This blip is not on the current edition of the Radar. If it was on one of the last few editions, it is likely that it is still relevant. If the blip is older, it might no longer be relevant and our assessment might be different today. Unfortunately, we simply don't have the bandwidth to continuously review blips from previous editions of the Radar.Understand more
Jul 2014
TrialWorth pursuing. It is important to understand how to build up this capability. Enterprises should try this technology on a project that can handle the risk.
Virtualization and Cloud Computing have made it easy to procure and provision hardware and virtual servers. But with this flexibility comes scale and complexity, and managing our virtual estates has become increasingly difficult. Using techniques more familiar in the software development world such as TDD, BDD and CI offers an approach to managing this complexity and gives us the confidence to make changes to our infrastructure in a safe, repeatable and automatable manner. Provisioning testing tools, like rspec-puppet, Test Kitchen and serverspec, are available for most platforms.
Jan 2014
TrialWorth pursuing. It is important to understand how to build up this capability. Enterprises should try this technology on a project that can handle the risk.