How to mix cloud computing and DevOps to maximize productivity
December 30, 2013
Grazed from TheServerSide. Author: Jason Tee.
Over the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that DevOps represents a significant cultural shift for the programming and production sides of IT. Today, the tooling that supports this new, more enmeshed way of developing, deploying and maintaining apps is just coming into its own. However, the fact that both Dev and Ops are transitioning to the cloud adds another interesting wrinkle. What steps might help when blending DevOps with the Cloud?
#1: Use cloud-friendly tools
According to Simon Maple, the technical evangelist for ZeroTurnaround, clients have to take command—literally. The key to managing DevOps in the cloud is a command center hosted by the client to which each managed server connects directly. "For a new instance to become accessible to the command center, all it would need is an agent running on that local server…
That’s something that can easily be dropped into cloud instances." With a solution that bundles the app, the database and the config, it is simpler to push out minor or major changes across the cloud…
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