DevOps. DevOps. DevOps. We keep hearing this term over and over and over again, but really, what does it mean? Especially to those of us who aren’t currently Dev or Ops? Or are we? Let’s try to figure out what everyone is talking about. (The launch pad for your DevOps journey, take by me, at …
OpenStack is a platform that is constantly growing and evolving, thanks in part to the massive amount of involvement in it from the OpenSource community. There are currently OpenStack releases twice a year, which are closely followed by an OpenStack Summit. While the summit in Paris earlier this month showcased lots of enhancements which were in the Juno …
As part of #vDM30in30 Eric Wright wrote a great article on reducing technical debt, which got me thinking quite a bit. Mainly about automation, and the journey it takes to get there. Here’s a couple more ideas on how to get you started on the journey if you haven’t already begun. (Mission Control at NASA …
When we talk about our next generation data centers, and how we are going to run them, recently, many of our discussions have turned to policy. How do we want our applications to be deployed? What type of service levels do we want them to have? Which virtual machines or instances should be present on …
Docker is rapidly changing and evolving as it continues to gain traction and popularity in the world of containerized applications. One of the biggest challenges that new technologies face is viability in the enterprise arena. While the use of containers does have intrinsic value to organizations, especially those leveraging a DevOps model, its feature set …
A key component of our policy driven data center of the future is configuration management. With terms like cloud, orchestration, and DevOps being thrown around all over the place, how do we handle this? How do we make sure that we’re doing things in a consistent way? There are as many options as there are …