Configuration Management and DevOps

The configuration management resource center provides IT professionals with information about how configuration management tools work, how to deploy them for more IT automation, and how to assess IT infrastructure needs and changes in a rapidly moving DevOps environment.

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Configuration Management and DevOps News

June 25, 2020 25 Jun'20
Puppet unveils event-driven IT automation plans

Puppet's IT automation system Relay, now in beta, offers an event-driven take on IT workflows, but the vendor must clearly establish the product's value over competing DevOps systems.
June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20
HashiCorp Terraform beta brings long-awaited features

Terraform 0.13, recently released to public beta, includes support for complex infrastructure deployments that users have eagerly awaited.
June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20
New ServiceNow workflows extend into more markets

ServiceNow continues to direct its workflows toward vertical markets with new offerings for telecommunications, financial services and healthcare markets.
June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20
Chef software broadens scope amid IT automation disruption

Chef seeks a new niche as IT automation shifts toward Kubernetes and cloud-native tools, but IT pros have many options, with some more appealing than Chef in high-scale scenarios.

Configuration Management and DevOps Get Started

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composable infrastructure

A composable infrastructure is a framework that decouples device resources in order to treat them as services. Continue Reading
Ways to use feature flags in DevOps

What's in a name? Whether you call them feature flags or toggles, this approach benefits enterprise IT all the same. Learn the basics and see how to apply them to DevOps. Continue Reading
Know the key DevOps roles and responsibilities for team success

More than most IT initiatives, DevOps is built around people. Involve the right professionals, and get those people primed to work in concerted ways. Continue Reading

Evaluate Configuration Management and DevOps Vendors & Products

Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.

What is DevOps? The ultimate guide

The word 'DevOps' is a combination of the terms 'development' and 'operations,' meant to represent a collaborative or shared approach to the tasks performed by a company's application development and IT operations teams. Continue Reading
Compare ARM templates vs. Terraform for infrastructure as code

ARM templates and Terraform are popular infrastructure-as-code options. Check out an Ubuntu Server VM example in each approach and learn the pros and cons of these tools. Continue Reading
Composable benefits from infrastructure-as-code techniques

Learn why composable infrastructure is an effective infrastructure as code delivery model and can serve as a foundation for orchestrating and automating IT resource provisioning. Continue Reading

Manage Configuration Management and DevOps

Learn to apply best practices and optimize your operations.

MLB uses NetBox automation for network configuration backup

Major League Baseball used NetBox in tandem with its network automation project to streamline its configuration backup process and keep its infrastructure systems in sync. Continue Reading
Why configuration management is important for networks

Configuration management is essential to keep accurate network configuration records and to help organizations avoid potential challenges or problems within their networks. Continue Reading
Modernize ops practices to manage hybrid IT infrastructure

Hybrid IT management requires ops teams to rethink everything from networking to the way they oversee system configurations. Third-party tools, including those for IaC, can help. Continue Reading

Problem Solve Configuration Management and DevOps Issues

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Overcome these 5 DevOps challenges

DevOps adoption isn't easy, but the results are worth it. Learn how to collaborate, cooperate and coordinate with better organization and DevOps tooling. Continue Reading
Get back on the mend with Active Directory recovery methods

Administrators should have a few of these data protection techniques up their sleeves to keep Active Directory from a total breakdown. Continue Reading
What is the Puppet configuration management tool, and how does it work?

With Puppet, enterprises can manage configurations and simplify the DevOps process as a whole. Grasp how it works, and see if it's the right choice for your organization. Continue Reading