“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…
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…
Hybrid Cloud Management Use Case: A large scale organization attempted to digitally transform its approach to delivering information technology capabilities. The organization needed to rapidly provision and deprovision its resources to meet elastic demand, allowing consumers a self-service option while…
It’s 8PM, do you know where your true geeks are? Well, the room was packed for the Cloud Bursting with OpenShift birds of a feather session so the Red Hat Summit 2013 in Boston might not be a bad guess.…
Hiram Chirino who is one of the authors of Apache’s Active MQ gave a talk at the last month’s Camel One gathering in Boston that coincided with Red Hat Summit. This is a summary of his talk on making Active…
From Redhat.com: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 now available worldwide, offering leading features, performance, scalability and cost advantages to customers Raleigh, NC – January 18, 2012 Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today…