Questions tagged [infrastructure]
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Release Management for Infrastructure
Does anyone use release management principals for system administration of infrastructure in the same way it is done for software development?
I have been in the system administration field for more than 10 years and I have yet to be exposed to a…
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Tool to describe information about infrastructure
I'm looking for something to describe existing infrastructure of working applications. What I need:
The ability to create new entities, add/edit properties of entity. Example of entity is Windows server with properties such as IP address, server…
mrusaev
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Cost saving measures from an IT perspective
We're looking at cutting costs in all departments, which of course, includes IT. There wasn't a whole lot of ideas other than auto-shutdown of all workstations at x-time and having low consumption power supplies.
I'm just wondering, are there any…
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Pros and cons of using appliances
I previously had negative feelings toward dedicated appliances. I enjoy getting my hands dirty and knowing the ins and outs of our infrastructure.
However, after some discussion with my colleague earlier today, I'm wondering if that's the actual…
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Questions to ask when choosing an infrastructure
My company will be in need of a backend to bootstrap its services and I'm in charge of the infrastructure choice. The products will consist of several apps (mobile, web, desktop) with a common backend (something like a huge API I guess).
Basically,…
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Do you know any application that helps to keep a inventory of dependency beetween aplications and servers?
with the grow of the number of servers and applications in our environment, we are facing a problem when we need to reboot some server and do it, thinking that is safe, and then we realise that some forgotten application, had a weird dependency to…
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Chef vs. Puppet: Which works best on Joyent SmartMachines?
Currently we're planning to take our app to a dynamic infrastructure and we're caught between Chef and Puppet. Each has pros and cons but seeking community answer from anyone who has experience with this.
Given cost, robustness, and support, which…
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