Don’t you love a good story? This one is a DevOps story in a fictional enterprise. It’s the kind of story you’ve seen replayed countless times in large organizations. So […]
Optimize your spend on AWS through Reserved Instances
Over the last few years Amazon has gradually raised its compute capacity and provided the user with a set of advanced analytical and structural services. For each service, you can […]
AWS Key Management Service
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
