DevOps and Open Technologies

Eclipse Foundation Delivers on Jakarta EE Promise

Mike Vizard | September 10, 2019 | Eclipse Foundation, Jakarta EE, Java EE, open source, programming language

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the general availability of Jakarta Enterprise Edition (EE) 8 Full Platform and Web Profile specifications and associated technology compatibility kits (TCKs). Announced during the JakartaOne Livestream virtual ...

Cisco Extends Ansible Support to Advance DevOps

Mike Vizard | September 10, 2019 | ansible, cisco, devops, IT infrastructure, storage

Cisco Systems announced today that it is further embracing the open source Ansible automation framework on its storage area network (SAN) platform as part of an effort to extend best DevOps practices ...

GitHub Actions Advances Automation Strategy

Mike Vizard | August 9, 2019 | API, application programming interface, automation, DevOps processes, github, GitHub Actions, open source

GitHub Actions, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) through which DevOps tools can automate workflows, is now available in beta. Previewed last year at the GitHub Universe event, GitHub Actions is ...

The Challenge of Securing Open Source Applications

Joseph Feiman | July 31, 2019 | application security, open source, SCA, software composition analysis

As enterprises have increased their reliance on applications over the years, there has been a significant rise in the use of reusable software components such as third-party libraries and open source code ...

The Linux Foundation Breathes New Life into Osquery

Frank Ohlhorst | July 11, 2019 | facebook, frameworks, Linux Foundation, nosql, open source, Osquery, SQL

Facebook’s useful but neglected DevOps tool Osquery has gotten a new lease on life, thanks to The Linux Foundation. Anyone who has been tasked with monitoring the security of server instances in ...

State of the Software Supply Chain: Secure Coding Takes Spotlight

Derek E. Weeks | July 5, 2019 | application development, devops, open source, secure coding, software development, sonatype, state of software supply chain report

After almost a year of research that involved studying 36,000 open source software projects, 12,000 enterprise development teams and 3.7 million open source releases, we at Sonatype are excited to share the ...

5 Ways DevSecOps Can Manage Software Supply Chains

Ericka Chickowski | July 1, 2019 | components, devops, governance, open source, security, software, supply chain

The unbridled use of open source components within the software supply chain is on a major uptick, according to new research. Even as this surge in open source dependencies fuels faster innovation, ...

Pivotal Software Embraces OpenJDK

Mike Vizard | May 30, 2019 | development, Jakarta, java, open source, OpenJDK, Oracle, Pivotal, programming language

Pivotal Software has officially thrown its weight behind OpenJDK, the open source version of the standard edition of Java, by adding support for OpenJDK to the Pivotal Spring Runtime on its Spring ...

Adobe Aims to Build Developer Ecosystem

Mike Vizard | May 15, 2019 | adobe, Apache Software Foundation, APIs, application development, developers, devops, open source

Adobe today outlined an approach to building a developer ecosystem that revolves around open source code, application programming interfaces (APIs) and DevOps processes. Matt Asay, head of developer ecosystem for Adobe, said ...

Open Source Versioning: The Race to Stay Up-to-Date

Darius Cooper | May 14, 2019 | Automated testing, CI/CD pipeline, continuous delivery, continuous integration, monitoring, open source

Open source libraries, once shunned as risky and not ready for prime time, are now used extensively across major corporations, including insurers. The reason is simple: In time- and resource-constrained companies trying ...