A Panel Discussion On What DevOps Looks Like In 3 to 5 Years?
With all of the hype around DevOps, I wanted to return to a topic that I was lucky enough to moderate a terrific panel on at IBM InterConnect this past February. The panel was an all star one anchored by Gene Kim, moderated by myself and we were joined by Dan Berg of IBM, Michael […]
DevOps Chat: Mike Pittenger, Black Duck Software on Open Source and DevOps
I recently had a chance to speak with Mike Pittenger, Vice President of Strategy for Black Duck Software. Black Duck is a company that I have been following for many years. They pioneered the idea of auditing open source usage to ensure compliance with licenses and such. Of course over the years they have expanded […]
DevOps Chat: Software Lifecycle Management with Michael Azoff, Ovum
I had a chance to sit down with Michael Azoff, principal analyst for Ovum. Ovum just released a set of matrices that Michael was the author of on ALM, DevOps release management and one on Agile project management. Taken together they provide some great insight into the entire software lifecycle management space. I had a […]
Container Usage and Adoption, Here is Your Chance to Tell Us What You Think
We are teaming up once again with ClusterHQ for an update on Container usage and adoption. Our new survey is available and shouldn’t take more than 5-7 minutes of your time. We are looking to see if the container adoption and usage has changed since our last survey last summer. Please take a moment to […]
The DevOps Institute, What a Difference a Year Makes
It was just about a year ago that we announced the formation of the DevOps Institute (DOI) here on devopsy.kinsta.cloud. Wow, what a difference a year makes! Some folks thought that formal training and testing for DevOps knowledge was sacrilegious, others thought it a joke, others that it was pre-mature. But here we are a […]
DevOps Chat: Threat Stack’s Pete Cheslock and Chris Gervais
I recently had a chance to sit down with Pete Cheslock and Chris Gervais of Threat Stack to talk DevOps and Security. Both of these guys are dialed in on both topics so as you can imagine it was a great conversation. Here is the audio file with the transcript underneath. Pete Cheslock, Senior Director […]
Puppet, Like DevOps, Continues to Mature
Over the course of the last several years we have seen the DevOps movement continue to mature and evolve. It has moved beyond the early adopter, visionary stage into the mainstream of the market. Therefore, it should be no surprise that some of the leading solutions in the DevOps space should likewise mature and evolve […]
DevOps Luminary, Ernest Mueller Set to Return to DevOps Days Austin Stage
Ernest Mueller, the Agile Admin has been part of the DevOps scene almost since the very beginning. He was one of the founders and still a leader of the Austin DevOps scene. Ernest after many years of speaking at DevOps Days Austin had announced that he was “semi-retired” from speaking at DevOps Days Austin and […]
DevOps Journeys of Large Enterprises Highlights
I read a recent comment to an article made by my friend Rob England (the IT Skeptic). Rob took exception with the authors point of view about that DevOps was so widely adopted. Rob asked the author of the article, “How many of the Fortune 500 are DevOps shops?”. My reaction to this was “Rob, not […]
DevOps Connect: CD Summit Jenkins Days, Dallas Today & Tomorrow
Our first DevOps Connect: CD Summit/Jenkins Days kicks off today in Dallas at the Irving Convention Center. This is a two day event full of DevOps, CD, Bluemix, Jenkins, DevSecOps and more! The first day is workshop day. We are offering 5 great workshops: Essential DevOps Workshop IBM DevOps Assessment Workshop: Using a Value Stream […]
Multi-Speed IT versus Bimodal IT
I wanted to continue our revue of the recent IBM InterConnect conference in Las Vegas last month. We kicked off the revue with the release of our first videos from the show on Monday. Since then we just updated the YouTube playlist of videos available with a new batch. We will be adding to these […]
Herding Kittens: Developer Tools Trends From Our Survey
Back in late February we launched our latest survey in partnership with Automic. The survey sought to understand how developer tools are selected and used within organizations. We wanted to have some insight into how prevalent Shadow IT was. Well thanks to the hundreds of you who responded, we have been busy working with Automic […]
The Rule Of Law: Open Source, The Internet and Society Breaks Without It
By now many if not most of you have read the big blowup about an open source developer who pulled some of his JavaScript code from a repository named NPM and in doing so broke the Internet. If you need some background here and here and here are some good articles with the background. To […]
IBM InterConnect 2016: Sounding Off
This years IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas was spectacular. Our devopsy.kinsta.cloud team covered as many of the 300+ DevOps tracks and sessions that we could. We have been editing video and getting ready to report on the show since then. Finally, we have enough ready and the time to give our full report. The last […]
Managing Your DevOps Tool Chest: The Complexity of Herding Kittens
We are running another survey here at devopsy.kinsta.cloud, this one co-sponsored by Automic. The survey seeks to understand how tools are selected and used within organizations. Do developers pick their own tools or are tools mandated by the company? Maybe a little of both? For many organizations trying to keep track of all the tools […]
Jay Wampold Gives AWS and Chef a Win-win
Chef VP of marketing Jay Wampold is leaving the iconic DevOps company to go to perhaps even a bigger opportunity as an executive at Amazon Web Services, heading up product marketing for AWS. I spoke with Jay last week about this though it was a tough decision to leave his role at Chef, the AWS […]
John Willis, Jez Humble & Josh Corman Headline DevOps Connect: Rugged DevOps at RSA
A week from today, February 29th, we gather in San Fransisco for DevOps Connect: Rugged DevOps @ RSA Conference at the Moscone Center. This is the 2nd year we are holding this conference and the line up is I think even stronger than last year! I am really happy and proud of the group that […]
Can’t Miss Events at InterConnect Next Week
devopsy.kinsta.cloud will be live from IBM’s InterConnect conference in Las Vegas all next week. You can expect a pretty steady stream of updates in all forms of media. We will be posting articles, live blogging, tweeting, podcasting and even broadcasting video throughout the week. So if you can’t make it out to Vegas, you can […]
DevOps Chat: Rachel Reinitz, IBM Bluemix Garage Method
In advance of InterConnect next week in Las Vegas, I had a chance to sit down with Rachel Reinitz,Distinguished Engineer & CTO of IBM Bluemix Garage. I have met Rachel several times and it is always a pleasure to catch up on all of the innovative things her and her team are doing with Bluemix […]
February is Open Technology Month at devopsy.kinsta.cloud
As part of our continued evolution here at devopsy.kinsta.cloud for 2016 we have designed an editorial calendar. Each month we will feature a particular topic of interest to our readers. For February the topic is open technology. This means we will have a feature section on all things open; this will include open source, open […]
DevOps Chat: Dan Berg on Open Technologies and the Open Enterprise
I had a chance to speak with Dan Berg, distinguished engineer at IBM. Dan and I discussed open technologies, open enterprise and open tool chains. A whole lot of open there. We also talked about how open technologies will be part of the upcoming IBM InterConnect event. Below is the stream of our conversation and […]