DevOps Practice
Day 2 for the Operator Ecosystem
The original focus for Kubernetes was very much on stateless applications, which don’t rely on coordination between instances or sharing data between client sessions. In practice, that usually means that we can ...
COVID-19: Don’t Sacrifice DevOps
Like everyone else, I’ve been following COVID-19/Coronavirus issues. My focus is more on the IT impact of the disease and its status as a pandemic. Let’s start by saying it isn’t the ...
Coronavirus Response: Atlassian Expands Free Software
Atlassian announced today it will make cloud-based versions of Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Desk and Jira Core available for free as part of an effort to assist organizations whose employees are ...
Scaling DevOps for the Enterprise
Information technology has been an integral piece of the modern enterprise for multiple decades and that dependency is only growing. With digital transformation, there’s the inevitable increase in demand for new applications ...
The DevOps Sweet Spot: Inserting Security at Pull Requests (Part 2)
In part one of this two-part series, I explored how organizations can more effectively automate security quality decisions and discard doing automation for automation’s sake. I shared why security scans need to ...
Moving from NOC to the SRE Model
Is Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) another case of “Do what Google does”? When viewed with a discerning lens, the practices and tooling high-performing engineering teams deliver to the market can be very ...
Catch Emerging Security Risks Earlier by Leveraging Kubernetes Audit Logs
When a Kubernetes deployment suffers a security breach, it can be difficult for security teams to diagnose and identify the source of the intrusion and its impact. Each Kubernetes cluster may host ...
Atlassian Adds No-Code Automation Tool to Jira Cloud
Atlassian announced today it has added a no-code tool to enable DevOps teams to make it easier to customize Jira project management software without having to learn how to code. Sean Regan, ...
The DevOps Sweet Spot: Inserting Security at Pull Requests (Part 1)
Today’s organizations are increasingly benefiting from the modernization of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including the adoption of cloud, DevOps, Agile methodologies, containers and more. Thanks to this modernization, organizations are innovating ...
Better Apps and Better Security When You Shift Left
Tens of thousands of people and hundreds of cybersecurity vendors descended on San Francisco at the end of April. While the RSA Conference was the primary draw, there are a number of ...
DevOps Brings Pressure to Bear on Database Management
The rise of DevOps is starting to have a significant impact on the rate at which databases now need to be deployed and updated. A global survey of more than 2,000 developers, ...
Provide Continuous Value with Product-Centric Delivery
Software engineering and management has borrowed many practices over the years from traditional industries such as construction, automotive and manufacturing. One such practice is the notion of managing software development and delivery ...

