The rise of elastically scaling applications that frequently deploy new machines has led to
the adoption of DevOps practices across the cloud engineering stack. So-called …

Presently, there is no satisfactory model for dealing with political autonomy of agents in
policy based management. A theory of atomic policy units called 'promises' is therefore …

Network and system administration usually refers to the skill of kee** computers and
networks running properly. But in truth, the skill needed is that of managing complexity. This …

This paper describes a mean field approach to defining and implementing policy-based
system administration. The concepts of regulation and optimization are used to define the …

A method is proposed whereby values for Service Level Objectives (SLOs) of an SLA can be
chosen to reduce the sum IT infrastructure cost plus business financial loss. Business …

Hosts in a well-architected enterprise infrastructure are self-administered; they perform their
own maintenance and upgrades. By definition, self-administered hosts execute self …

Current self-healing systems are built from “convergent” actions that only make repairs when
necessary. Using an algebraic model of system administration, we challenge the traditional …

The immunity model, as used in the GNU cfengine project, is a distributed framework for
performing policy conformant system administration, used on hundreds of thousands of Unix …

Experiments that analyze dependencies in RedHat Linux and RpmFind. net show disturbing
conflicts and overlaps between software packages that result in installing multiple differing …

A rigorous language for discussing the issue of configuration management is currently
lacking. To this end, we develop a simple state machine model of configuration …