There is still time to register for our upcoming webinar with Forrester Research this Thursday! Please join CFEngine Co-Founder and CTO Mark Burgess and guest speaker Forrester Research, Inc. Vice President and Research Director Glenn O’Donnell for a fascinating look into the principles of …
Earlier this week CFEngine sponsored DockerCon. Let me start by congratulating Docker on an awesome show. The energy, and enthusiasm was contagious but more so sincere. The commitment to establishing open standards without locking in users to Docker is commendable. The CFEngine table had heavy …
CFEngine are sponsoring DockerCon14. We’re excited to be able to show you how CFEngine and Docker can be used together to help manage your docker containers and make sure that you don’t go back down the path of golden images! If that isn’t enough to get you excited our very own …
DevOpsDays events in Pittsburgh and Austin have both been awesome. It’s great to see the events maturing over time. While it was the first DevOpsDays event in Pittsburgh the organizers were familiar with DevOpsDays events and made sure that they built on top of other successes. The lack of …
This is a term often used today to acknowledge the extraordinary growth of the major web companies over a decade (social media, retailing, games, cloud etc) from handfuls of machines to the largest installations on the planet. The major web players today have datacenters with 10,000, 100,000 and …
We’ve already had fear-mongering about DevOps potentially killing off operations positions (thanks NoOps) and now it’s the turn of articles about DevOps killing off the developer. Terms like full stack developer are thrown around and other un-helpful terms that recruiters seem to love. …
I’m really looking forward to DevOpsDays Pittsburgh this week. The first DevOpsDays event in a city is always special. I’m not sure what to expect, but I think it’s going to be great and at the very least I’ll get to have some great conversations about DevOps, configuration …
Introduction CFEngine users version their policies. It’s a reasonable, easy thing to do: you just put /var/cfengine/masterfiles under version control and… you’re done?
What do you think? How do you version your own infrastructure?
Problem statement It turns out everyone likes …
I had a thought-provoking article by Rachel Shannon-Solomon forwarded to me. Essentially the article states that while DevOps is great for startups the enterprise isn’t ready for it yet. I’ve read/heard people disagreeing with this but I think the article raises some great points. At …
Companies of all sizes are under pressure to succeed in competitive environments requiring them to move faster with expectations of always-on service from their IT organization. However, these same IT groups are faced with significant challenges from manual processes, homegrown patchwork solutions, …