Continuous Integration vs. Continuous Delivery: There’s an Important Difference
If you read DevOps blogs today, it can be easy to assume that Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are synonymous terms. People often use them that way. But that’s a mistake. As an example of conflation of the terms CI and CD, take this page, which purports to be a “history of CI/CD […]
DevOps: The Glue of Workflow
The best tool in the DevOps continuum is the sticky wrapper that holds it all together. It is the workflow that binds it and makes sense out of the term “continuous.” CIOs often are enamored with a build or deploy tool, but it is the workflow tool in every DevOps strategy encapsulating more than one […]
What DevOps Skills are Organizations Looking for?
DevOps is a cultural, philosophical and organic approach toward automating workflow and getting products to market more efficiently and effectively. DevOps engineers are in top demand right now. According to studies by Gartner, 25 percent of top global 2000 organizations will have adopted DevOps as a mainstream strategy by the end of 2016. DevOps is […]
An Even More Modern Continuous Integration
It would be strange for me to tell you that there is an even newer new approach to release automation, as if the processes of continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), continuous deployment and canary releases were not modern enough. And it would be even stranger to say that the open-source tool Jenkins, which dominates […]
DevOps Chat: Steve Hazel, Sauce Labs
I recently had the chance to sit down and speak with Steve Hazel, CTO and co-founder of Sauce Labs. With so much being written and talked about the role of quality assurance (QA) and testing in a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) world, it is good to hear from someone like Steve who is an actual […]
DATICAL DEBUTS CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION SOLUTION FOR THE DATABASE
Datical DB 4.0 keeps database administrators from having to review vast majority of database changes Austin, Texas – July 7, 2016 – Datical, the leading provider of agile database automation solutions, today announced Datical DB 4.0. This latest release seamlessly maps development-driven database change management to proven continuous integration (CI) workflows. These modernized database change […]
Trust, You Must: 8 Tips for Adopting CI/CD
We have done continuous deployment (CD) for four years, and enable many of our customers to do continuous deployment with quality assurance (QA). We’ve helped tons of companies adopt and optimize their CD setups. We’ve found that continuous deployment is all about trust — augmented with processes and infrastructure. To that point, here are some […]
To Be Continuous: Does your company have to be all in to do Continuous Delivery?
In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk about the spectrum of continuous delivery and where continuous delivery will and will not work. Edith is CEO and co-founder of LaunchDarkly, a continuous delivery tool of “feature flags as a service.” LaunchDarkly powers software teams to quickly launch, measure and control their features. […]
CI of Complex Cluster Environment with CircleCI and DigitalOcean
At CloudSlang, we’re passionate about all thing open source. Integrating with other open source projects is a key part of what we’re all about. We focus on integrating with many cloud native technologies, such as CoreOS, Docker, and Consul. As such, it is important for us to test these integrations automatically as part of our […]
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 […]
American Psychological Association Finds CI & CD Therapeutic
The American Psychological Association (APA), the largest scientific and professional organization for psychology in the U.S. publishes the PsycINFO database with 4-million records and more than 90 peer reviewed journals, books, and other publications, starts Beverly Jamison, Sr. Director, IT Architecture, The APA. “We maintain a database of psychological tests and measures and psychotherapy demonstration […]
Mobile developer trends for CI and the cloud
Mobile developers understand the rising importance of continuous integration (CI). The promise of CI is to speed up the overall velocity of the app team by building and testing every single code change. This environment of rapid change means that code integration issues are caught early, and testers and beta users can provide feedback on […]
An Open Letter to DevOps “enthusiast”
Dear DevOps “enthusiast”, You are confused. But I am confused as well. For approximately two years now this DevOps thing has been both exciting and frustrating. And in ways that are totally different for each of us. At the intersection of all the disparate confusion is the “perfect storm”. What that means for now is […]
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 […]
“I want to do Continuous Deployment”
“We want to do continuous deployment” – i’ve heard this many times, but have yet to find a scenario where it actually fit. Why? Because you are confused. And rightly so. How many two letter acronyms can be thrown at you in one movement. DevOps takes the confusion further and has two of the acronyms […]
CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins November 19th
We recently held another webinar in our continuing series at DevOps.com. We partnered with the good people at CloudBees on CI and CD across the enterprise with Jenkins. The webinar featured: Cyrille Le Clerc is Director of Product Management at CloudBees with more than 15 years experience in Java. Prior to CloudBees, Cyrille was Chief Technology […]
CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins – CloudBees
We are happy to announce the next DevOps.com Webinar, in partnership with CloudBees : CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins Delivering value to the business faster thanks to Continuous Delivery and DevOps is the new mantra of IT organizations. In this webinar, CloudBees will discuss how Jenkins, the most popular open source Continuous Integration tool, […]
CloudBees nurtures the Jenkins community to new highs
One of the linchpins in the DevOps tools box is Jenkins. Just about everyone knows Jenkins. For those few not familiar with Jenkins, here is an excerpt from the “What is Jenkins” page: What is Jenkins? Jenkins is an award-winning application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by […]