If you aren’t on the front lines of infrastructure monitoring and automation, it might be difficult to appreciate what great monitoring and automation tools can do to innovate for your organization. But even when equipped with the best tools, big organizations move slowly and require a lot of stakeholder input prior to taking action.. so even the biggest wins can happen in slow motion…which isn’t very satisfying. We like [Read More…]
Before jumping into the particulars on how ARIA Pipeline, Assembler, and Config tackle automation, let’s recap what is meant by “automation.” Automation in the DevOps lifecycle exists in 3 stages: Dev stage, DevOps stage, and the Ops stage. For the Dev stage, we’re attempting to perform Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CICD) wherein code can be imported by a software developer, merged into an existing code base, unit tested for [Read More…]
The software development process is complex with many non-developer stakeholders who need to understand the process, measure the progress, and anticipate timeline delays. The standard DevOps framework (below) imagines this process as a continuous integration lifecycle that organizes a handful of key stages. I’ve numbered the stages and overlayed some VMware products into each stage to make the concepts more concrete in nature. Here’s the same DevOps lifecycle with [Read More…]
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