Currently,
power
management
network
server
operation
and
maintenance
tasks
are
primarily
manual,
resulting
in
a
substantial
workload
low
efficiency.
This
paper
conducts
an
in-depth
investigation
into
automation
technology
using
Ansible.
To
begin,
it
analyzes
the
existing
challenges
cluster
highlights
significance
of
automated
maintenance.
The
delves
Ansible
framework
array
extraction
method,
with
specific
focus
on
exploring
account
password
generation
modification
techniques.
enhance
response
speed
architecture,
this
incorporates
configuration
module
Intel
SGX
functionality.
Storing
remote
host
information
permanently,
as
utilized
by
Ansible,
significantly
reduces
time
enhances
security
login
information.
Experimental
test
results
demonstrate
that
proposed
approach
can
generate
highly
complex
controllable-length
passwords
effectively.
Moreover,
system's
is
noticeably
reduced,
confirming
efficacy
solution.
Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1775 - 1779
Published: Nov. 7, 2022
Modern
DevOps
organizations
require
a
high
degree
of
automation
to
achieve
software
stability
at
frequent
changes.
Further,
there
is
need
for
flexible,
timely
reconfiguration
the
infrastructure,
e.g.,
use
pay-per-use
infrastructure
efficiently
based
on
application
load.
Infrastructure
as
Code
(IaC)
tool
automate
infrastructure.
However,
modern
static
IaC
solutions
only
support
infrastructures
that
are
deployed
and
do
not
change
afterward.
To
implement
dynamically
over
time,
programs
have
be
(updated
and)
re-run,
in
CI/CD
pipeline,
or
configure
an
external
orchestrator
implements
dynamic
behavior,
autoscaler
Kubernetes
operator.
Both
capture
behavior
program
prevent
analyzing
testing
configuration
jointly
with
its
behavior.
Docker
is
a
popular
technology
to
containerise
applications
together
with
their
dependencies
into
reproducible
environments.
In
Docker,
container
images
can
depend
on
others
through
inheritance.
Such
inheritance
propagate
bad
practices
and
security
vulnerabilities
from
parent
image
its
children.
Unfortunately,
Hub,
the
most
online
registry
of
images,
lacks
transparency
about
such
This
obscures
software
supply
chain,
possibly
leaving
users
unaware
quality
or
issues
caused
by
images.
Nonetheless,
we
found
Hub
be
an
understudied
topic
in
academia
date.
Therefore,
goal
this
paper
empirically
investigate
practice
Hub.
To
end,
collect
dataset
636,625
unique
belonging
repositories
identify
comparing
images'
layers.
We
leverage
constructed
network
three
aspects,
namely
structure
network,
how
child
differ
parents,
outdatedness
Our
results
show
that
community
directly
inherit
official
rather
than
other
ones.
also
observe
are
often
much
larger
parent,
comparison
may
indicate
existence
gaps
between
features
provided
those
required
consumers,
suggesting
need
for
more
ready-made
Finally,
find
around
half
use
outdated
at
time
built,
although
lag
usually
less
month.
However,
becomes
when
compare
against
latest
version
available
analysis
date,
up
70%
using
median
over
5
months
lag.
indicates
should
pay
attention
lineage
they
consume,
motivates
future
work
alleviating
technical
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
8(OOPSLA2), P. 2490 - 2520
Published: Oct. 8, 2024
Modern
applications
have
become
increasingly
complex
and
their
manual
installation
configuration
is
no
longer
practical.
Instead,
IT
organizations
heavily
rely
on
Infrastructure
as
Code
(IaC)
technologies,
to
automate
the
provisioning,
configuration,
maintenance
of
computing
infrastructures
systems.
IaC
systems
typically
offer
declarative,
domain-specific
languages
(DSLs)
that
allow
system
administrators
developers
write
high-level
programs
specify
desired
state
infrastructure
in
a
reliable,
predictable,
documented
fashion.
Just
like
traditional
programs,
software
not
immune
faults,
with
issues
ranging
from
deployment
failures
critical
misconfigurations
often
impact
production
used
by
millions
end
users.
Surprisingly,
despite
its
crucial
role
global
management,
tooling
techniques
for
ensuring
reliability
still
room
improvement.
In
this
work,
we
conduct
comprehensive
analysis
360
bugs
identified
within
prominent
ecosystems
including
Ansible,
Puppet,
Chef.
Our
work
first
in-depth
exploration
bug
characteristics
these
widely-used
environments.
Through
our
aim
understand:
(1)
how
manifest,
(2)
underlying
root
causes,
(3)
reproduction
requirements
terms
(e.g.,
operating
versions)
or
input
characteristics,
(4)
are
fixed.
Based
findings,
evaluate
state-of-the-art
reliability,
identify
limitations,
provide
set
recommendations
future
research.
We
believe
study
helps
researchers
better
understand
complexity
peculiarities
software,
develop
advanced
more
reliable
robust
configurations.
Infrastructure
as
code
(IaC)
is
the
practice
of
automatically
managing
computing
infrastructure
at
scale.
Despite
yielding
multiple
benefits
for
organizations,
IaC
susceptible
to
quality
concerns,
which
can
lead
large-scale
consequences.
While
researchers
have
studied
concerns
in
manifests,
aspects
orchestrators,
i.e.,
tools
that
implement
IaC,
remain
an
under-explored
area.
A
systematic
investigation
defects
orchestrators
help
foster
further
research
domain
IaC.
From
our
empirical
study
with
22,445
commits
mined
from
Ansible
orchestrator
we
observe
(i)
a
defect
density
17.9
per
KLOC,
(ii)
12
categories
components
appear,
and
(iii)
'Module'
component
include
more
than
other
11
components.
Based
on
study,
provide
recommendations
conduct
future
enhance
orchestrators.
While
Terraform
has
gained
popularity
to
implement
the
practice
of
infrastructure
as
code
(IaC),
there
is
a
lack
characterization
static
analysis
for
manifests.
Such
hinders
practitioners
assess
how
use
their
development
process,
it
happened
Company
A,
an
organization
who
uses
create
automated
software
deployment
pipelines.
In
this
experience
report,
we
have
investigated
491
alerts
that
occur
10
open
source
and
one
proprietary
repositories.
From
our
observe:
(i)
categories
appear
manifests,
which
five
are
related
security,
(ii)
resources
with
dependencies
more
than
no
dependencies,
(iii)
practitioner
perceptions
vary
from
alert
category
another
while
deciding
on
taking
actions
reported
alerts.
We
conclude
paper
by
providing
list
lessons
toolsmiths
improve
