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Role-based access control (RBAC) is a way to limit access to secure IT systems by roles. In this blog about RBAC, automation, and system security, find role-based access control examples, RBAC security pointers, and the use case of Puppet Enterprise in RBAC.

If you’re doing cloud operations right, your cloud needs are going to change over time. Cloud scaling can help you add cloud resources when you need them and retire or recycle them when you don’t. Cloud scaling is great for meeting traffic demands, accommodating demanding workloads, and controlling the chaos of cloud ops.

What is infrastructure as code (IaC)? It's the act of turning OS, app, security, storage & other IT configurations as code. Learn how it's done & tools here.

Need to reduce tech debt? This blog with examples, strategies, and tools for tech debt reduction will help you kick your current tech debt and lay the groundwork for better DevOps in your software development organization.

Want to get started running Puppet software in Docker containers? Start here.

Threat vulnerability management across your entire attack surface has higher stakes than ever before — here’s where automation can help.

A platform engineer builds a platform of tools and workflows to enable better software development. In this blog, find out what a platform engineer actually does, skills that separate the good from the great, and what to look for when adding engineers to build your platform.

Want to migrate to the cloud? Learn from our experience – read this blog with strategies to avoid cloud migration mistakes first.

Get smarter about Day 1 of the software development life cycle with strategies that will help you succeed.

Configuration drift is going to happen no matter what you do. It’s very easy to miss, caused by some innocuous mistake or patch and buried in paper trails that don’t exist. By the time you’ve found which configurations have drifted, it usually means something’s already going wrong. But here’s the good news: You and your precious configurations don’t have to take it lying down.

What is continuous delivery? Explore the benefits of the continuous delivery pipeline and how it supports software delivery.

Policy as code is an infrastructure management approach where you write policies as code so they can be enforced at scale. In this blog for sysadmins and IT ops managers, we’ll share a few PaC tools, examples, use cases, and compare PaC to infrastructure as code (IaC).