DevOps Chat: Chef Goes All-In on Open Source
In front of next month’s ChefConf in Seattle, Chef has announced a major refinement to its business model. Affirming and clarifying its commitment to open source business models, Chef will now and in the future release all of its software as open source. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Corey Scobie, SVP of Products […]
Chef Commits to 100 Percent Open Source Code
Chef has decided to open source its entire portfolio of IT automation software as part of an effort to make it easier for organizations to construct a DevOps pipeline using the company’s software. A part of that effort, Chef also launched the Chef Enterprise Automation Stack—which combines Chef Infra for managing infrastructure, Chef InSpec for […]
Helping the Little Guy: The Power of Open Source Software for Startups
It’s no secret that open source software holds many benefits for businesses looking to reap the rewards of these innovative, collaborative and incidentally free efforts of developers around the world. Even major companies such as Salesforce have opened up their software for developers to test, debug and improve. Other huge players that run on open […]
Best of 2018: 11 Popular Open Source DevOps Tools Worth Knowing
As we close out 2018, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourth in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. Companies implementing the best practices of DevOps have demonstrated that they are more effective and flexible in implementing as well as designing […]
Best of 2018: 5 Best Node.js Frameworks to Know
As we close out 2018, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the third in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. When it comes to development platforms, the choices are wide and varied. It can be a difficult task choosing the right framework […]
Best of 2018: 5 Open Source SIEM Tools Worth Checking Out
As we close out 2018, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the second in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. Security information and event management (SIEM) is the cornerstone of IT security. All other network solutions are merely data flows that feed […]
Crowdsourcing, Data Science Top Talks at the 2018 Topcoder Open
The 2018 Topcoder Open (TCO), the world’s ultimate programming and design tournament, took place in Dallas Nov. 13-16 and featured the best technologists from around the globe competing for cash prizes and international rank. Companies of all sizes shared perspectives on digital transformation and caught a glimpse of the most coveted programmers on the planet. […]
How Secure is Open Source for DevOps? 5 Considerations
Open source libraries and frameworks have important roles to play in a DevOps culture that emphasizes shorter development life cycles, collaboration and innovation. However, it’s vital not to neglect the security of these open source components. This article discusses the use of open source in DevOps and gives you five things to consider in terms […]
Infosys Launches Open Source DevOps Project
Infosys has decided to make its DevOps platform—which consists of more than 2,000 prebuilt scripts and more than 150 pipelines spanning 70-plus tools involving more than 25 different classes of technologies—available as an open source project available via GitHub. Ravi Kumar, president and deputy COO for Infosys, said the global systems integrator has spent the […]
Implementing ChatOps Using Open Source Tooling
ChatOps is an exciting proposition for organizational Ops communication. Throwing development and operational tooling into the chat conversation can ease the development pipeline, increase transparency and increase security by streamlining bug detection and remediation efforts. At the heart of ChatOps are bots, scripts and chat clients; many are pre-built and open source. In this article, […]
Using Open Source Languages Effectively in the Enterprise
Open source languages are part of almost every business these days. In fact, according to Opensource.com, open source will be the driving force behind a great number of technology innovations due to its pervasive use. From development to quality assurance (QA) to DevOps, all kinds of coders have embraced open source languages. In doing so, […]
CloudBees Extends CI/CD Scope, Reach
CloudBees, at its DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018 conference this week, unveiled a broad strategy to extend the reach and scope of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms based on the open source Jenkins software. Company CEO Sascha Labourey said CloudBees Suite will provide the equivalent of a customer relationship management (CRM) application for software […]
Mirantis Modeling Tool Extends SDI Scope and Reach
Mirantis has added a modeling tool to its portfolio that enables users to allocate IT infrastructure that has been distributed across multiple data centers to a common set of workloads. Company CEO Adrian Ionel said the latest edition of the Mirantis Cloud Platform (MCP) for building provide clouds on OpenStack or Kubernetes platforms now includes […]
Red Hat Takes Virtualization Aim at VMware
Red Hat, as part of on going drive to wean enterprise IT organizations off proprietary virtualization technologies, today launched a set of Red Hat infrastructure migration tools and services. Joe Fernandes, vice president of cloud platforms products at Red Hat, said that as organizations move to modernize their application environments by lifting and shifting them […]
OpenStack and Open Source MANO: Technologies for NFV Deployment
We have experienced how open source software technologies revolutionized the application development process, which ultimately resulted in digital transformation across various industry verticals. Open source technologies now are disrupting the telecom sector for building 5G internet, which will be powered by network functions virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN). With NFV and SDN, multiple […]
A Right DevOps Approach: Assess Organizational Readiness
Driving business in this fast-paced world is maddening as owners have to remember customer preferences, beat market competition and similarly cater to different things within the organization’s radius. How a business owner manages all this defines the business success, which is gauged through outcomes in the form of smart products, point-on services and almost-immediate feedback. […]
How to Use the Jenkins Pipelines
With the introduction of the Pipeline, Jenkins added an embedded Groovy engine, making Groovy the scripting language in the Pipeline’s DSL. Here are the steps you need to take to set up a Jenkins Pipeline. First, log on to your Jenkins server and select “New Item” from the left panel: Next, enter a name for […]
Selecting the Right Service Virtualization Tool
Once you have established that implementing service virtualization (SV) as a means to remove the bottlenecks formed by critical yet hard-to-access dependencies in your test environments is the way to go forward, one important decision to make is which SV tools to use for the process. Most major testing solution vendors (including CA, Micro Focus, […]
How Important Is Open Source for DevOps, Really?
Depending on your perspective, you might believe that DevOps and open source go hand in hand. Or you may think that, quite to the contrary, the two have little to do with each other. There are good arguments to be made for both interpretations. Let’s explore these two ways of thinking about the relationship between […]
Serverless: What You Need to Know
There are clear benefits to serverless architecture, with many enterprises already making or planning to make this change. Like any paradigm shift however, the move to serverless carries both benefits and risks. Here’s what you need to know. AWS pioneered the serverless space with its release of AWS Lambda back in 2014, with the other […]
10 Views on What Microsoft’s GitHub Deal Does for DevOps Users
The DevOps and open source communities have been in a tizzy all week over the massive $7.5 billion Microsoft acquisition of GitHub. Even as many developers rage on Twitter about the deal and still others are rushing to migrate their repositories to alternative solutions—#movetogitlab has trended heavy this week—for the most part the DevOps community […]
Microsoft and GitHub: The Sky is Not Falling
The consternation seen in some corners of the internet over Microsoft’s agreement to acquire GitHub is overblown and too early. For those who don’t follow me normally, I am a developer for Windows, Android and Linux. I am also a user of both GitHub and BitBucket. While I am an advocate, I am more of […]
Jump-Start Your Kubernetes Journey with JenkinsX
Containers are very quickly being adopted as the stable way of deploying services. More and more organizations are adopting immutable architecture and containers provide an excellent way to achieve that. But along with the stability comes the complexity of deployment, along with managing workload, scaling and updating. That’s in addition to having to create a […]