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Tips for Modern IT Admins’ Career to the Cloud
Fifteen years ago IT professionals experienced a drastically different day-to-day on the job. While the main mission has always remained constant—to take charge of all internal infrastructure—the infrastructure itself has moved off-premises over time. The complexity rested in networking for IT professionals. Routers, switches, firewalls and other gear needed to be managed so the network […]
Feb 4, 2020 · 3 minAll articles by Rajat Bhargava
Showing 1–12SSH Key Management and Your Organization
It always starts out the same way: a few machines, a few users and a few SSH keys to manage. You manually copy their keys (and your own) to the appropriate machines. You might even say, “Screw it,” and share one key for root access. Admit it. It’s OK. Well, no, it’s not OK, but […]
Setting Up Google Authenticator on Multiple Servers
Google Authenticator is pretty great. It allows me as an administrator to set up and configure multi-factor authentication into my UNIX boxes without having to spend money on a tool like YubiKey or RSA tokens. It’s easy to set up on any type of phone—no specialized hardware or dongles needed. It’s also pretty cool in […]
2014 – The year of identity security breaches
There’s no doubt that 2014 will be remembered in the IT industry as a year of major security breaches. The year started with virtually every US resident worrying whether they’d been affected by the Target breach, and ended with the massive security breach of Sony and their film “The Interview.” And was, all along the […]
How to talk to your CFO about DevOps
How to talk to your CFO about DevOps As DevOps practitioners, we understand the value of DevOps: It helps keep our infrastructures automated, allows us to push out code regularly, and reduces the frequency of breaks. But, does our CFO understand its value as well as we do? Probably not. The question is: How do […]
Is Ops the quarterback of the DevOps team?
Without stepping too deeply into the charged debate on whether or not developers are at the pinnacle of the IT food chain, I’ve recently observed that many of the DevOps leaders I’ve been speaking with are from operations. For me it begs the question – are the ops folks quarterbacking the DevOps process at most […]
DevOps and Enterprises, it’s a culture thing
Today author, DevOps evangelist and devopsy.kinsta.cloud Advisory Board member Gene Kim published an article in the CIO Journal of the Wall Street Journal. The article was a response to an earlier article by Rachel Shannon-Solomon in which the author claimed that DevOps was not likely to be successful in the enterprise at least not at the present […]
DevOps adoption – Enterprises (part 2 of 2)
A large enterprise has institutionalized an incredible number of processes. Their fundamental approach to IT has been built over years if not decades of experience. Their leaders may have grown up with these methodologies and approaches. In this article I wanted to continue the thread I started in my last article about how different organizations adopt […]
DevOps Adoption – Startups
This is part 1 of a 2 part article DevOps is somewhat unique in that it has applications to both large enterprises and to startups. The way DevOps is adopted in startups is incredibly different than how it happens in large organizations. The profile of how DevOps is adopted in each of these cases is the […]
Is DevOps a Title?
So, I’ve wanted to write on this topic for a while as I think it deserves a little attention! I’ve heard numerous times that you shouldn’t have DevOps in your title or that job reqs shouldn’t be “DevOps Engineers”. This came up again at the DevOps State of the Union event that we hosted in […]
Survey Says: Positives and Negatives of DevOps are Two Sides of the Same Coin
Isn’t that the way it always works? A person’s strength can also be their weakness. A company’s killer product becomes their Achilles heel as the market shifts. As more and more companies make the shift to DevOps, it’s interesting to learn what’s working, what the opportunities are, and what the impediments are. As many of […]
Ops is dead, long live DevOps
Yes, that’s a bold statement, but if the vibe at the recent AWS re:Invent conference was any indication there are a number of methodologies, technologies, and companies working to make that a reality. This article isn’t focused on whether this is a good or bad thing (my personal belief is that ops will always be […]