Application Infrastructure Planning and Management
Find expert tips here for IT operations and DevOps teams on ensuring app resources meet demand, applications and new app features scale and perform acceptably in production, and rapid iterations do not create maintenance issues.
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Application Infrastructure Planning and Management News
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June 11, 2018
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Jun'18
Jaguar Land Rover, BI Worldwide share GitLab migration pros and cons
Enterprise DevOps pros that switched to GitLab from GitHub and Atlassian tools share their experiences as Microsoft refugees eye GitHub competitors post acquisition.
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June 08, 2018
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Jun'18
Reflect adds color to Puppet DevOps tools
Puppet plans to add data visualization and analysis to spruce up its DevOps tools now that it has acquired Reflect, but it's still playing catch-up in a crowded, noisy market.
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June 06, 2018
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Jun'18
DevOps shops weigh risks of Microsoft-GitHub acquisition
An online outcry about Microsoft's GitHub acquisition seems overblown to enterprise DevOps pros, but that doesn't mean there's no cause for concerns.
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June 04, 2018
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Jun'18
Microsoft-GitHub acquisition shakes up DevOps market
Microsoft's $7.5 billion blockbuster deal for GitHub is a sea change for the IT market, as an enterprise software bellwether with legacy baggage snaps up an open source DevOps darling.
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Kubernetes books put container deployments on the right track
Whether you're tasked to set up and manage or deploy applications with Kubernetes, these books offer guidance and support. Co-author Brendan Burns shares insights from the texts. Continue Reading
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GitHub
GitHub is a web-based revision control hosting service for software development and code sharing. GitHub was started in 2008 and was founded on Git, an open source code management system built created by Linus Torvalds to make software builds faster. Continue Reading
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What is the best DevOps tool for my career?
I have no prior knowledge on DevOps. I'm doing an online course and understand Unix. I get the concepts, so what tool should I concentrate on learning to advance my DevOps career? Continue Reading
Evaluate Application Infrastructure Planning and Management Vendors & Products
Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.
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Cisco roadmap plots course through clouds to DevOps future
From a Google Cloud partnership to API-based network data integration, Cisco showcased application hosting flexibility and DevOps process flows in its product plans at its annual conference. Continue Reading
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IT pros weigh Git version control against the competition
You won't get far today without version control to safely iterate on application code. But is Git -- or one of the many commercial products based on Git -- right for your team? Continue Reading
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Serverless technology obfuscates workflows, performance data
Serverless and microservices reshape the application stack into something that looks like a swath of stars in the sky. How do you find a slow, misconfigured component in this interconnected galaxy? Continue Reading
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Watch a PuTTY tutorial on key-based host access
Passwords only get so secure, which is where randomized SSH keys come in. Set up Linux host server access with PuTTY and a public-private key set. Continue Reading
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Use load tests to balance IT capacity management and QoE
Simply throwing more resources at an application won't solve scaling issues. IT ops pros must take the time to chart the relationship between IT capacity and software performance. Continue Reading
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Deployment pipeline diagrams expose process and tech gaps
Does the specialized cloud dev sandbox cause a deployment headache? Should security teams vet code earlier in the pipeline? In this video, Gary Gruver shows what IT teams gain when they visualize code flow. Continue Reading
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The ops team's role in securing IT infrastructure and apps
Organizations prioritize security, even as they deploy workloads to the cloud and adopt new dev methods. How do these trends change the IT ops team's security responsibilities? Continue Reading
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Which IT security roles fall to the ops team?
To help secure data and applications, an IT ops team needs to do much more than put up firewalls and apply other traditional security measures. Here's where to begin. Continue Reading
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Don't panic! The definitive guide to IT troubleshooting
IT problems can cause distress, chaos and, well, panic -- but they don't have to. These tips and tools guide admins through IT troubleshooting for the best chance of success. Continue Reading