I’m going to take a side trek today into home computing with applicability to IT. Bear with me. We maintain a pretty complex home network, as home networks go. With three NAS servers, a small one-box SAN, some web servers and connections to several hosted environments. We both work from home, and my business is […]
The Beauty of Inheritance Architectures
Spoiler alert: This article is not about inheriting your great-grandparent’s estate. It is rather about how embedding the principles of inheritance into the architecture of your chosen DevOps toolset can yield exponential results. And yes, I realize that you, the customer, have little to do with what a vendor builds its tooling architecture upon. However, […]
Resurrecting the CMDB Through a Singular Path to Production
Change consistency (or the predictability of how change is deployed) followed by change transparency (or the visibility into the state of change at any stage in the software development life cycle [SDLC]) are two key benefits of embracing a highly functioning enterprise-class DevOps set of services. Most organizations are attempting to transform themselves from a […]
DevOps doesn’t end at deployment
If you ask five IT admins the question “What is DevOps?” you maybe get eight different answers. We’ve attempted to define and explain the term DevOps here on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud a few different ways, but a precise definition is still elusive. One thing is certain, though, DevOps is about more than just automating virtual server deployment […]