The Cloud and DevOps: Like Peanut Butter and Jelly
Cloud is practically designed for DevOps. No matter which cloud provider you are using, each has set up systems designed to spin up/spin down on demand, has the ability to run pretty much what you need and offer APIs/command lines to achieve your DevOps goals on the infrastructure side. That means that the infrastructure side […]
Kubernetes is the Universal Cloud Infrastructure
Before I started Rancher Labs, I created a company called Cloud.com where we developed Apache CloudStack. We were inspired by the early success of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and wanted to make it possible for everyone to stand up AWS-like cloud infrastructure for themselves. While CloudStack was successful in powering a number of public and […]
Building a Services and IoT Platform with DevOps, Part 4
IoT platforms and their solution development have crossed different maturity levels. At first, devices were primitive, isolated and working with limited functions before slowly evolving to communicate and connect with other devices using lightweight communication protocols, and then stepping into advanced level with remote management of devices, harvesting the data from devices and smart decisioning […]
Case Study: DevOps Key to AWS Cloud Migration
DevOps practices halved the time it took this SaaS company to migrate to AWS Australia-based Whispir provides communications applications as a service. One of its goals is to get products into users’ hands as soon as possible, and that requires development, operations and product staff working together, said Jonathan Swift, head of product and operations. […]
DOES17 Speakers Share Insights on Live Podcast
As DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco (DOES17), slated for Nov. 13-15, inches closer, event founding partner Electric Cloud hosted a special episode of Continuous Discussions (#c9d9), featuring some of the conference speakers. During the discussion, the speakers shared some of their recent DevOps transformation stories and a bit about what to expect during their talks at […]
DevOps Chat: Cloud Sprawl, DevOps and ParkMyCloud w/ Jay Chapel
I bet you know how many instances you have running AWS or Azure or Google Cloud. OK, maybe you don’t. But whether you do or don’t, do you really have a handle on what your cloud infrastructure looks like? If you are like most, the answer to the question is no. Cloud sprawl, multicloud, hybrid […]
Finishing the Pipeline: Monitoring, Tools, Automation and …
It is true that DevOps has grown to be the beast in the room. I’ll co-opt the “cloudwashing” term to call it “DevOps-washing” because it seems every tool you’ve ever used to develop and deploy applications now has a DevOps angle to it. For example, the Jenkins update center is kind of overwhelming. While I […]
DevOps Chat: Measuring DevOps Success with Steve Boone, UrbanCode
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Steve Boone, product owner and development manager for Urban Code Deploy. Now that DevOps is in practice at more organizations, measuring DevOps success is a question many are asking. Steve has helped hundreds of companies adopt, implement and scale their agile and DevOps practices as part of their digital […]
Platform9 Brings Workflows to Serverless Computing
Serverless computing frameworks are widely regarded as the next big thing in enterprise IT because they are based on an event-driven architecture that makes servers, storage and networking resources dynamically available as needed using a programming construct known as functions. But DevOps teams are challenged in finding a way to orchestrate all those functions in […]
With a Multicloud Infrastructure, Control is Key
Ask any developer or DevOps manager about their first experiences with the public cloud and it’s likely they’ll happily share some memories of quickly provisioning some compute instances for a small project or new app. For (seemingly) a few pennies, you could take full advantage of the full suite of public cloud services—as well as […]
Is AWS Cloud Per-Second Billing Boon or Bane for DevOps Engineers?
Amazon’s introduction of its AWS services in 2006 with a per-hour billing model for compute resources was a game-changer for the IT world. Since then, AWS has taken over the cloud computing market as a leader, while broadening the range of cloud services offered every year. However, the per-hour billing business model was one of […]
VMware Cloud on AWS Will Bring DevOps Issues to a Head
Now that instances of VMware are starting to become available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a DevOps ecosystem is starting to emerge around the management of applications workloads moving into and out of AWS. Among the more than 4,500 applications that VMware claims already support VMware Cloud on AWS are those from Blue Medora, CA […]
Today’s DNS: DevOps’ New Best Friend
Continuous development and deployment is a primary focus of DevOps teams. As part of this process, DevOps teams also require the automatic creation or removal of networks, and automated deployment to production. Automation is a closer guarantee that the process will be done right the first time because the fewer the number of manual steps […]
10 Ways to Make Outage Mitigation Fun
It’s 3:47 a.m. You and the rest of the Ops team have been summoned from your peaceful slumber to mitigate an application delivery outage. As you catch up on the frantic emails, Slack chats and text messages from everyone on your international sales team (Every. Single. One.), your mind races as you switch to problem-solving […]
DevOps Chat: DevOps and the Road to Cloud with JT Giri, CEO, nClouds
For many of us in the IT industry, migrating to the cloud is old news. Even the concept of how DevOps can help on the road to the cloud is not a novel idea. However, we need to remember that while many organizations have some cloud-based infrastructure, the real migration to the cloud is still […]
Cloud Capabilities Turn Developers into Operational Experts
The upside-down world of digital transformation can leave you feeling like you’ve fallen down an internet rabbit hole. If you’re a DevOps denizen, the swirling pace and scale of virtualization might give you that “lost in the Technicolor forest” feeling when it’s time to release an app into the wild. “Curiouser and curiouser!” you say […]
4 Ways to Give DevOps Teams the Support They Need
If it weren’t hard enough for IT infrastructure teams to innovate and keep the lights on, a host of technologies designed to drive efficiencies are introducing new levels of complexity across the data center. Virtualization, cloud computing, software-defined storage and digital are making it much more difficult for the infrastructure team to control, manage and […]
Pivotal Enlists Rackspace to Advance DevOps in Cloud Foundry Environments
In a sign of the level of complexity now associated with managing DevOps, Pivotal has partnered with Rackspace to create a managed services practice for its distribution of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment. Ian Andrews, vice president of product for Pivotal, says that at least half of the company’s customers have a least one […]
Microsoft Woos Development Partners
If Microsoft has its way, many more DevOps processes will revolve around the cadence at which the company upgrades its applications. At its Inspire 2017 conference, the tech behemoth announced an ISV Cloud Embed initiative designed to entice more developers to add value by extending application functionality it has already developed and deployed in the […]
Data Science Industry Perspectives in the Cloud
In principle, the cloud is becoming a commodity. Google, Amazon and other companies are trying to commoditize almost everything, including the instruments for data gathering, data storage and data transformation. In the near term, we should expect that platform engineering, which today is overly complex, will become simpler. With data engineering, however, the prospects of […]
Tips to Optimize the Cloud for Scaling
When I first started migrating companies to the cloud (about seven years ago), companies would ask me, “How come the app isn’t scaling? How come users are still complaining about the slowness?” I would explain that the cloud enables auto-scaling, but you still have to make sure your app can scale in the cloud. In […]
Salesforce Moves Compliance to the DevOps Left
Compliance is one of those tasks that trips up developers multiple times over. More times than anyone cares to admit developers finish an application only to discover there are any number of compliance controls that were overlooked. Sometimes, bringing that application into compliance is trivial. Other times, it can delay the rollout of the application […]
DevOps Needs a New Cloud Solution for Best Practices
Imagine this scenario: You are a company building modern software which is a key driver of your business. To support this, you have grown your infrastructure organically over time by adding servers, storage, networks, security, virtualization software, monitoring, alerting and analytics tools. You have also added a plethora of other middleware, databases, messaging and operating systems that your developers need […]