You are paying too much for your cloud servers

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Datacenters of the 50s

Datacenters have been with us for a very long time. Since the 50s with the large mainframes. Now the datacenters have moved and we can rent servers. In this article I will share my approach to building servers for the cloud instead of for the datacenter.

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What is devops?

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DevOps Culture and Business

I am often asked what do I do?

Until recently I didn’t have a clear way of describing my product / service of my role as a DevOps dude.

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Automating servers while you sleep

On a daily basis, my code runs to build multiple environments for the database warehouse project. The dev side of DevOps is about the role of creating and testing the automation processes.

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Puppet 5

It has shipped! Puppet 5 is here and the gem has been available since the 27th June 2017.

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Puppet 5 shipped

What does this mean to us DevOps techies though?
The main ‘features’ of puppet 5 are largely around standardising on other product version numbers of the major puppet components. Server, puppetDB and Agent.

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Avoid unexpected big bills from AWS

Burning Money

AWS costs can burn your money

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