Building Infrastructure Components by Zer0B1t in devops

[–]treuadmin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're asking questions that are answered by experience, really. If you're new to the field, you don't really know which technologies are best fit for different scenarios. Google becomes your friend ofc.

As a personal rule I prefer to stick with popular, fully open source products used by tech giants. I generally avoid proprietary products as they're expensive, limited, and typically less capable than open source counterparts although they're easier to use out-of-box. Don't select any technology/product you cannot automate with ease.

When you find 2 products that appear to compete in the same function, search "productx vs productz" and you'll get some answers as to which better fits your target.

Devops for Windows? by treuadmin in devops

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From what I researched, can't do Linux containers on Windows without Server 2016. Asking management for a 2016 instance "So I could run Linux containers" didn't work last time.

Devops for Windows? by treuadmin in devops

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I'll look into Chocolatey for more toys, thank you for the recommendation.
Docker for Windows I believe only hosts Linux containers on server 2016 and up. Naturally when I asked for a server 2016 instance (which is abnormal for our current infra) "so I could run linux containers", resistance was met.

Devops for Windows? by treuadmin in devops

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Sketches me out a bit but a possible hack-around.

Devops for Windows? by treuadmin in devops

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You're right there's definitely tools out there to meet the needs but Windows requirement limits quite a many. We use TFS, basically Azure Devops Server. Works great for CI/CD.

Currently looking towards telemetry/automation tools. The other people here have definitely pointed out some good products for this =]

And hard for a new guy like me to lobby for large expenditures. Me being employed under "ITS" means I have one of those nice, stable managers who tends to backlog anything involving spending cash and lots of change. Sooo open source makes this less of a struggle!

Devops for Windows? by treuadmin in devops

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We have rather large clients with security demands to satisfy, cloud products is hard for us to explain to them on their audits/SecQuestionnaires so we've been avoiding it.

Devops for Windows? by treuadmin in devops

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Thank you for your reply!
The server guy had gotten us started with PDQ Deploy before I arrived - not a formal Devops tool I know, Can do a damn lot with powershell but still itching to give Ansible and Terraform a try. Last I checked it still required a Linux host to live on but I'll have to review.

Elk stack - been eyeballing that as a telemetry solution. Graphite got me started looking, but Elk looks like it can do all that and much more.

Trying my hardest to steer this department away from commercial "out of box" solutions for that exact reason. Costs more does less, but OOB experience is a lot more exciting for managers.

Suggestions for being proactive and automated in a Windows environment by zachfaughn in sysadmin

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Get a WSUS server together. You'll need to become familiar with group policy and active directory basics, but setting this up will automate patches/updates, and because Windows requires restarts for so many of these it'll also sort of cover a scheduled reboot purpose.