The Time for Automated Testing is Now
Skilled software testers continue to be in high demand, and it appears that trend won’t change any time soon. The current labor shortage and a looming recession is giving software development leaders good cause to think about how to attract and keep qualified personnel and, more importantly, enable them to work as efficiently as possible. […]
Best of 2022: CI/CD is the New Lock-In
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Welcome to 2022! Let’s start this year’s blogging off with a bang, and point out that we are in the process of creating the biggest […]
New Relic Extends Observability Reach to More DevOps Platforms
New Relic today expanded its ecosystem by adding integrations between its observability platform and a wide variety of DevOps and cybersecurity tools. The New Relic observability platform now integrates with offerings from Atlassian, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CircleCI, Confluent, GitHub, JFrog, Lacework and Snyk and the open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Peter […]
Why IT Teams Need Continuous Improvement
In the dynamic world of software delivery, an ‘if it’s not broke don’t fix it’ philosophy won’t get you very far—even when your software and systems are working as planned. Software is more complex than ever and innovation is exploding across markets. To keep up with constant innovation from your competition in a global marketplace, […]
Building Higher-Quality Software With Open Source CD
Business is accelerating, and experience– for customers, partners and employees–is everything. This means nearly all applications need to be enhanced with new features, security updates and bug fixes on ever-shorter cycles. But isn’t rushing new code into production, especially in cloud environments, a recipe for mistakes, security vulnerabilities and user frustration? Not if the right […]
GitHub Previews Free CI/CD Migration Tool Due in 2023
At its GitHub Universe event, GitHub today unveiled a bevy of updates to its cloud service, including a forthcoming set of migration tools. The tools will automate migrations from legacy continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions Importer is already being used by a small group of enterprise IT organizations to migrate […]
CloudBees Demos Orchestration Capabilities of ReleaseIQ Platform
At the online DevOps World 2022 event today, CloudBees demonstrated for the first time the capabilities of the application release management platform it gained last month through the acquisition of ReleaseIQ. Shawn Ahmed, chief marketing officer and interim chief product officer at CloudBees, told conference attendees that the ReleaseIQ platform will provide application development teams […]
How DevOps Helps With Secure Deployments
DevOps is an approach to software development that emphasizes communication and collaboration between teams. It’s best known for bringing together people who previously worked in separate areas like engineering or testing; this allows them all to learn from each other as they work on projects together. DevSecOps helps organizations monitor and discover security risks throughout […]
Pulumi Adds Deployment Capability to IaC Platform
At the Pulumi Cloud Engineering Days event, Pulumi announced today it has added a code deployment capability to its Pulumi Cloud platform for managing infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi Deployments will make it possible for DevOps teams to provision infrastructure and deploy applications via a single Git commit that can be invoked […]
Octopus Deploy Tightens Integration With GitHub Actions
Octopus Deploy announced today it has tightened the integration between its automated deployment platform and GitHub Actions continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform. Harsh Sabikhi, senior vice president of revenue for Octopus Deploy, said GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy v2 adds support for a push-build-information-action capability GitHub added to its platform that enables DevOps teams to […]
Opsera Brings DevOps Intelligence to GitHub Actions
Opsera today announced it has extended its platform for collecting DevOps intelligence to include support for the GitHub Actions continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Opsera CEO Kumar Chivukula said as GitHub Actions is adopted more widely, there is a growing need to provide greater visibility into Git-based workflows in real-time. A GitHub Actions Insights module […]
Software Quality is the Heartbeat of the Best Organizations
JPMorgan recently announced it was hiring 2,000 engineers, despite the gloom in global economic markets. Is this not an odd risk for an organization to take, given the demand for (and cost of) software developers today? What’s happened? JPMorgan’s hiring drive is no mystery. Virtually every company in the world is leveraging software, with many […]
Four Causes of Technical Debt in DevOps
Ideally, DevOps should retain a lean footprint, but avoiding technical debt is easier said than done. As such, over half of IT leaders report technical debt is a big or critical problem. Without routinely addressing technical debt, DevOps teams can easily face inconsistencies during deployments. Versioning can get out of hand without consistent upgrades and […]
CloudBees Acquires ReleaseIQ to Advance DevOps Orchestration
CloudBees announced today it has acquired ReleaseIQ, a provider of an orchestration platform for automating software delivery via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Sacha Labourey, chief strategy officer for CloudBees, said the addition of ReleaseIQ to the CloudBees platform will provide more visibility into and control over software delivery on an end-to-end basis. CloudBees already provides […]
DevOps World 2022: DevOps is Not Just CI/CD
There was a time when pundits said that DevOps was the symptom and CI/CD the cure. While that may or may not be true, there is no denying that CI/CD is the very heart of DevOps. While that might still be true, DevOps today is so much more than CI/CD; it has evolved, far beyond […]
DevOps World 2022: Using SBOMs to Secure the Software Supply Chain
As supply chain attacks become increasingly prevalent, visibility is emerging as a necessity in cybersecurity. One way to improve visibility and secure your software supply chain is with a software bill of materials (SBOM). An SBOM is a list of all the components within a codebase. By providing insight into open source and third-party components, […]
Supply Chain Security: Has the Next SolarWinds Already Happened?
More than two years after the now-infamous hack of the firm SolarWinds, the incident is very much in the foreground of conversations about cybersecurity defense, threat detection and incident response. As evidence of that: The SolarWinds incident was the subject of five separate talks and panels at the recent RSA conference in San Francisco. Dozens […]
Armory Extends Scope of Spinnaker CD Distribution
Armory today updated both the self-hosted and managed editions of its distribution of the open source Spinnaker continuous delivery (CD) platform. The updates support concurrent pipelines and provide tighter integration with open source Terraform infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to better enforce policies. Previously, the two platforms were known as Armory Enterprise and Armory Enterprise Managed. They are […]
Why App Dependency Mapping Is Critical for Cloud Migration
Software dependencies are a crucial part of efficient, component-based programming. At the same time, they can be a hurdle for fast-paced agile development teams, because they can make it more difficult to deploy, update and migrate software applications. Many applications have dozens or hundreds of dependencies, each with its own transitive dependencies, making the problem […]
Who Controls Your Build Process?
We have come a long way in a short time in IT, and are currently in a ‘digestive’ state, where we take a bit of a break and prepare for the next wave of changes. Okay, not really a break, just a change in what we’re looking at. In the old days, CPU, memory speed, […]
Continuous Delivery Advances Come at Cost of Testing
A survey of 820 application development professionals conducted by Applitools, a provider of an application testing platform, found well over a third of respondents (38%) working for organizations that now deploy daily changes to production environments. The challenge is that application testing is not able to keep pace with that rate of continuous deployment (CD). […]
What You’re Getting Wrong About DevOps (and How To Make it Right)
DevOps is now the top software deployment strategy by a mile — 77% of organizations say they use the approach to roll out new software. This is good news because a DevOps approach is an important marker of business maturity, and its benefits (more on that later) are so tangible that most organizations don’t need […]
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 […]