Report: Lots of Room for Continuous Delivery Improvement
A report published by the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation suggests that, in terms of achieving that goal, most organizations still have a long way to go. Based on analysis of the Developer Nation survey data collected by SlashData, nearly two-thirds of developers said it takes at least one week to go from code committed to […]
EP 10: Observability & Continuous Improvement
Observability at enterprise scale brings with it additional application life cycle management requirements. Success requires knowing which changes result in improvements and which don’t produce positive results and how that information must make it back to the DevOps team through feedback loops. In this episode of DevOps Unbound, Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley talk with Kurt Chase, senior director, global release management at Tricentis, Charity Majors, co-founder at Honeycomb and Ravyn Manuel, senior application manager at the Smithsonian as they discuss observability and continuous improvement.
From One-Click Deployment to One-Click Feedback
What makes a group of individual contributors a team? You can look at today’s product development teams as an ensemble of craftspeople from different disciplines. Code builders, design artists, storytellers, and an orchestrator. Similar to an orchestra, their output is based on the ability of each and every one of them to work together in […]
7 (More) Security Considerations for CI/CD
CI/CD orchestration has become increasingly popular in DevOps practices. It facilitates faster deployment of software and product delivery. Through the use of automation when building, testing and deploying applications, CI/CD bridges the gap between development, operation activities and teams. However, there are many security considerations to keep in mind with frequent deployment. From quality automation […]
Copado Acquires Qentinel to Gain AI Testing Tools
Copado has acquired Qentinel as part of an effort to incorporate AI-infused application testing within a DevOps platform and build applications using low-code tools across multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. The Copado continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform was originally created to accelerate the development of low-code applications on top of the Salesforce platform. Now, however, Copado […]
Big Gains Are Made In The ‘Last Mile’ of DevOps
A new study by mabl found a correlation between complete, fully automated test coverage and a significant increase in customer happiness and DevOps maturity. In contrast, those with moderate DevOps maturity and nearly automated testing coverage tend to experience a sharp decline in end-user satisfaction. Mabl recently released its 2021 State of Testing in DevOps […]
Survey Finds Biggest DevOps Obstacles are Organizational
A survey of 600 IT professionals published this week by mabl, a provider of a test automation platform, finds the biggest barriers to adopting DevOps practices are more closely related to organizational issues rather than any technology. The survey identified non-technological issues as the main inhibitor to DevOps by a wide margin (82%). Only 11% […]
The State of Continuous Delivery in 2021
One of the hallmarks of DevOps is to improve the delivery of software. Therefore, mature DevOps systems employ continuous delivery (CD), the process of releasing bite-sized software changes on a regular basis. Amid high demand for digital innovation, streamlining this release pipeline is becoming more and more crucial for enabling overall software fluidity. So, what […]
Modernizing Continuous Integration
In the duality of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), CI focuses on build automation. Leveraging CI practices for software delivery is normal for most organizations and can be seen as a solved problem. However, the demand for increasingly distributed applications has risen with the expansion of microservices, and development teams have the expectation that every commit […]
How to Move Fast Without Breaking Security
“Move fast and break things,” is a familiar motto. The phrase, attributed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, helps to explain the company’s stellar growth over the past decade, driven by its product innovations. However, while it’s a useful philosophy for software development, moving faster than you’d planned is a risky approach in other areas, as […]
The Surprising Secret to DevOps ROI
As a result of my many years of DevOps consulting, I have discovered a simple, but not well-understood, secret ingredient that drives ROI for all the Three Ways of DevOps. Measuring and optimizing return on investment (ROI) for DevOps is not well-understood. It is a proven fact that DevOps, when engineered well, delivers tremendous value […]
On-Premises Software Delivery Tool: Build or Buy?
The on-premises software market is four times larger than the SaaS market, but harder to reach. Every software vendor who wants to pursue it has to decide how they are going to package and deliver applications inside customers’ firewalls, automating away the complexity of keeping applications deployed and running. Should they build or buy a […]
Survey: The State of Database DevOps
Enterprises are undergoing rapid changes. Throughout the past year, companies have been pressed to learn a diversified set of technologies and methods to remain agile in a changing economy. In this digital-first world, data plays a heightened role; in tandem, so does the delivery of data and the persistence of the database layer itself. Applying […]
Armory Offers Framework to Extend Spinnaker
Armory, provider of a curated instance of open source Spinnaker continuous delivery (CD) software, is making generally available an open source plugin framework for any instance of Spinnaker. Announced this week at its online OPEN CORE SUMMIT, the framework has already been employed to create 15 plugins for Spinnaker, including an observability tool from Armory […]
CD Foundation Embraces Ortelius to Manage Microservices Deployments
The Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation has added the open source Ortelius platform for managing the deployment of microservices as an incubation level project. Originally developed by DeployHub, Ortelius was created to provide a means to automate configuration at the application level. It also provides a central catalog of services that makes it easier to consume […]
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 […]
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 […]
CDF Officially Graduates Jenkins CI/CD Platform
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) announced today that the open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) has officially graduated. Jenkins was donated last year to the CDF, an arm of The Linux Foundation, along with Jenkins X, a CI/CD platform for Kubernetes; Spinnaker, a CD platform; and Tekton, a framework for building pipelines that will […]
CD Foundation Touts Spinnaker CD Progress
At an online Spinnaker Live event today, the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation revealed the open source CD platform is gaining significant momentum since being contributed by Netflix late last year. There were on average 842 merged pull Spinnaker requests a month in the first quarter of 2020. A total of 1,183 contributors participated in the […]
Harness Enables DevOps Teams to Rein in Cloud Costs
Harness today unfurled its Continuous Efficiency application, which enables DevOps teams employing its continuous delivery platform delivered as a service to monitor the cost of deploying applications on a public cloud. Company CEO Jyoti Bansal said cloud costs are spiraling out of control within many IT organizations because DevOps teams lack visibility into the true […]
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 […]
CloudBees Connect Virtual Summit: Defining the Future of Software Development
CloudBees Connect Virtual Summit will bring together a global community of developers, CloudBees and Jenkins users, DevOps luminaries and continuous delivery experts for two full days of immersive learning, presented in a virtual reality environment. The event is scheduled to take place on May 19 at 11 a.m. EDT for North America, and on May […]