In our On Premise hosting environment we still run a lot of applications on traditional stacks without using containers. In order to run them in a secured way we created a mature patch automation. Thanks to ansible, rundeck, icinga and a bunch of other opensource tools we are able to update and reboot most of our systems without our customers noticing. We do that throughout the day on a regular base using rundeck, or even on short notice if another “heartbleed” occurs.
Andreas and Rico are working in the Hosting & Domain Services department of Schwarz IT KG – the IT provider of the Schwarz Group (Lidl, Kaufland). Their department manages and automates their on-premise datacenters providing services for the digital departments of the Schwarz Group.