Roaring Elephant

Today we are joined by Mark Phillips, product marketing manager and more interestingly, heavily involved with Ansible at Red Hat. Now, rather than making this episode specifically about Ansible, Mark shares his extensive expertise on the subjects of orchestration, config management and automation. Mark shares his 25 years of experience on various questions covering the usual  "what, why and who". A bit of history is included and of course the difference in approach for cloud versus on-premise also come up. Specific terminology is explained and we cover the usual excuses for not using things like config management. For those that are still on the fence the information shared by Mark should give you a firm grasp of the concepts and deployment methods and help you get started. During the interview, Mark mentioned a number of blogs and other online resources: Why failure should not be celebrated in the startup world "Migrating the runbook - from legacy to DevOps" at IPExpo London 2015 As work gets m