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StackEngine Webinar - Docker and the Future of Configuration Management

StackEngine Webinar – Docker and the Future of Configuration Management

I hope you’ve been enjoying our Docker and the Future of Configuration Management blog roundup!  I’m joining Jon Reeve of StackEngine, who’s sponsoring the roundup with prizes and such, in a Webinar this week to discuss the various points of view we’ve seen covered. The Webinar will be on Wednesday Dec 09, 2015 at 11:00 AM CST. Register now…

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Immutable Delivery

This article proposes a design pattern modeled after “Immutable Infrastructure”, something I call “Immutable Delivery”.  There has been a lot of debate and discussion about the usage of the term “Immutable” lately. Let me clearly say that there is no such thing as an immutable server or immutable infrastructure. I know of no example in my 35 years of working with IT infrastructure of a system or…

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Container Automation: Building a Brickyard

Container Automation: Building a Brickyard

My name is Nathaniel Eliot, and I’ve worked extensively in software deployment over the last several years. I have worked on two automation frameworks around Chef: Ironfan, an open-source cluster management system from Infochimps, and Elzar, a (sadly closed-source) blue-green framework based on Spiceweasel. I currently work at Bazaarvoice, where I’m building out a Flynn.io installation. Barnyard…

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Templating Config Files In Docker Containers

Templating Config Files In Docker Containers

Configuration management does many things, and it does most of those quite poorly. I could write a long essay on how by solving software problems with more software we’re simply creating more software problems, however I will attempt to resist that urge and instead focus on how Docker and the Docker ecosystem can help make configuration management less sucky. Ignoring volume mounts (which are an…

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Containers, Configuration Management, and The Right Tool for the Right Job

Containers, Configuration Management, and The Right Tool for the Right Job

Docker brings an incredibly appealing method of managing applications to the table, but also requires us to rebuild a lot of systems that aren’t broken. In this post I’m going to look at the pros and cons of Docker and its accompanying ecosystem, and take a look at how one might start to leverage the best parts of Docker without rewriting everything. What is it about Docker that is so exciting?…

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