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Automated acceptance testing is a powerful tool for catching problems related to misconfiguration. We’ll show you how to implement your own acceptance testing environment with a free tool called goss.

Ankur Kumar

Misconfiguration has long been a major problem in the IT world. Any admin can recall a scenario in which Dev did something, QA did another thing, and other departments did their own thing to pass the software through its stages of delivery. Finally, the product fails because of unknown manual tricks and black magic. Who could forget the time wasted in painful war room sessions, always wondering and struggling to reason about the weird failures? In fact, misconfiguration has been identified as the root cause for many recent public cloud outages – even for the tech giants like Amazon and Google. Listing 1: Dockerfile_ServerBase FROM ubuntu:22.04 How do you solve config misconfiguration and parity issues in the modern cloud-driven IT world? Open source solutions come to the rescue. In this…

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ADMIN Network & Security (Digital) - 1 Issue, January/February 2023

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