DevOps Toolbox
Latest Chef Habitat Release Embraces On-Premises IT
Chef today announced that the Chef Habitat automation framework for building and deploying applications can now be used in on-premises IT environments. Mike Krasnow, a senior product manager for Chef, said version ...
The Risks and Potential Impacts Associated with Open Source
Boris Cipot | | open source, open source software, oss, SCA, security, software composition analysisOpen source software (OSS) is built by communities of developers who contribute their knowledge and time to OSS projects they find appealing. That code can then be used by individuals, communities and ...
Red Hat Extends Runtimes Middleware Portfolio
Red Hat has made available the latest instance of Red Hat Runtimes, a suite of lightweight open source components and frameworks that makes it easier to discover the middleware most appropriate for ...
IBM Z Open Editor Support for Language Server Protocol is a Game Changer
Bob Reselman | | COBOL, IBM Z Open Editor, IDE, integrated development environment, Language Server Protocol, LSP, mainframe programmingThe integrated development environment (IDE) is an indispensable tool for software developers. Before it came along, coding was a laborious, detail ladened undertaking. We’ve become accustomed to the syntax checking and code ...
Kong Employs Machine Learning to Extend Services Control
At the Kong Summit 2019 conference, Kong today announced it has acquired Insomnia, an open source testing tool for application programming interfaces (APIs). In addition, it has added support for REST, Kafka ...
How to Implement an Effective CI/CD Pipeline
Jay Elango | | CI/CD, CI/CD pipelines, continuous delivery, continuous deployment, continuous integrationDevOps bridges the gap between development, operations and IT services teams efficiently. To foster a DevOps culture, implementing the right DevOps tools with the right DevOps process is essential. Continuous integration/continuous delivery/continuous ...
Red Hat Unveils Ansible Platform
At the AnsibleFest 2019 conference, Red Hat this week announced the general availability of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform that combines several IT automation technologies into a single subscription. Built on ...
Why COBOL Still Matters After 60 Years
In the world of DevOps, the Agile Manifesto and countless other application delivery frameworks, one has to wonder how an anachronism such as the programming language COBOL (common business-oriented language) has managed ...
Aspects of Machine Learning on the Edge
Machine learning (ML) is hard. Making it work within the confined environment of an embedded device can easily become a quagmire unless we consider, and frequently revisit, the design and deployment aspects ...
Low-Code Has Taken Development by Storm. Why Not the Web?
For more than a decade, development tools increasingly have made their way into the hands of less-technical people. On the web in particular, we’ve eliminated the webmaster as the middleman with content ...
Chef Brings DevOps to Windows Platform Migrations
Chef and Microsoft revealed today that they are working together to apply DevOps processes to accelerate the migration of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 to more current versions. Announced at ...
HPE Extends Hybrid Cloud Computing Strategy
Mike Vizard | | cloud infrastructure, Google Anthos, HPE, hybrid cloud, kubernetes, on-premises infrastructureHewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today advanced its hybrid cloud computing strategy by announcing at its HPE Discover 2019 conference an alliance with Google to embrace Kubernetes in hybrid cloud computing environments and then ...
