What does immutable mean?

stonehenge; unchanging

Immutable

Unchanging over time or unable to be changed.

You are paying too much for your cloud servers

Datacenters of the 50s

Datacenters have been with us for a very long time. Since the 50s with the large mainframes. Now the datacenters have moved and we can rent servers. In this article I will share my approach to building servers for the cloud instead of for the datacenter.

What is devops?

DevOps Culture and Business

I am often asked what do I do?

Until recently I didn’t have a clear way of describing my product / service of my role as a DevOps dude.

Automating servers while you sleep

On a daily basis, my code runs to build multiple environments for the database warehouse project. The dev side of DevOps is about the role of creating and testing the automation processes.

Puppet 5

It has shipped! Puppet 5 is here and the gem has been available since the 27th June 2017.

Puppet 5 shipped

What does this mean to us DevOps techies though?
The main ‘features’ of puppet 5 are largely around standardising on other product version numbers of the major puppet components. Server, puppetDB and Agent.