DevOps
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Serving Files with Puppet Standalone in Vagrant
If you use Puppet in the client-server mode to configure your production environment then you might want to be able…
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The importance of measuring your IT operations
How could one tell if an IT organisation is working well? A simple measure could be to check the delivered…
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Apache HTTP server with Tomcat on SSL
Introduction I recently needed to simulate our production deployment environment in my local machine. Our production applications are running on…
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Why do we insist on consensus on the role of Ops?
I’ve seen so many threads over the last few weeks about who should do what, why, and what you should…
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Give your developers prod access – it’s trust
This isn’t a new idea and plenty of companies already do this. I had a discussion with a co-worker about…
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Establishing ownership in Ops Teams
I’ve been having some discussions about this lately so figured I would write something about the topic. Being a member…
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Embedding Ops members in Dev teams
For about 2 months I was sitting with a dev team while we worked through how to build a new…
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Keep As Much Stuff As Possible In The Application Itself
There’s a lot of Ops work to every project. Setting up server machines, and clusters of them, managing the cloud…
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Monitoring : Making sense of the buzz word jungle
Nowadays we are constantly reminded of the virtues of being proactive or more colloquially put “Being one step ahead of…
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