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.

• 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

• A native service for Microsoft Windows
• Knows how to speak LDAP protocol and can interoperate with Linux, OS-X and other non-windows hosts
• Central repository of Group Policy Objects (GPOs)

• Kerberos is a network authentication protocol that is used to authenticate user identity, secure the transfer of user credentials, and more

• 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.