Agile Infrastructure: Because your Infrastructure Deserves Tests, Too
Editor’s Note: This post was updated Aug. 4, 2018, to reflect an updated slide presentation at the end of the article. Infrastructure as Code is a truly powerful concept whose significance is best described with the words of Adam Jacob, CTO at Chef, in Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time: “Enable the reconstruction of […]
9 more open source DevOps tools we love
A while back we ran an article by Tomer Levy of Logz.io about 9 open source DevOps Tools that we loved. Of course how can you pick just 9 among so many worthy choices? So we wanted to revisit the open source DevOps tools space and add another 9 tools to the list. In a […]
Chef rolls out some tasty new dishes
Chef has announced some major additions to their lineup today. We will look at each of these but in total here is the news from Chef today: First of all the previously announced Chef Delivery is now in GA for everyone. Chef Delivery defines and manages the entire DevOps workflow. The diagram below is […]
DevOps Leadership Series 2015: Women & Diversity – a diversity of thought and contribution
Many of the leading minds and practitioners in the DevOps movement are women. I hope that comes as no surprise to you. DevOps has always embraced a diversity of thought and contribution. Case in point, close to 50% of the presenters at this year’s DevOps Days Boston event were women. In this episode of […]
DevOps Leadership Series 2015: Women & Diversity
Many of the leading minds and practitioners in the DevOps movement are women. I hope that comes as no surprise to you. DevOps has always embraced a diversity of thought and contribution. Case in point, close to 50% of the presenters at this year’s DevOps Days Boston event were women. In this episode of […]
Chef raises $40m and a full house
Big news today from Chef who announced a $40m Series E round of financing. This round and its size is indicative of the continued high demand of DevOps in general and for a leader in the space like Chef. The round was led by DFJ Growth. Existing investors Battery Ventures, Citi Ventures, DFJ (venture), Ignition Partners, […]
The Sea Change that is DevOps – How it all started: Part 1
Over the last 20 years, software has slowly taken over the world. Businesses that historically operated on 8-hour business days are now 24×7, navigating a global economy that never sleeps. The Internet enablement of everything has thrust what was originally an important support role into the lifeline of a business. A decade ago, Agile software […]
DevOps fast food: Chef on the AWS marketplace,
News from the AWS Summit in NYC today is that Chef is now available as a one click install on AWS via the AWS marketplace. While the ability to use Chef on AWS is not new (it is the leading configuration management tool on AWS), being on the marketplace makes both install and billing a […]
SaaS: Building Tools for the DevOps-Minded
DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing are no longer just methodologies and development strategies — they’re all a part of a growing economy within the tech industry. Great Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies such as Chef, Docker and New Relic have done an amazing job of spotting the trends early and building their tools and […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Gov Does DevOps
This past week, I had the opportunity to catch up with some more industry thought leaders at the DevOpsDays DC event in our nation’s capital. This was the first major DevOps Days event to feature a large audience of government participants. It was an awesome event and is certainly going to be on my must-attend […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Compliance, Testing, and Rugged
This past week, I headed to London for the Rugged DevOps event, where I had the chance to catch up with a few more industry thought leaders. First, I caught up with Gareth Rushgrove from Puppet Labs, who also runs the DevOps Weekly newsletter. In this episode of the DevOps Leadership Series, Gareth […]
DevOps Connect: Rugged DevOps @Infosecurity Europe
We have assembled another top flight list of speakers for our DevOps Connect event @Infosecurity Europe. While pre-registration is sold out, if you are one of the 15,000+ attendees of Infosecurity Europe, you can still come to DevOps Connect on a first come, first serve basis. Details and schedule are below: When: Thursday 4th June, […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Security at Velocity
If it does not fit, it does not get done. For many DevOps practices, application security falls into the “does not get done” bucket. That’s because for many DevOps-centric organizations, application security has historically been done somewhere else, by someone else, who is slow. Go faster. Shift left. Remove complexity. Reduce rework. All mantras of […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Software Supply Chains
We kicked off this series on Monday with Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim) sharing his views on the big theme for DevOps in 2015: proving that DevOps is applicable for large organizations. Another theme that arose often during our recent “DevOps: Wine-ing, Not Whining” event was the importance of software supply chains. Every software development organization has a software […]
DevOps Leadership Series 2015
We recently hosted the 2nd annual “DevOps: Wine-ing, Not Whining” event in San Francisco to bring together a number of thought leaders and leading practitioners in the DevOps field. We traded stories from the trenches, formed new insights, and offered visions of the future. This week, I’ll be sharing videos captured from the event that […]
31 Reference Architectures for DevOps and Continuous Delivery
At QCon London, David Farley (@davefarley77) told the audience that “continuous delivery changes the economics of software delivery”. I could not agree more. If you have been drawn to the evangelists like David Farley, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim, you’ll know that high performance IT organizations are seeing a massive payoff in their continuous delivery […]
Chef defines the DevOps workflow with Chef Delivery
At ChefCon today Chef made a major announcement unveiling Chef Delivery a “new DevOps workflow product that for the first time enables the continuous delivery of infrastructure, runtime environments – including containers – and applications.” Chef has examined the use success patterns of many of its thousands of customers to distill what they believe is […]
Chef best practices
Chef Best practices This article is the II part covering Chef. Please refer to Automation, Provisioning & Configuration Management (CHEF) for an introduction. As a matter of fact, Chef is truly an astounding tool. It keeps the cooking metaphor actively going. Following is the list of best practices that I would like to cover in the article: […]
Automation, Provisioning & Configuration Management (CHEF)
Introduction Chef is an influential configuration management and automation platform that transmutes the complex infrastructure and helps you in describing your infrastructure with code, by bringing your servers and services to life. Since your infrastructure is controlled and managed with code, it can be automated, tested and reproduced with efficiency and ease. Chef automates the […]
Chef and Microsoft Cooking Up Something Big
Chef and Microsoft today announced a major upgrade to their partnership. After twelve months of work integrating Chef, it is thoroughly integrated not only into the Azure stack, but into the Windows stack as well . This will empower enterprises to work in Azure/hybrid cloud environments using Chef’s best in class capabilities to collaborate on […]
11 DevOps start-ups funded for a busy 2015
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Enter at your own risk: DevOps isn’t for everybody
There’s always a sexy new tech buzzword flying around, and it’s easy to fall into the trap of assuming that if a concept or technology is hot you need to hurry up and jump on board so you don’t miss anything. DevOps is hot, and seems to be almost ubiquitous these days. But that doesn’t […]
Deliver faster, but don’t sacrifice quality
Developing applications, and deploying servers faster are great goals. Being agile and streamlined can give an organization a clear competitive advantage. However, faster does not equal better, and being speedy for the sake of being speedy can lead to avoidable mistakes. Faster is only better if you can achieve greater speed without sacrificing quality. At […]