DevOps

  • US Air Force embraced ‘DevOps’ philosophy during Desert Storm

    US Air Force embraced ‘DevOps’ philosophy during Desert Storm

    I joined the US Air Force in December of 1988. I was serving at RAF Upper Heyford outside of Oxford, England when the United States initiated Operation Desert Shield to contain Iraqi aggression. I was deployed to Incirlik AB, Turkey for Desert Shield, and subsequently for Operation Desert Storm–the combat operations that liberated Kuwait from…

  • Simplify and expedite server management

    Simplify and expedite server management

      When it comes to IT infrastructure and server management, there is an easy way to do things, and a hard way to do things. The fact is that most of the tasks involved in deploying and configuring servers–especially virtual servers–are routine and repeatable, which makes them ripe for automation. There is another benefit, though,…