5 C’s That Changed the Future – Webinar Series CI, CD, Containers, Cloud & Culture
Join us for case studies of innovation and success with continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), containers, cloud (infrastructure & migration), and culture (the DevOps kind). If you’re on the same mission – to create sustainable systems that empower your business to deliver innovation faster and predictably – then you’ll gain incredible insights from this […]
Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators
Admiral Calcote, also known as Lee Calcote (@lcalcote) or the Ginger Geek to his friends, gave a presentation titled, “Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators,” at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. Okay, he isn’t really an admiral—nor does anyone call him that—but he used the title “admiral” to describe what container orchestrators do, relating it to an admiral directing a […]
Speaking for the Dead: Are ‘Agile’ and ‘Monolithic’ Actually Good?
What if Agile is the product of getting bored at work, microservices are the result of us needing a challenge and scrums are the result of an obsessive project manager? Do we all think waterfall development is a dinosaur whose extinction is deserved because of what we have been told and not because of reality? […]
VMware Ties Desktop Virtualization to DevOps Productivity
It’s no secret that when it comes to building applications, many developers prefer to use the Apple Macintosh. However, that preference can create multiple DevOps challenges. VMware is moving to reduce the friction with the release of VMware Fusion Pro 10, a desktop virtualization offering for Apple Macs that now supports REST application programming interfaces […]
SecOps: The Next Stride for DevOps
Global IT spending is now touching a figure of $4 trillion. In today’s technology-intensive environment, data is the biggest commodity, more valuable and powerful than ever. And like Peter Parker’s uncle Ben noted, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Security has always been a big concern for valuable things and IT is no exception. IT […]
Sonatype Report Spotlights Software Supply Chain Issues
Most application developers today don’t write much raw code. Rather, applications developed today are created mostly by combing various modules and widgets to create a custom application. But currently there is little oversight being applied to the provenance of application components, especially when it comes to open-source software. The third annual State of the Software […]
Q&A: Michael Beckley, CTO/CCO, Appian
Recently I had the chance to speak with Michael Beckley, chief technical officer and chief customer officer at Appian, about his company’s move to go public and the DevOps space in general. For those of you who don’t know Michael, he is a founder of Appian and leads the company’s technology vision and oversees customer […]
Container Considerations on Your DevOps Journey
Containers are things for your things. That is true in the development world, too—containers are things for your software, and, like containers for your things, software containers can help you be organized, efficient and secure. Chris Morgan (@cmorgan_cloud), the Technical Director, OpenShift Partner Ecosystem at Red Hat, delivered a keynote at the 2016 All Day […]
5 Common Misconceptions of Serverless Technology
The rapid growth in serverless technology affords companies opportunities to save money on server costs and allows developers to save time and focus on coding rather than back-end operations. A challenge with such swift adoption is the difficulty in maintaining a standard understanding. In anticipation of the Serverless Conference, which was held last week in […]
VMs, Containers, Cloud, Cluster: Scheduling Differences
Scheduling is a large part of making the data center go, and more to the point of making the virtualized (be it VMs, cloud, containers, or clustering) portion of the data center work. While there are a lot of variables to virtualization performance, scheduling impacts performance all of the time. And yet we only really […]
Addressing Container Security Challenges
From month to month or even week to week, more organizations are developing with containers. The concept of containers isn’t all that new, but the dramatic rise in adoption of container technologies and the support from major tech vendors and platforms has helped containers become mainstream quickly. As with most emerging technologies, now that containers […]
Mesos Usage Survey: Big Clusters, Big Workloads
Mesosphere, purveyors of DC/OS, recently released a survey of Mesos users focused on Mesos deployment information. There were some interesting results, and a few things I wish they’d dug a little deeper on. If you’ve ever given a survey, then you know that the results inevitably spawn more questions. No doubt Mesosphere has the same […]
To DevOps Or Not To DevOps
Although enterprises today all claim to be software companies, there remain four distinct groups of organizations: the technology leaders, the technology followers, the technology hopefuls and the technology laggards. The first group are the industry leaders who are paving the way. These are the organizations coming up with new technologies, processes and cultural shifts. They […]
Docker On Windows, Are You Serious? Microsoft’s Hands-on Lab Show’s You How
You have probably heard or read about the availability of Docker on Windows and Azure. Both Docker and Microsoft have turned up the noise on their collaboration. But have you really looked into what these two are up to? If not, now is your chance. Microsoft has put up a great free hands on lab all about […]
All Day DevOps
Over the past year, I have traveled to and delivered presentations at 18 DevOps events. I’ve also heard that over the past several years, John Willis has participated in more than 200 DevOps events. But not all of us have the time or budget to get ourselves and our teams out to these events […]
So Long to Configuration Management Systems?
When I was an operations architect at Ning way back in 2009, we were struggling to manage our deployments and configurations of more than 50 different application servers, or what the cool kids today call microservices. Applications were deployed across three distinct environments: development, staging and production. None of these environments were exactly the same […]
Getting Ready for All Day DevOps
DevOps Practitioners Unite On Nov. 15, we’ll be broadcasting 54 live sessions across 15 hours and 15 time zones. The All Day DevOps conference will be live, online and free. Anyone who registers can watch. We have invited some top-notch practitioners from around the world to speak at the event on topics ranging from DevOps […]
All Day DevOps: Bringing DevOps to the World
An Audacious Plan: Deliver DevOps to everyone. The global audience for DevOps is expanding faster than any one person or company can keep up with. While DevOps Days and other regional events provide invaluable support to their local communities, we wanted to create a global event, offering the very best lineup of speakers across North […]
DevOps and Automation Abstraction?
Similarity breeds consistency, giving way to predictability and, thereby, dropping costs of operations and quality from a lower number of incidents and a shorter duration to resolve them. But at the heart of this chain of events is the recognition that we tend to do certain tasks the same way, over and over again, for […]
DevOps: The Glue of Workflow
The best tool in the DevOps continuum is the sticky wrapper that holds it all together. It is the workflow that binds it and makes sense out of the term “continuous.” CIOs often are enamored with a build or deploy tool, but it is the workflow tool in every DevOps strategy encapsulating more than one […]
DevOps: Commoditizing Infrastructure
Hardware vendors face a quandary. How do you distinguish yourself as superior from your competitors if you are unable to continue to grow a distinct architecture as your competitive advantage? But this dilemma does not begin and end with only hardware vendors; operating system vendors and virtual machine vendors are on the same horizon. In […]
NodeSource Announces Containerized N|Solid Deployment for Kubernetes
Developers can now deploy enterprise-grade Node.js on Kubernetes San Francisco, CA – July 26, 2016 – NodeSource, the Enterprise Node Company™, today announced at Node Summit 2016 the beta launch of its containerized N|Solid™ deployment for Kubernetes. With this release, NodeSource is offering the first version of Node.js with production-ready continuous performance and security monitoring […]
Red Hat Launches Ansible-Native Container Workflow Project
RALEIGH, N.C.–(Business Wire)–Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the launch of Ansible Container under the Ansible project, which provides the leading simple, powerful, and agentless open source IT automation framework. Available now as a technology preview, Ansible Container allows for the complete creation of Docker-formatted Linux […]