I recall a few jobs ago I was managing the Systems Engineering team
and trying to grow it into a group that could handle the daily onslaught
of issues that...
4 replies - 5825 views - 02/06/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles
As I mentioned in a post last week
we’ve been automating the setup of our developer machines with puppet
over the last week and one thing that we’ve...
0 replies - 6651 views - 01/25/12 by Mark Needham in Articles
Hi all, Willie here.
In my last post, How NOT to collect configuration management data,
I gave a quick rundown of some losing CM data approaches that I and...
2 replies - 6246 views - 01/23/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles
Gameday is an exercise designed to increase resilience through large-scale fault injection across critical systems where resilience is seen as the ability of a...
0 replies - 2319 views - 12/28/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
Config management is a big deal for any IT organization that intends to scale up its operations, and it's certainly getting more attention and broader...
1 replies - 2995 views - 12/20/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Continuous deployment sounds
terrifying. It means that with each commit you make to your version
control, your code is pulled down, all tests are run,...
4 replies - 7531 views - 12/16/11 by Cody Powell in Articles
Last week I was in Boston for my 1st and their 25th Edition of the Large Infrastructure System Administration Conferences
Lisa was pretty much all I...
0 replies - 2506 views - 12/15/11 by Kris Buytaert in Articles
Luke Kanies, the founder of Puppet and Puppet Labs brings up a good point in his most recent video presentation. IT folks need to adapt or risk being...
0 replies - 2971 views - 12/15/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
This presentation is for those who are about to start deploying Puppet,
in the early stages of deployment or those who have a large number of
existing...
0 replies - 2411 views - 12/10/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
This is part 2 in a post on deployment strategies. The previous post is located here
This post was authored by John E. Vincent (aka. lusis). Creator of...
0 replies - 7665 views - 12/06/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Performance testing of software systems is discussed frequently as an episodic activity that is accomplished once per
production release as the final step in...
0 replies - 3523 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers
Web sites and web applications have transformed business. They are crucial to your company’s bottom line, whether you are
involved in e-commerce, have a...
0 replies - 3488 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers
I came across an interesting post today
via HN. I’m surprised (only moderately) that I missed it the first time
around since this is right up my...
1 replies - 7540 views - 12/05/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
There are two very nice and reflective posts on DevOps this month by Lori MacVittie over at the f5 blog. The first one was an interesting take on risk and...
0 replies - 1924 views - 11/29/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
User experience in Puppet is more than just
the GUI; it includes the command line, the Puppet language, and our
APIs. It's easy to think of these as...
0 replies - 2491 views - 11/28/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
