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…
Many organizations are implementing infrastructure automation to save time, eliminate variability, and reduce costs. John Ray explains why you should consider infrastructure automation and how to get started.
What’s the difference between configuration management (CM) tools and automation tools? One is idempotency, and the other is the ability to track changes and node status.
Icinga supports a variety of third-party configuration management systems and open source tools. Here are five powerful integrations to supercharge your Icinga deployment.
“Configuration management” refers to maintaining the integrity and consistency of hardware and software systems over time. In practice, the phrase is often used to describe configuring servers and automatically deploying them using prewritten scripts. In this article, we review three…
Second only to customers, our technology partnerships are extremely important to Shadow-Soft’s integration business. Through the Open Source solutions our partners create, Shadow-Soft empowers our customers to free themselves from vendor lock-in, allowing them to take the power back from…
Since the first DevOps Day held in Belgium of 2009, organizations have continually discussed options for improving operational efficiency. Between frequent budget cuts, the rising costs of business and having to compete with organizations like Google which rapidly deploy products…
Great blog on the Do’s and Don’ts of your Puppet Labs environment by our very own Jerald Sheets…. IT Automation, like the features and functions offered by Puppet Labs, is riddled with a number of pitfalls. Nothing dangerous or site-threatening…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have certainly heard about Docker and probably its underlying technology too, Linux Containers. If you attended the Docker.. I mean.. Red Hat Summit in San Francisco, CA 2 weeks ago then you…
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches integrate with Puppet Labs bringing more agility, efficiency, & visibility to the data center As businesses look to IT as a point of strategic differentiation, gaining agility and efficiency in the datacenter becomes more…