Archives for May 2014
Month: May 2014
What’s new @DevOps.com
All of us here at DevOps.com have been very busy. In addition to adding some new writers and great new content, we have been working “outside the 4 walls of the website”. ...
Your End Users Want Everything: Here’s How to Give it to Them
In today’s application-centric business environment, the end user is king. Whether we’re talking about being first to market with the next big thing or adding new capabilities and features to an existing ...
Let DevOps be a business process
I just returned from an amazing time at the first Camp DevOps in Boulder, CO. It was held at University of Colorado, Boulder and in conjunction with Gluecon 2014. This is the ...
Automation domination (for security automation it’s a path)
Let’s face it, by nature security professionals are not the trusting type – in the least bit whatsoever - to put it bluntly. The concept of automating security makes them jumpy, testy ...
Enterprise DevOps is Real and Here to Stay
A recent column in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal argued that while DevOps is gaining inroads in small and mid-sized businesses, it’s facing a much less rosy future in large enterprises ...
An open-source pipeline for trusted images
There are a lot of good reasons to use a trusted image (aka “foundation image”), including reliability, reduced time to launch, secure configuration. [We’ve discussed them previously] In this article we are ...
Who’s side are you on anyway? DevOps Culture
Shame on you! Yes you, because there is a good chance you are thinking about DevOps all wrong. If you are a developer you might be thinking DevOps means IT goes away and ...
The Double-Edged DevOps Job Title
Last month at GWO in Atlanta I met Nathen Harvey with Chef. I liked his DevOps presentation, "DevOp With Me!", especially how he used "Walk This Way" by Run DMC and Aerosmith ...
DevOps and Enterprises, it’s a culture thing
Today author, DevOps evangelist and DevOps.com Advisory Board member Gene Kim published an article in the CIO Journal of the Wall Street Journal. The article was a response to an earlier article ...
Simplify and expedite server management
Deploying, managing, and maintaining servers can be tedious. Deploying, managing, and maintaining thousands, or tens of thousands of server instances is overwhelming—bordering on impossible—without the right tools. Thankfully, the right tools exist ...
Deputizing Everyone for Security – Building Agile Assurance
Those of us highly focused on the delivery pipeline of DevOps will wonder why we should include the security guy to the party. After all, aren’t they just going to slow down ...
Avoiding Parrot Processes
One of the things devops practitioners are tasked with is the provisioning and configuration of all sorts of infrastructure. Application servers, web servers, load balancers, proxies and database servers are among the ...