Want to Succeed at DevOps? Don’t be a Hero
When people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them I help teams to adopt DevOps. Inevitably I have to explain what DevOps is: I [...]
VM from Custom Image with Terraform and Azure
(originally posted on anniehedgie.com) Last week, I gave you some basic tips about working with Terraform in Azure, and today I want to show you what I’ve learned about creating [...]
Terraform and Azure
(Originally posted on www.anniehedgie.com) I’ve been really getting into Terraform lately and have been interested to see how well it plays with Azure. I have to say, I’m pretty impressed [...]
The Top 8 Reasons to Attend a DevOpsDays Event
So, you’re attending a DevOpsDays event. Congrats on choosing la crème de la crème of DevOps-related conferences. For those unfamiliar with the event, DevOpsDays is a worldwide series of technical [...]
10th Magnitude’s Top 5 Azure Migration FAQs
Our team of experts has performed hundreds of cloud migrations over the course of nearly seven years. In this blog, we asked five of our cloud experts, “What’s the number one question you’re asked about Azure migrations?” Their responses were varied and covered everything from security and reliability, to best practices in formulating a plan for migrating your current IT infrastructure.
Embracing the Agile Methodology in a Multi-Region Team
Ryan Kelly, Senior Consultant at 10th Magnitude shares advice and best practices for how to embrace the agile methodology across a multi-region team. This blog It defines the agile methodology and how it works. It tackles how to get buy-in and adoption from distributed teams with different agendas, cultural differences and mindsets.
Compliance as Code: An Introduction to InSpec
One of my main goals at 10th Magnitude is to make every cloud migration or implementation safer and more secure than it used to be on premise. One way in which we can get a greater assurance of security is to not only see the infrastructure as code, but to see the compliance as code, too.
Cubs, Cloud and Culture: 2017 Predictions for Business (and Baseball)
In this blog, Alex Brown, CEO of 10th Magnitude shares his predictions for 2017. Among the highlights include frontrunners in the cloud game, a bigger focus on cloud security, the continued momentum of DevOps and a shift towards cloud managed services.
Using Power BI for Application Tracing and Diagnostics Logs
Not being a big data or business intelligence (BI) guy myself, it’s been a fascinating experience familiarizing myself with the two areas. BI can always be linked to each and [...]
DevOpsDays Dallas: Q&A with Trevor Hess and Annie Hedgpeth
DevOpsDays Dallas held in mid-September was a rousing success and 10th Magnitude can’t thank the organizers enough (including our own Annie Hedgpeth). Those in the industry converged upon—you guessed it—Dallas [...]
Getting Started with Azure Service Fabric on Git + TeamCity
For those of you like me who are fans of Git + TeamCity, you’ll notice an immediate gap in the documentation provided by Microsoft on how to deploy to a [...]
DC/OS: The Incredible Scalable Container Platform
I have some big news to share: I’m pleased to help announce and be a part of the GA release of DC/OS 1.7! This marks a move by Mesosphere to [...]
Don’t Be an Ostrich: Cloud Makes Software Your Competitive Advantage
In this blog, 10th Magnitude's CEO Alex Brown discusses the age of cloud adoption. Companies of all sizes are migrating to be faster, more agile, more cost efficient, more impactful and more dynamic. He defines four categories of companies - the Classic, the Found, the Enabled and the Ostrich - and how software has provided them with a competitive advantage (or not).
Creating a DevOps Culture: Identifying a “Single Person of Failure”
IT organizations spend a lot of time trying to eliminate single points of failure in their systems. Equally problematic is the “single person of failure” problem, which can have consequences [...]
Embrace DevOps and Continuous Delivery to Kiss Versioning Goodbye
Over the summer, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 will be the last version of the Windows OS. Not that it will be the end of the OS, but it will [...]