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When to Automate Recurring Events
“Is it worth it?” is probably the most common question customers ask business architects and value advisors. Whether it’s a software deployment or process improvement, customers want to be assured that the effort and risk of a project delivers real value. That is the question people in my line of work spend their days trying to answer. In many cases, the answer is complicated and requires a great deal of experience to explain.
3 Automation Tools Service-Based Startups Should Invest In
If you've recently started a service-based company, you probably see yourself investing too much time in tedious operational tasks. Do you want to know how you can automate mundane business operations without hampering productivity?
Puppet Extends Compliance Enforcement to Support Open-Source Puppet Users in Meeting CIS Benchmarks
Security and compliance policy management tops the list of gaps for organizations.
3 Reasons to Migrate from Ansible to Puppet
Why make a migration from Ansible to Puppet — or in some cases, start with Puppet over Ansible right out of the gate? In this blog, we’ll explore some common reasons that organizations say they chose Puppet over Ansible, citing specific use case examples around the functionality of each platform.
Cloud Scaling: Secrets to Stability + Security When Scaling Cloud Computing
If you’re doing cloud operations right, your cloud needs are going to change over time. Cloud scaling can help you add cloud resources when you need them and retire or recycle them when you don’t. Cloud scaling is great for meeting traffic demands, accommodating demanding workloads, and controlling the chaos of cloud ops. But for all the flexibility that cloud scaling offers, it can also introduce liabilities in your cloud infrastructure.
How to monitor Azure Automation Runbooks?
This video guides you through developing an Automation solution with Azure Automation accounts. The primary objective is to streamline the management and monitoring of these services for IT support operators, irrespective of their expertise in Azure. Mike demonstrates how you can add an automation runbook to a Business Application in Serverless360 to manage it alongside the other resources that make up your solution and how we can democratize some of the support to the IT support operators.
Warranty Management: How to Automate Hardware Warranty Checks
Warranty Management systematically administers warranties and maintenance contracts for an organization's hardware assets. This practice is also crucial to hardware maintenance and your IT budget since keeping a constant eye on them will contribute to using them when needed (instead of paying for fixes). Now, checking warranties manually leaves too much room for human error. But once again, automation saves the day.
Azure Automation is more than just PowerShell
Azure Automation is a powerful IT Automation service in use by thousands of organisations. Many organisations are using Azure Automation just as a PowerShell runbook execution service and are unaware of its wider capabilities.
How to set up home automation: A beginner's guide with Grafana Cloud and Home Assistant
I first learned about Home Assistant when my previous job’s manager shared that he charms his wife by using home automation to have Alexa announce the weather as she starts getting ready for the day. After that, he showed us the cool Grafana dashboards where he visualizes his entire home automation setup on a screen in his basement. As fate would have it, I got a chance to work for Grafana Labs soon after that, and I started building my own home automation setup using Grafana Cloud.