Surprise! Broad Agreement on the Definition of DevOps
For the past few years, the conventional wisdom has been that DevOps has no agreed upon definition. Instead, everyone has their own interpretation. However, the conventional wisdom is wrong. While everyone supplies slightly different words, the same working understanding of DevOps is nearly universal. Our understanding of DevOps goes back to a handful of common touch-points. There is the “CAMS” […]
Step-By-Step: How DataArt Processes Application Backlogs, Converting Legacy Apps with DevOps
DataArt designs and custom builds software for industries such as travel & hospitality, media, IoT, financial services, and healthcare. “We build new products and services, improving existing solutions, re-engineering legacy systems, and providing expertise in technological and industrial domains,” says Anton Krasikov, Project Manager, DataArt. How DataArt Uses DevOps DataArt quickly delivers high quality software […]
George Jetson Automation: Chasing the Dream
“His job was one simple thing—press a button. That’s all he had to do; press one button and sit back.” – Joe Barbera I wanted to be George Jetson when I grew up. Back in the days when watching Saturday morning cartoons in footed pajamas was the high point of my week, George’s life looked […]
Hyper-V Containers combine virtualization with containerization
Containers are all the rage these days. You’re just not cool if you’re not using Docker or some other container technology to build and deploy your IT infrastructure. Traditional containers, however, lack sufficient security for some industries and companies, so Microsoft developed Hyper-V Containers. Container platforms like Docker and Rocket have significant momentum and have […]
The Return of Workflows
Recently workflows have emerged as a fundamental part of the operational wiring at companies as diverse as AWS, Facebook, HP, LinkedIn, Spotify, and Pinterest, which just open sourced Pinball. We’ve witnessed a spike of interest in workflow-based automation, and a few interesting implementations coming to the open-source world in just the last year or two: […]
Puppet Labs talks Docker and containerization
Last week Puppet Labs released a new version of Puppet Enterprise that brought forward a number of new features, including those to Puppet Node manager that helps automate the provisioning of infrastructure from containers to bare metal, as well as a new AWS module that helps automate provisioning, configuration and management of AWS resources using […]
Jeff Sussna on Design Thinking and DevOps
What is Design Thinking, and just as importantly to you – why does it matter to DevOps? For answers to that, we recently turned to Jeff Sussna, founder at Ingineering.IT. Sussna combines engineering expertise with a knack to bridge business, creative, and technical perspectives. Sussna’s focus is on the intersection of development, operations, design, and […]
Linux Containers & Security Implications
Does the word “container” intimate containment, suggesting that containers are inherently secure? If it does, any such assumption of security may be the broadest Docker vulnerability to date. “One of the biggest threats I see with Docker is its positioning and the implied security in the language. The reality is that these containers don’t contain […]
Q and A with Carmen DeArdo: DevOps at Nationwide
Just before the IBM Interconnect show in Las Vegas last week, we had a chance to speak with Nationwide’s Carmen DeArdo and talk about some of the challenges he has faced at Nationwide as DeArdo and his team work to bring DevOps and Agile principles to their delivery value stream. DeArdo is no stranger here […]
Comparing DevOps to traditional IT: Eight key differences
You can make the argument that in the Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) value is created in two places. First, when the software is created (development) and second, when the software is delivered to the customer and feedback received. The rest is transportation. The faster one can move code from the hands of the developer […]
A DevOps Metamorphosis Echoes Through Reverb.com, Part Two
Last time, Dear Reader, we discovered how the Reverb.com e-commerce platform, which connects musicians who want to buy and sell gear sought to automate its workflow software development process, speeding deployment and bug fixes while satisfying customers who want to trade in an online environment that is as efficient and error-free as possible. Now, the […]
A DevOps Metamorphosis Echoes Through Reverb.com, Part One
“Reverb.com is an e-commerce platform that connects musicians, enabling them to buy and sell used gear and instruments,” says Adam Enger, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Reverb.com. As an ecommerce site, it is critical to Reverb.com that its workflows such as checkout, offers to purchase, and messaging work in tandem with its selling workflows, which include creating new […]
Why DevOps is like fitness or religion
What is DevOps? I noted in a blog post last summer that limiting DevOps to a single definition is challenging. The Wikipedia entry for DevOps contains a variety of possible explanations that seem to disagree in some ways: It’s a “software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and information technology […]
Clearing through the app backlog clutter
Development and operations teams today are under more pressure than ever to develop apps the business needs to make its workforce productive, its partners connected to the resources they need, and to deliver the apps to the marketplace that will make it competitive. The number of production hours for development is at a precious premium […]
Shooting a Rocket Over Docker’s Bow
As momentum continues to build for the Docker containerization platform, some of the open source project’s biggest contributors argue that it has lost its way. Priorities have shifted at Docker from the ideal of building a standard container to instead supporting an entire containerization ecosystem. According to the developers at Linux disto company Core OS, […]
Automating Away the Regulatory Compliance Myth
At the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit, we had a chance to sit down with Justin Arbuckle and discuss his concept of “compliance as code” and why it’s so important that security and compliance tests be built into DevOps practices at large enterprises. Recently, Arbuckle was chief architect at GE Capital where he introduced and sponsored […]
Eight critical DevOps practices: innovate, deliver, repeat
DevOps has been garnering a lot of interest for some time. Discussions and debates on forums like DevOps.com are improving our collective understanding of the right approach and now we are seeing concrete proof points of fast-movers applying DevOps practices to disrupt entire industries with rapid-fire, digital-innovation based on Cloud, Big Data and Mobile technologies. […]
Being Agile is all about controlling the flow
For businesses, Agile is the new fashionable initiative as was E-business was in the 2000’s, Six Sigma was in the 90’s and Total Quality Management (TQM) was in the 80’s. If we look back across the spectrum of these initiatives, we need to examine how many of these initiatives met the goals the business was […]
Microsoft strives to embrace open source culture
In many ways Microsoft is going through the corporate equivalent of a mid-life crisis—it has reached a stage where it longs to drop a few pounds, and turn back the clock a few years. After years of tremendous success, it’s now starting to show its age, and it is struggling to adapt to the new […]
How to Find Your Continuous Delivery Rhythm
This article is a part of a series of pieces on digital innovation, accelerating change and the rise of the coded business from innovators in the Chef community. In this article we present an interview with Jez Humble, Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks, on digital innovation. Focusing on speed and scale allows you to respond more rapidly to […]
ChatOps: Communicating at the speed of DevOps
DevOps is about knocking down barriers between developers and operations teams, and in doing so reducing organizational frictions wherever possible. And that’s certainly the spirit behind ChatOps – the term for the hyper-collaborative way of running DevOps, including operating aspects of systems and infrastructure, through online chat. Proponents of ChatOps say it streamlines communication in […]
Build fast, then build right
This article is a part of a series of pieces on digital innovation, accelerating change and the rise of the coded business from innovators in the Chef community. This article is by Kate Matsudaira, founder of Popforms Businesses have always needed speed and scale to meet customer demands. Today though, the kind of speed and […]
Citrix puts DevOps front and center
I had the privilege of attending Citrix Synergy 2014 in Anaheim at the beginning of May. Citrix unveiled a variety of new and updated products, but one announcement in particular surprised me a little. Citrix talked about new capabilities for automation with a very DevOps-ish approach. During a keynote presentation at Citrix Synergy 2014, Sudhakar […]