Configuration Management

Tutorials

MH Configuration Management: Robust Practices for Fast Delivery NEW

Bob Aiello, CM Best Practices Consulting

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 8:30am

Robust configuration management (CM) practices are critical for creating continuous builds to support agile’s integration and testing demands, and for rapidly packaging, releasing, and deploying applications into production. Classic CM—identifying system components, controlling changes, reporting the system’s configuration, and auditing—won’t do the trick anymore.

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AW2 Scaling Git for the Enterprise

Bob Aiello, CM Best Practices Consulting

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 11:30am

Due to its ease of use and distributed repository infrastructure, Git is quickly becoming the version control system of choice for many. Getting started takes only a few minutes, and available online tutorials explain Git basics and more advanced features including branching. As easy as Git is to implement, many developers find Git challenging to scale for large enterprises. Some go to Cloud-based Git service providers; others implement tools such as Stash and gitflow for effective branching patterns and variant management.