GitLab Makes Building Secure Mobile Apps Easier
GitLab has made 60 enhancements to its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to address a range of things from DevSecOps processes to collaboration, at a time when most DevOps teams continue to work remotely. With help from external contributor support for the Mobile Security Framework (MobSF), version 13.5 of GitLab adds an all-in-one tool […]
Progress Reorganizes Chef Portfolio
Progress today announced updates to the portfolio of DevOps offerings it gained with the acquisition of Chef earlier this month. A Chef Infrastructure Management offering now combines Chef Infra and Chef Automate into a single offering, while Chef App Delivery combines Chef Habitat, Chef Infra and Chef Automate into a single offering that creates an […]
Harness to Apply AI to DevOps
Harness, at its {Unscripted} 2020 conference today, announced its plans in the fourth quarter to make available as a beta a module that leverages machine learning algorithms to optimize build and test cycles on the Harness Continuous Integration (CI) Enterprise platform. At the same time, Harness is adding a beta of a Continuous Features module […]
Opsera Simplifies Building of DevOps Pipelines
Fresh off raising $4.3 million in funding, Opsera today launched a namesake platform that enables IT teams to orchestrate both the tools employed by developers as well as the pipelines that make up a DevOps process. Company co-founder Chandra Ranganathan said the Opsera platform automates setup of DevOps pipelines using a declarative approach that doesn’t […]
JFrog Adds Free DevOps Tier in the Cloud
JFrog announced today it is making a free tier of its namesake DevOps platform available on all three major public cloud service providers. Stephen Chin, senior director for developer relations at JFrog, said a free subscription to JFrog Platform running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is now generally […]
Feature Flags: The Cure for DevOps Remote Work Stress
Feature flags can help reduce the stress associated with DevOps during WFH The world has drastically changed. As a result, we have had to adapt the way we shop, socialize, educate and work. Businesses have had to adapt to keep operations going, and the biggest change they’ve had to make has been the move to […]
CircleCI Brings Insights to CI/CD Platform
CircleCI has added an Insights dashboard to its namesake CI/CD platform that makes it easier to surface metrics such as duration, mean time to recovery and throughput change over time as part of an effort to optimize DevOps workflows. The Insights dashboard makes it easier to discover, for example, which jobs are failing, which workflows […]
How Logs Can Empower Your CI/CD Delivery Pipeline
Change is the currency of software success. This need to change and grow is the basis for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Each year, new industries embrace this philosophy of constant change, but without the necessary data underpinning their decisions, every deployment is a risk. When you enrich your software delivery with log data […]
JFrog Sets Future Course Post-IPO
Another milestone in the march toward mainstream adoption of best DevOps practices was reached this week, with JFrog becoming a public company. JFrog CTO Yoav Landman said the funding that the provider of a continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform is receiving from investors is a clear vote of confidence in DevOps. The next major DevOps […]
CircleCI Looks to Advance DevOps Best Practices Adoption
CircleCI today launched a developer hub as part of an effort to further advance adoption of DevOps best practices. Company CEO Jim Rose said CircleCI developer hub provides access to a set of resources for optimizing continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. In many cases prior to the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations had only […]
CircleCI Adds to Salesforce CI/CD Orbs Collection
CircleCI today announced it has extended its CI/CD support for DevOps teams building applications that extend the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform from Salesforce. Company CEO Jim Rose said interest in building applications that complement the Salesforce platform is rising sharply in the wake of the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than build […]
Harness Acquires Drone CI Project
Harness announced it has acquired Drone.io, creator of the open source Drone continuous integration (CI) project. Company CEO Jyoti Bansal said Harness, which provides a continuous delivery (CD) platform delivered as a service, will offer Drone to organizations that want a CI platform alongside a CD service from a single vendor. However, Harness will also […]
Top Pressing Concerns for CI/CD in 2020
The tech landscape is changing rapidly. With the need for increased development velocity, CI/CD has become ubiquitous among most organizations. Yet, with the growing number of microservices, CI/CD may be tough to wrangle without the right strategy. At the same time, it’s difficult to keep pace with the constant evolution around CI/CD. So, what is […]
How to Use Microservices To Evolve DevOps Pipelines
Enterprises are quickly becoming an intricate mesh of many applications. As companies create more and more microservices, their deployment environments are becoming increasingly elaborate. Without proper configurations, a microservices road map could quickly become unmaintainable. According to DeployHub CEO Tracy Ragan, if development teams are pushing points to a cluster continuously, application development can suffer […]
JFrog Extends Reach and Scope of CI/CD Platform
At its online JFrog swampUP Conference today, JFrog announced it has extended the reach of its ability to distribute software to include options based on peer-to-peer and content delivery network (CDN) mechanisms. In addition, JFrog expanded the reach of the JFrog Pipelines continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, enabling DevOps teams to build their own library […]
CD Foundation Touts Spinnaker CD Progress
At an online Spinnaker Live event today, the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation revealed the open source CD platform is gaining significant momentum since being contributed by Netflix late last year. There were on average 842 merged pull Spinnaker requests a month in the first quarter of 2020. A total of 1,183 contributors participated in the […]
Atlassian Unfurls Bevy of DevOps Updates
Atlassian today made a dozen updates to its DevOps portfolio as part of an effort to better unify workflows spanning disparate tools. Suzie Prince, head of product for Bitbucket at Atlassian, said the latest updates are intended to enable DevOps teams to streamline workflows without requiring everyone in the organization to standardize on the same […]
CircleCI Extends Core CI/CD Platform
CircleCI today in partnership with Plandek launched an analytics plugin dubbed Buildtrakr for its namesake continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Buildtrakr integrates with CircleCI and Git to synthesize commit and build performance data, with critical metrics being surfaced via a dashboard. In addition, CircleCI has revamped its user interface and reconfigured a new […]
Netlify Makes Build Plugins Available for Jamstack Platform
Netlify, at a Jamstack Conf Virtual event, announced the general availability of open source Netlify Build Plugins that provide IT teams with a set of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows for building websites and web applications using JavaScript, application programming interfaces (APIs) and static HTML files without employing web servers, otherwise known as a Jamstack. […]
CloudBees Extends SDM Service Reach
CloudBees has extended the integrations embedded within its software delivery management (SDM) platform to add support for additional services provided by Google. Moritz Plassnig, senior vice president cloud and general manager for SDM at CloudBees, said these integrations with Google Cloud Build and Tekton pipelines are being provided as part of a long-standing alliance between […]
Report Finds Much Room for CD Improvement
A report published by Harness, a provider of continuous delivery (CD) platform accessed via the cloud, finds organizations are spending on average $109,0000 per year just to deploy per application. Based on a survey of more than 100 organizations, the report finds organizations are struggling with deployment frequency, lead time and meantime to recover after […]
How SDM’s Holistic Approach Connects Organizations and Streamlines Delivery Processes
Since Jez Humble and David Farley popularized the term in 2010, continuous delivery has revolutionized software delivery practices. Creating mature continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines has helped enterprises deliver software that performs better, based on a long list of metrics. Failure rates have dropped from 50% to under 15%, and cycle times are measured in […]
CD Foundation Serves Up Tekton Pipelines Beta
The team overseeing the development of the open source Tekton Pipelines under the auspices of the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation announced today the project is now in beta. Christie Wilson, Tekton Project Lead and a software engineer at Google, said Tekton Pipelines are not necessarily a tool most DevOps teams will interact with directly. Rather […]