What is hybrid cloud automation, and how can it help manage specific tasks in your environment? With more and more infrastructure moving into public, private, hybrid, and multi cloud environments, you may be exploring ways to automate manual processes that happen in the cloud — like configuration and deployment tasks. Let's dive into the definition and benefits of cloud automation, as well as some methods to approach this strategy in increasingly complex heterogenous computing environments.

Choosing an automation and configuration management solution like Puppet vs. Chef often feels like comparing apples to oranges (or apples to... differently shaped apples). From the outside, it’s hard to tell which tool does what, let alone which will perform best in your infrastructure. If you’re researching Puppet vs. Chef, this blog will explain some of the commonalities between Puppet and Chef, what makes Puppet unique, and what to consider when researching Puppet vs.

What does your patch management process look like? Are you proactive and on top of everything, or holding onto a life raft trying to ride out the waves? In this blog, we’ll break down a few of our top tips to help improve your patch management process and ensure that your org is staying secure, staying up-to-date, and not drowning.

The Biden-Harris administration released the National Cybersecurity Strategy on March 2, 2023. The national cyber strategy document establishes expectations and offers guidance on how the United States government intends to protect the country’s digital assets and critical infrastructure from the threat of cyberattacks.

From its inception to today, we get a lot of questions about the past and future of the Puppet Developer Kit (PDK). In this article, we will provide a few answers to the most common questions, as well as a roadmap ahead.

The broad umbrella of IT security includes standards, tools, technologies, and human practices that reduce risk and protect your systems. System hardening is one conceptual catch-all for those components of IT security – but what does system hardening mean in relation to your actual day-to-day operations? And how do you achieve system hardening without burdening your whole team?

Deployment automation can simplify and speed up your software delivery cycle. It can reduce risk, allow teams to easily test after changes are made, and help provide consistency for the overall development pipeline. If it sounds complicated, we’re here to break it down each step into a cheat sheet that provides tips and best practices for the deployment automation process.

Growth is universally considered a good thing for businesses. Do more work, make more money, get your products and services to more people. But you’ve got to make sure your IT tools and processes can keep up. For organizations experiencing change, scaling DevOps is one of the most important factors to consider in sustaining that growth. In this blog, we’ll share some of the most salient criteria, use cases, and considerations for scaling DevOps in your organization.

The concept of the internal developer platform (IDP) isn’t new to anyone who’s been doing DevOps for the last couple decades. But the recent explosion of interest around platform engineering, particularly among business leaders, has led to a re-examination of the IDP as we know it.

Looking to understand the difference between Ansible vs. Puppet? In a DevOps landscape crowded with different tools that can handle configuration management, complex tasks, and compliance requirements— you’ll want to make sure you are equipped with the right tool for your org’s needs.