The path to less toil for SREs begins with prioritization and automation

Modern Infrastructure Digest News and advice for creating tomorrow's data center | March 28, 2019 FEATURED STORY IT pros struggle with SRE transition By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer Aspiring SREs struggle to put aside infrastructure toil and think strategically about infrastructure automation. Veteran SREs say the path to less toil begins with prioritization and automation. (SearchITOperations.com) Advertisement NEWS   Kubernetes graduates Windows node support Kubernetes support for Windows nodes reaches an anticipated milestone of stability with release 1.14, but remains a long way from feature parity with Linux. (SearchITOperations.com)   Construction software maker enlists SRE software SRE software from startup Atlassian automates incident response procedures and eases postmortem incident review for business IT teams at Procore, a construction management software maker. (SearchITOperations.com) EXPERT ADVICE   Walk through an example of a Terraform module Terraform modules and variables enable IT teams to write reusable infrastructure components as code. Follow this example, which features AWS as a hosting environment, for a guide to creating and structuring root and children modules, and then apply them to a Terraform configuration. (SearchITOperations.com)   Open19 standard sets outline for vendor-agnostic server The Open19 foundation wants to make it easier for admins to set up server hardware and support edge data centers. The organization's cages, power shelves and network switches help admins build a compliant data center from the ground up, or retrofit rack space. (SearchDataCenter.com)   When to adopt multiple hypervisors Multi-hypervisor environments might seem complex, but when executed properly, they can provide flexibility and cost savings. Depending on licensing, the types of workloads you run and your performance and reliability needs, they might make more sense than using a single vendor. (SearchServerVirtualization.com)   Use vLCM to deploy and manage vRealize products VMware's Lifecycle Manager enables you to deploy and manage all vRealize products. You can also manage content from third-party platforms, such as Cisco and F5. This product enables you to set up test and deployment environments and push any changes into your production environment easily. (SearchVMware.com) About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Modern Infrastructure Digest, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget Data Center and Virtualization Media Group, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2016 TechTarget. All rights reserved.