DevOps Chat: Is the Software We Create More Secure? Veracode’s 10th Report
Application security is top of mind now more than ever. For more than a decade, Veracode examined increasing amounts of code as it passes through their source code vulnerability scanning service. During this period, automation is increasingly prevalent, making it easier to run scans more frequently and regularly. But has automation helped? Is the software […]
DevOps Chats: 1-Click Vulnerability Scanning on GCP, With Qualys
Sometimes the best way to accomplish something is to choose a path requiring the least friction, or amount of change. Qualys customers now have that path available to them in bring vulnerability scanning into Google Cloud Platform. Qualys’ recent announcement means a one-click configuration change enables vulnerability scans in GCP with the results appearing in […]
DevOps Chats: Software Architecture for Cloud Native, .NET Core and Open Source
In this episode of DevOps Chats we talk with Donald Lutz, principal software architect specializing in systems integration and creating large, scalable cloud applications. Occasionally DevOps Chats is fortunate to spotlight DevOps and cloud native developers doing trailblazing work in contemporary software architectures. Donald fits that bill to a T as an entrepreneur and employee […]
DevOps Chats: App Attention Index and The Era of Digital Reflex, with AppDynamics
Application performance company AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco in 2017) recently released its 2019 edition of the App Attention Index Report. The 2019 report is subtitled The Era of Digital Reflex. Joining me on this episode of DevOps Chats is Steve Long, AppDynamics regional CTO and technology strategy. Digital connections are a near-constant. Interacting with our […]
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 […]
DevOps Chats: Enterprise Continuous Testing With a Shift-Right Mindset
Test automation and CI/CD are evolving very rapidly to achieve great speed and impactful results by DevOps teams and Agile organizations. Our DevOps Chats guest, Tricentis Chief Product Officer Wolfgang Platz, contributes his experiences to the state of the art with his newly released book, “Enterprise Continuous Testing.” Automating software testing just for the sake […]
DevOps Chats: InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 Managed Service for Time Series Data
We can’t seem to generate enough data. And as they say, you haven’t seen anything yet! Cloud-based managed services are a natural solution to ingest, store and access large amounts of data from a variety of sources across private and cloud locations. An enterprise solution hosted in the cloud is good, but a developer-friendly, API-based […]
DevOps Chats: Robotic Process Automation with Tricentis
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has garnered a great deal of attention as organizations pursue automation routine tasks through automation software. RPA automates tasks integrated into digital business process automation. Wayne Ariola, Tricentis general manager of RPA, joins DevOps Chats to discuss how Tricentis brings its strengths and heritage in software testing automation into the world […]
DevOps Chats: Demystifying Spinnaker VM Baking, with Salesforce
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: As you use an open source tool like Spinnaker, the more you develop best practices and learnings. These are useful to share with others internal to the enterprise and other open source users. Jing Vergara, principal software engineer at Salesforce, joins DevOps Chats to share a preview of her upcoming talk […]
DevOps Chats: Canary Deploys Using Istio, with Autodesk
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Canary deploys give us a window into how new code deploys perform in production on a limited basis. The technology holds great promise in helping us learn the positive or negative effects of deploys without putting the more extensive set of microservices, application functions and beyond at risk. How do you […]
DevOps Chats: Plugins Extend Spinnaker for the Enterprise
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Secrets management is vital to any vibrant DevOps and GitOps toolchain. As part of its open source maturation and thanks to the contribution of our DevOps Chat guest, Spinnaker now has a secure secrets management capability enabling GitOps, taking non-application secrets out of plaintext in hal config files. Cameron Motevasselani, software […]
DevOps Chats: Debugging Spinnaker Apps, With Salesforce
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Debugging production issues in any environment can be challenging, and Spinnaker has its production learning curve. Problems aren’t always replicable in a smaller environment, and debug messages can be verbose and confusing to triage what’s happening. Our DevOps Chat guest Chuck Lane, Salesforce lead software engineer, is giving a talk on […]
DevOps Chats: Spinnaker Extensibility, With Armory
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Most open source software isn’t one size fits all, and Spinnaker is no different. While it captures the most general use cases of software delivery, most organizations find that it lacks some features they need to automate their entire delivery pipeline, such as integrations with internal tooling or compliance systems. Out […]
DevOps Chats: Database for Cloud-Native Apps with MemSQL
Data and database technologies are experiencing disruption. The volume of data collected is exploding, creating new potential for disruptive services and new companies. Data is distributed across locations in the cloud and the data center. Also, cloud technologies bring a plethora of database types, distribution options, analytics capabilities and AI/ML processing. Any company not leveraging […]
DevOps Chats: The Future of Farming with Aerobotics
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Never underestimate an entrepreneur looking to solve a real-world problem. Aerobotics is bringing drones, imagery, mapping, containers, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, data pipeline processing and machine learning to agriculture. Sounds interesting, right? Aerobotics uses aerial drones and sophisticated image processing to help growers manage yield, pest and disease in their farms through artificial […]
DevOps Chats: Continuous Delivery at Airbnb
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Airbnb is rapidly moving from a monolith Ruby on Rails application to a distributed SOA/Kubernetes architecture in Kubernetes. The new architecture uses self-service codified pipelines and easy webhook integrations, scale adoption and collaboration across the company. Even though continuous integration isn’t new to Airbnb, every team now needs to be able […]
DevOps Chats: Autonomous Test Innovation Using AI/ML with Functionize
At the speed of DevOps, automated testing is essential for QA to maintain pace with that of software creation. Automated testing is ripe for innovation, too. How do we know we are performing the most relevant tests, that new functions in the software aren’t being missed or overlooked, or that highly dynamic applications aren’t outpacing […]
DevOps Chat: The Kubernetes and Multi-Cloud App Journey with Rafay
After Akamai acquired his company, Haseeb Budhani decided to take on his next challenge and start Rafay. Rafay focuses on the complexity and repetitive aspects of deploying and managing Kubernetes applications. Rafay addresses complexity by providing application abstraction, cluster blueprinting and enterprise-ready integration, making Rafay a great candidate for multi-region, multi-cloud, hybrid and edge/MEC adoption. […]
DevOps Chat: Scaling Data Without Complexity with Cockroach Labs
Cockroach Labs the folks behind CockroachDB recently announced another round of funding as they continue their mission to allow you to scale your data without complexity. In this DevOps Chat, CEO of Cockroach Labs Spencer Kimball talks about about their plans and how Cockroach shall inherit the DB world. As usual, the streaming audio is […]
DevOps Chat: Value Stream Management in the Enterprise with Plutora
Doing anything at enterprise scale brings with it a whole new set of requirements. With potentially thousands of requirements across hundreds of applications and releases, it can be a daunting challenge to pull together all the DevOps activities across a large enterprise. This has given rise to the new term Value Stream Management (VSM.) Like […]
DevOps Chat: From 0 to 1,000 Deploys Per Month with Redbox
Many organizations want to implement the latest DevOps/SRE practices, but many struggle with transforming the existing processes over to new streamlined processes. How does an organization transform from zero automated deploys to 100s/1000s a month? Most importantly, how do you show the value of Spinnaker to your business as a whole? November’s Spinnaker Summit 2019 […]
DevOps Chat: CI/CD Velocity for Large Monolithic Services with Pinterest
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Software Engineer Rainie Li played an essential role in implementing Spinnaker as part of Pinterest’s CI/CD pipeline. The results moved Pinterest from two scheduled deployments per day to continuous deployments, greater than 15 during business hours. This episode of DevOps Chats features a preview of Rainie’s talk, “How we introduced CI/CD […]
DevOps Chat: Monitoring Spinnaker on GKE with Miles Matthias
On a project to move one of Google’s Fortune 500 customers to Google Cloud, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Spinnaker open source, our DevOps Chat guest ran into the message “hang tight.” No scripts or documentation. Not to be delayed, Miles Matthias, Google Cloud Consultant with Container Heroes, filled the gap and contributed his work […]