5 Tips to Consider When Introducing Infrastructure Automation
Although we discuss infrastructure automation often, the fact is that a lot of manual processes still exist throughout DevOps. Whether it’s rewriting scripts to spin up new servers, updating cloud-native policies or configuring computing environments, manual toil is an all-too-common reality. To make matters worse, engineers commonly create lengthy scripts that work in isolation but are […]
AWS Previews Amazon CodeCatalyst to Automatically Create Dev Environments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week launched a preview release of the Amazon CodeCatalyst framework that leverages blueprints to automatically provision and configure developer environments in its cloud. Announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference, Amazon CodeCatalyst takes advantage of a Project Blueprints tool to launch a source code repository and a project management tracker […]
Tanium Uses SBOMs to Automate Vulnerability Remediation
Tanium this week added the ability to detect libraries and software packages with known vulnerabilities within a software bill of materials (SBOM) manifest that can then be used to automate remediation of endpoints running vulnerable code. Pete Constantine, senior vice president of product management for Tanium, said the Tanium Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) module […]
Red Hat and IBM Pledge to Bring NLP to Ansible
At the Ansiblefest 2022 conference today, Red Hat and its parent company IBM announced the Project Wisdom initiative to bring natural language processing (NLP) to the open source Ansible IT operations automation platform. At the same time, Red Hat announced that the curated instances of Ansible from Red Hat are now available in the marketplaces […]
5 Ways to Transform DataOps With Human-in-the-Loop Automation
We are in the middle of a data renaissance. Today, it’s not just about data instrumentation but also learning how to make DataOps a real business advantage for the entire organization. Data has become an inextricable part of products, used to enhance the quality of user experiences. Reliable access to data and the integrity of […]
DevOps and Hybrid Cloud: Life in the Fast Lane, Part Two
In the early years of cloud computing, cost savings were the major driver of adoption. These days, however, organizations are increasingly faced with spiraling expenditures, waste and a lack of control. As cloud usage bills and inefficiencies start to balloon, these challenges are beginning to undermine the benefits of migrating in the first place. The […]
Testing Automation has Become a Necessity – Techstrong TV
Guljeet Nagpaul, Chief Product Officer for ACCELQ, explains why automating testing has become a necessity. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Mike Vizard: Hey, guys. Thanks for the throw. We’re here with Guljeet Nagpaul, who is chief product officer for ACCELQ, and we’re talking about all things related to testing. […]
How IaC Helps Relieve Development Pain Points
Developers spend much of their day digging into their systems’ guts, allocating storage to an application, connecting the security system to the user interface and tracking which version of the application is where in the development cycle, among other tasks. That’s why a new category of software has emerged, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), that promises to automate […]
Tips for Better Governance – Techstrong TV
David Williams, VP of Porduct Strategy at Quali, and Charlene discuss David’s top tips to better governance in DevOps. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Charlene O’Hanlon: Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Techstrong TV. I’m Charlene O’Hanlon, and I’m here now with David Williams, who is the VP of product […]
Automation has Become an Absolute IT Necessity – Techstrong TV
Vijoy Pandey, vice president of emerging technologies and Incubation for Cisco, explains why automation has become an absolute IT necessity. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Michael Vizard: Hey, guys, thanks for the throw. We’re here with Vijoy Pandey, who’s vice president of emerging technology and incubation for Cisco. We’re […]
Leverage Empirical Data to Avoid DevOps Burnout
Burnout is possible in any industry. But it seems to be especially rampant in tech, a space bursting at the seams with inflated expectations and ever-accelerating trends. Nearly 60% of tech workers said they were currently feeling burned out at their workplace, found a study by TeamBlind. Limiting burnout and supporting employee mental health is […]
Applying TestOps to Cultivate a Quality Culture
Quality assurance is a universal concern, especially when it comes to application development. Enterprise applications are faster and more reliable than ever before. However, in addition to performance, application developers also must consider data security, regulatory compliance and cost-effectiveness, among other things. Organizations are embracing quality engineering (QE) as a foundation to create a software […]
A Full Pipeline: CI/CD for Network Automation and Orchestration
The intersection of CI/CD and network automation has grown substantially over the past few years. Network teams have seemingly reached the point in their automation and orchestration journey where it has become critical to implement a strategy to manage the testing, version control and deployment of both network changes and automation assets. While CI/CD has […]
DevOps Unbound EP 18 – Standardizing DevOps – TechStrong TV
Alan Shimel: Hey, everyone, welcome to another DevOps Unbound. If this is your first time catching a DevOps Unbound, welcome. DevOps Unbound is a biweekly video series where we talk about relevant topics in DevOps. In addition to the biweekly show, we do, it’s every four to six weeks, a live roundtable show where we […]
DevOps Unbound EP 19 – How AI and ML are being used in DevOps Today – TechStrong TV
Alan Shimel: Hey, everyone. I’m Alan Shimel, CEO of MediaOps, devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Container Journal, Security Boulevard, and you’re watching DevOps Unbound. DevOps Unbound is sponsored by our friends at Tricentis. So many thanks to them. And DevOps Unbound is a biweekly show where we cover topics of interest to the DevOps audience. I am the host. […]
Applying Automation to DevOps
In the book, “Life and the Art of Engineering,” author Haresh Sippy said, “Automation is cost-cutting by tightening the corners, not cutting them.” Today, businesses and organizations are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve productivity while reducing inefficiencies across their operations. Automation has emerged as the natural answer as it addresses these issues while […]
Quality Is a Top Challenge for Data-Driven Projects
Software systems continue to produce more and more data. And making use of it has proven benefits — so much so that many analysts have, over the years, referred to data as the new oil. As a result, the majority of organizations are expending effort into refining their data — in fact, a recent study […]
Why is Security Still in the Way? A Look at DevSecOps Right Now
According to industry trend reports for 2022, DevSecOps is now considered to be one of the most effective approaches to building software quickly and securely. This effort, of course, means development, security and operations teams commit to addressing security as early as possible in the software development life cycle (SDLC). The goal of the shift […]
Technical Debt: When It Works and When It Doesn’t
Every software team has probably faced technical debt—the accumulation of little development deficiencies that will require rework down the line. Just like financial debt, they accrue interest as they build up, in the form of difficult software modifications or challenges in adding new features. Time is the usual culprit; your development team has one timeframe […]
Survey Surfaces Challenges Ahead on National DevOps Day
A survey published today for National DevOps Day found nearly two-thirds (63%) have seen an increase in the frequency of service incidents that have affected their customers over the course of the last 14 months. The survey polled 1,046 engineering, IT operations, DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) professionals at organizations with more than 300 […]
Creating Automated GitHub Bots in Go
Events management requires quick responses, which can be challenging since there is typically an incredibly large volume of events that take place every day. Therefore, relying on humans to respond to these events quickly is error-prone, messy and often frustrating. These events have easily reproducible steps that can be codified and are perfect reasons for […]
Making DevOps Smoother
Being a DevOps developer isn’t just about technical expertise necessary to build a product. It is also about learning the operations that facilitate the entire process. That means working with a fast-paced, high-performance, cross-functional team using Agile methodologies. But because of these sometimes-conflicting demands, it can sometimes get rocky. Here, we’ll offer six tips for […]