On Building Self-Driving IT
More CIOs than ever are moving their data centers to the cloud. Some have decided to maintain their on-premises data centers and move cloud-first with all new deployments, while others are moving more aggressively to all-cloud and are retiring on-premises hardware and software as quickly as possible. Both types of enterprises also are working to […]
Give Test Automation the Respect It Deserves
One of the key mantras of DevOps is “continuous.” Effective DevOps relies on automating routine tasks. Any step in the process that requires human intervention or manual input becomes a roadblock that can slow or halt productivity. To the extent that it’s possible, anything and everything should be automated—and that includes testing. Test is like […]
State of DevOps Report: Reaping Results
The newly released 2016 State of DevOps Report concludes that DevOps is “no longer a mere fad or buzzword,” but rather an established set of practices and cultural patterns. Yet, a closer look at this year’s findings reveals progress is far more substantial than any matters of perception. The report was conducted and analyzed by […]
VictorOps Announces the Incident Automation Engine, Further Advancing Innovation in Real-Time Incident Management
VictorOps helps companies bypass traditional Network Operations Centers by proactively routing alerts, transforming data, and solving problems using end-to-end automation BOULDER, Colo. – June 22, 2016 – VictorOps, the real-time incident management company for DevOps teams, announced the Incident Automation Engine, a set of cutting-edge features for on-call teams to automate their way to […]
DevOps Matchmaking: APM + CI = A Perfect Marriage
As anyone who has ever been set up on blind dates by friends can attest, finding the right match in today’s world is a tricky feat. There’s a lot of evidence suggesting that the frantic pace of life makes such matchmaking more difficult than ever. That said, when the right set of complimentary traits exist […]
Do You Continuously Deliver Your CD Pipeline?
If your job is to build and maintain the continuous delivery (CD) pipeline for your organization, do you feel you can’t keep up with your development counterparts in innovation? Everyone is raving about the new cool features in your company’s product. Who deserves the credit? People who wrote the code, right? It’s not that simple. […]
Lean Security: How Better Development Can Protect Your Business
If companies are to reach their strategic goals—reducing time to market, boosting sales, improving product market fit and brand image, and cutting cybersecurity costs—then it’s time for a new outlook on software security. Today’s business leaders must learn to see security for what it is: A differentiating factor. Companies with reputations for secure developmental processes […]
Embedding Predictive Analytics
For an enterprise with a deep DevOps maturity model, the initial “wow” factor of automation has worn off. At this point, the sexier concepts involve proving continuous improvement. As an example, our first baseline of metrics might have taken the pre-DevOps timings of a typical build and deployment of a given application. We can measure […]
Brocade Advances Automation Leadership with Open Network Automation Platform
Brocade Workflow Composer Transforms IT Operations with DevOps-Inspired, Cross-Domain Network Automation to Increase Business Agility SYDNEY, Australia — May 26, 2016 — Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced Brocade Workflow Composer, a new server-based network automation platform that enables enterprises and cloud service providers to improve their IT operations and drive greater business agility. Brocade Workflow […]
Five Harsh Truths About DevOps
DevOps can provide tremendous productivity improvements, but it’s not a panacea. As much as we’d want it to be the solution for all of our software development problems, here are five truths you should consider. 1. DevOps may lead to juggling job roles and coming out of your comfort zone With DevOps, the development team […]
Continuous Delivery and Deployment: A Tale of Two Models
EnerNOC (Energy Network Operations Center) is an energy intelligence software provider with more than 1,300 employees in its Boston headquarters and international locations. The public firm helps global customers to efficiently consume energy. “Our mission is to change how the world uses energy, helping customers to improve profitability and visibility for better decision-making and sustainability […]
Best Practices for Cloud Deployment
When it comes to deploying apps in the cloud, the conventional wisdom is that DevOps is not required if you’re a small or midsized company. The cloud is designed to enable virtually anyone to set up the infrastructure they need, quickly and easily, without a lot of experience in the intricacies of managing data center […]
Data Protection for Operational Reporting Platforms
Making real-time business decisions based on data from social, mobile and cloud platforms is a requirement in today’s world. That’s why an ecosystem of next-generation operational reporting platforms such as Spark, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, Docker, Mesos, Marathon and more have come to life. Enterprises are using these technologies to re-architect their data storage and processing […]
Preserving Bottom-Up Innovation in DevOps
Balancing top-down control and oversight with bottom-up innovation and autonomy The driving force behind DevOps adoption in the enterprise is the idea that it will enable faster and more frequent delivery of better quality software. If all goes well, DevOps should result in higher customer satisfaction and lower costs, but the journey to get there […]
5 Prerequisites for a Successful DevOps Initiative
There are certain tools and attitudes that are essential to any successful DevOps transformation. The manner in which a DevOps transformation is performed will have huge implications on the level of agility the company is able to achieve. However, before that point is even reached, some vital foundations must be laid. It is from that […]
5 Key Aspects of High Fidelity DevOps
As much as we talk about how we should have shared goals spanning Dev and Ops, it’s not nearly as easy as it sounds. To fuel a DevOps culture, we have to build robust tooling, also. That means investing up front in five key areas: abstraction, composability, automation, orchestration, and idempotency. Together, these concepts allow […]
Humans in the Machine of Release Orchestration
Let’s face it: Most organizations are still struggling to achieve the Nirvana of full gated automation. At first, we automate the core of our DevOps services, the build and the deployment disciplines. Over time, we realize that a templated or framework (or pick your similar terminology) approach toward automation allows for scale as well as […]
Does the Future of DevOps Lie in NoOps?
Why DevOps is more a bi-directional rather than a simple top-down approach DevOps is one of those buzzwords that nearly everyone wants to discuss these days. However, it often is interpreted as an extension of Development’s influence to the detriment of Operations teams. So much has changed in the past few years that it is […]
Top 10 IT Management Tools
Staying up with the latest IT management tools is akin to keeping up on the latest Starbucks drink options. We simplify it here through a look at the most useful tools, from monitoring to DevOps orchestration and APM. IT management tools have entered a new heyday, thanks to the advent of cloud, DevOps and mobile […]
Infrastructure as Code is SDN for Ops
As we continue to recognize the importance of DevOps—particularly its automation and orchestration aspects—to achieve the agility necessary for continuous deployment of apps, the question of how the term “Infrastructure as Code” (IaC) applies to traditionally network-bound systems and services is bound to crop up more frequently. After all, in addition to core IP-based networking characteristics […]
The New Age of “Operations” in a DevOps Enterprise
My encounters with commercial clients in the DevOps space have been exciting, curious, political, and challenging. What most don’t realize is that DevOps is not just about infusing tool automation into a delivery pipeline, but it also has to do with re-mobilizing and challenging the status quo when it comes to “who does what”. As […]
Optimizing an Effective CI/CD Pipeline
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) are often cited as pillars of successful DevOps. To establish and optimize the CI/CD development model and reap the benefits, companies need to build an effective pipeline to automate their build, integration and testing processes. This requires architecting CI/CD with five key ingredients which, when combined effectively, operate as […]
DevOpsQA NJ Meetup: Jenkins with Gerrit and BDD Automation
DevOpsQA NJ recently held its April Meetup on Automation with Jenkins and BDD, with Kishore Bhatia from CloudBees and Tom Bartolucci from Billtrust as speakers. The venue, food and refreshments were provided by Audible at a state-of-the-art, vast office space in historical city of Newark. After fun networking over pizza, wine and beer, we kicked off […]