Have you ever wondered how a site was designed and how the ideas were conceptualized into a webpage? If your answer is yes, you are in the right place! In this post, I will show you our journey to create our latest web page, CFEngine Build. From start to finish, how did we do the design and make the design decisions? So without further delay, let’s jump straight in!

Nowadays, staff in organizations are required to access multiple applications in their infrastructure. This can lead to the user having to manage multiple login credentials and passwords. There are many solutions available that provide a single sign-on (SSO) capability — such as Okta, LDAP, and Active Directory — which is becoming common practice across businesses.

The world has changed since I started out on a help desk in Colorado 25 years ago. In those long ago years, a company’s desktop machines actually lived under the desks of many in the organization (and often doubled as a foot warmer!) and configuration was done machine by machine manually, or maybe even by some script that was created to run at login if we were lucky. If there were laptops in use by the business users, they were a lot less mobile and rarer than in today’s business world...

Nearly two-thirds of IT executives say they plan to implement automation technology within the next year and a half. Despite this ambitious goal, however, 50% of those IT leaders admit that a lack of automation skillsets is currently hindering their progress. As the demand on IT infrastructures continues to grow at an astronomical rate, an epic increase in complexity has inevitably followed.

5G use cases and applications require unprecedented mobility, security, low-latency and tighter integration between wireless and mission-critical applications. To enable these expectations, intelligent infrastructure and automation technologies are being increasingly adopted worldwide. This is proving to be the fundamental backbone of successful, competitive business that is thriving to deliver industry 4.0 and 5G applications worldwide.

As ITSM thought leader and consultant Doug Tedder has said, “Automate the obvious.” So what’s obvious? We shouldn’t have to think very long…

When you write enough Puppet code, you will eventually find yourself in need of a Facter fact or Puppet resource type that doesn’t exist in Puppet itself. Then, if you’re like me, you go to the Puppet Forge and see if someone else has written what you need. Oftentimes, you find what you need, add a new module to your Puppetfile or module metadata, and move on with your life.

You only have to read regular news reports about the multiple outages across household names in banking and financial services, resulting in customers being unable to access their bank accounts, to know that cyber security resilience has never been more important and is on every organization’s radar. The threat of regulatory action, heavy fines, and the potential loss of banking licenses is very real.