Archives for June 2014
Month: June 2014

Q&A with Gene Kim: Bringing the auditors to DevOps
As more enterprises embrace DevOps, organizational disconnects often are created between what controls DevOps teams have in place and what IT controls auditors believe need to be in place. And if the ...

Infrastructure-as-code, new rules for the old game
There’s been a lot of discussion regarding DevOps and its role in fostering quality and continuous improvement through increased levels of automation. In turn, this automation is fostered through emerging infrastructure and ...

DevOps doesn’t end at deployment
If you ask five IT admins the question “What is DevOps?” you maybe get eight different answers. We’ve attempted to define and explain the term DevOps here on DevOps.com a few different ...

DevOps Rock Star dinner
I have been so busy running from conference to conference lately. Next on the agenda is the Velocity conference in Santa Clara, Ca. While I am sure the conference is going to ...

National Renewable Energy Laboratory Uses DevOps For Better Compliance
One of the big stumbling blocks naysayers claim DevOps can't overcome is the perceived incompatibility of DevOps with high levels of compliance regulations. But forward-looking IT practitioners at financial institutions, healthcare organizations ...

DevOps, Growth Hacking & other ways to rule the world
DevOps will disrupt management styles, speed the end to ancient IT practices, and flatten away processes that don’t focus on doing more with less. But DevOps is not the only dev-led movement ...

The web-scale avalanche
Old-school businesses may not like it, but they're competing with Google, Facebook, Amazon and other Internet powerhouses because those players have grown from day one with an eye on rapid, scalable, cloud-based ...

The DevOps value stream is not SOP
#devops #lean Don't confuse doing something faster with greater efficiency. Much of the focus on DevOps remains at the implementation level - on gaining efficiencies through automation of tasks and orchestration of ...

Five Top Tips for Cloud and DevOps Automation
A while back, I overheard someone asking why many of the 'cloudy people' have moved on to DevOps. One reason is certainly that cloud is at the heart of DevOps. Many of ...

DevOps > Cloud, SaaS, SDDC, and apple pie
Over the weekend I was chatting with a really successful venture investor who recently published a top trends list. That made me think about DevOps vs. Cloud and vs. SaaS and vs ...

How Ansible makes automation easy
Continuing our series of videos from the recent Gluecon 2014 conference, here is our next one again courtesy of CloudSoft. In this video Peter Sankauskas talks about using Ansible to make automation easy ...

Environment Variables – The Ultimate Gotcha
We all think that we understand variables very well. After all, if you are a coder, a variable is something you create and use every day. But when it comes to DevOps ...