For many cloud-first companies, workstation imaging isn’t “a thing.” The notion that an IT organization might need several days – or even weeks – to onboard a new employee by provisioning an imaged laptop with correct security policies and only approved applications on it is absurd. The constraints of operating in an admin-centric model for […]
Infrastructure-Testing Dominoes
Understanding the artifacts of a given technology component is critical to an enterprise-class DevOps service offering. Second-most critical is understanding the dependencies between given components. Testing helps illuminate those dependencies. For example, let’s assume I have a server running the previous version of the Windows operating system (OS) that I now want to upgrade to […]