Any organization that has been around for more than a few years (and many who haven’t) have a massive system that would cost a fortune to replace. Most midsized enterprises have several of them. Those systems are one of the reasons that enterprises don’t adopt CI/CD at the same rate as startups. Sure, any new […]
The One Where All the Deployments Stall
In the first episode of the DevOps story, DChip CEO Phoebe gave Chandler an ultimatum to move out of AWS into their datacenter on OpenStack. Does Chandler succeed? Read on to find out… Fast forward two weeks since that fateful night. Chandler is preparing for yet another leadership call. It’s deja vu, with the same […]
The One Where All Hell Breaks Loose
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 settle in for a read. The backstory DChip Tech is a semiconductor company. They’re in the business of making chips for wearable computing since acquiring […]
Making DevOps Work in Complex Enterprise Environments
Welcome back to the staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud series, ‘Enterprise DevOps Q&A’. Remember, if you have specific questions about Enterprise DevOps, let me know and I will try to answer them for you. Today’s question is: Q. In large enterprises, there are always environmental differences. From public cloud to internal hosting, from virtual desktops to legacy and mainframe […]