IBM Advances DevOps on the Mainframe
IBM has expanded its efforts to bring DevOps best practices to the mainframe by adding automated unit testing capabilities for CICS COBOL programs using Db2 to IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) V14.2.1. The company is also making an instance of z/OS available within a Docker container that can be deployed on an x86 platform. Sanjay […]
The Role of Containers in Business Transformation
Containers hold new promise for business and digital transformation. Yet many differences exist between monitoring containers and monitoring other elements of infrastructure, such as VMs, storage, memory and compute. Understanding those differences is vital for ITOps managers as they navigate their businesses’ digital transformation. Interestingly, the differences are as much technical as they are organizational. […]
Survey: IT Striking Balance Between Innovation, Reliability
When it comes to managing IT, most DevOps teams are locked in an eternal struggle to balance innovation with reliability. There’s always a keen interest in being able to take advantage of the latest and greatest IT platform. However, new IT platforms don’t achieve the level of maturity required to build and deploy mission-critical applications […]
DevOps Chat: Holistic Kubernetes and Cloud-Native App Security, With StackRox
More than ever, application security is a top priority. Beyond secure coding practices, a holistic app security strategy addresses the full application and infrastructure stack. This includes containers, microservices, orchestration, infrastructure software and the cloud. Bolting on the next security tool may not be the answer. Kamal Shah, StackRox CEO, joins us on this DevOps […]
WSO2 Advances Microservices Gateway
At the Open Source and Software Development Conference (OSCON), WSO2 this week announced it has updated an open source microservices gateway to make it possible to expose multiple microservices through a single application programming interface (API). Additionally, version 3.0 of the WSO2 API Microgateway now includes the ability to automatically discover microservices and transform legacy […]
Pivotal Embraces Spinnaker for Continous Delivery
Pivotal Software has added support for the Spinnaker continuous delivery platform to its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment for the open source Cloud Foundry PaaS. Richard Seroter, vice president of product marketing at Pivotal, said version 2.6 of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) extends the reach of the Spinnaker CD platform developed by Netflix to its PaaS environment […]
Which Desktop OS Is Best for DevOps?
Which operating system (OS) is best for DevOps engineers to use on their workstations? That’s a weighty question. Talk about which OS is “best” for any purpose is always controversial. I’m not going to stick my neck out by saying that one OS is definitively better than others when it comes to doing DevOps work. […]
IBM Extends z/OS Toward DevOps Again
A few months ago, I wrote about the release of Zowe, the first Open Source project based on z/OS. Zowe is a framework for including z/OS in your applications with less pain than we have traditionally suffered. IBM supported this project as part of its view that enterprises need to have interoperability between platforms. This […]
Growing Pains for Containers, Data Centers Call for Better Management
Containers have taken the tech community by storm with their ability to drive agile and effective innovation. Compared to the rigid nature of virtual machines, it’s no wonder developers and IT teams have flocked to containers and their flexibility. By dropping the strict hardware focus of virtual machines, containers are allowing teams to surface innovation […]
Pivotal Software Previews Automation Framework
At the North America Cloud Foundry Summit 2019 conference, Pivotal Software announced it is beta testing an automation framework that promises to keep its distribution of the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment continuously updated. In addition, Pivotal revealed it will be adding support for open source technologies including Envoy load balancing and Istio service mesh software developed […]
F5 Networks Acquires NGINX to Meld NetOps with DevOps
As part of an effort to better align DevOps and network operations (NetOps), F5 Networks plans to acquire NGINX, a provider of widely employed open source loading balancing software. The two companies revealed in a call with financial analysts that the primary goal of the $760 million deal is to meld the two companies’ combined expertise […]
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 […]
The Changing Role of APM in a Microservices World
Microservices usage has skyrocketed. Fully 91 percent of organizations are using or have plans to use microservices and 92 percent expect to grow their use of microservices in the coming year. It is no longer if but when: 86 percent of organizations expect microservices to be the default within five years. With the growing use […]
DevOps Chat: Container Security and Aqua 3.5 with Rani Osnat and Andy Feit
In just a little more than three years Aqua Security has set its mark in the container security space. With its major new release of Aqua 3.5, the company has again raised the bar with serverless and container encryption upgrades and feature sets. I sat down with the Aqua Enforcer himself, Rani Osnat, and “Boston” […]
Containers: All Your Base are Belong to Us
The world is still changing. No surprise there, but the direction and velocity have been modified by the growth of container usage. Back in 2015, we at DevOps.com showcased a survey we performed that said container usage was staged to take off. That it did, with a vengeance. No matter the category—pilot programs, test, production—it […]
How DevSecOps Can Help Avoid Catastrophic Breaches
Earlier this year, Tesla’s Cloud was hijacked and used to mine cryptocurrency, exploiting a vulnerability in the company’s Kubernetes cluster. A mountain of FedEx data was recently exposed, affecting 119,000 individuals. The Equifax breach garnered international attention after an estimated 145.5 million Americans were jeopardized. In other news, we’ve reported on how the Vine Docker […]
CA Technologies Report Highlights App Modernization Paradox
The rush to modernize IT environments using microservices, application programming interfaces (APIs) and containers may very well turn out to represent something of a double-edged sword. A survey of 1,087 IT and business professionals conducted by Frost & Sullivan on behalf of CA Technologies, a unit of Brocade, finds that organizations that have modernized their […]
Semaphore 2.0 Brings Continuous Delivery to Teams of All Sizes
Since its inception in 2012, Semaphore has been focused on making code testing and deployment a quick and easy process. The cloud-based CI/CD platform from Rendered Text enables users to get up and running within a matter of minutes—which the company claims is at least twice as fast as other offerings. The company is releasing […]
IBM and Red Hat: Now, That’s an Interesting Combination
Like everyone else, Sunday night I got a surprise with the pre-announcement of IBM’s intent to acquire Red Hat (I might have seen it a little earlier than the rest of you, as a friend from IBM shared it as soon as it was public). I’ve been mulling this over and checking out the information […]
DevOps and Containers: A Network Divided
The growth of DevOps and containers has created some interesting split responsibility scenarios. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but it is something that bears watching and fixing when it becomes problematic. Today’s topic is networking. Plenty of bits have been spewed about the situation, but it persists and is even getting more […]
DevSecOps: Helping Contain the Security Problems Containers Introduce
The idea of building security into applications as they are developed versus bolting it on at the end always made sense but proved difficult to pull off in legacy environments. Monolithic software was too complex and the teams were disparate. But the arrival of containers 1) demands the need to attack the problem earlier because […]
Containers, Service Mesh and API Gateways: It Starts at the Edge
Anyone embracing container technology such as Docker or Kubernetes has no doubt heard about the associated next big thing: service mesh, which promises to homogenize internal network communication between microservices and provide cross-cutting nonfunctional concerns such as observability and fault-tolerance. However, the underlying proxy technology that powers a service mesh also can provide a lot […]
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 […]