Archives for November 2014
Month: November 2014

CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins November 19th
We recently held another webinar in our continuing series at DevOps.com. We partnered with the good people at CloudBees on CI and CD across the enterprise with Jenkins. The webinar featured: Cyrille ...

Choose Digital Chooses Jenkins For Continuous Deployment
Challenge: Shrink Time To Innovate Choose Digital offers a white label media store solution (think iTunes) for enterprises that want to reward brand loyalty with opportunities to use miles, points, or cash ...

AWS Lambda – Useful for DevOps Automation?
One of the highlights of AWS re:Invent, judging by the twitter stream and the points emphasized in Amazon CTO Werner Vogel’s Day 2 keynote and blog post, was the launch of Lambda ...

AWS Best Practices – Enterprise Perspective
Amazon AWS has changed the IaaS game for startups and growth companies. There are several practices we must acknowledge the importance of during the adoption and implementation of AWS services. Readers are ...

Docker vs VMs
All applications have their own dependencies, which include both software and hardware resources. Docker containers bring numerous unknown tags to the chart as compared to existing technologies in use. In terms of ...

You Asked for Quality, You Got Alienated QA
The role of Quality Assurance (QA) is creating a bit of a buzz these days, because even as teams and budgets are shrinking, the demand for better quality is increasing. The chilling ...

Infrastructure Automation and API Taxes
That automation is one of the critical components of DevOps is apparent in numerous surveys and studies that focus on the benefits organizations have realized from implementing the approach across operational groups ...

The Conundrum of Adopting DevOps within Organizational Constraints
I wish I had a dollar for each time I've now heard, "we're adopting DevOps, but we have to operate within the constraints of what the business is ready to accept." Basically, ...

Q and A: ITinvolve’s Matthew Selheimer on DevOps and Culture Change
The intersection of DevOps and culture is a common subject here at DevOps.com. Is it tools and processes that help support the culture, or does the culture of an organization drive toolset ...

Closing the Gap Between Database Continuous Delivery and Code Continuous Delivery
The most important feedback I get about the current state of database delivery is directly from the DBAs I meet with. Their DevOps teams are stuck in manual database delivery purgatory. Development ...

Detours Ahead: Overcoming DevOps Challenges
Saying that you’re interested in DevOps is another way of saying you’re interested in change. That’s what DevOps promises any organization. No matter the problems a company is trying to solve or ...

XebiaLabs Offers Free Community Edition of XL Deploy & XL Release
BOSTON – November 18, 2014 -- To introduce the DevOps community to the powerful benefits of launching applications to the market via automation, XebiaLabs today announced it will offer free community editions ...