Loft Labs Makes Tool for Creating Dev Environments Open Source
Loft Labs’ DevPod enables DevOps teams to programmatically create developer environments using a tool that runs entirely on a local client.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]
Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of SRE With AI-Engineered Tools
In my blog Rapid Strategic SRE Assessments Accelerate IT Transformations published last year, I classified site reliability engineering (SRE) into nine pillars of SRE practices—a comprehensive framework that covers the full scope of SRE practices. This nine pillars SRE framework is consistent with the SRE blueprint published by the DevOps Institute. Each of these pillars […]
Threads: Twitter Killer or Ad-Infested Hellscape?
In this week’s #TheLongView: Meta launches its much-leaked Threads microblogging app. A spinoff from Instagram, it’s already reached 30 million signups at the time of writing. How is Meta’s DevOps team making it scale?
How TestOps Enhances DevOps and Software Development
By properly setting up TestOps, companies can make their DevOps processes more efficient, transparent and bug-free.
How AI Transforms DevOps Infrastructure
AI can help manage cloud resources for DevOps by predicting future needs based on usage trends and automatically adjusting resources to optimize cost and performance.
Reimagining CI/CD: AI-Engineered Continuous Integration
AI has the potential to greatly improve the efficiency, accuracy and effectiveness of DevOps continuous integration (CI) practices.
Identify Needs First
In several projects of late, I have noted a trend in otherwise rockstar IT departments: They identify an area that they wish to implement or approve and then set out to address it. So, “We need a new CI tool,” spawns a project to choose and implement a new CI tool, for example. But there […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]
FinOps Gaining Ground, But Progress is Slow
A CloudBolt survey found more than three-quarters of respondents said it will take two to three years to see real FinOps-driven results.
Tabnine Unveils Beta of Generative AI Automated Testing Tool
Tabnine this week made available in beta a tool that enables developers to use natural language to interact with the artificial intelligence (AI) models embedded within its test automation platform. Brandon Jung, vice president of ecosystems for Tabnine, said Tabnine Chat extends generative AI capabilities the company developed to make it simpler for developers to […]
How AI Addresses DevOps Monitoring and Observability Challenges
AI can support monitoring and observability by analyzing logs and metrics to predict potential system failures or performance degradation.
IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up
In this week’s #TheLongView: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) goes closed source. Well—not really, but …
Harnessing AI in Continuous Delivery and Deployment
In my recent article Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps with AI-Engineered Tools, I explained that the continuous delivery pillar is an approach where code changes are automatically built, tested and prepared for release to production; this may be followed by continuous deployment where an approved release is automatically deployed to the production environment. The […]
How Platform Engineering Protects Profit, People and our Planet
Platform engineering offers lots of tangible benefits for businesses, but sustainable platform engineering can be even better.
How Can DevOps Evolve? Platform Engineering
Platform engineering bridges the existing gaps between software, hardware and infrastructure that come with adopting DevOps practices.
HashiCorp Acquires BluBracket to Extend Secrets Management Reach
HashiCorp this week acquired BluBracket to add a set of static secrets discovery tools to its portfolio.
Survey Surfaces Raft of Enterprise IT Challenges
Less than a third of enterprises are extremely confident that they have the right technology, processes and people in place to execute an effective approach to IT management.
Survey Sees Value But Limited Understanding of Platform Engineering
Platform engineering is emerging as method for managing DevOps at scale, but a survey suggested that many organizations are still not clear on the concept.
How IT Services Can Embrace Platform Engineering
We are all familiar with DevOps as a newer approach to software development. The concept is designed to enable developers and IT operations teams to work together. Platform engineering, on the other hand, is a more mature, older approach that has become new again. Platform engineering, at its core, is the concept of productizing your […]
Must You Collect All That?
SEO: The amount of data collected and available to the average DevOps team is incredible. But it’s not all being used.
Mendix Embraces DevOps for Next Era of Low-Code App Development
Mendix’s low-code app dev platform added support for DevOps workflows and makes it simpler for developers to compose apps and embed AI capabilities.
Design for DevOps: Using AI in App Design and Enhanced CI/CD Pipelines
In my recent article Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps with AI-Engineered Tools, I explained that design-for-DevOps practices, a DevOps pillar, involves designing software in a way that supports the DevOps model and CI/CD pipelines. This can include aspects like microservices architecture, modular design and considering operability and deployability from the earliest stages of design. […]