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Entries Tagged ‘Automation’

A Case For Images

After speaking with Luke Kanies at OpsCamp, and reading his good and oft-quoted article “Golden Image or Foil Ball?“, I was thinking pretty hard about the use of images in our new automated infrastructure.  He’s pretty against them.  After careful consideration, however, I think judicious use of images is the right thing to do. My […]

Agile Operations

It’s funny.  When we recently started working on an upgrade of our Intranet social media platform, and we were trying to figure out how to meld the infrastructure-change-heavy operation with the need for devs, designers, and testers to be able to start working on the system before “three months from now,” we broached the idea […]