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- October 11, 2017
11 Oct'17
Puppet automation tools widen config management's appeal
Puppet's enterprise customers can potentially winnow down their IT automation toolchains with Tasks and Discovery features for application automation.
- October 11, 2017
11 Oct'17
Kubernetes adoption sends Rancher users back to eval mode
What happens when your container management tool switches to a new technology behind the scenes? Ops teams say Rancher's Kubernetes move adds features -- and trepidation.
- October 11, 2017
11 Oct'17
Cloud Foundry Container Runtime eases Kubernetes ops
Enterprises such as Bloomberg use Cloud Foundry's integration with Kubernetes to ensure high availability for clusters of hosts and to support container orchestration.
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- October 10, 2017
10 Oct'17
CA Automic refines DevOps tools as enterprise market heats up
Expanded integrations between CA Automic tools should appeal to enterprise IT executives, amid anticipation that big companies will increase DevOps investments next year.
- October 09, 2017
09 Oct'17
Chef fortifies its build automation tools with Habitat Builder
Build automation presents a steep learning curve for enterprise DevOps shops, but Chef Habitat Builder is based on accessible scripting tools and offered as SaaS.
- October 06, 2017
06 Oct'17
Chaos engineering unearths IT deployments' dark debt
Technical debt is a burden that you can visualize and plan for. But what if problems come to light only when something goes wrong?
- October 06, 2017
06 Oct'17
IT incident response ditches root cause analysis process
IT pros can improve monitoring and pare down alerts to get only actionable information, but then what? IT incident response is its own black art, and it's changing fast.
- October 04, 2017
04 Oct'17
IT ops pros evolve into SREs with the right DevOps skill set
IT ops pros often hear that DevOps calls for them to script, code and serve up automated infrastructure for developers. But where should aspiring SREs begin?
- September 27, 2017
27 Sep'17
Kubernetes 1.8 goes GA with RBAC, but security work remains
Production-ready role-based access control in Kubernetes is an important milestone for security-conscious IT shops, but other security features remain works in progress.
- September 26, 2017
26 Sep'17
Rancher's Kubernetes strategy relieves container complexity
Rancher 2.0 offers Kubernetes by default, which follows a similar move by Mesosphere and furthers the container platform's momentum in 2017.
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- September 22, 2017
22 Sep'17
HashiCorp DevOps tools add Sentinel for IT policy management
As DevSecOps grows, policy as code will take over where infrastructure as code left off through new tools such as HashiCorp Sentinel.
- September 21, 2017
21 Sep'17
An IT operations job description written for the future
Forward-looking IT ops jobs require more Python and less cable management. To reach valued positions in the IT organization, align your skills with these popular job requirements.
- September 20, 2017
20 Sep'17
With Distelli, Puppet container management makes play for DevOps shops
As CI/CD pipelines go mainstream in the DevOps boat, Puppet shops will have a new option from a familiar vendor.
- September 20, 2017
20 Sep'17
Jenkins' CI/CD moves transform DevOps tool landscape
User dissatisfaction with the complexity of the Jenkins CI/CD pipeline tool spurs both the open source community and CloudBees to offer streamlined GUIs and better metrics.
- September 19, 2017
19 Sep'17
Microsoft empowers Windows containers to erase OS divide
DevOps and containers go hand in hand, and as Windows containers catch up with Linux they'll blur the lines for IT ops between historically divided OS environments.