#devops #lean Don’t confuse doing something faster with greater efficiency. Much of the focus on DevOps remains at the implementation level – on gaining efficiencies through automation of tasks and orchestration of processes. While this is not a bad thing, such a micro-focus on the moving parts can result in the loss of efficiencies to […]
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. […]
Automation versus Orchestration
Yes, Virginia, there is a difference. 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 […]
Partnership Between Tufin, Puppet Labs Indicates Need for Security Baked Into DevOps
A recent partnership between the IT automation developers at Puppet Labs and the security policy orchestration gurus at Tufin Technologies could start setting the pace for how orchestration of security policies can more easily be baked into DevOps practices. Announced at last month’s RSA Conference, the partnership yielded an integration between Puppet Enterprise and Tufin […]
Why Baking Security Into the DevOps Framework is Vital to Its Success
I attended my first official DevOps conference in Israel in September 2013. But I was initially introduced to DevOps by my customers – firewall and network managers who, through their efforts to automate security policy management, found themselves dealing with a new and like-minded set of IT stakeholders – DevOps teams. They said DevOps was […]
Tufin Partners with Puppet Labs to Automate and Orchestrate Security Policies for Host-Based Firewalls
Joint Customers Can Now Increase IT Agility and Improve Security Through Central, Automated Management of iptables Firewalls By Tufin Technologies Published: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 – 5:08 am MORRISTOWN, N.J., Feb. 25, 2014 — /PRNewswire/ — Tufin Technologies, the market leading provider of Security Policy Orchestration solutions, today announced an integration that enables Tufin customers to leverage the IT automation […]