Companies of all sizes and across virtually every industry today have ready access to hyperscale compute, storage and myriad other technologies — without needing the significant budget or technical expertise of a hyperscale cloud provider like AWS. This is a boon for innovation. Cloud opened the door to cost optimizations, previously out-of-reach cloud-native tools, security […]
The Pros and Cons of Configuration-as-Code
Configuration-as-code, or “GitOps” as many are now calling it, is a simple but astounding idea: Standardize configuration, check it into version control; no need for each Operations/DevOps person to develop their own set of scripts to get the job done. Configuring or reconfiguring an environment is as simple as checkout and run, assuming everything in […]
Webinar: Unifying your Application Release and Configuration Automation
RECORDING SLIDES [seoslides embed_id=”25ec04fb3359″ script_src=”https://staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud/embed-script/unifying-application-release-configuration-automation/18313/” overview_src=”https://staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud/slides/unifying-application-release-configuration-automation/” site_src=”https://staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud” site_title=”staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud” title=”Unifying your Application Release and Configuration Automation” /] — Jules Louis
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 and more software faster than ever. Success! Or is it? The Bad: DevOps has been a success…for Dev. For Dev teams, this may result in […]
Dev loves Open Source. Ops needs Scale. Now What?
Crossing the divide from Dev-Ops to DevOps: At the heart of the divide between Dev and Ops are the very different needs and constraints of each organization. Traditionally their day-to-day lives are very different. So are their war stories. And so are the metrics that are traditionally used to judge Dev and Ops. Predictably, the two organizations […]
Red Hat to Acquire IT Automation and DevOps Leader Ansible
Red Hat advances frictionless IT with simplified management for hybrid clouds, OpenStack environments and container-based services RALEIGH, N.C., Oct 16, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Red Hat, Inc. RHT, +3.43% the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ansible, Inc., a provider of powerful IT […]
Announcing Orca v2.0: Application Configuration Automation for Linux and Windows
Austin, TX September 17, 2015 – www.orcaconfig.com Announcing Orca v 2.0: Application Configuration Automation with New Linux Support and New Job Summary Views for Reporting and Compliance Orca now supports Linux. With its version 2.0, Orca introduces Linux support for Apache, MySQL and System Services with even more coverage to be announced. Now organizations with […]