IT Ops Teams Starting to Exert More Cloud Control
August 21, 2015
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.
One of the more subtle things that has changed over the last year or so when it comes to cloud computing is how much more involved IT operations teams are these days. For that very reason cloud service providers such as ProfitBricks are starting to focus more on the IT operations experience.
ProfitBricks this week announced that it has added support for both the Ansible and Chef IT automation frameworks to its cloud service. That move comes on the heels of making available a command line interface at the end of last month. Matt Baldwin, head architect for ProfitBricks, said that like a lot of cloud service providers ProfitBrick is making this shift because while application programming interfaces appeal to developers, IT operations teams want access to tools that enable them to management a cloud service consisting of infrastructure that spans multiple applications…
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