Tag: devops

DevOps

Failover is dead

When doing a quick Google search of the keywords “failover meaning”, you will find this definition: “a procedure by which a system automatically transfers control to a duplicate system when it detects a fault or failure.”

Outsourcing

Outsourcing DevOps?

Of course not. You can’t outsource DevOps. Am I against my own business? (We do DevOps consulting/outsourcing). No, I’m not. I mean that DevOps is a cultural change. You can request help to improve processes, to set up Continuous Delivery and automation, or to implement new technologies like containers. But if you want to take…

Automation - DevOps - Infrastructure as Code

Centos7, Rackspace and kswap0

I’ve just started to test an application from one my clients in CentOS 7. A Python app that runs on Python 2.7 that is the default version in the latest version of CentOS/RHEL. As usual, all the cloud providers don’t configure the swap space by default, so I have to configure Chef to create it…

Infrastructure as Code - Security & Compliance

Salt and the bash security issue

Yesterday was published a Bash security issue. Details here. So, we needed to upgrade your instance very quickly. Thanksfully, we have SaltStack managing it. The procedure was simple as described below. To update our systems with Salt, just run: salt ‘*’ pkg.install bash refresh=True And to be sure that new nodes are deployed with the…