CircleCI Integrates CI/CD Platform With GitLab
CircleCI today announced it has integrated its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with a rival software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering from GitLab. DevOps teams can now, for example, trigger pipelines in CircleCI from GitLab forked merge requests in addition to merging requests and making commits for specific branches. Other capabilities include the ability to access testing capabilities […]
VW CEO Fired for Dev Fails | Fiber Shortage Hits | Google Fires Blake Lemoine
In this week’s The Long View: Herbert Diess is out at VW because software is hard (yo), fiber optic cable is hard to find, and the guy who said LaMDA was sentient is dumped by Google.
A Full Pipeline: CI/CD for Network Automation and Orchestration
The intersection of CI/CD and network automation has grown substantially over the past few years. Network teams have seemingly reached the point in their automation and orchestration journey where it has become critical to implement a strategy to manage the testing, version control and deployment of both network changes and automation assets. While CI/CD has […]
Survey Shows Increased Reliance on DORA Metrics
A new survey found just under a quarter (23%) of respondents are now tracking all four of the DevOps metrics defined by the DevOps Research and Assessment Team (DORA), with another 17% now tracking three. The State of Developer Experience survey polled 129 IT professionals that play a role in software development and was conducted by […]
GitLab To Embed Observability in CI/CD Platform
The latest version of the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform added a range of monitoring and visualization capabilities as part of an effort to embed a full set of observability capabilities in the core platform within the coming year. As part of that effort, the latest version of GitLab, 15.1, has now added support […]
How to Securely Manage Secrets Within Jenkins
The continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline is a fundamental component of the software delivery process for DevOps teams. The pipeline leverages automation and continuous monitoring to enable seamless delivery of software. With continuous automation, it’s important to ensure security for every step of the CI/CD pipeline. Sensitive information like access credentials is often […]
CDEvents Aims To Standardize CI/CD Interoperability
Companies are under mounting pressure to continuously release new applications and features. And as software development life cycles become more iterative, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has become a necessary ingredient to enable more rapid deployments. Many development teams now embrace DevOps, but fully automating a CI/CD pipeline from source code to production deployment […]
Why is Security Still in the Way? A Look at DevSecOps Right Now
According to industry trend reports for 2022, DevSecOps is now considered to be one of the most effective approaches to building software quickly and securely. This effort, of course, means development, security and operations teams commit to addressing security as early as possible in the software development life cycle (SDLC). The goal of the shift […]
CDF Report Surfaces DevOps Workflow Gains
At its cdCon 2022 conference today, the Continuous Delivery Foundation shared a State of Continuous Delivery in 2022 report that found nearly half of developers (47%) use either continuous integration or continuous deployment platforms—but only about 20% report using both to automate all application build, testing and deployment. Overall, only a little less than a […]
Continuous Delivery Foundation Adds Interoperability Project
At a CDEventscon event this week, the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) announced it is hosting a CDEvents project through which it hopes to create a vendor-neutral specification for defining the format of event data across multiple services, platforms and systems. Andrea Frittoli, open source developer advocate at IBM, co-creator of the CDEvents project and member […]
Why Over-Permissive CI/CD Pipelines are an Unnecessary Evil
Balancing the speed of innovation with security is an age-old problem in software development. This is no different in modern DevOps. Development teams want a frictionless path to deploy new code but often struggle with access permissions that are linked to services. The CI/CD pipeline makes it easier for developers to quickly introduce new features […]
How to Secure CI/CD Pipelines With DevSecOps
Many companies are adopting a DevOps approach in their workflows as IT moves toward a more automated and cloud-native world—but for some industries, this migration isn’t easy. Many of these companies—in finance, health care, government—are obligated to meet compliance requirements. For these organizations, DevSecOps adds necessary security focus to the DevOps methodology. Compliance means adhering […]
Defining the Next Cycle of Technology
We’re in the middle of what we at ScyllaDB dubbed The Next Tech Cycle. Not “The World of Tomorrow” nor “The Shape of Things to Come” nor “The Wave of the Future”—because it’s already here today. We’re right in the middle of it. It’s a wave that’s carrying us forward, but it began with trends […]
The Argo Project: Making GitOps Practical
If you’re a DevOps engineer, chances are you have at least heard the name “Argo,” seen the friendly squid logo, and wondered: What the heck is this tool everyone is talking about? In a nutshell, Argo is a popular open source tool that is making GitOps practical for anyone who uses Kubernetes. But it’s much […]
Dagger: Standardizing CI/CD is the Holy Grail of DevOps
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has become a hallmark of quick software release life cycles. Nowadays, many teams support CI/CD pipelines for their software, offering a repeatable pathway to build, test and deploy code. A CI/CD pipeline is necessary to support an iterative, rapid deployment approach—yet, maintaining one is not an easy task. Enter […]
The Missing Link in Continuous DevOps Cycles
Delivering software quickly, reliably and safely is at the heart of technology transformation and organizational performance regardless of industry. As part of overall technology transformation, many companies are recognizing the benefits of applying DevOps methodologies to areas outside of software development, such as general product development, IT expansion and scaling and new business processes. However, […]
GitLab Updates CI/CD Platform to Improve Dev Productivity
GitLab has made available a 14.9 update to its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that adds epic-linking, integrated security training, rule mode for scanning result policies and a revamped design, among other capabilities. The updated environment makes it easier to discover the state of the application development projects, GitLab said. Cindy Blake, director of […]
3 Must-Haves When Implementing DevSecOps
The term DevSecOps is already more than a dozen years old. DevOps—the practice of combining software development with IT operations to deploy applications faster—was first coined in 2008 and refined in a historic conference presentation in 2009. DevSecOps—the concept of baking in security at every stage of Agile development, rather than tackling it at the […]
A Closer Look at Azure DevOps
Microsoft’s Azure DevOps Server is emerging as one of the most popular cloud application development environments. Like most continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms, it provides features such as version control, reporting, project management, automated builds, and testing. It covers all aspects of the application life cycle and enables DevOps. Here’s a closer look at this […]
CircleCI Report: Pipeline Optimization Best Practices
CircleCI today published a report that found most successful software engineering teams have average workflow durations of five to 10 minutes, with any failed run being fixed or reverted in under an hour. The report was based on two years of data gathered from more than a quarter-billion workflows and collected from nearly 50,000 organizations […]