Chef is a popular tool for configuration management of IT infrastructure. Its flagship enterprise solution, Chef, is a strong choice for experienced DevOps teams who want to automate their development and deployment infrastructure.
It may not initially be obvious why your Puppet configuration management and your Icinga monitoring should be coordinated since they are products in such different disciplines. After a bit of thought and examination it should become more and more clear…
Like most IT shops, supporting the business leaves little or no time for projects like adding configuration management and automation to your environment which is really the first step in making a move to a hybrid cloud architecture. Shadow-Soft can help…
Often times when servicing operations departments and getting them used to the idea of using development tools and methodologies to define and implement infrastructure, I get asked the inevitable question: “Since we’re now using these development methodologies, how do…
Puppet Labs is at it again with its release of Puppet Enterprise 2.5. Shadow-Soft has been eager to see this release since the rumor that PE 2.5 would support Windows. That rumor has been confirmed with the release of PE…
Puppet Labs, one of Shadow-Soft’s newest partners, just hosted Puppet Conf 2011 on September 22nd – 23rd. We have been busy talking with our customers about Puppet Enterprise 2.0 and how it is a great management tool for your IT…