Tag: ara

It is true that DevOps has grown to be the beast in the room. I’ll co-opt the “cloudwashing” term to call it “DevOps-washing” because it seems every tool you’ve ever used to ...

You have a classic car. You’re in the middle of restoring it, and it looks mighty sweet. Paint is polished, wheels are stock, hubcaps (or spokes) are shiny, engine is completely restored ...

In this third spotlight on companies attending Jenkns World, another worth checking out came to mind, so I am taking a look at what XebiaLabs intends to do while there. XebiaLabs is ...

It is relatively common in human endeavor to attempt to figure out how much work will be involved in a project, and be wrong. The more complex the work being done and ...

When it comes to launching nuclear weapons, there are a variety of steps and a variety of fail-safe mechanisms, all designed to ensure that those pushing the button really want to do ...

As cloud and DevOps have heated up, enterprise need for cloud portability and deeper DevOps integration have become pretty clear. The need for portability to avoid cloud lock-in has been a desire ...

I am often asked, “if we are using a continuous integration (CI) server and adopting a continuous delivery pipeline, where does continuous deployment fit in?” Good question. In a nutshell, continuous delivery ...

We’re in a strange state of the pendulum swing right now, where speed of delivery is king and all else seems to take a back seat. Many orgs even place quality behind ...

In Part One of my article on big, bad mistakes in configuration management, I reviewed the dangers of using the wrong tools for the configuration management job. Provisioning management tools, application release ...

Configuration problems come in many flavors. Some are mere nuisances. Often though, configuration errors can lead to more serious mishaps like application performance problems, policy compliance violations or even security vulnerabilities. They ...

The best tool in the DevOps continuum is the sticky wrapper that holds it all together. It is the workflow that binds it and makes sense out of the term “continuous.”  CIOs ...

Application Release Automation (ARA) is terminology that includes several DevOps constructs from a singular, application-centric point of view. In essence, ARA implies the automation of a single app from build through deployment ...