Introduction Recently we have been fortunate to work with one of our enterprise clients on the development and launch of a mission critical system running on AWS. The system carries the highest criticality rating for the enterprise, requiring complete deployment automation using their existing AWS deployment pipeline, whilst maintaining the highest levels of availability and […]
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After much persuasion, deliberation and perhaps a couple of false starts, the board has agreed to a full cloud migration. Now what? Three paths to keep your cloud strategy on track Gartner first outlined the ‘5 Rs’ of cloud migration in 2011. Microsoft broadly follows this framework – albeit with some additions and adaptations. More […]
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Introduction Secrets management in public cloud environments continues to be a challenge for many organisations as they embrace the power of programmable infrastructure and the consumption of API-based services. All too often reputable companies will feature in the news, having fallen victim to security breaches or costly cloud resource provisioning through the accidental disclosure of […]
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Best Practices for Implementing DevOps in Very Large Enterprises Earlier this year at DevOps Days Toronto and Vancouver, we gave a presentation outlining several tips and techniques for implementing DevOps within very large enterprises. We used a mixture of humour and memes to convey some of the difficulties when moving from a traditional ITIL-style approach […]
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Overview The past twenty-five years has seen a rapid decrease in the cost of genetic sequencing, from $2.7 billion dollars for the human genome project (completed 2003), to roughly $1000 dollars today. This decrease in cost has led to the development of the personal genomics testing via companies like 23andMe and AncestryDNA, who provide these […]
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On a recent client engagement I had the opportunity to develop Datadog dashboards to monitor a production Microsoft Active Directory deployment and expose vital metrics relating to service health and capacity. Building on basic monitoring of the core infrastructure running these AD/DNS instances, we dived deeper to collect and present service-specific metrics, service statuses and […]
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The pros and cons of Ansible and Puppet, from a lead DevOps engineer who’s worked extensively with both tools. I have realised that people still struggle to find differences between Ansible and Puppet. As more of a Puppet person myself, when I had to switch entirely from using Puppet to Ansible within my role, I […]
Introduction One of the key tenets of DevOps is to involve operations teams in the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) and ensure that ‘operational requirements’ (ORs, formerly known as ‘non-functional requirements/NFRs’) are incorporated into the design and build phases. But how does this work in practice? To help answer that question we have compiled this […]
The Agile Product Owner There’s a lot of talk about the ‘product-centric’ approach to DevOps but what does this mean for the role of the agile product owner? Agile author Mike Cohn from MountainGoat Software says they act as a project’s key stakeholder: “Part of the product owner responsibilities is to have a vision of […]
So, you want to do DevOps? OK, but before you start, let’s have a look at some of the things you shouldn’t do. In the good old days, we just called them ‘bad ideas’, but along came diplomacy and political correctness. Out went the ‘brainstorm’ and in came the ‘idea shower’, and with it came […]