Continuous test and monitoring essentials for SDN and NFV
The prior blog Continuous Test Monitoring DevOps Healthbeat discussed the importance and suggested practices for testing and monitoring test trends. This need is amplified when the system that is being tested and monitored is a network of co-operating applications, infrastructures and devices such as networked components of next generation Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function […]
The Myth of “Do It Yourself” DevOps Tools
DevOps is an approach and methodology (even a philosophy) for developing and testing new applications and deploying them into a production environment. Because DevOps is first and foremost a methodology, tools to implement DevOps should be used as a way to implement the desired methodology, rather than being an end in and of themselves. Of […]
How to accelerate your production integration activities
IT Operations is often accused to be the bottleneck in application release processes and a general constrain to agility. But why is that, what are the root causes of this issue and how can we address them? There is indeed a very big gap between the desired world of DevOps with Infrastructure-as-Code, Docker, Microservices Architectures, […]
Building an agile data tier improves devops efficiences
Meet the modern day agile data tier – improving DevOp efficiencies DevOps teams are constantly in the high-pressure environment of reacting to real-time market and industry changes and launching new features and functionality to maintain competitive positioning. Accelerating development is simply not possible if scalability is an issue. Scaling databases has proven to be especially […]
Enough monitoring. Act!
Or How I learned to stop worrying and love the auto-remediation These days StackStorm – and other approaches to auto-remediation and event driven automation more generally – are getting broadly adopted. Everyone from Facebook through Netflix and WebEx (yeah users!) are not just better “managing” their 2am pages (although that’s cool too PagerDuty) – they […]
To Be Continuous: Shipping Velocity and Team Structure
In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk about shipping velocity and it’s affect on team structure. Edith is CEO and cofounder of LaunchDarkly, a continuous delivery tool of “feature flags as a service.” LaunchDarkly powers software teams to quickly launch, measure and control their features. Paul is the CEO […]
Building a compelling business case for continuous delivery
Companies are striving to deliver better customer experiences by delivering higher quality software, faster. In order to do so, many organizations have come to realize that the traditional approach to IT management is insufficient. Development and Operations teams can no longer work in departmental siloes; they must work collaboratively towards shared goals if they are […]
Re-thinking DevOps tools for Continuous Deployment success
Gartner predicts that 25% of Global 2000 companies will be actively implementing DevOps methodologies in their organizations by 2016. As DevOps goes mainstream, it may be time to re-think some of the implementation techniques that have worked in small companies and in non-production uses. The common assumptions that are often applied to make a continuous […]
Adding users to Google Apps quickly
With over 5 million organizations using Google Apps (yes it’s that many), the market is demanding enterprise-class solutions for administration and management of the Google productivity suite. Yeah sure you can have a decent word processor with with collaboration features, even a spreadsheet and presentation program. But if you want to play with the big […]
How to prepare for a successful data migration
It can be tough to find useful, concrete advice to assist you with an enterprise-level data migration project. There’s an awful lot that can go wrong. Common suggestions about finding the right people, minimizing risk, or employing an automated system that does everything for you, offer limited help. What you really need is a step-by-step […]
Open Source software license and security management with WhiteSource
With the growing speed and availability of open source components, it becomes easy to add features and integration of software with other components which makes software development easier. But there are a few points to be remembered while using any open source component. Security vulnerabilities Licensing risks of open source component. Outdated open source components. […]
Continuous test monitoring DevOps ”health-beat”
In my prior blog Test Results Analysis at the Speed of DevOps I discussed ways that test analysis features and practices can be optimized to ensure that test results for each CI/CT cycle keep pace with accelerated continuous testing. Beyond optimizing continuous test analysis for each cycle, longer term continuous test monitoring is necessary to […]
Tool Development – In-House or Ready made
Tool development and adoption The current pace of software development cannot manage its speed without the automation. Automation is the most important element in order to achieve agility in delivery of the product. Every part of the software development life cycle needs tools to perform their action automatically. These phases could be coding, code review, […]
CI of Complex Cluster Environment with CircleCI and DigitalOcean
At CloudSlang, we’re passionate about all thing open source. Integrating with other open source projects is a key part of what we’re all about. We focus on integrating with many cloud native technologies, such as CoreOS, Docker, and Consul. As such, it is important for us to test these integrations automatically as part of our […]
Does MariaDB replace the “M” in LAMP
If you were starting a new application tomorrow, which backend would you use? Chances are you said MySQL. However post Oracle acquisition MySQL has changed. After Oracle purchased the code they broke the hearts of many. And there is hope that MySQL has re-invented itself in the form of MariaDB The M (MySQL) in the […]
Practice Safe SSH with Teleport
Decentralized Key Management and Sharing Is Not The Answer Practice Safe SSH with Teleport View PostAll projects start off with the best intentions, user management and security around accounts won’t be an afterthought. Despite those intentions, the requirements to move fast tend to override things suchDecentralized Key Management and Sharing Is Not The Answer […]
Impacts of DevOps on Testing
I always come across a standard question from testers in any DevOps related presentation. “Will DevOps remove the need for Testers?” A simple answer is “No”. DevOps is not going to replace Testing as a discipline. Firms implementing DevOps have a vision for better product quality workable by brilliant Testing. DevOps is an enabler for the following. […]
How to lower risk in agile development
The increasing complexity of application development and subsequent rise of Agile development is changing the risk appetite in many software development organizations. Unless you’ve got an application which is highly regulated or mission-critical, it’s rarely feasible or sensible to manage Quality Assurance within the zero-bug environment often associated to Waterfall. Software development teams can become […]
How IT Operations Analytics is Delivering on the Promise of DevOps
DevOps is one of the most significant movements in IT of the past several years, and the same trends that are making DevOps so important – speed, automation, and iteration – are also opening up new opportunities for IT infrastructure management. DevOps, at heart, is a matter of adopting new philosophies of working as an […]
Rolling Updates with Rundeck
CAUTION: If you haven’t used Rundeck yet, clear your calendar for next Valentine’s Day because you’re about to fall in love… How many times have you written a shell script that runs via cron, or a PowerShell script that lives in the Windows Task Scheduler? How many times have you struggled to remember which server you built […]
Q & A: AppDynamics on commercial monitoring applications
AppDynamics hired Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) to produce a study about why the enterprise is plagued with numerous commercial monitoring applications that are not in use. According to AppDynamics, the enterprise is encumbered with disparate applications, resulting in vast challenges for IT teams including underperformance, monitoring gaps, and siloed tools—not to mention that many IT […]
28 DevOps and Continuous Delivery Reference Architectures (Vol. 2)
People want to get going with DevOps or Continuous Delivery, but need a place to start. Others are already on their way, but need some validation of their choices. In April, I published the first volume of DevOps and Continuous Delivery reference architectures which has now been viewed over 37,000 times on SlideShare (it’s free […]
9 Open Source DevOps Tools We Love
While we have been building our SaaS company, we have been investing much time in researching and deciding which tools to include in our DevOps toolkit. We’ve based these decisions on our years of experience in the IT industry, dealing with infrastructure for the most part. From building a petabyte-scale, data analytics infrastructure, our architecture, […]