Unlocking Your DevOps Automation Mindset
In the new digital normal, where remote working has upended conventional software development cycles, the role of DevOps is central. Many enterprises have an accelerated digital agenda, but are often underinvested in rebooting DevOps for several reasons, including a lack of experience and insight into how it can help businesses recover from the new challenges […]
Continuous Delivery Without Exception
Continuous delivery (CD) and all the other continuous things—continuous integration (CI), continuous testing, continuous deployment—have become the new mantra of DevOps. CI/CD adoption typically starts with agile development teams working on new or well-funded systems. But what about the rest of the world and all of those “other” applications, under-funded IT teams are responsible for […]
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. […]
Maintaining Progressive Delivery Quality With Feature Flags
How does Netflix know exactly what you want to watch? How do social networks ensure major software updates are smoothly deployed across millions of users? The answer, in part, lies in progressive delivery. Progressive delivery, the incremental introduction of new features, has become key to rolling out new features. By testing unproven features on a […]
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 […]
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 […]
DevSecOps vs. Agile Development: Putting Security at the Heart of Program Development
Despite most developers and managers being well aware of the concept of DevSecOps, it is still often confused with a number of related processes and concepts. This is particularly true for the Department of Defense (DoD) contractors because they have long been encouraged to use a related process known as agile development. Since agile development […]
CircleCI Extends Core CI/CD Platform
CircleCI today in partnership with Plandek launched an analytics plugin dubbed Buildtrakr for its namesake continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Buildtrakr integrates with CircleCI and Git to synthesize commit and build performance data, with critical metrics being surfaced via a dashboard. In addition, CircleCI has revamped its user interface and reconfigured a new […]
How to Scale Microservices CI/CD Pipelines
As opposed to a traditional monolith, microservices architecture can theoretically bring many benefits. Microservices decouple software elements, enable reusable components and allow independent development cycles. However, in practice, microservices are prone to many issues. For example, teams accustomed to a traditional monolithic build process may find it difficult to reshape their established practices. Furthermore, as […]
Pulumi Tightens DevOps Platform Integration
Pulumi today released the 2.0 release of its open source platform for automating the provisioning of IT infrastructure in the cloud, providing tighter integration with a dozen different continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms and source code management (SCM) systems. Via the latest update Pulumi also now includes CI/CD Apps, through which pull requests will trigger […]
CD Foundation Serves Up Tekton Pipelines Beta
The team overseeing the development of the open source Tekton Pipelines under the auspices of the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation announced today the project is now in beta. Christie Wilson, Tekton Project Lead and a software engineer at Google, said Tekton Pipelines are not necessarily a tool most DevOps teams will interact with directly. Rather […]
CircleCI Surfaces More DevOps Insights
CircleCI today announced it is making it easier for DevOps teams to determine the amount of resources being consumed by its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to help make application development teams more efficient. Kunal Jain, senior product manager for CircleCI, said via the application programming interface (API) that CircleCI exposes DevOps teams can now […]
Better Apps and Better Security When You Shift Left
Tens of thousands of people and hundreds of cybersecurity vendors descended on San Francisco at the end of April. While the RSA Conference was the primary draw, there are a number of peripheral events that go on throughout the week as well, such as the Cloud Security Alliance Summit, the CIO/CISO Interchange, BSides San Francisco […]
Broadridge’s Annie Michelia on Why DevOps and the Cloud Go Hand-In-Hand
Brian Dawson: Hello. Welcome to DevOps Radio, live at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019. I have the pleasure of having a chance to interview Annie Michelia. She is a database architect at Broadridge, and really not just a database architect. As we talked and as I understand your bio, you actually have a wide […]
DevOps Versus ITIL: How to Win the Battle Over Change Management
Ever since DevOps came on the scene a decade ago, ITIL has been under siege. ITIL lays out a number of IT service management (ITSM) best practices, including release management, change management, incident management, problem management and many other aspects of running an IT shop so that its priorities align with the business’s. For many […]
How to Implement an Effective CI/CD Pipeline
DevOps bridges the gap between development, operations and IT services teams efficiently. To foster a DevOps culture, implementing the right DevOps tools with the right DevOps process is essential. Continuous integration/continuous delivery/continuous deployment (CI/CD/CD) help developers and testers ship the software faster and safer in a structured environment. Unlike the traditional software life cycle, the […]
To Build a Healthy DevOps Culture, Look to Your Ecosystem
How do you do DevOps? Here’s a hint: Don’t fixate on finding the right tools or implementing the right processes. Instead, think about the broader ecosystem in which you operate, the culture that prevails in that ecosystem and which parts of the culture you can borrow to help enable your DevOps transformation. This is true […]
Weighing the Cost of Improper DevSecOps
Simply put, data breaches are terrible news for companies. And, the costs associated with such attacks continue to escalate. A recent IBM-sponsored report found an average price of 3.92 million per breach. Not adapting security automation and vulnerability scanning into development pipelines could have a drastic effect not only on cost but workload efficiency and […]
27-Factor Assessments Lead to Success With DevOps
October 2019 will mark the 10th anniversary of the first DevOpsDays, where the term “DevOps” began to catch on. In the world of information technology, 10 years is a long time and it is quite evident based on the amount of change that has transpired since then. To name a few, we have seen the […]
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 […]
Get Testing Bottlenecks Out of Your Pipelines
I first learned the term “deployment pipeline” when I read “Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test and Deployment Automation,” by Jez Humble and David Farley back in 2009. End-to-end automation of the build, deploy, test and release processes kick in each time a team member commits a change to the source code repository. […]
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 […]
How DevOps Can Help Speed Go to Market
With continuous evolution of IT systems, speed and flexibility have become of paramount importance for businesses. This requirement has caused a massive shift in the IT delivery system. Now, building and releasing a better product in the market is not enough for businesses to stay ahead of the competition. Organizations need an agile approach to […]