DevOps Chats: 1-Click Vulnerability Scanning on GCP, With Qualys
Sometimes the best way to accomplish something is to choose a path requiring the least friction, or amount of change. Qualys customers now have that path available to them in bring vulnerability scanning into Google Cloud Platform. Qualys’ recent announcement means a one-click configuration change enables vulnerability scans in GCP with the results appearing in […]
DevOps Chats: Canary Deploys Using Istio, with Autodesk
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Canary deploys give us a window into how new code deploys perform in production on a limited basis. The technology holds great promise in helping us learn the positive or negative effects of deploys without putting the more extensive set of microservices, application functions and beyond at risk. How do you […]
DevOps Chats: The Future of Farming with Aerobotics
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Never underestimate an entrepreneur looking to solve a real-world problem. Aerobotics is bringing drones, imagery, mapping, containers, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, data pipeline processing and machine learning to agriculture. Sounds interesting, right? Aerobotics uses aerial drones and sophisticated image processing to help growers manage yield, pest and disease in their farms through artificial […]
DevOps Chat: ChefConf Update with Chef’s Nell Shamrell-Harrington
2019 is shaping up as a “coming home” year for Chef. After recently reaffirming its commitment to an open source strategy, the company is gearing up for the best ChefConf yet. ChefConf, scheduled for May 20-23, is coming home to Seattle and many of the Chef favorites including Adam Jacobs, John Willis and more will be […]
DevOps Chat: Performance Testing with SmartBear’s Keshav Vasudevan
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Keshav Vasudevan, product manager for performance testing at SmartBear. Keshav talks about the move to “end-to-end DevOps,” the importance of shifting left with testing and the latest state-of-the-art in performance and load testing with SmartBear. As usual, the streaming audio is immediately below, followed by the transcript of […]
DevOps Chat: Chef Goes All-In on Open Source
In front of next month’s ChefConf in Seattle, Chef has announced a major refinement to its business model. Affirming and clarifying its commitment to open source business models, Chef will now and in the future release all of its software as open source. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Corey Scobie, SVP of Products […]
DevOps Chat: AppSec and DevSecOps with Contrast Security’s Jeff Williams
I have known of Jeff Williams in the security industry for more than several years. He is a well-respected thought leader in AppSec and OWASP. I finally got a chance to catch up with Jeff and talk with him about Contrast Security, the company he co-founded and how it is helping. In this DevOps Chat, […]
DevOps Chat: Repos and Nexus Firewall Access, with Sonatype
There are really only two repositories of any scale for software components today: the Nexus repo managed by Sonatype and the Artifactory artifact repo managed by JFrog. Up until now they were separate and apart, and working with one was independent of another. In a big move toward keeping DevOps open and secure, the Sonatype […]
DevOps Chat: Cloud Migration with nClouds’ JT Giri
Moving to the cloud is becoming a must for many companies if they want to grow beyond their current footprint and be more innovative. But for many companies—especially those in the SMB space—their transition to the cloud is hindered by a lack of knowledge and experience, which often results in difficult migrations that sometimes just […]
DevOps Video Chat: DevOps Testing with Ryan Lloyd of SmartBear
The testing landscape in DevOps is a big one, with lots of established players feeding the machine. SmartBear is one of those companies. The force behind Swagger, SoapUI and others is perhaps not as well-known as its brethren in the DevOps testing space, but it cuts a wide swath. And, with its recent acquisition of […]
DevOps Chat: Container Security and Aqua 3.5 with Rani Osnat and Andy Feit
In just a little more than three years Aqua Security has set its mark in the container security space. With its major new release of Aqua 3.5, the company has again raised the bar with serverless and container encryption upgrades and feature sets. I sat down with the Aqua Enforcer himself, Rani Osnat, and “Boston” […]
DevOps Chat: Instrumentation with Influx Data’s Evan Kaplan
Evan Kaplan, CEO of Influx Data, is someone who knows his way around the technology world. In a lifetime of experience that has seen him found and manage several successful companies from startups to public entities, Evan has had a great track record of success. Influx Data is yet another success for Kaplan. Building on […]
DevOps Chat: SRE w/ Stig Sorensen of Bloomberg
Many people say that site reliability engineering (SRE) is “putting the Ops in DevOps.” In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Stig Sorensen of Bloomberg’s SRE team. Stig tells us how SRE is helping Bloomberg keep pace with the fast moving world of news and information. Great discussion with a real-life practitioner about how SRE […]
DevOps Chat: Chef Habitat Project Continues to Mature
When Chef Habitat was released a little more than two years ago (good DevOps.com story on Habitat here and a good DevOps Chat on it here), many people in the DevOps community wondered where Chef was going with Habitat. It was a really ambitious vision, but could it meet its lofty goals? Habitat is now […]
DevOps Chat: State of DevOps Report 2017, Nigel Kersten, Puppet
The results and analysis of the State of DevOps Report 2017 report are due out in early June. just in time for the DevOps Enterprise Summit London June 5-6. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Puppet exec and one of our favorite interviews, Nigel Kersten. Of course, Nigel and the folks over at Puppet […]
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. […]
DevOps Chat: 7 habits of successful DevOps
I recently had a chance to speak again with Sam Guckenheimer of Microsoft about his experience in leading the transition for Microsoft Visual Studio to Visual Studio online. In doing so, Sam and his team developed the 7 habits of successful DevOps. You can listen to my interview below or read along below that. Also […]