Shame on you! Yes you, because there is a good chance you are thinking about DevOps all wrong. If you are a developer you might be thinking DevOps means IT goes away and you control all the infrastructure. If you are from IT you are thinking that DevOps is just automating what you already do, more. […]
Simplify and expedite server management
Deploying, managing, and maintaining servers can be tedious. Deploying, managing, and maintaining thousands, or tens of thousands of server instances is overwhelming—bordering on impossible—without the right tools. Thankfully, the right tools exist. The Pain of Doing Things the Hard Way I know I am dating myself, but when I was an IT admin for a […]
Avoiding Parrot Processes
One of the things devops practitioners are tasked with is the provisioning and configuration of all sorts of infrastructure. Application servers, web servers, load balancers, proxies and database servers are among the lengthy (and no doubt growing) list of “boxes” devops needs to get up and running to support just about any given application today. […]
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 of automating a series of actions when a firewall rule is changed. It’s a good article, although I’m increasingly convinced there’s no such thing as […]
Meet Infrastructure as Code
Maybe you have already heard the terms “Programmable Infrastructure” and “Infrastructure as code”. But even if you have not, if you are interested in DevOps it’s something you need to know. Most new lingo causes me to roll my eyes. But in this case, it’s not just new lingo, it’s an entirely new concept. Besides making […]
An open letter to Jeff Knupp
Dear Jeff, First off, nice recovery. I commend your gesture to return to positivity and make what to my eyes, looks like a kind and altruistic offer to an underserved class of engineers. I personally sent your offer to all the female engineers on my team and got very good feedback from several of them. […]
Does DevOps spell death for Line-of-Business (LOB) Applications?
Perhaps wrongly, “DevOps” has been associated with “new” and “that thing for the cool kids” and the “hipster developers”. This is used both as an excuse and as a source of animosity against the movement. But more subtly, I sometimes observe IT departments that acknowledge DevOps as a thing, but claim it wont work for […]
DevOps storytime: MTTR vs. Goodheart’s Law
I am not a fan of metrics. Wait. That’s not right. Let me try again. I am not a fan of singular metrics that stand by themselves. Nope. That’s still not right. I loathe singular metrics that stand by themselves as if they themselves are solutions to problems. Ok. That works. Let me explain. Last […]
Security and DevOps showdown
George Hulme’s article on proceeding with caution on DevOps implementation offers some advice from a few well known security experts. Article here vs. Alan Shimel says today’s speed of business isn’t compatible with :go slow”. Security people have to understand that DevOps is our last best hope. But in order to have DevOps […]
DevOps: Security’s last best hope
Help us Obi Wan! The fact is that DevOps is security’s last best hope. The sooner the security industry realizes it the better it will be for everyone. I read George Hulme’s story today about proceeding with caution and going slow with DevOps. Of course it was no surprise to me that those cautioning to […]
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