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In the high-stakes world of modern infrastructure management, "move fast but break things" is not a viable strategy. As organizations scale their digital footprints, the competing demands of velocity and vulnerability have created a new operational reality. Today, the integrity of your infrastructure is synonymous with the integrity of your business. For system administrators and DevOps engineers, the landscape has shifted. It is not enough to simply provision servers and deploy applications.

We’ve seen a huge explosion of interest in DevOps over the last few years. But for people who are new to these ideas, it’s not always obvious what DevOps entails and what the benefits are, particularly in larger environments. So, what is DevOps all about? And what do you need to know to succeed? In this blog, you’ll get a breakdown of how DevOps works, its benefits, and the best practices and tools that help teams build and deploy software with speed and confidence.

In 2025, DevOps teams faced a pivotal moment. The era of treating security as an afterthought was over. Practically overnight, airtight protection became a non-negotiable requirement across every layer of the technology stack, whether on prem, in the cloud, or at the network’s edge. For many teams, this wasn’t just a technical hurdle; it was a daily source of stress.

Python is deeply embedded in modern infrastructure, but many organizations continue to run outdated Python across critical systems. Sticking with older runtimes may seem harmless, but it quickly piles up technical debt as teams spend more time maintaining fragile code and applying workarounds. Over time, that debt translates into a high financial drain.

IT compliance is a broad discipline that ensures your organization’s systems operate in line with privacy, security, and regulatory expectations. Security and compliance teams use technical controls and automation to monitor, correct, and maintain compliance across the entire IT estate. Without a solid IT compliance management strategy, your organization faces elevated risks, from security breaches and downtime to financial penalties and legal consequences.

Puppet Edge Workflows, available with Puppet Enterprise Advanced, provide the orchestration tools to define multistep workflows to run against your infrastructure. This allows Puppet experts to create workflows that Ops teams can run without having deep Puppet language knowledge or the underlying infrastructure.

Over the course of 2025, the Puppet Core team has been committed to developing secure, hardened Puppet code that our customers can rely on. As part of that shift, many Puppet platform components, including Facter, were brought under the Puppet Core model and were moved into private repositories.

In early October, Red Hat disclosed a breach of a GitLab system used by its Consulting division. Threat actors claim to have exfiltrated hundreds of gigabytes of project data — and while investigations are still underway, reports suggest consulting engagement artifacts may have been impacted. For the organizations involved, the concern isn’t limited to reputational damage.

When thinking about imperative infrastructure commands and Day 0 tasks for provisioning infrastructure, Ansible is an oft-mentioned tool that has been popular among practitioners for its easy YAML syntax and agentless architecture. You might have used Ansible to get your infrastructure started or for other “one-and-done” infrastructure automation scenarios.

Whether you are an all-in vibe coder or AI skeptic, you probably know that most software developers are now incorporating AI into their day-to-day process.