GitLab Updates Core CI/CD Platform
GitLab this week delivered an update to its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery platform that promises to make pipelines more efficient and easier to manage, in addition to making it easier to set up pipelines in Windows environments. Version 12.7 of the core GitLab platform adds support for Parent-Child Pipelines and Pipeline Resource Groups. Parent-Child Pipelines […]
Launchable Aims To Improve Delivery Velocity, With Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Harpreet Singh
A new company, Launchable, aims to improve your delivery velocity by helping you be much smarter about which tests you run and when. By applying machine learning (ML) and better use of the data output by your software development work, the two co-founders think they can make a meaningful impact on development efforts. Sure, you […]
CircleCI Extends Orbs Ecosystem for CI/CD
CircleCI announced today it has added integrations in collaboration with 20 partners to the family of connectors, known as Orbs, that it makes available for its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Thomas Trahan, vice president of business development for CircleCI, said integrations are now available with Heroku, AWS, Cloud Foundry, Google Cloud, Red Hat, Helm, […]
Red Hat Extends Runtimes Middleware Portfolio
Red Hat has made available the latest instance of Red Hat Runtimes, a suite of lightweight open source components and frameworks that makes it easier to discover the middleware most appropriate for building a specific type of application. James Falkner, product marketing director for Runtimes at Red Hat, said as organizations embrace cloud-native application architectures […]
JFrog ConanCenter Extends DevOps Reach to C++
JFrog this week announced it has updated ConanCenter, a repository for storing and discovering software packages that can be downloaded for free, to include support for C++ artifacts. Jagan Subramanian, vice president of community and partner engineering at JFrog, said ConanCenter provides a repository for the open source Conan package manager that JFrog includes as […]
Che: A Revolutionary IDE for the Mainframe
Tools such as the green screens of ISPF and the Eclipse desktop IDE, enhanced with proprietary plug-ins, have served mainframe application developers well over the years and, for those comfortable with them, will continue to do so. However, changes in the broader world of development are creating the conditions for a revolution in mainframe tooling. […]
Is COBOL Here to Stay? Five Signs IT is Ready to Modernize
With increased demands and challenges around compliance and regulations, plus growing expectations for IT to provide more value-added services, companies are looking for more flexible and collaborative options. Interestingly though, while some IT departments have updated legacy systems, COBOL code has continued to be a mainstay. In fact, COBOL just turned 60 and many are […]
Building a Real-Time App: 13 Open Source Projects You Should Be Tracking Right Now
Open source is the dominant model of software consumption in the modern era. Cutting-edge startups and entrenched incumbents alike find open source software development and community building a significant part of their overall business strategies. For many open source projects, independent steering committees ensure that projects remain stable and are not beholden to a single […]
PagerDuty Focuses Incident Response Efforts on the Cloud
After helping to pioneer the adoption of incident management software in on-premises IT environments, PagerDuty is now focusing its attention on the cloud with the launch of PagerDuty for Cloud Operations. Jukka Alanen, senior vice president of business development and corporate strategy for PagerDuty, said that as cloud computing evolves to include containers and serverless […]
Datadog Adds Support for Microsoft Azure DevOps
Datadog has added support for Microsoft Azure DevOps to its namesake monitoring and analytics platform. Ilan Rabinovitch, vice president of product and community for Datadog, said Microsoft Azure DevOps, formally known as Visual Studio Team Services, is gaining traction as a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. […]
Best of 2019: The Time Has Come for an Engineering Approach to DevOps
As we close out 2019, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the third in our weeklong series of the Best of 2019. Do you want to know how to do DevOps? Are you doing DevOps but not satisfied with the results you are getting? DevOps […]
Xen Project Advances Hypervisor Project
The Xen Project announced this week that the latest version of the open source hypervisor can now take advantage of core scheduling, an experimental technology that enables Xen to group multiple processors together to create a single virtual central processor unit (CPU). Lars Kurth, chairperson for the Xen Project advisory board, said this capability also […]
IBM Z Open Editor Support for Language Server Protocol is a Game Changer
The integrated development environment (IDE) is an indispensable tool for software developers. Before it came along, coding was a laborious, detail ladened undertaking. We’ve become accustomed to the syntax checking and code completion features than even the most basic IDEs provide. These days we tend to forget how hard it was programming with nothing but […]
Waging a Winning WAR in AWS
Above all other security advice for enterprises working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), there is one resounding war cry: “Go to WAR.” WAR is an acronym meaning Well-Architected Review. It’s a powerful and proactive way to mitigate real risk with the AWS team and its partners. If you’re using AWS (or thinking about it) consider […]
Solo.io Creates Registry for Extensions to Envoy Proxy Server
Solo.io has created a WebAssembly Hub registry designed to make it easier to discover and share extensions to the open source Envoy proxy server. Now being developed under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) after being created by Lyft, Envoy is gaining traction as a proxy server in IT environments that have […]
An Overview of Cloud Migration and Open Source
Most businesses are moving toward making their business processes more user-friendly, through digitization. This shift of business modernization comes with a heavy price for them in terms of money and in terms of time. It is going to take time and a great amount of investment in new innovative technologies. Cloud computing is the biggest […]
HashiCorp Advances Open Source Consul Service Mesh
HashiCorp this week updated its Consul service mesh to make it easier to manage namespaces across multiple services. Previously, DevOps teams would have to manually ensure each namespace assigned to a group of services did not conflict with each other. The release of 1.7 of Consul enables teams to restrict access to services residing in […]
DevOps Tools for the Monitoring Ecosystem
DevOps is a cultural and process transformation—the goal of it is to achieve a higher rate of change and quality of software. There are categories of tools to help facilitate this transformation through automation and increased measurement and visibility. You can’t have or observe progress without measurement, and throughout your transformation you need to maintain […]
Predictions 2020: The Future of APM Strategies and Tools
As 2019 comes to an end, it’s safe to say that multi-cloud strategies are here to stay. We can predict that 2020 will bring an ever-increasing demand for application performance management (APM) tools and services. So what does the future of APM look like? Let’s dive in. Multi-Cloud Strategies Increase the Demand for APM Tool […]
Decoding the Modern Enterprise Software Spaghetti
Modern enterprise software architecture is growing increasingly complex. Organizations are jumping on the digital transformation bandwagon in growing numbers. They are striving to become more agile and continuously deliver new code, whether on-premises or to support cloud migration efforts. In the process, IT teams are amassing an ever-growing inventory of applications and databases, which generally […]
NetFoundry Network Overlay Advances DevSecOps
NetFoundry, at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019 conference, announced the general availability of a developer platform designed to make it easier for organizations to bake a zero trust networking framework within their applications. Company CEO Galeal Zino said NetFoundry has created a network fabric overlay to manage and secure communications between endpoints and applications. […]
Why Integrated Infrastructure Is the Key to IT Success
At first glance, your IT infrastructure might seem like your house’s basement. It supports everything, but you don’t pay much attention to it or spend much time or energy trying to make it beautiful. Instead, you treat it as a generic component and lavish your attention on other parts of your IT landscape (or your […]
Why Salesforce?
Over the past 20 years, Salesforce has become the fastest growing enterprise software platform, and a market leader in sales, service, marketing, integration and custom application development among other areas. Although there are many reasons why a company might adopt or consider using Salesforce, the overriding value proposition is that it provides tons of capabilities […]