Scripting, Scheduling and IT Orchestration

The IT orchestration and workflow scripting topic center offers resources for SysOps and IT professionals to automate IT processes and create intelligent workflows for tasks in cloud or data center resources. It covers how to replace ad hoc tasks with standardized scripted steps and tools to facilitate the process.

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Scripting, Scheduling and IT Orchestration News

October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20
HashiCorp wades into continuous delivery with Waypoint

HashiCorp launched another new open source project this week, this time a continuous delivery utility called Waypoint, which IT pros hope will simplify DevOps deployments.
October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20
Red Hat bolsters Ansible Kubernetes bond via OpenShift ACM

Red Hat previewed new ties between its Ansible Automation Platform and OpenShift Kubernetes within its Advanced Cluster Management tool, as container platform competition intensifies.
October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20
HashiCorp launches Boundary for cloud security

HashiCorp revealed its first new open source project in five years this week: a cloud security framework for access control called Boundary.
October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20
Rancher Kubernetes bolsters security, multi-cloud management

Rancher Kubernetes stays ahead of competitors in multi-cloud management with version 2.5, but will its innovation and SUSE's backing be enough to fend off Red Hat and VMware?

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Infrastructure as code examples for DevOps, cloud deployments

Administrators can use infrastructure as code to consistently manage a distributed set of resources. Follow these four examples to get started, and explore common IaC tool choices. Continue Reading
Try out an Ansible dry run in under 5 minutes

Learn how the dry run tests Ansible configurations without making any accidental changes to the IT environment. This tutorial covers the steps in less time than it takes to make coffee. Continue Reading
Follow these 8 steps to implement automation in IT workflows

IT can't automate everything under their purview, and certainly not all at once. But there are tried-and-true steps IT orgs can follow to automate safely. Continue Reading

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Compare runbooks vs. playbooks for IT process documentation

Despite some contextual differences, runbooks and playbooks serve a similar purpose in the enterprise: to document critical processes. Continue Reading
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
Choose the best programming language for DevOps workflows

DevOps is a rapidly evolving set of technologies and practices; choosing the right programming language -- or languages -- makes a big difference in terms of functionality, efficiency and speed. Continue Reading

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Manage containerized microservices with a service registry

It's easier than ever to spin up a containerized app, but that ease has created a problem: How to keep track of containerized microservices. Turn to service registries and orchestrators. Continue Reading
PowerShell 7 remoting expands management horizons

Connecting to different operating systems to manage them from PowerShell requires SSH setup, which is less onerous in the version 7 release. Continue Reading
Is SCCM in Azure right for your organization?

System Center Configuration Manager still has a long life, which was further underscored by Microsoft supporting deployments of the endpoint management tool to Azure. Continue Reading

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Build a PowerShell logging function for troubleshooting

A basic administrative skill is checking over logs to find out why something broke. Learn how to build a proper logging mechanism to catch errors for diagnostic purposes. Continue Reading
Perform these steps to monitor Windows Server with Nagios Core

Nagios is no newbie to the server monitoring world, but setting it up for Windows takes a few extra steps. Learn how Nagios Core, originally meant for Linux, can monitor Windows servers. 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