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Webistrano is a easy-to-use graphical deployment tool. It is based on the deployment tool Capistrano and offers a substantial graphic interface including user-management and logging. It lets you manage projects and their stages like test, production, and staging with different settings. Those stages can then be deployed with Capistrano through Webistrano.

This is the official Opscode Knife plugin for HP Cloud. This plugin gives knife the ability to create, bootstrap and manage instances in the HP Cloud.

... things can be put right with Vagrant, a tool to create and distribute virtualized environments and Puppet, a tool which helps you with your configuration management. This article will illustrate their use with an example of how to construct a simple Java web application stack.

An Opscode Chef knife plugin to manage Chef Servers. Currently only bootstrapping new Chef Servers is supported (on Amazon's EC2) but node data backup and restore is planned.

Reading through the documentation, I saw it mention Puppet and Chef which both appeared to be some sort of witchcraft that allowed you to automatically configure and setup these virtualised servers. Bingo. Easy server configuration management.

System administration is in a sad state. It in a mess. I'm not complaining about old-school sysadmins. They know how to keep systems running, manage update and upgrade paths. This rant is about containers, prebuilt VMs, and the incredible mess they cause because their concept lacks notions of "trust" and "upgrades".

If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there, writes Michael Coté as he looks at management's strategic use of DevOps, or lack thereof.

DevOps isn't just about Dev and Ops. It's about corporate management as a whole.

DevOps Knowledge Base - This knowledge base includes topics of: Software Configuration Management, Continuous Delivery, Infrastructure Orchestration and DevOps