One of the biggest application lifecycle management (ALM) challenges is dealing with the task of application deployment. The process can be complicated and multi-pronged, with many different ...

“Train as you fight, fight as you train” is an old Army truism. It is similarly true for the deployment process: “Plan your deployment, deploy your plan.” Deployment planning itself is a form of ...

The second Technical Preview of Microsoft Windows Server 2016 provided us with the first glimpse of Microsoft's scaled-down Windows Server deployment. One of the more unique capabilities of Windows ...

Read "Windows Nano Server Deployment 101, Part 1: The Setup," here. In the first part of this series, I explained that I had created a proof of concept, graphical installer for Nano Server. If you ...

Does it seem like the term Agile is being tossed around wherever you look these days? Some IT developers seem to eat, sleep and breathe Agile. They probably even do multiple build and test iterations ...

Apps run in the same scripted environment as the OS, which not only allows for greater control over the managing installations, but also provides a centralized process to ensure that a device is ...

When I write my column, I try to stick to specific hacks or tips you can use to make life with Linux a little easier. Usually, I describe with pretty specific detail how to accomplish a particular ...