorial on a problem […]
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 […]
Automation Driving DevOps Adoption
Survey of Attendees at JumpCloud and SoftLayer Hosted DevOps Conference Confirms High Adoption of DevOps Driven by Demand for Automation of IT & Time Constraints February 10, 2014 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Dev opscon survey summary 2013 from ashimmy BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–JumpCloud™, the leading automated server management tool for DevOps and IT pros, today […]