Red Hat Adds Managed Ansible Service on Azure
Red Hat today announced general availability of a managed instance of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Announced at the Red Hat Summit 2022 event, this offering makes it possible to deploy the control plane for Ansible on the Microsoft Azure cloud as an alternative to existing support for Amazon […]
Shedding Light On Toil: Ways Engineers Can Reduce Toil
It comes in many shapes and sizes and is embraced as a necessary evil. It lurks in the shadows, emerging now and again to stealthily creep into our workflows, where it feasts on our perceived shame. If not pruned, it grows and wraps its tendrils around the workforce, draining the energy out of every digital […]
ACCELQ Further Automates Testing of Low-Code, No-Code Apps
ACCELQ today unveiled the cloud-based ACCELQ Live test automation platform that is continuously integrated with a wide range of low-code and no-code application development and deployment platforms. ACCELQ CEO Mahendra Alladi said the goal is to make it simpler to run complex tests across a multi-cloud computing environment. Usage of low-code and no-code tools has […]
What Donuts Teach Us About DevOps and Delivery Risk
Today, most DevOps teams do not think too much about their approach to risk. Usually, the typical attitude focuses on what to add to reduce risk further. In other words, “Can we add more tests? Can we deploy more carefully?” More tests, more processes and less risk are all obviously good things. Or are they? […]
4 Ways to Combat the DevOps and Security Workforce Shortage
Most people are painfully aware that security breaches have increased in recent years, while at the same time becoming much more sophisticated in their approach. Additionally, ever-expanding application environments and continuously evolving workloads have created more opportunities than ever for attackers. What’s not so apparent to those outside of the tech bubble: The world is […]
Enable Multi-Cloud Networking With Automation
As we enter a new era of technology, we’re experiencing a “third wave” of cloud innovation that brings new complexities into the IT landscape, mainly centered around multi-cloud networking. With every wave of cloud technology advancement, networking components are becoming more complex and distributed across multiple groups. Further, multi-cloud networking brings new challenges around connecting […]
Best of 2021 – Automation Engineering
As we close out 2021, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. ROELBOB
Best of 2021 – Why DevOps Will Cease to Exist
As we close out 2021, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the twelfth in our series of the Best of 2021. Nowadays I feel like there is no need to explain why DevOps as a methodology exists, as it is widely understood and accepted. But the […]
Best of 2021 – 7 Popular Open Source CI/CD Tools
As we close out 2021, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourth in our series of the Best of 2021. DevOps is a software development strategy that incorporates agile practices for fast, efficient product creation and release. It focuses on integration of development and operations […]
Reflections: A DevOps Christmas Carol
“Marley was dead, to begin with.” So begins my DevOps Christmas Carol. In this reflection, I am visited by the ghosts of DevOps past, present and future. I hope that, after hearing my story, you will have a better understanding of where DevOps is going based upon where it came from and where it is […]
Will Automation Fill Gaps Left by the ‘Great Resignation’?
Between burnout, job-hopping and the ongoing pandemic, labor shortages will surely get worse before they get better, and automation is increasingly sought after as a way to mitigate the ripple effects of understaffed IT departments. For DevOps, automation has several benefits, from freeing up employees to work on more constructive tasks to minimizing software bugs […]
Are You Feeling the Hiring Crunch?
After years of experience, we can now definitively say one thing about information technology: There is always a hiring crunch, and it will always be better soon. I first noticed this trend in InfoSec years ago. Everyone was short-staffed and looking for available candidates. Everyone wrote their recruitment text like there was no shortage and […]
Enabling Developers with Infrastructure Automation
Enabling developers with infrastructure automation Being first to market with new and improved applications and services is how successful organizations grow and differentiate business offerings. Continuous software delivery means everything is fluid and constantly changed to enable the speed and agility required to ensure applications deliver on increasingly higher consumer satisfaction expectations. Everything released and […]
5 Tips for a Successful DevOps Implementation
More businesses are turning to DevOps implementations to deliver software and updates with more efficiency. As much as business leaders know DevOps can help them to be faster and more agile, many of them are unsure how to get started. Many businesses even begin implementing DevOps only to run into unforeseen problems that hinder the […]
Bridging Departmental Divides for Successful Automation Projects
For too long, IT has been largely isolated from an organization’s core business. Any division between IT and lines-of-business (LOB) is even more detrimental when speed is not just a competitive advantage but an existential necessity in today’s accelerating digital economy. As business leaders streamline and turbocharge every facet of their operations, savvy organizations are […]
Say Goodbye to Late-Night SRE Wake-Up Calls
Thousands of SREs, on-call engineers and DevOps pros all over the world dread nothing more than the late-night incident alert. The pager buzzing at 2:00 a.m. can cause panic for SREs and leave IT and DevOps teams with quite a mess to contain. But incident response doesn’t have to cause panic if you have the […]
Learn a Bit About AI
Every once in a while, a trend becomes broad enough that I feel the need to offer career advice. This year it will be simple: Know enough about AI/ML to be dangerous. We are past the point where not having at least a basic understanding is a good idea. Looking around the data center, AI […]
Top 5 Must-Haves for IaC Automation Tools
These days, there are a lot of different DevOps tools to accomplish a lot of different jobs. Almost daily another startup comes out with a new and innovative product or a newer (maybe even better) version of existing tools. One of the biggest innovations has been infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Giving infrastructure admins and developers alike the […]
BMC Acquires StreamWeaver to Advance AIOps Strategy
BMC has acquired StreamWeaver, a provider of a platform that makes it simpler to capture streaming data in real-time, as part of an effort to extend the BMC Helix IT operations platform infused with artificial intelligence (AIOps). Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Margaret Lee, general manager and senior vice president for digital […]
Best Practices for Codeless Test Automation
Low-code and no-code development platforms have revolutionized how companies think about application development. The same can be said for software for quality assurance (QA), where codeless test automation solutions handle the burden of coding for organizations that can’t allocate extra programming resources or keep up with extensive writing and maintenance of automated tests. Codeless test […]
Red Hat Extends Scope of Ansible Automation Ambitions
During the online Ansiblefest, Red Hat announced the availability of a preview edition of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 that is intended to make it easier to automate IT processes at scale. Richard Henshall, senior manager for Ansible product management at Red Hat, said previously most IT teams have been automating individual processes, but […]