Tips

Tips

• Come to grips with immutable infrastructure in production

  Immutable infrastructure is a developer approach to application hosting that's made its way into the IT ops lexicon. It's time to understand the changes it brings to application support.  Continue Reading

• Assemble tools to address IT compliance standards up the stack

  The right set of IT compliance tools helps IT operations admins keep pace with rapidly evolving -- and increasing -- security regulations.  Continue Reading

• Craft repeatability into container lifecycle management

  Carefully identified states and their respective event triggers keep containers acting within set parameters and are key to lifecycle management.  Continue Reading

• Strategize wisely for a legacy application migration to cloud

  Not every legacy application is compatible with every cloud service. Know the optimal path for any given application -- it could be the difference between success and failure.  Continue Reading

• Chef Habitat offers a different take on configuration management

  Chef Habitat's strategy focuses on the dynamic application environment instead of static servers, approaching configuration management with a new focus.  Continue Reading

• IT automation software: Top five common mistakes

  IT automation software projects can involve a great deal of risk, but avoid these common mistakes and it will increase the chances for automation success.  Continue Reading

• Continuous delivery, DevOps and cloud: vital pieces of modernization

  Organizations that tackle an application modernization project must address four things: continuous delivery, DevOps, containers and the cloud. Success depends on where you start.  Continue Reading

• Negotiate the best software support agreement for a new IT tool

  An IT tool's support contract could make the difference between an indispensable part of the DevOps process flow or a costly, rarely used relic. Just read all the fine print.  Continue Reading

• Simple steps to improve the IT incident management process

  No one notices when there's a solid IT incident management response process in place, but everyone notices when there's not. Improve how you handle issues in three steps.  Continue Reading

• The OS reigns over container hosting decisions

  Before you get too excited about the benefits of containers, get a handle on limitations: a lack of interoperability across OS platforms, networking constraints and security woes.  Continue Reading

• High availability in cloud computing prevents a SPOF

  IT teams that want to ensure high availability in IaaS, such as Azure, must put in work on the back end. Creating availability groups is one way to preempt outages.  Continue Reading

• Multiple cybersecurity tools protect data on all levels

  IT security is more complicated than erecting a fence. It takes a series of gates, surveillance and both configuration and patch management -- not to mention a keen IT ops admin.  Continue Reading

• Kubernetes Pods and Nodes map out container relationships for production

  While containers increase abstraction between apps and infrastructure, successful Kubernetes deployments strictly follow application component relationships.  Continue Reading

• Agentless Ansible structure opens up configuration management potential

  Ansible is easy to use for IT ops pros, and it supports multicloud functionality within its automation structure. This simple walkthrough gets sys admins started with the tool.  Continue Reading

• IT application support demands hard ops data and artful finesse

  The secret to successful application resource management is coordinated capacity decisions between developers and operations -- but also the application owners.  Continue Reading