Cloud configurations can change and change often. Introducing new technologies, releasing new features and supporting new business requirements entail a constant flow of configuration changes in web application development. However, drift occurs ...

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I was doing some research over the weekend, and it became abundantly clear that you can find an Ansible script to do pretty much any repetitive task in your infrastructure. This is ...

I arrived early to a meeting, and the pleasant security guard at AT&T suggested I take a look at their innovation museum while I wait. Among motion picture sound technology and life-size ...

When DevOps appeared on the scene, configuration file management tools already existed. They weren’t used by everyone, but a fair number of organizations saw the power of configuration file versioning/management, and were ...

Patrick McClory has been writing code, managing DevOps and designing scalable application infrastructures for more than 10 years. Most recently, as COO and CTO of DualSpark, he served as an expert Amazon ...

The gap between the number of organizations that have invested in DevOps is starting to narrow, and IT organizations that made the transition to DevOps earlier are starting to see accelerated returns ...

In Part One of my article on big, bad mistakes in configuration management, I reviewed the dangers of using the wrong tools for the configuration management job. Provisioning management tools, application release ...

Configuration problems come in many flavors. Some are mere nuisances. Often though, configuration errors can lead to more serious mishaps like application performance problems, policy compliance violations or even security vulnerabilities. They ...

What our surveys told us about the state of DevOps, Reliance on Scripting and IT Automation DevOps Survey Results: Scripting & IT Automation A lot of IT Operations teams including application owners, ...

When we think of CD, we typically think of continuous deployment as a result of continuous delivery, which is a goal of DevOps. In this article, I coin the phrase, "Continuous Delirium," ...

In the first two parts of this series (Part 1, Part 2), we covered server provisioning and application provisioning. Knowing a bit about each of these tools is useful (although one blog ...