What our surveys told us about the state of DevOps, Reliance on Scripting and IT Automation DevOps Survey Results: Scripting & IT Automation A lot of IT Operations teams including application owners, configuration managers, middleware specialists and database administrators are managing infrastructure configuration change with manual processes, spreadsheets and scripts. They are spending a lot […]
7 Causes of Continuous Delirium
When we think of CD, we typically think of continuous deployment as a result of continuous delivery, which is a goal of DevOps. In this article, I coin the phrase, “Continuous Delirium,” to mean unending confusion or bewilderment in development environments. There are probably several examples that could fit the bill here, but for now […]
FLAP, Part 3: Full Data Center Provisioning
In the first two parts of this series (Part 1, Part 2), we covered server provisioning and application provisioning. Knowing a bit about each of these tools is useful (although one blog is hardly a thorough evaluation of strengths and weaknesses—I strongly suggest you do more research), knowing how they work together is the point […]
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 […]
Avoiding Common AWS Security Risks
According to IBM’s Cyber Security Intelligence Index, 95% of all security incidents involve human error. That’s beyond significant, and when rapidly deploying multiple iterations in a DevOps shop, that means there are lots of opportunities to fail. Our own independent analysis based on customer configuration data shows that security control mechanisms Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes available […]
Upcoming SANS Webinar: Orchestrating Security in the Cloud
Organizations are increasingly migrating to cloud-based services to handle sensitive data and business processes, meaning security teams need to carefully review and understand what security controls are available to help protect them. Given the pace of cloud adoption, security teams need to increase security automation efforts and employ tools that can better secure their cloud […]
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 […]
5 Steps for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday Readiness
5 Steps for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday Readiness Ho. Ho. Ho. It’s that time of year again. Seriously. It is. It’s too late for April Fools but it’s definitely not too early for Holiday ecommerce readiness planning. In fact now is the perfect time to get your ecommerce house in order well before the […]
Ansible Best Practices : Automation, Provisioning and Configuration Management
What is Ansible? Ansible is an IT automation engine, and a trouble-free model-driven configuration management and command execution framework. Made for multi-tier deployments, it designs your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems are interrelated instead of just managing one system at a time. Written in Python, Ansible does not use any agent. […]
George Jetson Automation: Chasing the Dream
“His job was one simple thing—press a button. That’s all he had to do; press one button and sit back.” – Joe Barbera I wanted to be George Jetson when I grew up. Back in the days when watching Saturday morning cartoons in footed pajamas was the high point of my week, George’s life looked […]