What It Really Takes to Build Compliant Apps
If you search online for “software compliance,” you’ll be met with a seemingly endless lineup of blog posts, how-tos and explainer articles promising to tell you everything you need to know about writing and deploying software in a compliance-friendly manner. Some of those are good resources, especially the ones that delve into meeting specific compliance […]
CircleCI Automates Configurations Across CI/CD Platform
CircleCI has unveiled what it describes as the first package manager designed specifically to address configuration tasks involving software delivery automation. Matt Wyman, vice president of product for CircleCI, said the Orbs package manager condenses commands, executors and jobs into single, reusable lines of code that automate tasks on the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform […]
CloudBees Further Extends Jenkins CI/CD Reach
CloudBees announced it is expanding the scope and reach of its Jenkins open source continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform into the realms of compliance and serverless computing frameworks. Announced at the DevOps World | Jenkins World conference in Nice, France, a new plugin for Jenkins adds support for the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) defined […]
VMware Extends DevOps Reach via SaaS Apps
VMware, at the VMworld 2018 conference today, announced it will be delving deeper in the realm of DevOps with the launch of a continuous delivery pipeline dubbed Code Stream. In addition, VMware announced Cloud Assembly, a set of declarative tools that enable IT organizations to spin up a cloud in as little as 10 minutes […]
From Thought to Leadership
Thought leadership is a term that those of us in the industry hear a lot. A thought leader is a person who has ideas/thoughts that push the edge and brings great ideas to the rest of us. Most vendors want to be seen as thought leaders—and some do, through the agency of rocking individual employees. […]
Jump-Start Your Kubernetes Journey with JenkinsX
Containers are very quickly being adopted as the stable way of deploying services. More and more organizations are adopting immutable architecture and containers provide an excellent way to achieve that. But along with the stability comes the complexity of deployment, along with managing workload, scaling and updating. That’s in addition to having to create a […]
451 Research Report Highlights Value of DevSecOps for the CI/CD Pipeline
One of the compelling benefits of DevOps for many organizations is speed. Between breaking down silos, streamlining processes and automating routine tasks, the process of developing and deploying software can be significantly faster. A new report from 451 Research and Synopsys, however, points out the value of incorporating DevSecOps in the equation, especially with continuous […]
What Andreessen’s ‘Software’ Essay Means to Development Today
It’s been nearly seven years since Marc Andreessen’s essay, “Why Software is Eating the World,” brought to light software’s role in determining the next wave of winners and losers. Today, his essay is still relevant. The past decade saw the consumerization of IT in business. It also witnessed the shift in software consumption from desktops to […]
CI/CD and its Effects on Release Managers
The role of release management in the development of any software package has drastically changed with the introduction of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). CI/CD has made the development process more agile, and it has made the role of release management significantly more challenging. To understand and grasp the changes brought into the role […]
Building a Services and IoT Platform with DevOps, Part 3
Business needs and IoT demands are taking new dimensions in connecting millions of devices, people, process, tools and systems. With endless possibilities of creating new IoT solutions, DevOps teams are the key players who handle the challenges in successfully rolling out a IoT solution while handling the business, development, operations and infrastructure demands in the […]
3 Practical Steps to Employing DevOps
Everyone seems to be talking about DevOps but, if you are new to it, it might all seem a little overwhelming. One of the hardest things about DevOps is knowing where to begin. This is because to “do DevOps” its seems you have to suddenly start using a lot of new processes and tools at […]
Building a Services and IoT Platform with DevOps, Part 1
With the growth of the internet of things (IoT), expected to connect more than 50 billion devices (things) in next three years, building intelligent systems in a more connected world is presenting many challenges. Especially in building software for IoT, beyond hardware and network connectivity challenges there are numerous challenges in development, test, release, managing […]
DevOps: Time for Developers to Dig In
Speaking to developers and project managers at the Gartner Catalyst Show, Jenkins World and Atlassian Summit revealed some insights about how most IT specialist perceive DevOps. Yes, I had a busy end of summer schedule attending events and talking to a wide range of developers and project managers about DevOps. What I learned is that […]
5 C’s That Changed the Future – Webinar Series CI, CD, Containers, Cloud & Culture
Join us for case studies of innovation and success with continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), containers, cloud (infrastructure & migration), and culture (the DevOps kind). If you’re on the same mission – to create sustainable systems that empower your business to deliver innovation faster and predictably – then you’ll gain incredible insights from this […]
Liberty Mutual: Taking an Organic Approach to DevOps
Some people are directors, managers, and administrators. Others are disrupters. Eddie Webb (@edwardawebb) is an IT disrupter for Software Development Platforms at Liberty Mutual and was a presenter at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. His talk, “Organically DevOps: Building Quality and Security into the Software Supply Chain at Liberty Mutual,” looked at Liberty Mutual’s transformation to continuous integration, […]
Securing Immutable Servers in a Serverless World
Snowflakes are beautiful, unique creations. But, let’s keep them in nature. They don’t belong in our server infrastructure. Snowflake servers, where every configuration is just a little different, can introduce unnecessary security vulnerabilities and complications. While common in IT infrastructure, in the DevOps realm they are gradually becoming ancient history. At All Day DevOps 2016, Erlend Oftedal (@webtonull), […]
CircleCI Injects Workflow Flexibility into CI/CD Platform
Nobody likes to be told how to get a specific task or job done. In fact, it’s arguably that very sentiment that holds backs adoption of DevOps processes inside many IT organizations. Aiming to provide IT organizations with a more flexible approach to DevOps, CircleCI has updated its continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) software […]
Continuous Everyone: Engaging People Across the Deployment Pipeline
We have continuous integration and we have continuous deployment, but what’s continuous across all of what we do is people. Even when tasks are automated, someone wrote the automation. So, Jayne Groll evangelizes about “continuous everyone.” Jayne is the CEO of the DevOps Institute and the author of “Agile Service Management Guide.” She talked about […]
Survey: DevOps Divide Grows a Little Wider
The gap between the number of organizations that have invested in DevOps is starting to narrow, and IT organizations that made the transition to DevOps earlier are starting to see accelerated returns on that investment, according to the latest survey by Puppet. The annual “State of DevOps Report” finds that out of 3,200 IT professionals […]
Stop Talking About the Number of Times You’ll Deploy
It’s the late 1940s and the automobile industry is just taking off. You run one of the product marketing teams at Chrysler. Wanting to make the best of an exploding market, your marketing team says, “You’ll drive 1,200 times as much with the new Chrysler Windsor!” Of course, that advertising never makes it to the […]
Think of the Future When Building Delivery
We’re in a strange state of the pendulum swing right now, where speed of delivery is king and all else seems to take a back seat. Many orgs even place quality behind speed in the claim that “we’ll get it right later,” but I’m talking about the more universal rush to deploy and the infrastructures […]
The Postman Delivers More
Most of us use Postman during API development. The company claims 3 million users, and as one of them, that number doesn’t raise my eyebrows any. But if you are like me, you’ve figured out collections, how to back up your data and perhaps looked at tests, but not done much more. As a tool […]
One Team, 5,000 Jobs: Life in the DevOps Jungle
Damien has 5,000 jobs. While you might gasp at that workload, Damien is not stressing out. All 5,000 jobs are automated within his team’s Jenkins pipelines. How does he do it? Damien follows four key principles to keep his cool in the job jungle: self-service, security, simplicity and extensibility. But you might be surprised that one of his most […]