Which Components of IT Infrastructure do we need for DevOps?
Many companies that want to move to DevOps eventually struggle with the question “What are the Components of IT Infrastructure we need? The use of DevOps stems from the desire to be able to release software more often and faster. The traditional Operations Team (OPS) however will not wholeheartedly embrace this because they would rather benefit from maintaining a stable infrastructure and its maintenance.
The default groups, that we talked about before, like domain users and domain admins are security groups. They're used to grant or deny access to IT resources.
A distribution group, is only designed to group accounts and contacts for email communication. You can't use distribution groups for assigning permission to resources.
The service that hosts copies of the Active Directory database are called domain controllers, or DCs
Hosts a replica of the Active Directory database and group policy objects.
Serve as DNS servers to provide name resolution and service discovery to clients.
Provides central authentication through a network security protocol called Kerberos
Decides whether or not clients have access to shared resources like file systems and printers
Active Directory has been used to centrally manage networks of computers
One of the most common methods for this authentication is using Kerberos.
role-based access control, or RBAC
Is an approach to restricting system access to authorized users.
Controlling access to resources isn't all you can do. You can also centralize configuration management.
You wouldn't want to setup printers or software for each and every user.