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The world of IT operations is witnessing major changes with the Covid-19 pandemic. Gartner’s recent Business Continuity Survey found that only 12% of organizations were highly prepared to handle the impact of the coronavirus. With technology spend expected to decline by 8% this year, IT leaders will need to prioritize the right technology investments to meet customer, employee, and stakeholder expectations.
The summary: Cloudsmith provides a way for vendors to sell, license and distribute software as packages. To any customer, anywhere in the world, across a reliable and performant infrastructure, and handling all licensing and invoicing / billing challenges. As most of the readership of this blog will know, a huge proportion of the software developed around the world is dependent upon the third-party packages and libraries we integrate into our projects.
Using the bolt/terraform integration (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-terraform) Daniel shows how to create arbitrary infrastructure as part of system-level acceptance testing for modules using Puppet Litmus (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet_litmus). #litmus #testing #terraform
A friend that can’t keep a secret isn’t one you’ll rely on. The same is true for your mission critical CI/CD tool that you have to entrust with credentials for each integrated component. Keeping your secrets safe can be a challenge for CI/CD tools, since they need to connect to such a variety of other services. Each one needs its own password or token that must be kept hidden from prying eyes.
