DevOps in the Cloud
How to Secure Online Coding Platforms
David Fiser | | AWS Cloud9, cloud, coding, coding platforms, IDE, Integrated Development Environments, threat modeling, visual studio online, VS CodeThreat Modeling for Online Coding Platforms The evolution of DevOps teams and a greater reliance on cloud-based computing has completely changed the coding process. Now, with Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), coding can ...
How to Secure Your Kubernetes Cluster on GKE
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is easy to get going with, but requires additional security controls. The documentation is hard to grasp as there are many features and changes that tie to specific ...
The Cloud Is Booming — But so Is Cloud Waste
Jay Chapel | | cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud waste, idle resources, overprovisioned resources, public cloudFueled by the growth in cloud spend, cloud waste will exceed $17.6 billion in 2020. Over 90% of organizations will use public cloud services this year. In fact, public cloud customers will ...
HashiCorp Updates Terraform Tool for Azure Cloud
HashiCorp today announced it has updated the instance of Terraform it created to automate the configuration of virtual machines on the Microsoft Azure cloud to give IT teams more granular control. Version ...
Report Pins Cloud Security Woes on Flawed DevOps Processes
By now it’s become apparent that the bulk of security incidents involving cloud platforms revolve around some type of configuration issue. An analysis of those cloud configurations published today by the Unit ...
IBM Doubles Down on Cloud, But Is Krishna an Interim CEO?
Big news from Big Blue yesterday: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is stepping down after eight years at the helm. In her stead, IBM is doubling down on the cloud by appointing Arvind ...
Trends and Benefits of Serverless Computing
Subramonian Krishna Sarma | | containers, devops, FaaS, gitops, kubernetes, serverless, serverless computingGartner estimated that by 2020, 20% of the world’s organizations will have gone serverless. Serverless computing initiates a mind shift in the way businesses are run and improves the accuracy and impact ...
The Disservice of Cloud Consolidation
There’s no secret that over the past five years especially, the major (“tier 1”) cloud infrastructure players—Amazon, Microsoft and Google—have been snatching up smaller specialty providers, particularly cloud migration and security services ...
CircleCI Achieves SOC 2 Compliance for DevOps Platform
CircleCI has achieved a SOC 2 compliance rating for the DevOps platform it makes available via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Tad Whitaker, security manager at CircleCI, said CircleCI is the first provider ...
Eclipse Foundation Looks to Create Cloud-Based IDE Standards
Mike Vizard | | Eclipse Cloud Development Tools Working Group, Eclipse Foundation, IDE, interoperability, standards, working groupThe Eclipse Foundation today announced the formation of a working group to create standards for cloud-based integrated development environments (IDEs) led by Broadcom, EclipseSource, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, SAP, Software AG ...
Should Your Company Use DBaaS?
Tyler Duzan | | application delivery, database, database as a service, DBaaS, devops teams, microservicesFrom SaaS to IaaS, companies are rapidly moving to the cloud to gain huge agility and cost benefits. So, is it time for your company to take advantage of database as a ...
FaaS is Key to DevOps Efficiency
When AWS announced Lambda–a serverless Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) technology offering–the idea of encapsulating a specific task into a function that resides in the cloud was introduced into mainstream access. Now, with the rising ...
