Stop the Domino Effect by Joining Build Engineering and DevOps
As DevOps has become more common, these teams are tasked with uniting everything from coding to deploying and monitoring applications. Build Engineering forms the foundation for all those processes and is essential for building code. Its tools vary according to the operating system you’re building on and by programming language. DevOps needs to work with […]
DevOps Chat: CI/CD with the Semaphore Platform
As the old saying goes, “speed kills.” When it comes to development, a lack of speed can kill, too. Marko Anastasov and the Semaphore team have strived to make Semaphore the fastest continuous integration tool in the market. With version 2.0 of Semaphore, they believe it truly is. With his background in development, Marko brings […]
Electric Cloud Extends Continuous Delivery Platform
Electric Cloud is making available a software-as-a-service (SaaS) pricing option available for its ElectricFlow application release management and continuous delivery (CD) platform. In addition, version 8.5 of ElectricFlow adds support for a Kanban-style pipeline view, object tagging for custom reporting and improved searchability and a continuous integration (CI) dashboard to track and analyze build processes, […]
DevOps: Build a Continuous Improvement Culture
DevOps was built around the concept of continuous everything. We even use it in many of the names—continuous delivery (CD), continuous testing, continuous integration (CI)—and it is a worthy goal to want to improve the places that form bottlenecks in your software delivery systems and processes. But what about the bottlenecks in the DevOps systems […]
Standardization, De Facto Style
The first decade or so of DevOps had one truth to it: It was about change. Not just change in the way that IT worked, but change in the way DevOps worked—particularly in the tools space, where products and product preferences both are in flux. We’re still seeing a massive change, but increasingly the effect […]
CloudBees Acquires Codeship to Extend CI/CD Reach
CloudBees today signaled its DevOps ambitions to extend well beyond the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform by acquiring Codeship, a provider of a CI/CD platform that is delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. The decision to acquire Codeship is being driven by the need to engage smaller DevOps teams that don’t have the time […]
The Role of Operations in a No-Ops World
It seems that every once in a while, we in high tech get wrapped up in the next thing that will eliminate work and/or jobs. Sometimes, as is the case with DevOps, we get something that reduces redundant work and actually makes our life easier in the long run. Most of the time, however, we […]
DevOps Chat: Harness.io, Continuous Delivery as a Service w/ Steve Burton
Today marks the launch of Harness.io, continuous delivery as a service. The company is founded by some of the original team at AppDynamics. They want to take the same kind of approach AppDynamics brought to APM, to the CI/CD market. We caught up with Steve Burton, VP of product marketing at Harness to get the […]
CloudBees Applies Analytics to DevOps
At the heart of many DevOps initiatives is an automation server based on open-source Jenkins software developed by CloudBees. At the recent Jenkins World 2017 conference, CloudBees showed that Jenkins is now becoming the foundational element through which DevOps teams can now manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) process end to end. New additions to […]
Differentiating Between CI Pipelines and DevOps Assembly Lines
“What’s in a name?” wrote the greatest Bard who ever lived. All I can say is, he lived in simpler times, when DevOps and the confusing world of continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD), CI/CD, the other CD, application release automation (ARA), pipelines, assembly lines, etc., didn’t exist. The biggest challenge today is that vendors […]
XebiaLabs Shows Off ARA, More at Jenkins World
In this third spotlight on companies attending Jenkns World, another worth checking out came to mind, so I am taking a look at what XebiaLabs intends to do while there. XebiaLabs is one of the leading application release automation (ARA) vendors, and has a long history of working with Jenkins, so it’s a little more […]
Don’t Underestimate the Work
It is relatively common in human endeavor to attempt to figure out how much work will be involved in a project, and be wrong. The more complex the work being done and the organizational system doing it, the further off estimates can be. This was one of the drivers for both Agile and DevOps: to […]
Manual Intervention or Release Automation? That is the Question
When it comes to launching nuclear weapons, there are a variety of steps and a variety of fail-safe mechanisms, all designed to ensure that those pushing the button really want to do what the nuclear launch system is designed to do. I fear it is some sort of mini-Godwin argument to equate nuclear warfare with […]
NetOps: Thorn in the Side of Continuous Deployment?
Over the last few years, we have definitely gotten continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) down. We now can maintain a relatively constant flow of deployable code sitting and waiting for the actual deployment step to take them to production. Moving to production has been the point at which caution is introduced into the system, […]
Get Ready to Become a Full-Spectrum Engineer
The more things change, the more they stay the same. In software development, change has been a constant. I’ve been a software engineer for more than 25 years and have had to morph, pivot and learn new things to remain current and in demand. Plus, the industry swings like a pendulum between the need for […]
Challenges in DevOps Standardization
Many organizations still face challenges in their Devops adoption journey enterprise-wide, especially when there is no standardization in tools, non-repeatable processes and adhoc practices and culture barriers. Here are some of the challenges in standardization and possible solutions to achieve standardization in DevOps as part of DevOps transformation journey. Business Case A survey conducted within […]
6 Big, Bad Mistakes in Configuration Management, Part 2
In Part One of my article on big, bad mistakes in configuration management, I reviewed the dangers of using the wrong tools for the configuration management job. Provisioning management tools, application release automation tools and continuous integration tools each have their place in your DevOps toolchain. But they should not be used as a substitute […]
6 Big, Bad Mistakes in Configuration Management, Part 1
Configuration problems come in many flavors. Some are mere nuisances. Often though, configuration errors can lead to more serious mishaps like application performance problems, policy compliance violations or even security vulnerabilities. They can often go undetected, quietly doing their damage in the background while everyone’s attention is focused elsewhere. Unfortunately, I find that configuration management […]
DevOps in Legacy Systems: A Mission Impossible?
The word “legacy” evokes mixed reactions from the IT and business crowds alike. For those who depend on legacy systems such as the zSeries and iSeries platforms, it is a way to deliver stable and reliable applications into production. Business stakeholders who may not know the intricacies of the technology often take a view of, “Why […]
The Tester: Saving Your Soul in a DevOps World
Software testers have seen their careers go through some ups and downs in recent years. In the days of Waterfall, the tester’s job was clearly defined. Like other functions of software development and delivery, testers lived in a neat and tidy universe, testing features and design, finding bugs, sending back feedback to developers for correction […]
Help Us Understand CI/CD, DevOps & Job Scheduling
While plenty of vendors tell us what they think is happening in the market, the only way to really learn is from you, our readers. So we are asking you to take a few minutes to take this important survey on the adoption of CI/CD, DevOps and job scheduling. We will be giving a $50 […]
DevOps Chat: CI/CD with Travelers and Urban Code
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Laurel Dixon-Bull of Urban Code and Frank Canihuante of Travelers about CI/CD. Frank explains to us how he improved the CI pipeline at Travelers and some of the challenges he faced with the scale of a large enterprise like Travelers. Good case study. As usual, immediately below is […]
Warning Signs Your Organization Needs CI/CD
Sometimes, taking a look at a problem from a different angle makes it look different. As a recent meme showed, a six and a nine are the same marks, just viewed from different angles. I don’t know who originally created this image; if you do, drop me a line and I’ll give them all the […]