Configuration Manager

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MM Configuration Management Best Practices

Bob Aiello, CM Best Practices Consulting

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 1:00pm

Robust configuration management (CM) practices are essential 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 change, reporting the system’s configuration, and auditing—won’t do the trick anymore.

TC Continuous Delivery: Rapid and Reliable Releases with DevOps Practices

Bob Aiello, CM Best Practices Consulting

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 8:30am

DevOps is an emerging set of principles, methods, and practices that enable the rapid deployment of software systems. DevOps focuses on lowering barriers between development, testing, security, and operations in support of rapid iterative development and deployment. Many organizations struggle when implementing DevOps because of its inherent technical, process, and cultural challenges. Bob Aiello shares DevOps best practices starting with its role early in the application lifecycle and bridging the gap with testing, security, and operations.