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Platform engineering tools are the apps and services in an internal developer platform (IDP), like configuration management, provisioning, testing, automation, CI/CD, and more. Your actual IDP should comprise tools your team actually needs: Your choice of platform engineering tools matters because it defines what your dev team can do on their own.

Event-driven automation can turn repetitive, manual, daily tasks into something that you set and forget. It’s a great way to trigger automatic events and prevent human error. In this blog, we'll explore a few event-driven automation programming examples, from sending an email to a certain group of users when a file has been uploaded to a server to generating reports.

Managing compliance can seem like a losing game. It seems like you'll never be ahead – like you'll always be fixing drift after it happens, only for your configurations to inevitably slip again. Managing compliance becomes a vicious cycle of scanning to hunt down drift, fixing it as best you can, and waiting for it to happen again.

If you’re looking for SaltStack alternatives, or a comparison of Puppet vs. SaltStack capabilities, look no further — we’ll walk you through the differences in features and overall purpose to help you make a smart choice.

Digital transformation is happening all around us: for every business sector, across every type of organization. For government agencies, keeping up with digital transformation is riskier due to the large number of legacy systems still in use. Government risk management and digital transformation go hand-in-hand.

What is hybrid cloud automation, and how can it help manage specific tasks in your environment? With more and more infrastructure moving into public, private, hybrid, and multi cloud environments, you may be exploring ways to automate manual processes that happen in the cloud — like configuration and deployment tasks. Let's dive into the definition and benefits of cloud automation, as well as some methods to approach this strategy in increasingly complex heterogenous computing environments.

Choosing an automation and configuration management solution like Puppet vs. Chef often feels like comparing apples to oranges (or apples to... differently shaped apples). From the outside, it’s hard to tell which tool does what, let alone which will perform best in your infrastructure. If you’re researching Puppet vs. Chef, this blog will explain some of the commonalities between Puppet and Chef, what makes Puppet unique, and what to consider when researching Puppet vs.

The Biden-Harris administration released the National Cybersecurity Strategy on March 2, 2023. The national cyber strategy document establishes expectations and offers guidance on how the United States government intends to protect the country’s digital assets and critical infrastructure from the threat of cyberattacks.

From its inception to today, we get a lot of questions about the past and future of the Puppet Developer Kit (PDK). In this article, we will provide a few answers to the most common questions, as well as a roadmap ahead.