As the automation surface area grows to accommodate hundreds of interconnected APIs on the cloud, developers are using their own, home-grown “digital duct tape” to manage a growing “DevOps dumping ground”. For a lot of organizations, home-grown glue logic is inconsistent, not repeatable, and expensive to maintain hundreds of event-based workflows and thousands of combinations. We believe that the answer lies in automation workflows.

SMEs struggle with keeping business processes running smoothly, from managing workflows to keeping records on sales and customer interactions. However, small businesses can make their life in business smarter and easier by integrating automation tools. Business automation is fast transforming how brands carry out their operations. In essence, the size of business does not matter when it comes to automation.

Over the last few decades, some firms have worked hard to hire the right people and develop the right processes. However, those achievements have not translated into bottom-line growth. A more detailed examination of that matter shows that the issue lies somewhere in productivity.

As the industry leader in the DevOps space, we’re excited to share recent updates to the Puppet Enterprise platform that give infrastructure operations teams the flexibility to manage and automate more infrastructure and complex workflows in a simple yet powerful way.

Patching systems is not a new problem; this is something that organizations are very familiar with. Organizations have tried solving this issue in various ways by cobbling together multiple tools, processes, different teams, and more. Organizations are constantly trying to stay secure and keep their systems up to date, but patch management isn’t a simple process. In fact, applying the patch itself is just one part of the overall workflow, which involves multiple teams and various steps.

There’s next to nothing in the world that hasn’t been impacted by COVID-19. We’ve now reached the stage of the pandemic where we’re evaluating the effect on every part of our lives. Over the last few weeks, I’ve spent a lot of time speaking with IT leaders and reflecting on how the business technology landscape has been shifting.

In classic Puppet deployment architecture, compile masters are widely used when the number of managed nodes goes up. Multiple compile masters sit behind a load balancer to take care of the additional workloads. It is not rare to see Puppet adopters launching the compile masters in the public cloud, such as Amazon Web Service (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform.

Many attempts to simplify programming lead to visual interfaces that provide approachable settings for common tasks. These simplifications may appeal to non-developers, but they send experienced coders running for the command line. Yet, no code tools are rapidly expanding. Zapier, Integromat, and Workato are becoming more popular options and some believe developers won’t be needed for most integrations in the future.