World Of Agile

Tools are inherent to our jobs, inherent to how we solve the problems we face each day. Our comfort level with the set of tools that are available to us, and our ability to adapt to new tools as they evolve and shape our thoughts and ideas. The availability of collective knowledge within the palm of your hand combined with the collaboration across organization and company boundaries through open source software is dramatically disrupting the status quo of work. Companies mired in managing infrastructure configuration management by hand with unknown numbers of divergent systems, unable to quickly change and respond to market demands will struggle against their counterparts who have managed to contain their complexity on one axis through infrastructure automation. While it is possible to manage servers by hand, or even artisinally crafted shell scripts, a proper configuration management tool is invaluable especially as your environment and team changes. Even the best software developers ...