Evolution of Toil Identification and Mitigation – A Classic SRE Challenge
Ingo Averdunk, leading architecture and solutions for cloud service management and site reliability engineering for IBM Cloud, contributed to this article. Christine White, architect at IBM Consulting, also contributed to this article. When many people think of operations, they often associate it with manual, labor-intensive work. This is because operations traditionally encompass a wide range […]
Container Image Tags
In a Kubernetes environment, you encounter a situation where a service’s configuration is not consistent across multiple clusters. What common configuration element could be the source of this issue? 1. Pod resource requests and limits 2. Container image tags 3. Ingress controller settings 4. Service account permissions 5. Node affinity rules Correct Answer: 2) Container […]
How to Navigate App Modernization Strategies for the Cloud
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations continuously seek ways to innovate and enhance customer experiences while optimizing efficiency. One of the most transformative strategies is modernizing applications for the cloud. App modernization isn’t just a technology upgrade. It’s a holistic business transformation. The cloud’s elasticity and scalability present opportunities to create deeper customer engagement, foster […]
Improvement Cycles and AI
Don MacVittie makes one early prediction for 2024: AI will be the next big DevOps tool to break bottlenecks.
EP 39: DevOps Building Blocks Part 2: Power Up Your Automated Testing
Automation is critical to DevOps success. Test automation accelerates and simplifies the software development process, empowering DevOps teams to deliver high-quality, secure and reliable products to market faster without sacrificing crucial debugging and troubleshooting processes. Automated testing minimizes the chance of human error, removes redundancy and increases collaboration between DevOps and QA teams. On the […]
Mend.io Adds Enterprise Edition of IT Automation Framework
Mend.io added an enterprise edition of the Mend Renovate IT automation framework to its portfolio that enables higher levels of horizontal scaling.
DevOps Halloween: Tricks and Treats
In the spirit of Halloween, let’s explore the tricks and treats of DevOps choices to ensure your team ends up with a bag full of treats rather than some nasty tricks.
Measuring the Progress of the OpenTelemetry Project
OpenTelemetry has become a ‘boring’ standard for open source data and application performance measurement and observability.
Atlassian Brings Generative AI to ITSM
Atlassian added generative AI capabilities to Jira Service Management, an ITSM platform built on top of Jira.
How to Alleviate Your Observability Challenges
Observability is becoming a keystone of contemporary DevOps practices. Even departments that weren’t traditionally a part of DevOps are seeing the benefits of being brought under the auspices of observability teams. In 2023, however, organizations are finding that the road to adoption is bumpier than expected. Here are seven of the biggest challenges DevOps teams […]
How to Solve the GPU Shortage Problem With Automation
What can teams do when facing a quota issue and the cloud provider runs out of GPU-based instances? Automation is the answer.
FAQs for Software Testing: All the Background You Need
Here are some top best practices to keep in mind as you build out a software testing practice at your organization.
IBM Applies Generative AI to Ansible Playbooks
IBM extended the reach of the generative AI tools it provides to automate the writing of code to the Ansible IT automation framework.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at Abercrombie & Fitch, Humana and more!
Digital.ai Update Extends Scope and Reach of DevSecOps Platform
A Denali update to Digital.ai’s DevSecOps platform promises to simplify integration of custom AI models with those developed by the company.
Avoiding Mistakes in Multi-Cloud Configurations
Knowing how to configure multiple clouds mistake-free is essential to keep the promise of multi-cloud alive.
A Manifesto for a More Sustainable Cloud Future
Benjamin Brial talks about the steps necessary for organizations to create a more sustainable cloud future.
LaunchDarkly Extends Scope and Reach of Feature Management Platform
LaunchDarkly added a range of tools to address delivery of specific capabilities to end users after deployment and increased workflow observability.
4 Things to Consider When Integrating Generative AI
SaaS companies are integrating generative AI capabilities into their products and services. However, in the race to join the hype, many companies are building first and strategizing later.
Stacklet Applies Generative AI to Simplify Cloud Governance
Stacklet’s Jun0 tool leverages generative artificial intelligence (AI) to improve cloud governance and reduce costs.
What is Just-In-Time (JIT) Permission Management, and Why is it Essential?
Have you ever experienced the frustration of discovering an unexpected charge on your bank statement for a forgotten gym membership? Perhaps you kept it active “just in case” you wanted to exercise someday. Similarly, always-on privileged access, also known as “standing privileges,” can lead to similar challenges. Surprisingly, 77% of organizations provide unrestricted access to […]
Don’t Forget the One-Offs
In the age of DevOps, we have automated the things that happen all the time or are mission-critical (like backups). But we forget about the one-offs.