CircleCI Report Finds DevOps Teams Adjusting to New COVID-19 Normal
An annual State of Software Delivery report published today by CircleCI suggests that after a spike in developer activity last spring at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pace at which code is moving through a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform has returned to normal levels even as developers continue to work from home. […]
GitLab Makes Building Secure Mobile Apps Easier
GitLab has made 60 enhancements to its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to address a range of things from DevSecOps processes to collaboration, at a time when most DevOps teams continue to work remotely. With help from external contributor support for the Mobile Security Framework (MobSF), version 13.5 of GitLab adds an all-in-one tool […]
Harness to Apply AI to DevOps
Harness, at its {Unscripted} 2020 conference today, announced its plans in the fourth quarter to make available as a beta a module that leverages machine learning algorithms to optimize build and test cycles on the Harness Continuous Integration (CI) Enterprise platform. At the same time, Harness is adding a beta of a Continuous Features module […]
Opsera Simplifies Building of DevOps Pipelines
Fresh off raising $4.3 million in funding, Opsera today launched a namesake platform that enables IT teams to orchestrate both the tools employed by developers as well as the pipelines that make up a DevOps process. Company co-founder Chandra Ranganathan said the Opsera platform automates setup of DevOps pipelines using a declarative approach that doesn’t […]
JFrog Adds Free DevOps Tier in the Cloud
JFrog announced today it is making a free tier of its namesake DevOps platform available on all three major public cloud service providers. Stephen Chin, senior director for developer relations at JFrog, said a free subscription to JFrog Platform running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is now generally […]
CircleCI Brings Insights to CI/CD Platform
CircleCI has added an Insights dashboard to its namesake CI/CD platform that makes it easier to surface metrics such as duration, mean time to recovery and throughput change over time as part of an effort to optimize DevOps workflows. The Insights dashboard makes it easier to discover, for example, which jobs are failing, which workflows […]
CloudBees Advances Expanding DevOps Agenda
CloudBees today at its online DevOps World 2020 conference announced it is embedding additional DevSecOps capabilities that span the application development and deployment process within the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform based on the open source Jenkins projects. In addition, CloudBees announced it will make generally available by the end of this year two additional […]
How Logs Can Empower Your CI/CD Delivery Pipeline
Change is the currency of software success. This need to change and grow is the basis for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Each year, new industries embrace this philosophy of constant change, but without the necessary data underpinning their decisions, every deployment is a risk. When you enrich your software delivery with log data […]
JFrog Sets Future Course Post-IPO
Another milestone in the march toward mainstream adoption of best DevOps practices was reached this week, with JFrog becoming a public company. JFrog CTO Yoav Landman said the funding that the provider of a continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform is receiving from investors is a clear vote of confidence in DevOps. The next major DevOps […]
Safeguarding Secrets Within the Pipeline
How can an organization write source code to use secrets without directly referencing them and risking them being leaked to the public? 2020 closes out a decade full of countless code leaks, a topic we talk about quite often. In fact, just recently, Intel became the latest victim after 20GB worth of internal documents were […]
CircleCI Looks to Advance DevOps Best Practices Adoption
CircleCI today launched a developer hub as part of an effort to further advance adoption of DevOps best practices. Company CEO Jim Rose said CircleCI developer hub provides access to a set of resources for optimizing continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. In many cases prior to the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations had only […]
How Serverless Technologies Can Achieve Optimal DevOps Practices
Growing competition and increased customer expectations drive the speed of development. Adopting DevOps, meanwhile, can be a challenge, as it includes adjusting practices and new infrastructure. However, although engineering resources may be slim, serverless offers new solutions to tackle the DevOps challenge. From improved IoT devices to cost-effective machine learning applications, the serverless ecosystem is […]
CircleCI Adds to Salesforce CI/CD Orbs Collection
CircleCI today announced it has extended its CI/CD support for DevOps teams building applications that extend the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform from Salesforce. Company CEO Jim Rose said interest in building applications that complement the Salesforce platform is rising sharply in the wake of the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than build […]
Top Pressing Concerns for CI/CD in 2020
The tech landscape is changing rapidly. With the need for increased development velocity, CI/CD has become ubiquitous among most organizations. Yet, with the growing number of microservices, CI/CD may be tough to wrangle without the right strategy. At the same time, it’s difficult to keep pace with the constant evolution around CI/CD. So, what is […]
GitLab Extends Scope, Reach of CI/CD Platform
The latest update to the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform adds a bevy of additional capabilities spanning multiple capabilities, from being able to manage application development and deployment projects in smaller chunks to allowing remote teams to work more efficiently. Brendan O’Leary, senior developer evangelist for GitLab, said a Minimal Viable Change (MVC) capability […]
OverOps Partners With GitLab to Analyze Code Earlier
OverOps has allied with GitLab to integrate a tool that analyzes code at runtime to identify issues with a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Eric Mizell, vice president of solution engineering for OverOps, said the plugin for the GitLab CI/CD will make it easier to surface issues with code earlier in the DevOps pipeline. OverOps’ […]
Financial Services: Future Proofing Your Digital Transformation Strategy
The Financial Services: Future Proofing Your Digital Transformation Strategy virtual event will explore the state of development and DevOps in the finance industry, and how organizations can digitally transform their strategy in order to release new, compliant applications and safely adapt to change at any speed demanded by the business. The virtual event will take […]
How to Use Microservices To Evolve DevOps Pipelines
Enterprises are quickly becoming an intricate mesh of many applications. As companies create more and more microservices, their deployment environments are becoming increasingly elaborate. Without proper configurations, a microservices road map could quickly become unmaintainable. According to DeployHub CEO Tracy Ragan, if development teams are pushing points to a cluster continuously, application development can suffer […]
JFrog Extends Reach and Scope of CI/CD Platform
At its online JFrog swampUP Conference today, JFrog announced it has extended the reach of its ability to distribute software to include options based on peer-to-peer and content delivery network (CDN) mechanisms. In addition, JFrog expanded the reach of the JFrog Pipelines continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, enabling DevOps teams to build their own library […]
How DevOps Tools Are Contributing to Automation Initiatives Across the IT Landscape
Prolific advancements in IT, specifically in agile methods and culture over the years, has led to burgeoning needs for a more holistic end-to-end software delivery approach. Agile development is an umbrella term that encompasses numerous incremental and iterative software development practices — including Kanban, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Development, among […]
GitLab Adds Fuzz Testing to DevSecOps Toolbox
GitLab today announced it has acquired Peach Tech, a provider of protocol fuzz testing and dynamic application security testing (DAST) API testing tools, and Fuzzit, a continuous fuzz testing tool, as part of its efforts to advance the adoption of best DevSecOps practices. David DeSanto, director of product for GitLab Secure & Defend, said the […]
3 DevOps Security Best Practices Your Organization Can’t Afford To Ignore
CI/CD pipelines are at the core of daily operations for many businesses today. These processes, when set up correctly, help to keep the delivery process consistent by automating many manual tasks and providing visibility into how the software is being worked on. DevOps is also the place in your technology stack where your infrastructure has […]