When I was an operations architect at Ning way back in 2009, we were struggling to manage our deployments and configurations of more than 50 different application servers, or what the cool kids today call microservices. Applications were deployed across three distinct environments: development, staging and production. None of these environments were exactly the same […]
Docker as a framework for your DevOps culture
If you’re like me and spend a lot of time evaluating new technologies with the goal of “doing more faster” with your engineering organization, then you’re certainly aware of the many choices of DevOps tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc. In my opinion each of these tools is amazing at one piece of the […]