GitLab Expands Scope of DevOps Ambitions
GitLab, with the release of its 12.0 update, is extending the reach of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to include both cybersecurity professionals and traditional IT operations staff. John Jeremiah, senior product marketing manager at GitLab, said the goal is to provide organizations with a single CI/CD platform that unifies the management of […]
HPE Extends Hybrid Cloud Computing Strategy
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today advanced its hybrid cloud computing strategy by announcing at its HPE Discover 2019 conference an alliance with Google to embrace Kubernetes in hybrid cloud computing environments and then extending the reach of its software-defined infrastructure for building private clouds to legacy ProLiant servers. Lauren Whitehouse, director of marketing for the software-defined […]
Pulumi Advances DevOps on AWS
Pulumi announced the availability of Pulumi Crosswalk for Amazon Web Services (AWS), an open source framework for deploying applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Company CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi Crosswalk for AWS provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application through which DevOps teams can automate the deployment of applications on AWS infrastructure using software development kits […]
Acquisitions to Fuel Programmable Analytics
Now that Tableau Software has agreed to be acquired by Salesforce and Looker is set to become a part of Google, the rate at which analytics will be embedded within almost every application is about to accelerate. Tableau today is relied on by more than 86,000 organizations to surface business intelligence via data visualizations created […]
CloudBees Acquires Rollout for Feature Flagging
CloudBees today announced it would extend the reach of the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform by acquiring Rollout, a provider of feature flag tool that gets employed to simplify testing of new modules within an application. Company CEO Sacha Labourey said the acquisition of Rollout would result in a feature flag capability that is […]
Pre-Commit Job Workflow in Azure DevOps
Many organizations use a combination of open so Many organizations use a combination of open source and commercial tools and Azure DevOps (formerly called VSTS) and an application lifecycle management (ALM) tool that includes features such as Azure pipelines. This article talks about how to achieve an end-to-end DevOps setup in Azure Pre-requisites: Subscription Project […]
GitLab Updates Advance Its CI/CD Platform
GitLab has expanded the capabilities of its continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform to include tighter integration with collaboration platforms from Slack and Mattermost along with the ability to support Docker containers running on Windows. Version 11.11 of GitLab adds a caching dependency proxy for Docker images to the Premium edition of GitLab along with the […]
Are Self-Service Machine Learning Models the Future of AI Integration?
DevOps teams seeking to step up their mojo in developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) features are facing a big skills bottleneck when it comes to data analytics and machine learning modeling. As a result, the market is seeing an influx of self-service machine learning models and machine learning-as-a-service offerings designed to help development teams more […]
CircleCI Adds Integration With Atlassian Jira
One of the trickier issues IT vendors in the age of DevOps are dealing with is that very few organizations have standardized on a platform from a single vendor. Not only do organizations mix and match tools as they see fit, but different departments within the same organization also embrace different tools to automate the […]
The Essential Toolbox for DevOps Analytics
With DevOps teams under constant pressure to improve software delivery cycles while maintaining—and improving—quality, many have turned to continuous testing (CT), implementing it as part of their overall development strategy. CT offers a number of benefits to DevOps teams, but it also introduces new challenges, specifically infinite amounts of data that require analysis. As more […]
Chef Extends Automation Reach and Scope
At its ChefConf 2019 conference today, Chef extended its core platform in ways that collectively serve to automate further the management of applications and the IT infrastructure they are deployed on. Extensions to the Chef Enterprise Automation (EAS) Stack include the addition of Application Operations Dashboards, Migration Accelerators for moving applications to the cloud and […]
Survey Finds CI/CD Adoption Has Long Way to Go
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 conference, Codefresh published the results of a survey of 130 developers that finds not only are nearly a third (32%) not using any type of continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform at all, but 60% said their organization has yet to take full advantage of automation to accelerate application […]
Using Automation Tools to Drive Collaboration, Innovation
How automation can help business move past the walls of confusion between dev and ops In the current state of things, businesses are leaning more than ever on the collective intelligence of their tech teams to drive innovation within their respective organizations. These teams are always comprised of developers and operations professionals. With the foray […]
The Role of Bots in DevOps
DevOps has evolved from its infancy into a mainstream focus area for a majority of CIOs. DevOps has become a main focus and has been shaping the world of software and infrastructure engineering and operations for the last few years. Some of the key DevOps trends include: DevOps assembly lines automation. Smart, actionable alerts from […]
Nutanix Eases Development of IoT Apps
Nutanix, a vendor of hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, has released a new developer environment that allows developers to try and test IoT and AI apps in the cloud. Starting May 7, developers can sign up for a free 10-day trial of this experience. The developer environment is built under Nutanix’s Xi IoT Platform and gives developers […]
With RHEL 8, Red Hat Adds More Automation to IT Ops
At the Red Hat Summit 2019 conference, Red Hat today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, which includes among other things a Smart Management add-on designed to make it easier to manage RHEL 8 across hybrid cloud computing environments. In addition, RHEL 8 includes Application Streams, a set of utilities […]
IT Operations: PagerDuty Unveils Hybrid ITSM Platform
PagerDuty today unveiled a framework intended to make it possible for organizations to bridge multiple styles of IT service management (ITSM) methodologies for IT operations. Rachel Obstler, vice president of product for PagerDuty, said PagerDuty Solution for HybridOps provides a comprehensive incident management framework capable of spanning both ITIL and DevOps processes for IT operations. […]
With YAML Support, Puppet Dives Deeper Into DevOps
Puppet this week announced an update to Puppet Enterprise that adds additional DevOps capabilities, including integration with Bolt, an open source agentless task runner that Puppet employs to make IT automation more accessible to IT administrators. Matt Waxman, vice president of products at Puppet, said adding integration with Bolt will make it easier to integrate […]
Application Monitoring Using Stagemonitor
This article covers important steps to monitor a typical Java application using Stagemonitor tool, Kibana as a dashboard viewing tool and Elasticsearch as a data processing engine. Stagemonitor is an open source Java application performance monitoring (APM) tool that provides everything you need in development, quality assurance and production to monitor the performance of your […]
Wavefront Provides Map for Microservices
VMware announced it is adding a service mapping capability to the Wavefront 3D Observability platform it provides with the Wavefront by VMware monitoring tools. Stela Udovicic, senior director of product marketing for Wavefront, said Wavefront Service Maps will make it easier for IT organizations to visualize what will soon be thousands of microservices running highly […]
Dell Technologies Drives Automation Deeper into Platforms
Dell Technologies this week launched a series of initiatives intended to provide IT organizations with multiple deployment options for Dell EMC appliances and servers, including forthcoming managed service offering through which Dell will manage private cloud platforms based on VMware software on behalf of customers. Announced at the Dell Technologies World 2019 conference, Dell EMC […]
Sauce Labs Acquires Screener Visual Testing Tool
At the SauceCon 2019 conference, Sauce Labs today revealed it has acquired Screener to add a visual testing tool to its portfolio of automated testing tools. Lubos Parobek, vice president of product for Sauce Labs, said the addition of Screener will make it possible for DevOps teams to not only test functions and performance using […]
The Right DevOps Tool for the Job
Innovation and environment are only two factors in determining which DevOps tools are best for your organization Any time there is a movement in IT that involves a new space and new toolsets, there is sudden growth, then inevitably consolidation and, finally, a selection of tools that suit the needs of most customers. Then the […]