DevOps Chat: Startup Playbook, Founder to Founder Advice w/ Rajat Bhargava
Two old, good friends of mine published a book yesterday called Startup Playbook. The book is “founder-to-founder advice on how to create and build your startup.” In this DevOps Chat, I sat down with my friend and co-founder Rajat Bhargava. We talked about why he and Will Herman wrote this book, what he hopes others […]
DevOps Chat: ASRTM for DevOps with Rohit Sethi, Security Compass
In this DevOps/Security Boulevard Chat we speak with Rohit Sethi, COO of Security Compass about ASRTM, which stands for Application Security Requirements and Threat Management. Gartner has recently released a hype cycle on ASRTM, with Security Compass and its SD Elements offering named a leader in the market. Rohit gives us a good background and […]
DevOps Chat: Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM, on DevOps and Mainframe Systems
In this DevOps Chat we sit down with a frequent guest on DevOps Chat, Rosalind Radcliffe, distinguished engineer and mainframe expert from IBM. Rosalind talks to us about the latest generation of Big Iron from IBM, the z14 systems. Also, we discuss some of the new API and functionality that allows you to do just […]
DevOps Pro Tips on Cloud Management
In this DevOps Chat we are joined by Andy Richman of Park My Cloud and Samir Mehra of Cloud Health Technologies. Both of these cloud experts give sound advice on how you can best and most efficiently manage your cloud infrastructure, whether it is on AWS, Azure, Google or anywhere else. If you are interested […]
Third Annual DevOps Dozen Winners Announced
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the third annual DevOps Dozen Awards. In many ways this year was a watershed year for the DevOps Dozen, as the process of selecting, voting and choosing the winners was much more refined and mature. In each of the 12 (it is a dozen, after all) […]
DevOps Chat: IBM’s Cloud Private with Mike Kaczmarski, CTO DevOps and Service Management
In this DevOps Chat we discuss IBM’s Cloud Private. Cloud Private is the new offering from IBM that encompasses much of the different cloud offerings the company has developed over the years. Our guest on this DevOps Chat is Michael Kaczmarksi, an IBM Fellow and CTO of DevOps and Service Management. In his distinguished career […]
2017 DevOps Dozen Finalists Announced
We are today announcing the 2017 DevOps Dozen finalists. When I first came up with the idea of the DevOps Dozen 3 years ago, I hoped that one day it would grow into an award that really did recognize the best of the best in the maturing DevOps space. In its third year, I am […]
DevOps Chat: Chef Habitat Project Continues to Mature
When Chef Habitat was released a little more than two years ago (good devopsy.kinsta.cloud story on Habitat here and a good DevOps Chat on it here), many people in the DevOps community wondered where Chef was going with Habitat. It was a really ambitious vision, but could it meet its lofty goals? Habitat is now […]
DevOps Chat: ParkMyCloud Saves Wolfpack App Over 50 Percent on Cloud
In this DevOps Chat, find out how the developers of Wolfpack (wolfpack.run) are saving over 50 percent in cloud costs by using ParkMyCloud’s cloud management platform. Though the cloud offers many benefits to app developers and others, controlling the costs can sometimes elude organizations big and small. Cloud sprawl can quickly lead to large cloud […]
DevOps Chat: Microservices & Containers – Mastering the Replatforming of the IT Infrastructure
The replatforming of the enterprise IT infrastructure utilizing microservices and containers is no small undertaking and is usually provoked by a shifting set of key business drivers. That is precisely the case today. The term “digital transformation” is in the hearts and minds and on the lips of top-level business executives and IT leaders alike. […]
NGINX Delivers New Products to Manage Microservices
At its annual user conference in Portland, Oregon, in September, NGINX delivered releases focusing on the application platform market and support of delivering microservices architectures: NGINX Plus, an application delivery controller that combines a load balancer, content cache and web server. NGINX Controller, a centralized management and monitoring platform for NGINX Plus, which orchestrates the […]
CA World 2017: DevOps As Far As the Eye Can See
The show floor for CA World 2017 had one inescapable, very obvious feature: There was DevOps as far as the eye can see. No kidding. It was a stunning reminder that this multibillion-dollar-revenue company has gone all-in on DevOps and related technologies. While we know CA has spent almost a billion and a half dollars […]
The DevOps Cha-Cha from DOES San Francisco
The 4th annual DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) in San Francisco this week was, in my opinion, the best one yet. Lots to report about, but I wanted to call out a new trend I am seeing that I call the DevOps Cha-Cha. You remember the Cha-Cha: three steps forward, two steps back, cha-cha-cha. Actually besides […]
Bringing Balance To The Force Between DevOps And Security
Let’s not kid ourselves—I am not sure there ever has been balance among Dev, Ops and security. But with the advent of DevOps, automation and the cloud, whatever balance there was between DevOps and security seems to have been lost. DevSecOps, or DevOps Security, has sought to restore the balance between DevOps and security. At […]
DevOps Connect: DevSecOps Days @ RSAC Call For Speakers Is Open
For the 4th year devopsy.kinsta.cloud is proud to be producing DevOps Connect: DevSecOps Days @ RSA Conference. The event will be on Monday, April 16th, 2018. RSAC is the world’s largest security conference and so the perfect place to hold what we think of as the best day of DevSecOps. You can get full details […]
DevOps Chat: Aqua Security Seeks To Secure Containers
The migration to container-based application infrastructures is accelerating at a faster pace even than we saw with hypervisor-based infrastructure 18 or so years ago. Hand in hand with this is the race to provide better security solutions that are native to and purpose-built for containerized environments. Aqua Security has established itself in the container security […]
Puppet CEO Sanjay Mirchandani Reflects on a Year at Puppet
As Mike Vizard detailed, this year’s Puppet Conference featured an impressive lineup of new products and services brought to market. The company appears to be firing on all cylinders. The event also marked the first anniversary of Sanjay Mirchandani as Puppet CEO. I had a chance to sit down with him to review the past […]
Digital Transformation Survey: Help Us, Help You
The term digital transformation is probably one of the most overused, if not abused, terms in the tech/DevOps world today. Everyone is doing it, but what is it? Is it a synonym for adopting DevOps? What are its effects on you, your job and organization? What does it mean for software development and deployment? So […]
DevOps Chat: Cloud Sprawl, DevOps and ParkMyCloud w/ Jay Chapel
I bet you know how many instances you have running AWS or Azure or Google Cloud. OK, maybe you don’t. But whether you do or don’t, do you really have a handle on what your cloud infrastructure looks like? If you are like most, the answer to the question is no. Cloud sprawl, multicloud, hybrid […]
DevOps Chat: Harness.io, Continuous Delivery as a Service w/ Steve Burton
Today marks the launch of Harness.io, continuous delivery as a service. The company is founded by some of the original team at AppDynamics. They want to take the same kind of approach AppDynamics brought to APM, to the CI/CD market. We caught up with Steve Burton, VP of product marketing at Harness to get the […]
DevOps Chat: Shift Ops Left, Shift Dev Right with Kristian Stewart, IBM
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Dr. Kristian Stewart of IBM’s Cloud Event Management team. Kristian has some keen insights into the role of dev and ops and how they interact. Kristian calls it Shift Ops left, shift dev right. An interesting way of looking at things. As usual the streaming audio is immediately […]
DevOps Chat: How DeployHub and OpenMake Software Help CI/CD w/ Tracy Ragan
This DevOps Chat features OpenMake CEO Tracy Ragan. OpenMake are the producers of DeployHub and DeployHub Pro, which help DevOps with CI/CD. OpenMake is a company that was helping developers long before people spoke about DevOps. Using an open-source business model with DeployHub has transformed the company. We speak with CEO Tracy Ragan to find […]
DevOps Dozen Nominations Are Now Open
[su_heading]The 3rd annual DevOps Dozen awards are now open for nominations. [/su_heading] The DevOps Dozen honors the best of the best in DevOps. The third annual DevOps Dozen awards opened for nominations today. Finalists will be selected based upon how many people nominated them. The top 4 to 6 nominees in each category will then […]