How Continuous Testing Advances Your Business Goals
The goals of any successful business fit into two broad categories: driving higher revenue and greater operational efficiency. Finding solutions to achieve both of these is an organization’s goldmine. Considering the ease of access to new, alternate products from developers across the globe, competition continues to grow. In the software industry, customer expectations magnify cut-throat […]
Self-Service Workload Protection for DevOps Teams
Everyone (or almost everyone) in the DevOps world likes to talk about the importance of security. But too often, these DevOps security conversations end with generic recommendations such as, “Follow the OWASP Top 10.” Don’t get me wrong—reference frameworks such as OWASP are great resources for helping to guide DevOps security. But it’s usually far […]
Clubhouse Aims to Simplify Software Project Management
Clubhouse Software today announced it is adding a Clubhouse Iterations module to its project management application to make it easier to plan sprints involving product and software engineering teams. Mitch Wainer, chief marketing officer for Clubhouse Software, said Iterations will be included as part of its project management application service, which aims to bridge the […]
CloudBees Acquires Rollout for Feature Flagging
CloudBees today announced it would extend the reach of the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform by acquiring Rollout, a provider of feature flag tool that gets employed to simplify testing of new modules within an application. Company CEO Sacha Labourey said the acquisition of Rollout would result in a feature flag capability that is […]
Shift Left Without Fear: The Role of Security in Enabling DevOps
It’s the age of DevOps, and we all want to shift left, which refers to the idea of performing processes earlier in the CI/CD cycle. That includes security checks and audits. By starting security operations earlier in the delivery pipeline, it becomes easier to find problems, and teams have more time to address them before […]
Continuous Reliability: How QA and SREs Can Improve Their CI/CD Workflow
A key challenge in maintaining and accelerating the speed of software delivery is balancing the rate of change with the reliability of your software. With the move toward an increasingly automated workflow, as well as teams of dozens to hundreds of engineers introducing changes at a high frequency, the ability to identify the issues that […]
GitLab Updates Advance Its CI/CD Platform
GitLab has expanded the capabilities of its continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform to include tighter integration with collaboration platforms from Slack and Mattermost along with the ability to support Docker containers running on Windows. Version 11.11 of GitLab adds a caching dependency proxy for Docker images to the Premium edition of GitLab along with the […]
CircleCI Adds Integration With Atlassian Jira
One of the trickier issues IT vendors in the age of DevOps are dealing with is that very few organizations have standardized on a platform from a single vendor. Not only do organizations mix and match tools as they see fit, but different departments within the same organization also embrace different tools to automate the […]
The Essential Toolbox for DevOps Analytics
With DevOps teams under constant pressure to improve software delivery cycles while maintaining—and improving—quality, many have turned to continuous testing (CT), implementing it as part of their overall development strategy. CT offers a number of benefits to DevOps teams, but it also introduces new challenges, specifically infinite amounts of data that require analysis. As more […]
Survey Finds CI/CD Adoption Has Long Way to Go
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 conference, Codefresh published the results of a survey of 130 developers that finds not only are nearly a third (32%) not using any type of continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform at all, but 60% said their organization has yet to take full advantage of automation to accelerate application […]
‘DevOoops’ Moves: Deploying Code Out of Step
‘Everything as code’ can create opportunities for misadventure for DevOps teams DevOps’ ultimate aim is to create efficiencies in the software delivery process. But it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes DevOps initiatives lead to mistakes—something we lovingly call “DevOoops.” CloudBees recently polled some colleagues and came up with five examples of a DevOoops […]
Monitoring the DevOps Toolchain
DevOps has grown in popularity among many companies seeking greater agility and higher-quality code. When using different tools for automation, these organizations need monitoring and tracking of these tools and metrics from different portals on a common dashboard. Toolchain monitoring helps to bring all reports into a common portal. Enabling monitoring tools from a centralized […]
CloudBees Allies with Atos to Accelerate DevOps Adoption
In a move that should accelerate adoption of best DevOps practices in the enterprise, CloudBees and Atos announced this week that the two are collaborating to advance adoption of continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platforms on the Google public cloud. Announced at the Google Cloud Next 2019 conference, the alliance will result in the IT services […]
Apply Balance and Critical Thinking for Greater Agile Success
In an ideal world, implementing DevOps practices and Agile methodologies would be the key building blocks organizations need to realize rapid, high-quality releases. The ability to iterate on a product with a high volume, velocity and level of quality is the ultimate goal of the modern enterprise; every CEO wants a faster time to market. But […]
5 Steps for Successful Continuous Testing Implementation
Continuous integration (CI) calls for code to be always working. Continuous delivery (CD) and continuous deployment mean that we must be able to roll out a working configuration to production at any time. As DevOps becomes the norm, bugs in production are now a developer’s personal problem. Developers (and their managers) want to know immediately […]
How CI/CD Can Fast-Track Next-Gen Media Rollouts
Using CI/CD can help digital service providers move as quickly as over-the-top content providers Online video consumption has been increasing tremendously with rapid change in consumer expectations to have seamless viewing experience across various digital devices. To capture this growing demand, it is critical for digital service providers (DSPs) to deliver fast-track rollout of next-gen […]
‘DevOoops’ Moves: SCM Conflicts
DevOps’ ultimate aim is to create efficiencies in the software delivery process. But it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes DevOps initiatives lead to mistakes—something we lovingly call a “DevOoops.” CloudBees recently polled some colleagues and came up with five examples of a DevOoops in action. Following is a discussion submitted by solution architect […]
Digital Transformation Technology and Process: More Similar Than You Think
Right around this time of the year, the gym starts to get a little less crowded. Throughout January, it’s packed to the gills with folks freshly motivated by their New Year’s resolutions to get in shape. But by mid-February, the commitment seems to have all but dissipated. Why is it so hard to just commit? […]
Akamai Extends Scope of DevOps Reach
Akamai today moved to further extend the number of capabilities it exposes via its content delivery network (CDN) that are designed to appeal to DevOps teams. Those enhancements include HTTP/2 performance optimizations and the ability to automatically load font libraries, as well as providing access to “middle-mile” logs that will enable DevOps teams to more […]
SoulCycle Flexes Its Muscles with DevOps and CI/CD
When SoulCycle wanted to improve application development and deployment, including improving services for customers across its 80-plus indoor cycling centers in the United States and Canada, the company turned to Mark Sost, a veteran developer and engineer who worked at several media companies, including Hearst. Over the last two-plus years, Sost, who now holds the […]
Atlassian Adds Pre-Configured Pipelines to Bitbucket CI/CD
One of the primary reasons DevOps processes have not been widely adopted across the enterprise is that building pipelines across all the tools required is a painstaking effort. As a result, most pipelines today are constructed using manual pipelines. However, Atlassian has announced it is now making available pre-configured Bitbucket Pipelines that DevOps teams can […]
Survey: DevOps Progress Slow, but Steady
Atlassian has published the results of a survey of 500 IT and software professionals that suggest now is the best and worst of times when it comes to DevOps. On the plus side, the survey found that more than half of respondents (57 percent) are encountering fewer bugs and outages after deploying a continuous integration/continuous […]
Deploying into Azure App Service using Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline
This article demonstrates how to deploy an application into Azure App Service using Azure DevOps (VSTS) continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. In this article, you’ll create a sample environment to: New build based on code commit to your Azure DevOps Repo. Automatically deploy your app into Azure. Prerequisites: Azure Portal Account, Azure subscription and Azure […]