VMware Cloud on AWS Will Bring DevOps Issues to a Head
Now that instances of VMware are starting to become available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a DevOps ecosystem is starting to emerge around the management of applications workloads moving into and out of AWS. Among the more than 4,500 applications that VMware claims already support VMware Cloud on AWS are those from Blue Medora, CA […]
DevOps Chat: Chef Update with Ken Cheney, Chef CMO
There are always new developments going on at Chef. We caught up with Chef CMO Ken Cheney to give us an update. Last time we spoke with Ken was right after ChefConf. Since then, Chef continues to move forward on several fronts including Habitat, Automate and INSPEC. We speak to Ken every other month or […]
SecOps: The Next Stride for DevOps
Global IT spending is now touching a figure of $4 trillion. In today’s technology-intensive environment, data is the biggest commodity, more valuable and powerful than ever. And like Peter Parker’s uncle Ben noted, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Security has always been a big concern for valuable things and IT is no exception. IT […]
Patrick McClory on Building Successful DevOps Organizations
Patrick McClory has been writing code, managing DevOps and designing scalable application infrastructures for more than 10 years. Most recently, as COO and CTO of DualSpark, he served as an expert Amazon Web Services consultant, helping clients capitalize on the benefits of cloud architecture and design with modern and innovative software, infrastructure and automation strategies […]
Fleetsmith Pulls Apple into DevOps Orbit
For too long now Apple Macintosh systems have been the proverbial red-headed stepchild of DevOps. There are a lot of ways to incorporate Windows systems automatically into a larger DevOps pipeline, but Macintosh systems generally require a lot of manual intervention. As part of a larger effort to automate application deployments across Apple systems, Fleetsmith […]
Chef Applies IT Automation to Meet Compliance Mandates
Much of the productivity waste associated with compliance requirements stems from the fact that most developers and IT operations teams aren’t aware how an application might be non-compliant until it’s too late. Aiming to eliminate that fundamentally inefficient approach to meeting compliance mandates, Chef this week tightened the integration between its Automate continuous automation platform […]
Get Your DevOps Right With These 7 Technologies
Editors’ Note: As with all of our contributed articles, the views expressed in this article are of the author, not DevOps.com. Due to its vendor-agnostic stance, DevOps.com does not endorse any particular technology. There was a time when the operations team and the developers regularly were at each other’s throats. The developers were never satisfied […]
Chef Report: DevOps Feeds the Need for Speed
“I feel the need … the need for speed!” ~ Maverick According to a recent report from Chef, one of the driving motivations for companies is based on this Maverick quote from the movie “Top Gun”: The need for speed. Getting better products to market faster is a competitive advantage that gives companies an edge […]
DevOps Chat: Ken Cheney, Chef on AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automation
DevOps.com catches up with Chef’s busy CMO Ken Cheney. Ken give us the inside look at AWS’s OpsWorks for Chef Automate. While this is an AWS offering it is based on Chef and is a pretty big bet by AWS on Chef. In addition Ken brings us up to speed (pun intended) on other things […]
The Secure Developer Podcast: Continuous Security at Chef
Welcome to The Secure Developer, a podcast about security for developers, covering security tools and practices you can and should adopt into your development workflow. The Secure Developer is hosted by Guy Podjarny, CEO and co-founder of Snyk. In this episode of The Secure Developer, Guy talks with Chef CTO Adam Jacob about the role security […]
So Long to Configuration Management Systems?
When I was an operations architect at Ning way back in 2009, we were struggling to manage our deployments and configurations of more than 50 different application servers, or what the cool kids today call microservices. Applications were deployed across three distinct environments: development, staging and production. None of these environments were exactly the same […]
Chef Boards the DevOps Express with CloudBees, Others
You often may have more questions than answers as you progress along your DevOps journey. Which tools should I choose? Do these tools work well together? What have other people done in my situation? You’re often left Googling to find the right integrations and piece together an architectural solution. Today, I’m excited to announce that […]
How to Avoid Trouble when Deploying Apps to Multiple Clouds
Deployment is where Dev meets Ops. The glue that binds the two is orchestration, which places operations guidelines in the application itself. Here’s how to avoid trouble when deploying your apps to multiple clouds. Things move faster when your infrastructure is the cloud. Applications go from concept to production in hours rather than weeks or […]
Orchestration: How To Get Everyone in Tune
Automation is key to success in the cloud. When your entire infrastructure is accessible via an API, it doesn’t make sense to configure and install your applications by hand. This is where orchestration tools come into play. Simply put: You will not have long-term success in the cloud unless an orchestration tool is a core […]
The Disposable Development Environment
Wait! Just wait a dadgummed minute! It takes days to build a development environment, and now I am supposed to read an article on a disposable development environment? Yes. It seems like it took an entire sprint to upgrade PHP! Now I am supposed to let them build something so they can trash it? Yes […]
Austin & Chef Give ChefConf 2016 That Warm, Fuzzy Feeling
I have written before about the DevOps community in Austin. It is one of the most welcoming and warm groups of people I have ever interacted with. Combine that with the HugOps operation of the friendly folks of Chef and you wind up with a great experience. That pretty much sums up ChefConf 2016 for […]
DevOps Chat: Habitat by Chef with Julian Dunn
I had a chance to speak with Julian Dunn, product manager for Chef ahead of the upcoming ChefConf conference in Austin Texas next week. Julian and I spoke about Habitat, Chef’s new open source application automation project. Many in the industry are hailing Habitat as something really special. Our own Tony Bradley says it could […]
Chef Has Potential Game-Changer with Habitat
Chef is an established leader in the DevOps world. Automation is a keystone of DevOps tools and processes, and Chef’s platform simplifies and streamlines automation. Chef is branching out, though, with the recent unveiling of Habitat—an open-source project to automate the applications themselves. As companies continue to embrace DevOps and developers continue to create custom […]
Chef Launches Habitat, New Open Source Project to Automate Applications
After Nine Months in Stealth Development, First of Its Kind Open Source Project Packages Automation with Application for Deployment Anywhere, from Bare Metal to Containers SEATTLE – June 14, 2016 – Chef<https://www.chef.io>, the leader in automation for DevOps<https://www.chef.io/solutions/devops>, today announced Habitat<https://habitat.sh>, an open source project that introduces a new approach for application automation. Applications packaged […]
DevOps Chat: Nathen Harvey, Chef
I recently had the pleasure of catching up with Nathen Harvey of Chef. And I do mean catch up. As VP of community development, Nathen keeps up an amazing pace of visiting Chef communities around the world. In this role who better to understand what DevOps practitioners are seeing? Nathen and I spoke about several […]
DevOps and ITaaS: Two Sides of the Same Coin
It seems IT practitioners haven’t realized yet the scale of digital disruption. Mired in the old IT thinking, they firmly believe that sophisticated tools are all businesses need to survive the ongoing digital disruption waves. Most of them warn, “Digital transformation is changing the way we do business, the way we deliver IT services must change, […]
In DevOps, Standardize to Minimize Architectural Debt
I recently reading a great Q&A with the Etsy CTO John Allspaw over on The New Stack, which contained some nuggets of good advice that increasingly are important as we continue the journey toward DevOps adoption. Of particular note were statements on the introduction of “new” things to solve problems. In a nutshell, Allspaw reinforced […]
Chef Makes DevOps Workflow Faster and Safer for Enterprises Amid Rapid Business Growth
New Chef Delivery Product Enhancements Come as Company’s Annual Recurring Revenue Grows 94 Percent Year-Over-Year in 2015 and Chef Nears 1,000 Customers SEATTLE, WA–(Marketwired – Mar 10, 2016) – Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, today introduced Dependency Management, a new feature of its Chef Delivery product, that enables faster and safer developer collaboration […]