June 2, 2021
by sjvn01
Comments Off on GitOps: The next step in cloud-native development
What do you get when you combine DevOps management and the Git distributed version control system? Say hello to GitOps. Automation makes software better and more reliable. GitOps takes automation a step further and merges it with deployment. DevOps, in … Continue reading
June 25, 2020
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Comments Off on Puppet introduces beta of cloud-native, event-driven DevOps program: Relay
Puppet is a great DevOps program for managing multiple servers, but it wants to do more than automating server setup, program installation, and system management. The Portland, Oregon-based open-source company wants to automate processes across any cloud infrastructure — as well as all … Continue reading
June 24, 2020
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Comments Off on Red Hat upgrades Ansible DevOps and new Certified Ansible Content Collections
Ansible, a leading DevOps program, may not be Red Hat‘s most well-known product line, but after Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for system and cloud administrators, it may be the most important one. Thanks to its latest edition, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with Ansible Tower 3.7 … Continue reading
June 9, 2020
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Comments Off on Best Linux Foundation classes in 2020: Intro to Linux, Cloud Engineer Bootcamp, and more
Before I started writing about technology, I was a Beltway Bandit. That is, I was an IT contractor working for NASA and the Department of Defense. In those days, my job skills were Unix and mainframe system administrator, database programming, … Continue reading
April 30, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Abby Kearns takes over as Puppet CTO
After more than a decade as the head of the popular open-source, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud Cloud Foundry, Abby Kearns is now the CTO of top DevOps program Puppet. Kearns recently left Cloud Foundry in the capable hands of Chip Childers. … Continue reading
March 18, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Ansible DevOps comes to the mainframe
I cut my teeth on mainframe computers. My first system administration language wasn’t — as you might guess from my Unix/Linux background — Borrne or C shell, but rather, IBM 360 mainframe Job Control Language (JCL). So, the notion that … Continue reading