DevOps Chat: Why Real Transformation Starts with Culture, Bryson Koehler and Shelbee Smith-Eigenbrode, IBM
While culture is of the utmost importance to enable digital transformation, there are many other milestones in a successful DevOps journey. In this DevOps Chat, join Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief, DevOps.com, as he hosts Bryson Koehler, GM, Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, and Shelbee Smith-Eigenbrode, Senior Software Engineer/IT Architect at IBM. […]
Gain a Competitive Edge with DevOps
DevOps has attained mainstream status. It is no longer a cutting-edge concept that only startups and progressive companies embrace—it’s a business imperative that delivers a significant competitive edge. If you want evidence of the impact of DevOps, take a look at the 2016 State of DevOps report. But what is it about DevOps that gives […]
The 2016 DevOps Dozen Winners Announced
In what turned out to be a much bigger job than we anticipated, we have gone through the numbers and checked them twice (actually more like 20 times). All of us here at DevOps.com are happy and proud to announce the winners of the 2016 DevOps Dozen! With thousands of votes cast in just the […]
5 Ways DevOps Can Help Improve IT Security
You already know DevOps can make software delivery faster and more efficient. But did you know it can help to keep software more secure, too? Here’s how. DevOps refers to a set of practices and cultural priorities related to the way software is designed, produced and deployed. It emphasizes collaboration between developers (the people who […]
What Do We Do When Everything is Automated?
Recently, I came across a study the caused me to think beyond the day-to-day world of code-slinging in which I live. According to the study conducted by Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University in Indiana: “Almost 88 percent of job losses in manufacturing in recent years can be attributable to productivity […]
Mesos: Security Awareness and Considerations
As regular readers know, I’ve been digging into Mesos quite a bit these days and, for the most part, enjoying the entire ecosystem that has grown up around it. There are some very cool possibilities when organizing servers into one massive platform for application (or micro-service) delivery. While there is a bit of a learning […]
Continuous Integration vs. Delivery vs. Deployment: What’s the Difference?
“Continuous” is one of the most popular words in the DevOps lexicon. What does it really mean, and what is the difference between continuous delivery, continuous deployment and continuous integration? Keep reading for some perspective. Like many technological concepts, continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment are terms that DevOps teams tend to use without […]
Don’t Leave Software Testers Out of DevOps
The term DevOps implies that software delivery is all about integrating the development and IT operations teams. But the software testing team is an important, if oft-overlooked, part of the picture. Here’s why. Could you deliver software continuously without involving the QA team in the continuous delivery pipeline? You could try, but it would probably […]
Q&A: CNCF on Instilling a DevOps Culture, Part 1
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a non-profit comprised of some 49 industry participants that have come together to drive development and adoption of cloud-native applications and services. The CNCF is uniting such giants as Google, IBM, Intel and Cisco Systems to distill a collection of container technologies that end-user companies deem praiseworthy to […]
Scaling Collaboration in DevOps
Those familiar with DevOps generally agree that it is equally as much about culture as it is about technology. There are certainly tools and practices involved in the effective implementation of DevOps, but the foundation of DevOps success is how well teams and individuals collaborate across the enterprise to get things done more rapidly, efficiently […]
Walmart OneOps Won’t Be One-Upped
One of the biggest names in retail also is kind of a big deal in DevOps. Walmart has developed its own platform, OneOps, designed to streamline operations and keep its application development schedule in check. “OneOps is an open source cloud and application lifecycle management technology platform with benefits including cloud portability so developers can […]
Zero Trust Is a Key to DevOps Security
Once upon a time, network and endpoint security was a simple matter of us vs. them—and all you had to do is keep unauthorized stuff outside your perimeter from gaining access to devices or data inside your perimeter. It’s not like that anymore, though. BYOD, mobile devices, cloud service, virtual systems and changes in attack […]
The DevOps Equation: Agility + Empathy = Quality
I had the chance to catch up with Jeff Sussna (@JeffSussna), founder and principal of Ingineering.IT, ahead of his keynote address on continuous design, scheduled for DevOps Days Atlanta, April 26-27. He discussed the importance of designing for service, responding to the unexpected, and the importance of building empathy across teams. Derek Weeks (@weekstweets): Today I’m […]
DevOps in 2016: Mainstream Momentum Ahead
I believe that 2016 will be the year that DevOps takes mainstream foothold in the enterprise. And I base this assertion on seven sweeping changes that — from my vantage point — are taking hold and dramatically changing the digital world. The Job of IT Will Change From Infrastructure to Innovation. In the past, IT […]
Jenkins Founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi Talks DevOps Leadership, part 1
Kohsuke Kawaguchi, founder 0f open source continuous integration tool Jenkins, was an early leader in DevOps, guiding the development of the Jenkins Project during his time at Sun (and later, Oracle) and plotting the course it would follow. “This project started as a hobby while I was at Sun,” Kawaguchi says. “From the project’s inception, […]
DevOps in 2016: The Year of Implementation
DevOps is the default software delivery approach for modern IT organizations and hyperscale startups that have incorporated the culture into their everyday integration and delivery activities. However, over the past year, these organizations have also started to recognize and acknowledge that there are challenges in certain aspects of the DevOps approach, including precarious security infrastructures, […]
Continuous Delivery versus Continuous Deploy
Getting a solid grasp on the meaning of DevOps requires a clear understanding of the terms used to describe it. Over the last several years, we have seen a paradigm shift in the way software is developed, moving away from a waterfall approach, with monolithic releases, to an agile approach with incremental releases. This shift […]
The DevOps Dozen
After over 2500 votes cast in the final round and almost 5000 votes in total we are very proud to present the winners of the inaugural DevOps Dozen awards. These companies were voted by you our readers as the top companies in the DevOps market. They are not companies that are necessarily using Devops internally […]
Dice Breakers: using DevOps principles and nerdery to reimagine Team building
Software is a young industry, and not a very traditional one. Your team can’t always be expected to behave like teams in other fields. So it’s no surprise that when a development team hears the phrase, “teambuilding exercises” for most of them it conjures up the idea of a room full of awkward people marginally […]
DevOps and continuous innovation accelerate the evolution of technology
DevOps tools and principles have dramatically increased the pace of innovation and enabled the organizations that have embraced them and used them most effectively to achieve a major strategic advantage over competitors. The more the world runs and relies on software, the more DevOps can be the engine to automate and facilitate change. There was […]
OCP is a victory for CoreOS and Containers in general
A broad coalition of major tech companies have joined forces to create the Open Container Project—or OCP. The move to develop and maintain common standards around software containers vindicates the CoreOS split from Docker and reunites the two in a common cause that will make all container platforms and technologies stronger. A press release announcing […]
ProfitBricks shakes things up with new Docker hosting platform
Organizations and developers that want to leverage Docker containers have a variety of cloud platforms to choose from. Rackspace, Amazon, Azure and others all support Docker containers. There’s also a relative newcomer in the mix looking to shake things up. ProfitBricks is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company that believes it has a unique value proposition for […]
Top 3 DevOps Practices for Operational Stability
Operational Stability is one of the main concerns in organizations. Especially some larger organization struggle to get a more stable IT landscape. Too often it’s political discussions that are preventing them from doing something about it. Organizations that have DevOps teams in place can just smile because they are enabled to be in control of […]