Are Legacy Apps the Antithesis to DevOps?
Do you have an application marked with cryptic warning signs and a wealth of cobwebs that is running on legacy hardware hidden away in the back corner of your data center? If you’re in enterprise IT, chances are high that you do. These old platforms are often considered a bane to IT. More importantly, legacy […]
Atomist Advances Developer Productivity
Atomist is extending the reach of an automated approach to managing software delivery out to the local machines developers work on every day. Company founder and CEO Rod Johnson said with its Software Delivery Machine (SDM) project, Atomist seeks to eliminate much of the complexity developers currently must navigate as they build code, including making […]
Atlassian Acquires OpsGenie to Automate Incident Management
Atlassian this week announced its plans to acquire OpsGenie as part of an effort to apply DevOps principles to incident management. The announcement was made at the Altassian Summit Europe 2018 conference. Atlassian plans to integrate OpsGenie, which provides incident alerting and communications software, with its Jira service desk software to enable organizations to automate […]
Education in the Age of Automation
Automation is changing the nature of education and the ways people learn. More schools are using online learning to supplement in-class activities. In fact, some schools are completely online. Distributed computing on the internet and the automation that drives it makes this possible. Everything changes when the formal education process becomes embedded in the internet. […]
DevOps Chat: The Impact of Automation on DevOps and Society, with Bob Reselman
Those of you who have been reading devopsy.kinsta.cloud for a few years are familiar with the RoelBob cartoons, which have a prominent spot on the home page. RoelBob’s creator, Bob Reselman, is also a technologist and creator of other forms of media. Lately, he’s been writing a series of articles about the impact of automation […]
4 Ways to Tackle Common Test Automation Pitfalls
The demand for higher-quality products and new features delivered at breakneck speeds has the average engineer struggling just to stay afloat. With demands rising but resources not always following suit, engineering teams are embracing automation as a key testing option. According to a report by advisory firm KPMG, test automation increased by 85 percent from […]
Hardware in the Age of Automation
There’s a joke making its way around the internet that goes like this: Q: How do DevOps engineers change a lightbulb? A: They don’t. It’s a hardware problem. The trend to abstract hardware away from the day-to-day work of most IT personnel continues. We in DevOps have given it a name: infrastructure as code. Hardware […]
Thinking About the Future in the Age of Automation
Let’s do a thought experiment. Let’s imagine a world in which almost all the work required to sustain human life on the planet is performed by intelligent machines. Think about it: All the crops get planted, raised and harvested by robots. Same for livestock. Machines make all the clothing and build all the houses. People […]
CA Technologies Looks to Shift Automation Left
CA Technologies, at its recent CA Automation Summit, advanced its case for leveraging automation to create a software development factory via an update to the CA Automic One automation platform that adds automation-as-code functionality. Gwyn Clay, vice president of product management for the Automation Business Unit at CA Technologies, said the latest release of CA […]
Leveraging Automation for Your Business
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the capability to change the way we work, the way we manage, and the way we conduct research. As automation processes improve, businesses increasingly are looking for ways to leverage the new technology to help with their own goals. There are certain risks posed by the advancement of artificial intelligence, and […]
GitLab Moves to Automate DevOps
GitLab is looking to eliminate the pain of setting up and maintaining DevOps processes by making available an option that automates DevOps processes end to end using a prescriptive approach defined by GitLab. The latest version of GitLab includes an Auto DevOps option that organizations can employ to automate the building, testing, code-quality scanning, security […]
DevOps: The Things We Must Stop
Anytime there is a popular movement in technology (and I would argue any other field), people get carried away. We’ve seen it over and over, and DevOps attracts this kind of attention. In fact, DevOps caters to those who get carried away by mainstream folks screaming, “THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!” That type of hyperbole pushes those […]
Oracle Advances AI Effort to Automate DevOps
Oracle today announced the general availability of an expanded Oracle Cloud Platform service that promises to automate most back-end DevOps processes by relying on a combination of machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI). The Oracle platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment has also been expanded to include Oracle Mobile Cloud Enterprise, Oracle Data Integration […]
Don’t Forget to Automate Cloud Security
Cloud has been around long enough, and we’ve had enough breaches stemming from unsecured cloud (mostly data objects, but other items, too) that we should know better. I cringe whenever I see a security headline along the lines of “… Unsecured S3 Bucket.” Would you publicly expose a server in your data center and not […]
Coming Apart in the Age of Automation
One of the fundamental tenets of DevOps is that working in closed, departmental silos is counterproductive for creating quality software. Rather, work is done best when groups are composed of members from across the business working openly and cooperatively. Experience shows time and time again that open, multifaceted teams made up of a variety of […]
Jump-Start Your Kubernetes Journey with JenkinsX
Containers are very quickly being adopted as the stable way of deploying services. More and more organizations are adopting immutable architecture and containers provide an excellent way to achieve that. But along with the stability comes the complexity of deployment, along with managing workload, scaling and updating. That’s in addition to having to create a […]
Using CALMS to Assess an Organization’s DevOps
Of the tried-and-tested frameworks that allow enterprises to assess DevOps in their organization and how it can be improved, the CALMS model remains particularly useful. CALMS, which stands for Collaboration, Automation, Lean, Measurement and Sharing, is particularly helpful for analyzing an organization’s DevOps structure, and ultimately, its utility in any organization. The CALMS framework covers […]
ChefConf 2018: Chef Grows Beyond Infrastructure to Apps
Here I am in Chicagoland for my third ChefConf. I caught the keynotes today with Nathan Harvey, Barry Crist, Adam Jacob, Corie Scobie and more. The big news at this year’s event is that Chef is focused on more than just infrastructure and compliance—Chef is bringing automation to apps and the entire software delivery life […]
Code Delivery: Pipeline Automation for the Speed to Innovate
Many developers steeped in the world of agile startups view continuous delivery pipelines as an accepted standard requirement for software development. Yet many companies, particularly large enterprises with traditional infrastructure, still struggle to make this approach a standard part of their development process. Whether your company is an enterprise looking to make continuous delivery pipelines […]
Trust and Safety in the Age of Automation
“As with any new technology, it’s really important that we be thinking now about how to do [it] ethically and responsibly.” —Robert High, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM Watson Here’s something to think about: According to an article in The Wall Street Journal, more than 30 countries have defensive weapons run by automation. […]
Puppet Expands Scope of Pervasive Automation Initiative
Puppet today unveiled a series of initiatives as part of a continuing campaign to make IT automation available pervasively across the enterprise. Omri Gazitt, chief product officer for Puppet, said the first step in that effort is making it easier for IT organizations to discover what assets they need to manage. Puppet Discovery is an […]
5 Things That Will Be Automated in 2018
We may not have fleets of robots waiting on us hand and foot yet, but the automation revolution is in full swing. With automation becoming more apparent in daily life, some of the misguided fears over the concept and its potential to eliminate jobs are slowly being replaced with the view of automation as an […]
A Saner Way to Build a DevOps Cloud
There’s a popular definition of insanity: doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting different results. Yet, too many enterprises implementing digital services and apps in the cloud fail to heed this warning as they turn to point-to-point integration of their cloud components. In the process, they’re introducing tremendous complexity that looks eerily similar to the […]