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…
Ansible is a fantastic automation software tool, but automation is even better when it is running as fast as it can. These tips will help you significantly speed up your Ansible development, testing, and execution, so you can make better use of your time, including getting back to sleep for those always popular overnight pages.
This whitepaper provides a summary of a client in the financial industry partnered with Shadow-Soft to deploy containerized applications in Amazon Elastic Container Service. It will cover the background of the project, tool selection, architecture, and implementation of the proof-of-concept (PoC).
Chef is a configuration management tool that promotes the idea of infrastructure as code. This means that we can define the desired state of a system and automatically roll out changes to multiple servers at once. Chef can be used…
Companies need to address regulatory and security issues related to full cloud adoption. They need to develop an architecture and approach to cloud that meets all requirements, sets appropriate policies, formalizes governance structures and processes, and creates an architecture to support these initiatives.
The thought of deploying Icinga with Chef is an exciting prospect. You get all the benefits of the flexible monitoring Icinga provides with all the reliability and scalability of Chef’s configuration management. So, when I heard that Icinga had ditched…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is making his second big acquisition with GitHub for $7.5 billion. Read on to learn the why this happened and how this might impact you. GitHub is the largest code repository in the world, hosting…
Designing your architecture can be as much a business decision as a technological one. In this article, learn five reasons why you should consider moving to a microservice architecture.
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.
The ever-increasing demands of today’s customers has led to the rise of microservices and containers. In this article, Carvel Baus explains why API management, the forgotten piece of the Innovation Trifecta, matters in a microservice-container world.