Akamai Extends Scope of DevSecOps Reach
Akamai pressed its case for becoming a strategic DevSecOps platform by adding a range of security capabilities to its network service platform that help isolate applications from cybersecurity threats. The company has added support for scripting to automate application security using its Kona Site Defender web application firewall as well as improved management and versioning […]
Google Taps Netflix for Open Source Canary Analysis
Google and Netflix today jointly announced an open-source automated canary analysis service, dubbed Kayenta, that applies statistical analytics to optimize DevOps processes. Andrew Phillips, a product manager for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), said goal is to make it easier to consume advanced analytics by integrating Kayenta with the open source Spinnaker continuous delivery pipeline platform […]
Early Automation: A Key Requirement for DevSecOps Success
According to the “2017 DevSecOps Community Survey,” by Sonatype, almost 60 percent of the respondents consider security to be an inhibitor to DevOps agility, while more than 50 percent of developers say they do not have sufficient time to allocate to security. Hence arises the need for enhanced security automation in DevOps. Security automation helps […]
NGINX Extends Microservices Ambitions
NGINX has extended the reach and scope of a namesake application platform that the company is positioning as a bridge between legacy applications and emerging microservices architectures. The NGINX Application Platform now includes NGINX Unit 1.0, an open source application server designed to simplify microservices across multiple application types simultaneously using a single instance of […]
Can Videoconferencing Solve the DevOps Collaboration Conundrum?
Every DevOps expert has their own definition of what DevOps really means, but a common thread running through each definition is that it is based on collaboration and evolution of a culture of sharing and communication between IT and operations. How that collaboration is achieved has evolved rapidly, and in today’s most successful digital transformation […]
VMware Adds Analytics to Automate IT Operations Based on Intent
VMware is moving to make it easier for organizations to automate data centers and public cloud based on its core hypervisor technology by injecting advanced analytics into its VMware vRealize Suite, enabling them to manage IT environments based on intent rather than having to manually manage every process themselves. At the core of those update […]
Using Inspec to Validate Infrastructure
So, here we were, at one of the bigger financial corporations in New Zealand, working on an elaborate infrastructure built on Docker containers. It had configurations, SSL certificates, DNS entries and all the other condiments required to spice up a tasty infrastructure curry. Though we were able to stand up our complete infrastructure environments from […]
Google Unveils Suite of APM Tools
Google today announced that it is making available application performance management (APM) tools based on the same technology it employs to manage its internal IT environment. Morgan McLean, a product manager at Google, said Stackdriver APM is based the open source StackDriver Trace and Debugger tools Google originally developed for its DevOps teams. The APM […]
Salesforce Details Integration Plan Post-MuleSoft Acquisition
Salesforce this week announced it will plunk down $6.5 billion to acquire MuleSoft, a provider of application integration software currently used by more than 1,200 organizations. Once the deal is complete, MuleSoft will continue to operate as a unit of Salesforce with current MuleSoft Greg Schott continuing as CEO. However, there will be two integration […]
DevOps Chat: The State of Alerting & On-Call Survival for IT Ops, with OnPage CEO Judit Sharon
In this DevOps Chat we sit down with Judit Sharon, CEO of OnPage. OnPage has been providing alerting and incident management services primarily to the healthcare industry since before DevOps was called DevOps. As DevOps has exploded on the scene, the security and functionality built into OnPage was a perfect fit for IT Ops and […]
Rundeck Gains Funding to Support Open Source IT Automation Framework
Rundeck has emerged as a popular open source job scheduler and orchestration option for IT automation that enables IT teams to build runbooks that can be easily shared with others. The company behind it—Rundeck Inc.—has garnered $3 million in seed funding to provide enterprise-class support for instances in the form of the Rundeck Operations as […]
OpsRamp Looks to Fuel IT Operations Consolidation
One of the biggest challenges associated with DevOps is cutting through all the various platforms and applications alerts to make sense of what’s occurring in an IT environment, much less manage it. In fact, there’s been a pressing need of consolidate management tools for IT operations for quite some time now. OpsRamp is now making […]
Application Discovery and the Value Proposition of IBM Z ADDI
Discovering how an application works can be a difficult, expensive undertaking. That’s why architectures based on REST are so popular. The architectural style provides an easy-to-implement interface that allows consumers to use an application productively without having to understand anything at all about its internals. All a developer needs to know to work an application […]
Flexera Extends Scope of Open Source Scanning Tools
Now that many IT organizations have adopted an open source-first mentality to acquiring new software, tracking their dependency on all the various modules they are employing is becoming more challenging with each passing day. To help IT organizations track both usage and dependencies of open source software, Flexera has updated the FlexNet Code Insight software […]
How to Ensure DevOps Success in a Distributed Network Environment
Data-centric applications are not typical, and the environment where they’re deployed are also not typical. Most often, they’re deployed into large, distributed network of machines, which compels the question of whether DevOps practices and tools can be applied to distributed applications. To be successful, DevOps practices for data-centric applications must work smoothly even when production […]
Making Software Maintenance Cool Again with DevOps
What makes DevOps so important? Part of the answer lies in how DevOps encourages more appreciation for and investment in software maintenance. Traditionally, the IT industry has been like the construction industry. People who design new things (architects or software developers) are at the top of the value hierarchy, whereas the folks who build and […]
HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise Empowers IT Administrators
Most of what passes for management of IT infrastructure often amounts to little more than a Word document describing how a system is configured. HashiCorp developed Terraform to enable IT organizations to programmatically manage IT infrastructure. Now the company is taking that concept a step further with the release of Terraform Enterprise, a collaboration application […]
DevOps Dozen Nominations Are Now Open
[su_heading]The 3rd annual DevOps Dozen awards are now open for nominations. [/su_heading] The DevOps Dozen honors the best of the best in DevOps. The third annual DevOps Dozen awards opened for nominations today. Finalists will be selected based upon how many people nominated them. The top 4 to 6 nominees in each category will then […]
OutSystems: Low-Code Apps Require Sound DevOps Processes
As more IT organizations embrace low-code application development platforms, many of them are discovering that accelerating the rate at which they develop applications can be too much of a good thing. António Barros, product manager for OutSystems, says most of the organizations that have adopted the company’s namesake low-code platform are just now coming up […]
DevOps and Data Portability
You have a classic car. You’re in the middle of restoring it, and it looks mighty sweet. Paint is polished, wheels are stock, hubcaps (or spokes) are shiny, engine is completely restored to original spec. But it has no gas tank. A bit of a stark comparison, but that’s where we’re at with application release […]
VMware Unveils IT Automation Tools Suite
VMware over the last two years has been making steady advances in automating the management of IT. At the VMworld Europe 2017 conference VMware unveiled a vRealize Suite 2017 offering that combines the latest releases of vRealize Operations, vRealize Automation, vRealize Business for Cloud and vRealize Log Insight software into a single offering designed to […]
Differentiating Between CI Pipelines and DevOps Assembly Lines
“What’s in a name?” wrote the greatest Bard who ever lived. All I can say is, he lived in simpler times, when DevOps and the confusing world of continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD), CI/CD, the other CD, application release automation (ARA), pipelines, assembly lines, etc., didn’t exist. The biggest challenge today is that vendors […]
The Right DevOps Tools for Value Stream Velocity
Think of DevOps tools as stepping stones to releasing new functionality into the hands of your customers faster and more frequently. Working together, tools automate processes and help companies become modern software factories. But isolated tools, like a lone rock in the middle of a river, are much less useful. Disparate tools may help an […]