When systems engineers build or repair computer software or hardware, they need consistent processes in place to keep it running smoothly. Configuration management is the name for this set of ...

The DevOps stream from development to operations is a single overall process with a multitude of tasks underneath that push it along. Feedback loops must be maintained to ensure that any issues picked ...

Change is an essential part of IT, but it's often disruptive. An adjustment to one asset can throw other resources out of alignment -- sometimes in ways no one anticipated. Those misconfigurations can ...

A slew of vendors in the coming weeks will make their network configuration management tools available to corporate customers looking to automate the tedious and error-prone job of configuring ...

A review of the configuration management tool, Chef Progress. Learn about its features, pricing, and benefits. Chef (aka Progress Chef) is a configuration management tool that helps organizations ...

Which of these DevOps solutions is best for your enterprise? Read this helpful feature comparison of Chef and Puppet to learn more. If you’re looking for DevOps tools, there’s a good chance that Chef ...

We test five network configuration management products: AlterPoint’s DeviceAuthority Suite, Dorado Software’s RedCell, Rendition Networks’ TrueControl 3.0, Tripwire’s Tripwire for Network Devices (TND ...

Through a collaboration with Minnesota-based nonprofit health plan Medica, HealthRules Promote enables analysts to test configuration changes in minutes through a user-friendly web-based interface.

The Cloudflare engineering team observed that while Salt is a strong tool, managing it at "Internet scale" needs smarter observability. By viewing configuration management as a key data issue that ...