by Russ McKendrick | Apr 27, 2020 | Azure, DevOps, General, Russ McKendrick
Ansible and the Azure REST API Over the last few months I have been doing more and more work with Ansible to manage end-to-end deployments in Azure. For the most part Ansible’s core set of Azure modules work with no problems and more than do the job. However, with... 
by Russ McKendrick | Feb 22, 2019 | DevOps, Russ McKendrick
So, you’re thinking of moving to a DevOps approach but don’t know where to start? Concerned about how long it will take? Unsure about how to keep up the momentum once you’ve taken the first step? There are many advantages of adopting DevOps, for... 
by Russ McKendrick | Nov 23, 2018 | DevOps, Russ McKendrick
It’s no secret that I like automation, so much so that I wrote a book called Learn Ansible which, as you may have guessed, covers the basic usage Red Hats Ansible. While I try and automate as much as possible, there are a few basic rules I stick to and questions I ask... 
by Russ McKendrick | Oct 4, 2018 | Russ McKendrick, SRE
Key points Building a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) capability requires changes in hiring, training, and organisation behaviour Adopting SRE needs enhanced trust across the IT organisation An SRE Managed Service can help organisations get the benefits of SRE... 
by Russ McKendrick | Sep 25, 2018 | Russ McKendrick, SRE
Key points Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a radically new approach to IT operations The ‘everything as code’ approach brings a software engineering mindset to operations SRE teams are empowered to say ‘no’ to software with low...
