Why PR, Legal and HR Matter for Continuous Delivery
By most definitions, DevOps involves making developers and IT Ops teams work better together. But integrating other parts of an organization, such as legal and public relations, into DevOps is also important. Here’s why. DevOps has become popular because it helps to speed the delivery of software. The goal is to reach continuous delivery, which […]
7 Strategies for Continuous Delivery and Deployment Success
One of the key advantages of cloud-native applications is the ability to quickly push updates into production for specific microservices—giving developers the ability to respond rapidly to changing business requirements without having to upgrade the entire application. Successfully doing this requires far more than just leveraging a continuous delivery platform. Everything from the culture of […]
All Day DevOps
Over the past year, I have traveled to and delivered presentations at 18 DevOps events. I’ve also heard that over the past several years, John Willis has participated in more than 200 DevOps events. But not all of us have the time or budget to get ourselves and our teams out to these events […]
Continuous Integration vs. Continuous Delivery: There’s an Important Difference
If you read DevOps blogs today, it can be easy to assume that Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are synonymous terms. People often use them that way. But that’s a mistake. As an example of conflation of the terms CI and CD, take this page, which purports to be a “history of CI/CD […]
Keep Applications Running by Testing Early, Continuously
Almost every product we buy or use today goes through some form of extensive testing before it’s released on the market; typically, these tests are designed to replicate the worst-case scenarios that a product may encounter under real-world conditions. Automobiles, for example, go through extensive hot and cold weather testing in remote locations, and are […]
3 AWS Design Patterns to Maximize DevOps Value
Many business leaders are planning to make DevOps the cornerstone of their IT transformation strategy. But, as surprising as it might sound, skepticism abounds regarding how major vendors address the DevOps transformation challenges—they confuse DevOps with continuous delivery (CD) infrastructure. “We wanted DevOps and we got after a nine-month-long implementation a continuous delivery platform which speeds up IT operations without […]
Getting Ready for All Day DevOps
DevOps Practitioners Unite On Nov. 15, we’ll be broadcasting 54 live sessions across 15 hours and 15 time zones. The All Day DevOps conference will be live, online and free. Anyone who registers can watch. We have invited some top-notch practitioners from around the world to speak at the event on topics ranging from DevOps […]
Demystifying Scrum for the Ops Crowd
Scrum is, by far, the most popular way development teams are organized and work. In fact, well over 70 percent of Agile teams around the world use Scrum. But for those unfamiliar with the structure, Scrum may look like a strange collection of rituals and oddly named designations, such as the “Scrum Master.” However, behind […]
21 DevOps and Docker Reference Architectures
When building DevOps or continuous delivery (CD) practices relying on Docker, you can learn a great deal from others. Reference architectures reveal what choices people made, what practices they put in place and how they connected the dots. We at Sonatype pulled together a set of 21 reference architectures for folks building CD and DevOps […]
All Day DevOps: Bringing DevOps to the World
An Audacious Plan: Deliver DevOps to everyone. The global audience for DevOps is expanding faster than any one person or company can keep up with. While DevOps Days and other regional events provide invaluable support to their local communities, we wanted to create a global event, offering the very best lineup of speakers across North […]
REP SPOTLIGHT: Daysha DevOps Solutions
DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization. Daysha DevOps Solutions: Daysha DevOps Solutions is a leading IT services and solutions company focused on helping companies to deliver their IT projects, transform their capabilities and ultimately to provide value to their customers and stakeholders. Our goal is to help organizations benefit from disruptive technologies, […]
The ‘Continuous’ Illusion
Continuous delivery is an illusion. That doesn’t make it insubstantial—illusions can have a tremendous impact. Like the first motion picture: the locomotive felt so real to first audiences that they fell from their chairs, screaming. But of course, the locomotive was an illusion, merely rushing past on screen. A good magician, like a good inventor, […]
Case Study: Stytch Before, After DevOps Culture, Tools
Cloud analytics provider Stytch leverages its cloud-based analytics for customers who want to centralize, fuse and model their data. “Our mission is to make it easier and faster for business users to get insights and make decisions,” said Taylor Frost, cloud operations engineer at Stytch. Before the company implemented a DevOps approach, its primary software […]
xMatters Sees Value in Continuous Testing
xMatters builds an intelligent communications platform that alerts and connects company stakeholders for IT incident response and in manufacturing line workflow support and DevOps systems scenarios. Customers who count on xMatters also count on the effectiveness of the vendor’s continuous testing mechanisms: A failure of continuous testing early on at xMatters could lead to a […]
The Big Shift: The State of Continuous Delivery
I wanted to call out a new report that we have just released here at DevOps.com. The State of Continuous Delivery: The Big Shift by George Hulme, contributing editor here at DevOps.com. In this report George takes a look at the current state of Continuous Delivery and how it is helping to transform software development […]
Jenkins World Speaker Gruver on the State of DevOps
Santa Clara, California, will be home to the biggest gathering of Jenkins users in the world Sept. 13-15. This year’s Jenkins World conference will feature Gary Gruver, DevOps expert and author of “Leading the Transformation.” We had a chance to connect with Gary and hear his thoughts on the state of DevOps, continuous delivery and […]
Tales of DevOps Discovery, Part 3: Q&A and Explanations
This is part three of the series, Tales of DevOps Discovery. To catch up, Read part one and part two. In preparing for a DevOps transformation a critical first step is to perform upfront discovery, often asking even the most fundamental, seemingly obvious, questions of stakeholders. The major portion of such discovery should be done […]
DevOps Chat: Steve Hazel, Sauce Labs
I recently had the chance to sit down and speak with Steve Hazel, CTO and co-founder of Sauce Labs. With so much being written and talked about the role of quality assurance (QA) and testing in a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) world, it is good to hear from someone like Steve who is an actual […]
Managing Your DevOps Releases Efficiently
The Top 5 Things You Need to Know When Selecting a DevOps Release Management Solution DevOps is a modern software delivery movement that encompasses agile principles and encourages automation in application delivery. Why adopt it? It allows teams to reduce errors due to manual steps and break down silos between teams to improve communication and […]
Follow the Simple Path of Nirvana to DevOps
Perhaps the title of this post is a misleading, as nothing is truly “simple. But there is a well-defined pathway to achieving DevOps goals for any size company. Just follow a step-up pattern by adopting the principles of agile, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and you will reach your goal of DevOps. This path is […]
The 2016 State of Software Supply Chain Report is Here
Our State of the Software Supply Chain Report has just been released. Over the past year, we’ve amassed a great deal of data with respect to the staggering volume and variety of open source components flowing through software supply chains into development environments. This year, we assessed behaviors across 3,000 organizations and performed deep analysis […]
Iterative Indicators: Measuring DevOps ROI
It’s well-established that application of ROI measurements to IT investment remains an imperfect science, and the same goes for ongoing adoption of DevOps methodologies. The fuzzy math of vendor-driven ROI calculators aside, even the most respected industry watchers have long struggled to create concrete parameters for assessment of technology spending. This, in large part, has […]
On Building Self-Driving IT
More CIOs than ever are moving their data centers to the cloud. Some have decided to maintain their on-premises data centers and move cloud-first with all new deployments, while others are moving more aggressively to all-cloud and are retiring on-premises hardware and software as quickly as possible. Both types of enterprises also are working to […]