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Virtual Machine Test Harness (VMTH): Test Your Configuration Management

Topics
Devops,
IT Service Management,
Operations,
Infrastructure,
Cloud Computing,
Testing

A Google search for “devops” yields tons of interesting postings and even a couple of manifestos. Refine the search further to “devops quality” and the results become less direct; “devops testing” simply doesn’t exist according to Google. That said, things are starting to change. In late April Greg Retkowski released Virtual Machine Test Harness (VMTH), for unit-testing infrastructure automation.

Unix Orchestration Roundup: Tools for Programmatic Systems Administration

Topics
Puppet,
Devops,
Orchestration,
Operations,
IT Service Management,
Infrastructure,
Cloud Computing

While system administrators have always written code to automate tasks and many developers run their own systems, the melding of development and operations into devops has really taken hold as sophisticated configuration management and orchestration tools have become available.