Streamlining Cloud Tools, Platforms Management
DevOps and microservices have transformed the way organizations develop, deploy and manage applications—as well as the underlying infrastructure required to support it, be it cloud on on-premise. On the one hand, DevOps and microservices enable much greater speed and agility. On the other hand, that speed and agility come with a heaping side of complexity. […]
Trusting Continuous Delivery
DevOps, continuous delivery and the pipeline for faster software development are fundamentally different from traditional software development. It’s such a different approach and a different culture that it can take some time before Dev and Ops teams embrace and trust it—a necessary step for DevOps to make progress in any organization. By mixing containers and […]
Flash Mob Inflection: Rugged DevOps Revolution
Truthfully, I was never a huge fan of the HBO series “The Sopranos.” It’s not that it wasn’t entertaining; I just didn’t agree with the “best ever” label that so many espoused during the show’s halcyon days. This had something to do with living in Hoboken, N.J., at the time and feeling the show was […]
Will Microservices Make the ‘Ops’ in ‘DevOps’ Obsolete?
DevOps is a portmanteau of “developers” and “operations.” The concept of DevOps is about shifting IT culture in a way that enables developers and operations to work together more seamlessly. As more and more elements of DevOps become automated and leverage microservices such as container platforms, though, the operations side of that equation plays a […]
Survey on Modern IT – We Need Your Opinion!
Change is the only constant in the world of IT. Developers, ITOps and the DevOps community are undergoing significant changes in needs, processes and services. This survey will provide better understanding of how the latest trends are impacting innovation, security and your team. This survey is sponsored by Apcera, a highly secure, policy-driven platform that […]
Creating Dev Environments With Docker Compose
The Slack notification popped up on my phone at 2pm Friday afternoon. “Argh. This is never good” I thought to myself. The message said “do you know anything about Vagrant?”. It was from a client of mine and I knew their environment well enough to know that this question was going to go down a […]
DevOps, ITOps and PaaS: What do you think?
We are very happy to announce that we have launched a new survey that will explore how the community feels about DevOps, ITOps and PaaS. The survey is another in the continuing surveys we are conducting to help all of us understand more about how DevOps is really influencing how development, Ops and IT are […]
4 big challenges of microservices
The rise of microservices as a means of developing and delivering software value faster is clearly on the rise. Containers have skyrocketed from a fringe technology to a mainstream imperative and organizations are scrambling to jump on the microservices bandwagon. Before you rush out to embrace microservices, though, there are a few things you should […]
Microsoft and Docker provide progress report on Docker for Windows Server
In the fall of 2014 Microsoft and Docker unveiled a new partnership—a commitment to work together to bring native support for Docker containers to the next major release of Windows Server. Earlier this week the two talked about the progress made so far and gave some clues to what customers should expect once the next […]
DevOpsQA NJ Meetup – Containers with Joyent
DevOpsQA NJ just held our July Meetup on Containers with Casey Bisson from Joyent and Jeremy Rampon from Syncsort as speakers. The meetup was held at a new ROKITT location, a state-of-the-art office space with breathtaking views of NYC. This session marked 1 year since our Meetup was formed in July of 2014 and it […]
Microservices define the next era of IT
There is a lot of focus on DevOps and container technologies these days. Both are very strong trends in IT on their own, but each is also proof of a larger shift in IT culture to a microservices architecture. A new report from IDC titled “The Emergence of Microservices as a New Architectural Approach to […]
Webinar: Introducing CloudBees Jenkins Platform – your foundation for DevOps and CD with Docker Containers
Continuous delivery (CD) of applications is rapidly becoming a differentiator in this application economy. CloudBees, the enterprise Jenkins company, recently announced the availability of the CloudBees Jenkins Platform to help organizations adopt CD. This new enterprise offering from CloudBees brings CD to the masses with the new Team Edition, while enabling enterprise CD deployments powered […]
Say hello to Container Journal
Today we launched a sister site to DevOps.com – Container Journal. The url for the site is http://www.containerjournal.com. The site is dedicated to spotlighting everything about containers and computing (as opposed to containers like in the Container Store). This includes not only the containers themselves, but everything that goes along with it. Topics wil include container management, data […]
ElasticBox enhances Container support with new release
ElasticBox announced a new version of their product today that enhances Container support. In yet another example of how important Containers are becoming to today’s software development scene, ElasticBox will now allow you to define microservices as Docker files in containers. Other enhancements include (from the press release) : UI Enhancement: Tags now make it […]
OCP is a victory for CoreOS and Containers in general
A broad coalition of major tech companies have joined forces to create the Open Container Project—or OCP. The move to develop and maintain common standards around software containers vindicates the CoreOS split from Docker and reunites the two in a common cause that will make all container platforms and technologies stronger. A press release announcing […]
Two paths to metal devops: cloud-like API driven & cluster building
I’ve been seeing a rising interest in metal DevOps fueled by containers and scale-out data center platforms (like Hadoop, Ceph & OpenStack) that run at the metal level. While I see this is a growing general trend (Packet, Internap, RackSpace, OpenStack Ironic, MaaS), I’m going to stay firmly within my wheelhouse and use OpenCrowbar as my reference here. […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Monitoring Containers and Microservices
Trevor Parsons (@trevparsons) is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Logentries, a leading SaaS-delivered log management and analytics service. I caught up with Trevor at the Velocity Conference in Santa Clara and asked him what themes were resonating with attendees this year. For this episode of the DevOps Leadership Series, Trevor briefly illustrates some current problems with […]
DevOps, Containers and Faster Time-to-Parity
DevOps discussions often focus on the value of getting innovative applications to market quickly. And it’s true. Getting a cool new application into production quickly can help you differentiate yourself in today’s app-sensitive marketplace. But, in reality, most development is devoted to “Me Too” applications—and these apps are no less important to the business than […]
What’s hot with DevOps
DevOps as a movement to transform people, technology, processes for higher business value is here to stay. It’s disrupting organizational processes replacing the old with the new. Command and control IT, a historical approach to regulating tech top-down, is trending toward decentralization thanks to DevOps. Software source control is another such case. We saw Git take on the source control […]
Container Usage Survey
Is there any topic in IT hotter than containers today? Hard to make a case that there is. Whether it is Docker or Rocket, LHX or something else, it seems everyone is talking about them. But what are people actually doing with them? DevOps.com and ClusterHQ are conducting a survey on actual and planned container […]