DevOps Toolbox

GitLab Releases Massive Update to CI/CD Platform
GitLab has updated its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with a raft of capabilities spanning everything from value stream management to cybersecurity. In addition, GitLab announced it is making generally available Gitaly ...

CloudBees Extends SDM Service Reach
CloudBees has extended the integrations embedded within its software delivery management (SDM) platform to add support for additional services provided by Google. Moritz Plassnig, senior vice president cloud and general manager for ...

5 Reasons Your Legacy IT Management Tools Are Holding You Back
Even before the onset of a global pandemic, IT professionals were coming to the conclusion that their legacy tools were no longer fit for the demands of today’s modern organizations. Their tools ...

Datical Embraces Liquibase Identity
Datical today announced that it will now operate under the moniker Liquibase to better reflect the open source tool it provides for automating database releases. At the same time, the company is ...

DRY Comes to COBOL in IBM Z Development
Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) is a fundamental tenet of modern computer programming. Just about every CS student is taught that duplicating code in an application is an accident waiting to happen. The ...

Atlassian Acquires Halp to Gain Help Desk Based on Slack
Atlassian this week announced it has acquired Halp, a provider of a help desk platform that employs Slack as its user interface. Steve Goldsmith, head of product integrations at Atlassian, said Halp ...

LaunchNotes Adds Communications Tool for App Release
LaunchNotes today launched a namesake software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing the communications surrounding the release of an application. Company co-founder Jake Brereton said LaunchNotes streamlines internal and external communications for DevOps teams, ...

GitHub Extends Scope and Reach of Repository
GitHub today at its GitHub Satellite virtual conference announced it has made it easier for developers to either launch a project or join an existing project on its repository and has added ...

Enterprise Kanban Implementation: Where to Start and How to Scale Across an Organization
The Evolution of Kanban At its core, Kanban is a management method designed to improve customer satisfaction by creating fast and reliable workflows capable of delivering products and services of superior quality ...

Pulumi Tightens DevOps Platform Integration
Pulumi today released the 2.0 release of its open source platform for automating the provisioning of IT infrastructure in the cloud, providing tighter integration with a dozen different continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) ...

GitHub Makes Private Repositories Free for Unlimited Users
GitHub this week announced is making available private repositories for an unlimited number of collaborators available to all GitHub accounts for free. Kelly Stirman, vice president of product strategy and marketing, said ...

GitLab Responds To GitHub Making Teams Free – We All Win
Microsoft’s GitHub recently announced that it was going to make a change to its product lineup by making the team version of GitHub free and lowering the price on a full-featured version ...