GitHub Updates CLI to Make Creating Extensions Easier
GitHub this week made available an update to its command-line interface (CLI) that enables DevOps teams to add extensions to workflows. Billy Griffin, director of engineering for GitHub, said the company’s initial focus was providing DevOps teams with a set of workflows that could be invoked easily via a CLI. Now GitHub is encouraging developers […]
How to Optimize Data in Software Development
Data can drive significant business value for every company. Globally, we are collecting more of it than ever before, and it keeps growing—from 45 zettabytes in 2019 to a projected 175 zettabytes by 2025, according to IDC. However, companies are struggling to monetize all the personal, behavioral, engagement and transactional data from customers and operations […]
F5 Networks Planning Open Source Projects Beyond NGINX
F5 Networks today revealed plans to launch multiple projects in the months ahead that will extend its commitment to open source beyond the NGINX proxy software the company acquired in 2019. The announcement was made during an online NGINX Sprint event; two of the projects are extensions of NGINX that will address networking requirements between […]
Why You Should Use GitOps to Experiment With AI
As the pace at which artificial intelligence (AI) models are being constructed and inevitably updated starts to increase, it’s becoming more apparent that the pace at which data science teams are currently experimenting also needs to dramatically quicken. Many data science teams today are fortunate if they manage to successfully deploy two AI models in […]
Low-Code is Table Stakes for Enterprises
Enterprises across all industries are facing mounting pressure to deliver business value with speed and agility. In the digital age, companies that can’t keep pace often fall to the wayside, especially in light of increasing customer expectations and dynamic regulatory requirements. Speed has become table stakes. And business leaders have risen to the challenge across […]
Micronaut Taps Moderne to Automate Java Framework Updates
Micronaut, a provider of a framework for building applications based on microservices and serverless computing platforms, today revealed it is allying with Moderne, a provider of a tool for refactoring code, to create a “recipe” that will automatically update the Micronaut framework. Moderne CEO Jonathan Schneider said the open source OpenRewrite refactoring tool for code, […]
The Future of IT: Smart Tools, Intelligent Technology
In the last few years, the lines between information technology and development have been blurred. Developers need to know about infrastructure, and administrators need to know how to code. Advances like containerization, orchestration, continuous integration and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) happened in tandem with DevOps’ rise. The advantage of DevOps is that you can quickly build and […]
Foundation Proposes Advancing eBPF Adoption Across Multiple OSes
The eBPF Foundation, which proposes to advance adoption of an approach that enables sandbox programs to run faster at the kernel level, is being launched today as an arm of the Linux Foundation. The technology known as eBPF was originally developed for Linux. The eBPF Foundation is now committed to expanding use of eBPF across […]
Choosing an Incident Management Platform
When you’re feeling the stress and pain of manually managing incidents and incident response, making the decision to find an incident management tool is a no-brainer. But how do you choose the one that will work best for you, your team and your business? You might be asking yourself, “Where do I start? What do […]
Google Unveils Tool to Better Secure GitHub Repos
Google today launched a GitHub app that provides automated continuous enforcement of security best practices for GitHub projects. Kim Lewandowski, a product manager for open source software security at Google, said the Allstar application enables IT teams to assess any project on GitHub to check for security policy adherence. In addition, Allstar sets desired enforcement […]
DataOps Vs. DevOps: What’s the Difference?
There is a mindboggling amount of data today; to even measure it requires using a byte measurement called a zettabyte, which is one sextillion bytes (that’s 21 zeros). Currently, because such a ridiculous amount of data exists, there is a growing urgency to end wasteful data processes. From this environment, DataOps was born. Similar to […]
A New DevOps Test Environment Platform is Needed
Test environment management is bottlenecking DevOps transformations and is driving the need for a new test environment management platform solution. On-demand test environments in which developers and testers do not have to wait for a shared environment are sorely needed. The evidence is clear. In my book Engineering DevOps I indicated that finding and setting up […]
Cycloid Tool Can Reverse Engineer Provisioned IaC
Cycloid this week unveiled a tool that makes it possible to reverse engineer code used to manually provision cloud infrastructure. The Infra Import tool is part of an effort to create a more consistent and reliable version of that code using open source Terraform software. Benjamin Brial, Cycloid CEO, said Infra Import is based on […]
EP 12: DevOps Unicorns
What should you look for when choosing a DevOps vendor? What criteria are others in your industry using to inform their decisions? How do you choose a vendor that is a good fit for your organization? And how do you know if you made the right choice? In this episode of DevOps Unbound, host Alan Shimel welcomes Larry Maccherone of Comcast, John Willis of Red Hat, Ravyn Manuel of the Smithsonian, Garima Bajpai of Capital Carbon Consulting and Mitch Ashley of Accelerated Strategies Group for a panel on DevOps unicorns. The video is below, followed by a transcript of the conversation.
Logz.io Allies with Microsoft on Open Source Observability
Logz.io this week announced an alliance with Microsoft that enables DevOps teams to deploy its observability platform—based on open source platforms such as ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK), Prometheus and Jaeger—on the Azure public cloud. Jonah Kowall, Logz.io’s CTO, said the multi-year effort enables those teams to deploy the Logz.io platform via the Azure Console with […]
WhiteSource Tool Automatically Fixes Code Vulnerabilities
WhiteSource today announced that it has developed the first-ever tool that automatically remediates vulnerabilities discovered in custom code. Rami Sass, WhiteSource CEO, said WhiteSource Cure surfaces recommendations for fixing security vulnerabilities in code that developers can then apply with a click of a button. WhiteSource has a long history of providing tools that discover vulnerabilities […]
Shoreline Platform Automates Repetitive IT Tasks
Shoreline emerged from stealth today to make available a namesake incident automation platform that eliminates the need to manually perform the same repetitive tasks. Anurag Gupta, Shoreline CEO, said the platform is based on domain-specific language, dubbed Op, that provides a simple pipe delimited syntax to integrate real-time resources and metrics in a way that […]
Shopify Gives Devs More Creative Freedom
Shopify’s Unite 2021 conference was held on June 29, 2021, and the e-commerce platform had some big, developer-centric news to share. Alan Shimel spoke with Shopify’s Glen Coates about the developer-first business model that is giving developers the most opportunity to build their businesses with a new 0% revenue share model, and how developers can […]
Cycloid Brings Open DevOps Framework to the US and UK
Cycloid, a Paris, France-based provider of an open framework for implementing DevOps best practices, today announced it is expanding its operations into the U.S. and United Kingdom. Benjamin Brial, founder of Cycloid, said the Cycloid framework provides a lightweight approach to striking a balance between enabling developers to employ the tools they prefer and the […]
Using ML/AI to Support Infrastructure Monitoring
Successful infrastructure monitoring enables IT teams to ensure constant uptime and performance of their company’s systems. Technologies like machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) benefit infrastructure monitoring by more quickly collecting and analyzing data from all of the hardware and software components that comprise the IT stack. Infrastructure changes are occurring faster than ever […]
Rocky Linux Emerges as a CentOS Replacement
Rocky Linux was created to offer the community an alternative following Red Hat’s recent decision to shift its focus away from CentOS—the open source version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). However, the Linux distro’s popularly can also be attributed to how its creator sought to offer a superior alternative based on lessons learned during CentOS’ […]
Copado Acquires Qentinel to Gain AI Testing Tools
Copado has acquired Qentinel as part of an effort to incorporate AI-infused application testing within a DevOps platform and build applications using low-code tools across multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. The Copado continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform was originally created to accelerate the development of low-code applications on top of the Salesforce platform. Now, however, Copado […]
BMC Extends DevOps Reach from the Mainframe
BMC today announced it has extended its DevOps platform for mainframe environments to provide integrations with GitHub Actions, a framework for managing workflows, and HCL Launch, a continuous delivery platform from HCL Software. BMC gained the DevOps platform with the acquisition of Compuware in June 2020. John McKenny, senior vice president and general manager for […]