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Are speed and security mutually exclusive?

Here’s a situation that is likely familiar to you if you work in enterprise IT. The need for strong security practices is more pressing than ever, with known vulnerabilities growing exponentially, and nearly half of companies having experienced a data breach in the last two years. At the same time, organizations face demands to deploy software faster, and more frequently. IT executives consistently identify cybersecurity and speed among their top priorities.

Use Onceover to start testing your Puppet control repository

I am a Puppet beginner and I’m happy to make the code manager integration happen. I like to play around with my code and test my code changes on my agent nodes. However, the way I’m testing my code is a bit tedious: Save my code change, push into remote repo, run code deploy, and run Puppet on agents. Is there a simple way to quickly test my code? Yes! The answer is using Onceover.

Configure and manage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure components with Puppet

As many Oracle customers plan their migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or OCI, proper tools should be considered in order to make a smooth transition. We’re excited to share that Enterprise Modules, a key contributor to the Puppet ecosystem, has recently created a module that extends the Puppet language to contain types needed to create and manage the lifecycle of objects within your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

How Organizations Are Evolving to Implement Automation and AIOps

So much of the digital transformation conversation is naturally focused on technology, but technology alone isn’t transforming any business. The rest of the story depends on the people and evolving the culture to drive adoption, champion benefits, and advocate for wider acceptance. Driving change organizationally to implement wide-scale IT automation and AIOps starts with developing the right message.

Four Challenges to Moving to Continuous Delivery

In this paper, we talk about four common challenges to today's software delivery automation and discuss how you can overcome those challenges. Continuous delivery (CD) enables organizations to deliver quality software in record time, helping businesses meet rapidly growing and changing demands. As CD practices and tools have matured, more organizations and teams are beginning - or are well down the path of - their own journeys, using automation to speed up software delivery.