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What's New in the PowerMax API 10.2

Unisphere 10.2 has just been released, and as usual I will try to give the 1000 foot overview of the top changes in the REST API, and why you should consider upgrading. The full API documentation is available, as always, at https://developer.dell.com/apis/ . Just search for PowerMax and you can ...

Streamlining Lab Infrastructure with Ansible Terraform and AWS

A core tenet of DevOps culture is automation. DevOps is of course not limited to automation, it’s a major organizational mindset shift that comes along with cultural, organizational and technological changes to ultimately be able to deliver software more efficiently and effectively while keeping high quality standards. Of course, this ...

PowerProtect Data Manager Deployment Automation – Deploy PowerProtect Data Manager in Minutes

In the spirit of automating EVERYTHING , this blog will showcase the complete deployment of PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM). In the PPDM universe, we have auto-policy creation and ad-hoc VM backup solutions, use-case driven tasks, and so on -- all available in the official PowerProtect Data Manager GitHub repository . ...

EKS Anywhere overview

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Launching new Terraform providers for Dell Infrastructure Solutions

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Managing your on-premises infrastructure with HashiCorp Terraform – Part 9

This is the ninth blog post in a series to introduce infrastructure admins and engineers to Terraform. Before we learn about how enterprise DevOps for on-premises infrastructure, you can review the previous blog posts to make sure you are up to speed: Terraform on-premises infrastructure Terraform Dell PowerStore Terraform resource ...

Accelerating and Optimizing AI Operations with Infrastructure as Code

Accelerating and Optimizing AI Operations with Infrastructure as Code Achieving maturity in a DevOps organization requires overcoming various barriers and following specific steps. The level of maturity attained depends on the short-term and long-term goals set for the infrastructure. In the short term, IT teams must focus on upskilling their ...

KubeCon Musings: Dell @ KubeCon EU Amsterdam

Dell recently attended KubeCon EU in Amsterdam I have the pleasure of joining the Dell team at the booth to talk about everything from Dell’s Container Storage Modules for Kubernetes to our validated stacks and future cloud offerings. We even had Alienware gaming computers and a full-blown podcast booth where ...

An Introduction to KubeVirt, Virtual Machines on Kubernetes – DevOps Dialogs Lightboard Series

>>>Embedded content: https://www.youtube.com/embed/JniNepFJHLs Kubernetes is the DeFacto standard when it comes to running cloud native applications for the enterprise. Many organizations are modernizing their development and build processes to run their applications in containers, but what does this mean for existing applications that are already running in virtual machines? Virtual ...

Dell APEX AIOps Infrastructure Observability - SSO Groups

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Reflections on Monktoberfest 2022

Monktoberfest is a perfect blend of season, community, food, and beer. For those wondering, Monktoberfest is a day and half of talks in the northeast city of Portland, Maine. Monktoberfest takes place during the fall season and blends unique talks, craft food and beer. The talks center around the crossroads ...

DevOps Dialogs - Infrastructure-as-code

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What is Persistent Storage in Kubernetes? – DevOps Dialogs Lightboard Series

Persistent Storage in Kubernetes is provided by both the Persistent Volume and Persistent Volume Claim objects in the Kubernetes API (Application Program Interface) resources . Persistent volumes give applications a place to store data where the data remains protected beyond the lifecycles (failure, restart, reschedule...) of an individual container, pod, ...

ArgoCD deployment of stateful application & Dell PowerFlex container storage services

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Episode 6: Exploring DevOps Solutions

A DevOps Docuseries: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future

Episode 4: Exploring DevOps Challenges

A DevOps Docuseries: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future

Managing your on-premises infrastructure with HashiCorp Terraform - Part 2

Most of the Terraform content out there targets developers and public cloud. In contrast, this blog focuses on Terraform as an automation tool for system and storage admins and infrastructure engineers operating physical hardware. Terraform on-premises infrastructure Terraform Dell PowerStore Terraform resource dependencies Terraform variables Terraform Dell PowerMax This post ...

Episode 5: The DevOps Community

A DevOps Docuseries: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future

Bringing Efficiency to Dell Business with RabbitMQ Messaging Self-Service

RabbitMQ messaging platform is widely used in Dell Digital to connect various distributed heterogeneous applications at scale. It provides a common platform to exchange messages between producing applications and consuming applications. Providing a ready-to-use, production-grade RabbitMQ messaging platform to application developers requires wiring up various services from multiple departments across ...

What is GitOps? – DevOps Dialogs Lightboard Series

GitOps sounds and resembles terms like “DevOps,” so what is the difference and how are they related? GitOps is a form of DevOps and arguably a subset of DevOps. GitOps is focused on the tools and workflows that involve Git. Git is a version control utility widely used across the ...

Episode 1: What is DevOps?

A DevOps Docuseries: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future

Announcing CSM Release 1.6!

Introduction The first release of 2023 for Kubernetes CSI Driver & Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) is here! The official changelog is available in the CHANGELOG directory of the CSM repository . CSI Features Supported Kubernetes distributions The newly supported Kubernetes distributions are: Kubernetes 1.26 MKE 3.6 RKE 1.4 Note ...

PowerProtect Data Manager Automation – Lifecycle Management

In this installment of the PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) automation series of blogs, we will focus on a new solution that automates PowerProtect Data Manager life cycle management. For PPDM automation, we have auto-policy creation and ad-hoc VM backup solutions, use-case driven tasks, complete PPDM deployment automation , and so ...

Multi-Cloud Kubernetes as a Service

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Episode 3: Implementing a DevOps Strategy

A DevOps Docuseries: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future

Getting started with Terraform provider for Dell PowerFlex

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DevOps Dialogs - Persistent Storage for K8s

Kubernetes Videos

An introduction to the 4 Cs of Cloud Native Security

There is no shortage of complexity when it comes to building a platform based on Kubernetes. There are countless examples of DevOps and platform engineering teams who fall prey to easily misconfigured Kubernetes clusters and cloud-native technologies. Not to mention the challenge around security posture given the pace at which ...

Dell’s Developer line turns 10! -- A decade of Project Sputnik & the lessons learned

10 years ago, Dell’s first developer system, the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 developer edition became available in the US and Canada. What made this product unique was not only that it had been developed out-of-process and by a team largely made up of volunteers, but it targeted a customer segment completely ...

DevOps Dialogs - GitOps

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Episode 2: The Evolution of DevOps

A DevOps Docuseries: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future

Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition -- with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS pre-installed

Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition -- with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS pre-installed A month ago the Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition was recertified for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. This meant that owners were able to self-install the latest LTS knowing that it had been thoroughly tested by Canonical on the ...