This post is a guide on how to use Ansible to automate infrastructure setup on any Windows or Linux build machine.
Best of 2023: Copilots For Everyone: Microsoft Brings Copilots to the Masses
As we close out 2023, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2023. Microsoft has been doing a lot to extend the coding ‘copilot’ concept into new areas. And at its Build 2023 conference, Microsoft leadership unveiled new […]
Next Up: Portable CI
One thing that we’re very good at in IT is breaking new ground, coming up with ideas that work astoundingly well, getting broad adoption, then standardizing them for interoperability. When a new technology (looking at you, cloud) has problems with standardization and interoperability, we find a way around vendors’ reluctance to give you freedom of […]
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All Day DevOps: Capital One Gives Credit Where It’s Due
Listening to his talk, it seems as though George Parris and his team at Capital One aren’t keeping “banker’s hours.” George is a Master Software Engineer, Retail Bank DevOps at Capital One. At the All Day DevOps conference, George gave a talk, titled “Meta Infrastructure as Code: How Capital One Automates our Automation Tools with […]
Breaking the Cycle of Dependency
While technology is an important component of DevOps and accelerating delivery, there are other aspects of process and culture that are critical to keeping the cycle moving to realize the goals of reducing lead time to become more responsive to the needs of the business. If you go to most agile teams and ask the […]
Integrating ARA into traditional RM
Application Release Automation (ARA) is terminology that includes several DevOps constructs from a singular, application-centric point of view. In essence, ARA implies the automation of a single app from build through deployment (even if that deployment is to production). Of course, embedded or implied in that automation terminology is build automation or construction; deployment automation, […]