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Puppet's new Cloud Migration Service helps migrate your PE installation
Adopting a public cloud platform like AWS has many benefits, but the process of moving your existing automation capabilities between on-prem and the cloud can present challenges and make it difficult to take full advantage of cloud. In fact, in a recent survey conducted by Puppet, we learned that many Puppet users are significantly influencing their organizations’ cloud migration planning, indicating that Puppet can play a key role in cloud migration.
Why Your Business Needs To Embrace Automation
Automation is a word that can cause some discomfort in the business world. There have been concerns that automation will lead to job losses and distress workers, but actually, automation can be used to help employees, and the two can co-exist in the workplace in peace. The technology has come on leaps and bounds in recent times, and now there are many different tasks and processes that can be automated with online tools, software, or equipment. Automation can bring a wide range of benefits to your business, so keep reading to discover why this should be something that is embraced.
The Major Benefits of a SOAR
SOAR — or security orchestration, automation and response — is a collection of processes, software and tools that allows teams to streamline security operations. SOAR platforms are a hot topic in the realm of cybersecurity these days, and with good reason.
Automate (almost) all the things
My mantra with regards to automation has always been, “If you do it more than twice, automate it.” And I stick by that, with a few exceptions. There are some things you should never trust to an automated script.
Don't Fear the Automation
Automation is often portrayed as a scary thing. Whether it’s artificially intelligent robots conquering the planet or a world where no one can find work because automatons have taken everyone’s jobs, movies and entertainment often paint automation with a horror brush. But IT pros know this isn’t the reality. They know automation is a tool capable of making their lives easier and helping their organizations run smoothly. Still, many IT pros fear automation for legitimate reasons.
TOP 10 IT Trends
Observability has gained a lot of momentum in the past year, be it full stack observability or data observability. Modern complex IT systems using clouds, microservices and serverless are easy to develop and deploy but extremely difficult to observe. These systems generate tremendous amounts of data and need an automated way of handling the volume. The next era of delivering customer experience is underpinned by the full stack observability capability.
Chatbots - Intro to Torq Webinar
The challenges and workloads facing today’s security teams are not getting easier, but the response methods of security teams are still manual, utilizing a patchwork of security tools that are not connected nor communicating with each other. What if you could utilize your organization’s most common communication tool (i.e. Slack) to bring security communications and operations into every part of your organization?
How GitHub's protocol changes impact your Puppet code deployments
GitHub is in the process of improving Git protocol security by removing insecure DSA keys and legacy ciphers, updating requirements on RSA keys, and adding more secure key signature algorithms ECDSA and ED25519. On January 11, GitHub ran a planned brownout event day to shake out affected clients. Our team at Puppet discovered that many users of Code Manager and r10k were affected by this change.
What SecOps Teams Can Expect in 2022
Traditionally, most organizations have had siloed departments wherein teams’ activities are highly separated and the objectives within organizational structures are divided. This operational methodology has brought about friction – especially within the IT department, where developers and ITOps lack collaboration.