Threading the Needle on Kubernetes Complexity with AI-Powered Observability
If you run down the laundry list of major industries–transportation, retail, healthcare, automotive, financial services–you’ll see that the major players in each have essentially become software companies. What they do and how they serve their customers rests entirely on their software working perfectly. Underpinning this is a massive digital transformation that has shifted organizations away […]
EP 5: Outsourcing DevOps, Oxymoron or Truth
Can you outsource DevOps? And if you can, what are the keys to doing it successfully? In the fifth episode of DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and DevOps.com’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel are joined by Ming Gong of UST Global, Chris Rolls of TTC and Robina Laughlin of Guardian Life for a discussion on outsourcing DevOps.
EP 4: DevOps and the Mainframe
In this fourth episode of our DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and DevOps.com’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel are joined by Gerta Sheganaku of Tricentis, Rosalind Radcliffe of IBM and Sam Knutson of Compuware to discuss app modernization, mainframes and DevOps. Find out what’s the right way to modernize your applications and how to do app modernization in a Z environment.
How to Properly Approach Automation
Imagine if you backed out of your driveway, tapped the gas and BAM! You are at work. Nothing to worry about along the way, no traffic congestion, no other cars to worry about, etc. That is, unfortunately, how many of us approach automation. “Fire and forget” is real, until a problem crops up. I could […]
Running Kubernetes in Production: Make Sure Your Routing Strategy Works
Managing Kubernetes deployments in production raises some rather complex challenges. The dynamic nature of network communication in containerized environments produces unique operational issues–capable of bewildering even experienced DevOps teams. To mitigate these issues, software-based routing components offer key advantages across a number of areas. Here are a few particularly important routing strategies to consider within […]
Day 2 for the Operator Ecosystem
The original focus for Kubernetes was very much on stateless applications, which don’t rely on coordination between instances or sharing data between client sessions. In practice, that usually means that we can stop and start our stateless applications without data loss or impacting on client connections. If all applications were stateless, the world of application […]
COVID-19: Don’t Sacrifice DevOps
Like everyone else, I’ve been following COVID-19/Coronavirus issues. My focus is more on the IT impact of the disease and its status as a pandemic. Let’s start by saying it isn’t the end of the world. Yes, it’s serious. Yes, it will be disruptive. Yes, those impacted by the worst aspects of the disease will […]
Coronavirus Response: Atlassian Expands Free Software
Atlassian announced today it will make cloud-based versions of Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Desk and Jira Core available for free as part of an effort to assist organizations whose employees are working remotely to help combat the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Robert Chatwani, chief marketing officer for Atlassian, said given the current unprecedented situation the […]
Scaling DevOps for the Enterprise
Information technology has been an integral piece of the modern enterprise for multiple decades and that dependency is only growing. With digital transformation, there’s the inevitable increase in demand for new applications. As such, software development services will continue to be a vital component of the business amidst the mounting pressure to innovate and deliver. […]
The DevOps Sweet Spot: Inserting Security at Pull Requests (Part 2)
In part one of this two-part series, I explored how organizations can more effectively automate security quality decisions and discard doing automation for automation’s sake. I shared why security scans need to be faster, more reliable and comprehensive. Only then can security be meaningfully automated into developer workflows without slowing them down. But, the other […]
Moving from NOC to the SRE Model
Is Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) another case of “Do what Google does”? When viewed with a discerning lens, the practices and tooling high-performing engineering teams deliver to the market can be very beneficial. The SRE model is one of them and stands to benefit DevOps teams substantially. If I could change the name from Site […]
Catch Emerging Security Risks Earlier by Leveraging Kubernetes Audit Logs
When a Kubernetes deployment suffers a security breach, it can be difficult for security teams to diagnose and identify the source of the intrusion and its impact. Each Kubernetes cluster may host multiple applications, and each application may be composed of dozens or even hundreds of interacting microservices deployed as pods. The complex and dynamic […]
Atlassian Adds No-Code Automation Tool to Jira Cloud
Atlassian announced today it has added a no-code tool to enable DevOps teams to make it easier to customize Jira project management software without having to learn how to code. Sean Regan, head of growth for software teams at Atlassian, said Automation for Jira will now become a core part of Jira Cloud that will […]
The DevOps Sweet Spot: Inserting Security at Pull Requests (Part 1)
Today’s organizations are increasingly benefiting from the modernization of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including the adoption of cloud, DevOps, Agile methodologies, containers and more. Thanks to this modernization, organizations are innovating and releasing updates faster than ever before. But these benefits aren’t without challenges. Application security arguably tops the list of challenges. Security has […]
Better Apps and Better Security When You Shift Left
Tens of thousands of people and hundreds of cybersecurity vendors descended on San Francisco at the end of April. While the RSA Conference was the primary draw, there are a number of peripheral events that go on throughout the week as well, such as the Cloud Security Alliance Summit, the CIO/CISO Interchange, BSides San Francisco […]
DevOps Brings Pressure to Bear on Database Management
The rise of DevOps is starting to have a significant impact on the rate at which databases now need to be deployed and updated. A global survey of more than 2,000 developers, database specialists and IT leaders conducted by Redgate Software, a provider of tools for automating the management of databases, finds nearly half (49%) […]
Provide Continuous Value with Product-Centric Delivery
Software engineering and management has borrowed many practices over the years from traditional industries such as construction, automotive and manufacturing. One such practice is the notion of managing software development and delivery based on projects. According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), a project is defined as “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique […]
A Deep Dive Into AI for IT Operations
Traditional IT administration and management techniques are reforming. By employing artificial intelligence (AI), IT operations are taking an interesting turn in the field of advancements. The term “AIOps” stands for Artificial Intelligence for the IT Operations. AIOps uses AI techniques and algorithms to monitor the data as well as reduce the blackout times. The dominance […]
Don’t Let ‘Hindsight 2020’ Be Your DevOps Strategy
The idea of DevOps originated a little over a decade ago with a desire to ensure efficiency in the overall software development and delivery process. Constant operational hurdles that have been hampering flawless and frequent delivery of applications have led organizations to think beyond and to come up with continuous improvements in their processes and […]
You Still Have to Make Time for Maintenance
I’m going to take a side trek today into home computing with applicability to IT. Bear with me. We maintain a pretty complex home network, as home networks go. With three NAS servers, a small one-box SAN, some web servers and connections to several hosted environments. We both work from home, and my business is […]
The Right Toolchain Is the One You Build
One of several iterations that IT likes to go through is corporate standards for technology versus best tool for the job. We like to have standardization because it allows staffing portability between projects, but we like right tool for the job because from the moment you choose a standard, competitive factors and changes in needs […]
What Developers Should Take Away from the Iowa Caucus App Debacle
In the wake of the recent Iowa caucus, vote-counting software has fallen under suspicion after a smartphone app built by Shadow, Inc., brought chaos and delays to the first 2020 Democratic caucuses. Stopgap measures, such as Nevada officials canceling the application’s use in its upcoming caucus, are not enough to ensure vote tallies the electorate […]
Observability-Driven Development: From Software Development to DevOps and Beyond
In today’s world of cloud platforms and applications, typically delivered as SaaS (Software as a Service), it is critical for organizations to ensure efficient collaboration between software development and operations teams. The software development team codes the software application or platform, while the DevOps team streamlines and automates the entire production lifecycle, from development and […]