CircleCI Surfaces More DevOps Insights
CircleCI today announced it is making it easier for DevOps teams to determine the amount of resources being consumed by its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to help make application development teams more efficient. Kunal Jain, senior product manager for CircleCI, said via the application programming interface (API) that CircleCI exposes DevOps teams can now […]
OverOps Allies With SonarQube To Improve Application Quality
OverOps, a provider of tools for dynamically analyzing code at runtime, has partnered with SonarQube, a provider of static analysis tools for source code, to enhance application quality by unifying code analytics. Chen Harel, vice president of product for OverOps, said the two companies have collaborated to create a plugin through which DevOps teams can […]
2nd Watch Allies With GitLab for Managed DevOps Service
2nd Watch today launched a managed DevOps service based on the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform from GitLab that it will operate on behalf of customers in addition to coaching them on how to adopt best DevOps practices. Stefana Muller, a senior product manager, said the 2nd Watch Managed DevOps service combines the managed and […]
Provide Continuous Value with Product-Centric Delivery
Software engineering and management has borrowed many practices over the years from traditional industries such as construction, automotive and manufacturing. One such practice is the notion of managing software development and delivery based on projects. According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), a project is defined as “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique […]
Wind River Launches CD Platform for Embedded Systems
Wind River is fostering the adoption of DevOps processes for embedded systems by making available a continuous delivery (CD) platform that its customers can download. Glenn Seiler, vice president for open source strategy for Wind River, said the CD platform is based on an open source instance of the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. […]
F5 Networks Launches Next-Gen ADC Based on NGINX
F5 Networks this week launched version 3.0 of its NGINX application delivery controller (ADC) that adds application programming interface (API) management tools, analytics and monitoring tools, a service mesh, a certificate manager, a developer portal and integrations with multiple continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms. Ken Bocchino, director of product management for NGINX at F5 Networks, […]
GitLab Updates Core CI/CD Platform
GitLab this week delivered an update to its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery platform that promises to make pipelines more efficient and easier to manage, in addition to making it easier to set up pipelines in Windows environments. Version 12.7 of the core GitLab platform adds support for Parent-Child Pipelines and Pipeline Resource Groups. Parent-Child Pipelines […]
CircleCI Extends Orbs Ecosystem for CI/CD
CircleCI announced today it has added integrations in collaboration with 20 partners to the family of connectors, known as Orbs, that it makes available for its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Thomas Trahan, vice president of business development for CircleCI, said integrations are now available with Heroku, AWS, Cloud Foundry, Google Cloud, Red Hat, Helm, […]
Datadog Adds Support for Microsoft Azure DevOps
Datadog has added support for Microsoft Azure DevOps to its namesake monitoring and analytics platform. Ilan Rabinovitch, vice president of product and community for Datadog, said Microsoft Azure DevOps, formally known as Visual Studio Team Services, is gaining traction as a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. […]
DevOps Chats: Automic + CA + Broadcom, a Release Automation Journey
The life of an acquired company can be an exciting one full of unexpected twists and turns, and that’s been true of Automic software. Scott Willson, a repeat podcast guest and longstanding member of the DevOps community, joins us again on DevOps Chats. He describes his acquisition journey as being akin to a “barracuda, eaten […]
Harness Adds Analytics to CDaaS Platform
Harness has added an analytics module to its namesake continuous delivery-as-a-service (CDaaS) platform that makes it easier to better align constrained software development resources with business goals. Omed Habib, director of product marketing at Harness, said Continuous Insights enables organizations to identify bottlenecks and improve overall software delivery by automatically gathering metrics such as deployment […]
Dell Boomi Dives Into DevOps
Boomi, a Dell Technologies business, today announced it has extended its integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) platform to include application programming interface (API) lifecycle management capabilities. Announced at the Boomi World 2019 conference, the API lifecycle management tools are an extension of a larger initiative to bring apply best DevOps practices to the building of APIs deployed […]
How to Implement an Effective CI/CD Pipeline
DevOps 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 deployment (CI/CD/CD) help developers and testers ship the software faster and safer in a structured environment. Unlike the traditional software life cycle, the […]
CloudBees Advances Continuous Delivery
At the DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 conference, CloudBees released an update to the continuous delivery (CD) platform it gained via its acquisition of Electric Cloud, signaling the company’s commitment to investing in a platform that’s employed widely in the enterprise. CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey said the rechristened CloudBees Flow builds on the application […]
OverOps Integrates AI Code Analyzer With CI/CD Platforms
At the DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 conference, OverOps announced it has integrated its namesake tools for analyzing Java and Microsoft .NET code at runtime with a variety of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms, including Jenkins, JetBrains TeamCity, Atlassian Bamboo and Pivotal Concourse. Eric Mizell, vice president of solution engineering for OverOps, noted that […]
CircleCI Extends CI/CD Reach to Windows Platforms
CircleCI today announced it will make available its continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform available on a variety of Windows platforms. Matt Wyman, vice president of product for CircleCI, said the decision to support Windows stems from recent Microsoft DevOps initiatives, most notably its move to acquire GitHub. As Microsoft invests more time and […]
Armory Looks to Drive Enterprise Adoption of Spinnaker
Armory this week committed to advancing adoption of the open source Spinnaker continuous delivery (CD) platform in enterprise IT environments after revealing it has raised an additional $28 million in funding. Company CEO Daniel Odio said Armory will add proprietary tools to a curated distribution of Spinnaker that will make it easier for the average […]
DevOps Chat: Armory Discusses $28M Funding, Continuous Delivery
The tribe at Armory announced the company‘s $28m series B funding, led by Insight Partners. Armory enables continuous software delivery at enterprise scale, powered by Spinnaker. That is a crisp mission statement, but beyond that Armory is bringing the open source Spinnaker to the enterprise market. As such, they are also helping the entire Spinnaker […]
Doing DevOps in an Interconnected World
Doing DevOps would be simple if you had total control over the tools, code and infrastructure that your company used. But the fact is, you don’t. Instead, we live in a world where most CI/CD chains connect in some way to third-party resources or processes. In other words, doing DevOps effectively means integrating with entities […]
Pivotal Embraces Spinnaker for Continous Delivery
Pivotal Software has added support for the Spinnaker continuous delivery platform to its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment for the open source Cloud Foundry PaaS. Richard Seroter, vice president of product marketing at Pivotal, said version 2.6 of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) extends the reach of the Spinnaker CD platform developed by Netflix to its PaaS environment […]
GitLab Expands Scope of DevOps Ambitions
GitLab, with the release of its 12.0 update, is extending the reach of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to include both cybersecurity professionals and traditional IT operations staff. John Jeremiah, senior product marketing manager at GitLab, said the goal is to provide organizations with a single CI/CD platform that unifies the management of […]
CloudBees’ Acquisition of Rollout: The CEOs’ View
As Mike Vizard reported yesterday, CloudBees, as part of its mission to build “the world’s first end-to-end automated software delivery system,” announced another acquisition: Rollout, a developer of a feature flag application that allows for simplified testing of new modules within an application. Not to repeat the gist of Vizard’s article; you can read it […]
CloudBees Acquires Rollout for Feature Flagging
CloudBees today announced it would extend the reach of the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform by acquiring Rollout, a provider of feature flag tool that gets employed to simplify testing of new modules within an application. Company CEO Sacha Labourey said the acquisition of Rollout would result in a feature flag capability that is […]