Daily Archives: April 18, 2014
Dev “Programming” Ops For DevOps Success. This video (with slide set) is a thorough presentation discussing the goals and challenges of devops.
Some Salt for that Heartbleed — SaltStack.
Saltstack is another automation and orchestration tool much like Chef and Puppet. The latest attack vector, heartbleed, is exploiting an OpenSSL vulnerability. OpenSSL has been remediated and now it is the sysadmin and devops job to apply the latest OpenSSL update to all their servers. To do this, using salt, they simply execute pkg.install openssl refresh=True; This single command can be used to remediate entire datacenters in less time than it takes to make a cup of coffee. Very, very powerful.
Docker is red hot at Red Hat | DevOps.comDevOps.com.
Great news for early adopters of RedHat’s OpenShift. Docker will allow portability of an app from start of engineering to full-scale production. Great concept that continues to repeat itself over time.
Pivotal, IBM to work with community to further develop the Cloud Foundry platform and establish open governance model for Cloud Foundry; Project to help developers drive open, collaborative innovation for cloud-based apps