DevOps Toolbox
Google Taps Netflix for Open Source Canary Analysis
Google and Netflix today jointly announced an open-source automated canary analysis service, dubbed Kayenta, that applies statistical analytics to optimize DevOps processes. Andrew Phillips, a product manager for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ...
Early Automation: A Key Requirement for DevSecOps Success
According to the "2017 DevSecOps Community Survey," by Sonatype, almost 60 percent of the respondents consider security to be an inhibitor to DevOps agility, while more than 50 percent of developers say ...
NGINX Extends Microservices Ambitions
NGINX has extended the reach and scope of a namesake application platform that the company is positioning as a bridge between legacy applications and emerging microservices architectures. The NGINX Application Platform now ...
Can Videoconferencing Solve the DevOps Collaboration Conundrum?
Every DevOps expert has their own definition of what DevOps really means, but a common thread running through each definition is that it is based on collaboration and evolution of a culture ...
VMware Adds Analytics to Automate IT Operations Based on Intent
VMware is moving to make it easier for organizations to automate data centers and public cloud based on its core hypervisor technology by injecting advanced analytics into its VMware vRealize Suite, enabling ...
Using Inspec to Validate Infrastructure
So, here we were, at one of the bigger financial corporations in New Zealand, working on an elaborate infrastructure built on Docker containers. It had configurations, SSL certificates, DNS entries and all ...
Google Unveils Suite of APM Tools
Google today announced that it is making available application performance management (APM) tools based on the same technology it employs to manage its internal IT environment. Morgan McLean, a product manager at ...
Salesforce Details Integration Plan Post-MuleSoft Acquisition
Salesforce this week announced it will plunk down $6.5 billion to acquire MuleSoft, a provider of application integration software currently used by more than 1,200 organizations. Once the deal is complete, MuleSoft ...
DevOps Chat: The State of Alerting & On-Call Survival for IT Ops, with OnPage CEO Judit Sharon
In this DevOps Chat we sit down with Judit Sharon, CEO of OnPage. OnPage has been providing alerting and incident management services primarily to the healthcare industry since before DevOps was called ...
Rundeck Gains Funding to Support Open Source IT Automation Framework
Rundeck has emerged as a popular open source job scheduler and orchestration option for IT automation that enables IT teams to build runbooks that can be easily shared with others. The company ...
OpsRamp Looks to Fuel IT Operations Consolidation
One of the biggest challenges associated with DevOps is cutting through all the various platforms and applications alerts to make sense of what’s occurring in an IT environment, much less manage it ...
Application Discovery and the Value Proposition of IBM Z ADDI
Discovering how an application works can be a difficult, expensive undertaking. That’s why architectures based on REST are so popular. The architectural style provides an easy-to-implement interface that allows consumers to use ...

