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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
