The typical workflow design pattern for server provisioning is to create instance image artifacts, and then provision infrastructure, and then provision software and configuration unique to the instance. There may also be a desire to independently update and modify the…
Introduction In August of 2005, Luke Kanies created Puppet because he was tired of remembering how the different package management systems worked, and wanted to unify them into a single interface. In February of 2012, Michael DeHaan created Ansible as…
With the increasing frequency of development and deployment cycles, the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices have changed how software engineers build, test and deliver applications. Automation tools that support these practices are key to enabling faster and more efficient building and configuring of infrastructure, reducing the cost and effort involved.
With six kiosk demos – on Intel hardware – the Red Hat Truck is a high tech demonstration center on wheels. Shadow-Soft met face to face with customers, partners and the general public to showcase the latest Red Hat technologies.…
Atlanta’s networking professionals came together to for a workshop on automating network operations with Ansible. Attendees learned the skills needed to implement Ansible and Ansible Tower at their organization.
IT leaders and software engineers gathered at Shadow-Soft HQ in Atlanta to learn how Ansible can be used to “Glue” together their CI/CD tools. Special thanks to Red Hat and Intel for sponsoring the event. Their support helped us provide…
Kubernetes is the container orchestration platform that has gained the most traction for deploying and managing containerized applications; however, managing these clusters is anything but a trivial task. To mitigate this many cloud providers such as Google’s GKE provide tooling in order to abstract cluster operations such as provisioning, scaling and upgrading. This is all well and good if on-premise/hybrid solutions are not in play.
The modern saying goes that “every company is a software company.” While maybe not in the strictest sense, most organizations do rely on applications, software, and infrastructure to ensure normal business operations. Read on to learn how modern development methodologies like Continuous Delivery (CD) can help to increase efficiency, lower costs, and shorten release cycles.
Atlanta’s engineers, architects and IT leaders gathered at Roam Dunwoody on July 26th to hear Shadow-Soft’s John Ray and Derrick Sutherland talk through their CI/CD Automation Framework. Special thanks to Red Hat Ansible for sponsoring the event. Their support helped…
Why are your inventors doing a job a robot could do, when they could be out there dreaming up new solutions? When developers build something for the first time, they are an inventor. When developers build the same thing a second time, they’re an engineer. When they build the same thing a third time, they’re an assembly line worker.