It’s never been easier or faster for companies using the cloud to deploy infrastructure on AWS. That’s the good news. The not-so-good news? You can’t move fast without compromising security, compliance, and control. Well, you can’t unless you automate your cloud infrastructure policies, including compliance and security. Hold that thought for a moment. Here are four common hurdles nearly every organization using the cloud encounters: Inconsistent enforcement of regulatory compliance policies (PCI, HIPAA, NIST 800-53) Uneven use of internal governance policies Uncontrolled shadow IT, ad hoc automation, and tooling sprawl Increased demand for cloud expertise Viewed from a higher level, companies using the cloud need to see all resources running across environments, accounts,...
No matter how you built your cloud—no matter what tools or services you’ve used to provision an application’s infrastructure—you can migrate existing workloads to Fugue easily and securely with no downtime. At AWS re:Invent this week, November 27 - December 1, test out Fugue’s automated infrastructure governance with our team at booth 1600 or explore Fugue’s new migration and enhanced compliance capabilities at www.fugue.co/migrate. By migrating to Fugue, enterprises, agencies, and DevSecOps teams in any organization centralize their control and visibility of systems running in the cloud, while accelerating secure deployments and updates. Human error—typical with scaled, enterprise infrastructure and costly in dollars and consumer trust—is drastically reduced since Fugue highlights...
Twenty minutes or two weeks to spin up your new applications and new product features? Automated care and feeding of infrastructure that requires minimal human intervention or bespoke care and feeding that requires continual attention? The choice seems pretty obvious. Back in 2006, Jeff Bezos was building Amazon Web Services (AWS) to solve a core problem for businesses: undifferentiated heavy lifting. Getting great ideas and applications to market fast is key in holding a competitive edge. If you transform parts of the IT pipeline that require a lot of time, effort, and money—the same parts that every business has to contend with—into fast, easy-to-use, efficient parts, you win. Or, at least, you’re a few laps ahead. Bezos, with foresight to grow AWS into what’s now the largest cloud...
This article was first published in DZone's Cloud Zone on April 3, 2017. The repercussions of recent cloud outages—AWS’s S3 crash and Azure’s Active Directory cascading failure—linger in IT departments and manifest in revenue loss. But, the bigger story is that the next outage is around the corner—unpredictable, coming to get us on a random Tuesday. Whether businesses are using cloud providers, on-premise data centers, or hybrid setups to host web services and backends, infrastructure failures are a fact of life and have to be on our radars as a matter of routine. This makes architecting for failure and for the future, from the start, among the most pressing imperatives for business IT departments. The next five years will see the rise and democratization of centralized control...
For Fugue, providing documentation is about more than just creating a high-level reference for information. Our documentation content ranges from examples of creating complex infrastructure with Fugue to walkthroughs of integration with a number of popular devops tools in use today, which is what we’re here to talk to you about. So… why did we build this particular example? In short, we picked an integration with CircleCI as one of our examples because it is a great way to automate the build, test, and deployment processes. It provides integration with some of the most popular source code management systems like Github and Bitbucket, and is used by leading edge companies including Facebook, Kickstarter, and Spotify. Continuous integration (CI) speeds up development and release...
In a recent report, Ovum described Fugue as "a CMDB for APIs." A configuration management database (CMDB) is a single source of truth for configuration of complex systems. This is a crucial aspect of Fugue, one where running your operations with Fugue offers a lot of value to you. Fugue's CMDB is an effect of our declarative model for configuration, built around our typesafe, compiled Ludwig language. The Fugue CMDB is not a proprietary store with a form-based interface; it is Ludwig code, managed in a VCS of your choice, like git or svn. That code is a declarative configuration of infrastructure (or other API) state. Once it is run as a process in Fugue, that declaration is made real and immutable with machine precision. In this way, a well-managed body of Ludwig compositions and a...
The approach taken by Fugue is to allow cloud infrastructure to be treated as code. This concept is required if developers are to generate applications that can exploit the cloud's capabilities and deliver on the promise of immutable infrastructure. -Ovum's On The Radar report on Fugue Fugue provides simplification of your life on the cloud through abstractions. Abstractions can be expressed in one of two ways: as black boxes, or as language. Fugue puts as much into language as we can, so that you can do things with it that we didn't predict. Black boxes are easier for a platform builder to make, because they do things in one particular way. They are also less flexible for the user, because they do things in one particular way, which may not be the way the user needs or prefers.
Testing is the process of executing a program or system with the intent of finding errors. — Glenford Myers, The Art of Software Testing, 1979 Testing is any activity aimed at evaluating an attribute of a program or system. Testing is the measurement of software quality. — Bill Hetzel, The Complete Guide to Software Testing, 1983 Testing is a concurrent life cycle process of engineering, using and maintaining testware in order to measure and improve the quality of the software being tested. — R. Craig and S. Jaskiel, Systematic Software Testing, 2002 Here at Fugue, we’re building a system that automates and enforces the operation of your cloud infrastructure. It’s powerful, resilient, and easy to use. Under the hood, this system is made up of a collection of services...
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