Tag: all day devops
DevOps and Security is Like Smoking Meat
It isn’t everyone who thinks, “Doesn’t Ubuntu remind you of wild boar?” Or labors over his pit of slow-roasted pork shoulder while contemplating containers. Or dwells on e2e testing while mesquite smoke ...
Securing Immutable Servers in a Serverless World
Snowflakes are beautiful, unique creations. But, let’s keep them in nature. They don’t belong in our server infrastructure. Snowflake servers, where every configuration is just a little different, can introduce unnecessary security ...
All Day DevOps: Taking Lambda to the Max
Lambda is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet, and it is also the name of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) service that lets you run code without actually configuring a server ...
All Day DevOps: Modern Infrastructure Automation
"We’re no longer an airline. We’re a software company with wings,” claims Veresh Sita, CIO, Alaska Airlines. The success of today’s businesses rests on software. It is an integral part of infrastructure, ...
From ‘Water-Scrum-Fall’ to DevSecOps
As organizations abandon the waterfall method of software development for Agile, many are stuck in what Hasan Yasar terms Water-Scrum-Fall. That is, the organization has not effectively embraced Agile and DevOps principles and remains ...
How To Fully Automate CI/CD – Even Secrets
Imagine a world where your continuous integration/continuous deployment environment is 100 percent automated, including the passing of credentials. Capital One, a leading U.S. bank, has achieved this, and Andrey Utis, director of ...
Continuous Everyone: Engaging People Across the Deployment Pipeline
We have continuous integration and we have continuous deployment, but what’s continuous across all of what we do is people. Even when tasks are automated, someone wrote the automation. So, Jayne Groll ...
Embedding Ownership: A DevOps Best Practice
From where I sit in the DevOps community, there is often more focus on dev than on ops. Damon Edwards (@damonedwards) of SimplifyOps sought to change that with his talk, "Ops Happens: ...
All Day DevOps: Capital One Gives Credit Where It’s Due
Listening to his talk, it seems as though George Parris and his team at Capital One aren’t keeping “banker’s hours.” George is a Master Software Engineer, Retail Bank DevOps at Capital One ...
Container Considerations on Your DevOps Journey
Containers are things for your things. That is true in the development world, too—containers are things for your software, and, like containers for your things, software containers can help you be organized, ...
DevOps: Trust, Obligations and Promises
Mark Burgess (@markburgess_osl) is a theoretical physicist, but in his keynote at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference, he talked more about economics and human interactives than physics. What does either have ...
Securing Immutable Servers in a Serverless World
Snowflakes are beautiful, unique creations. But, let’s keep them in nature. They don’t belong in our server infrastructure. Snowflake servers, where every configuration is just a little different, can introduce unnecessary security ...