How SDM’s Holistic Approach Connects Organizations and Streamlines Delivery Processes
Since Jez Humble and David Farley popularized the term in 2010, continuous delivery has revolutionized software delivery practices. Creating mature continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines has helped enterprises deliver software that performs better, based on a long list of metrics. Failure rates have dropped from 50% to under 15%, and cycle times are measured in […]
Stay Ahead of the 5G and DevOps Race with Continuous Network Monitoring
All car owners are aware that they should have their car regularly serviced. This includes routine maintenance checks, as well as expert assessments for potential future problems. Whether you like it or not, it’s important to pay attention and listen to your mechanic’s warning–it could be as simple as your tire treads, or abnormal wear […]
CD Foundation Serves Up Tekton Pipelines Beta
The team overseeing the development of the open source Tekton Pipelines under the auspices of the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation announced today the project is now in beta. Christie Wilson, Tekton Project Lead and a software engineer at Google, said Tekton Pipelines are not necessarily a tool most DevOps teams will interact with directly. Rather […]
GitLab Shifts 18 Features Into Core Open Source Platform
GitLab this week announced it has moved 18 features that previously organizations had to pay for into the core open source version of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Scott Williamson, executive vice president of product management for GitLab, said as a general rule the company makes available DevOps tools for teams across the […]
DevOps for the Rest of Ops
The IT pro gig usually includes a basic headwind. They’re part of a cost center, and budget for resources and staff are limited by design unless they’re managing a strategic initiative, which—at least for a while—is more generously funded. Early adopters of DevOps, Agile or site reliability engineering (SRE) teams have been budget beneficiaries when […]
Small Teams Focused on Delivering Outcomes Produce the Best Results
The days of big team consulting are over. Technology organizations are aligning their budgets to get projects done faster and more agilely. More applications are being built by small teams of cross-functional engineers moving fast, providing higher quality code, designing away waste and cutting out processes that don’t add value. It’s becoming apparent that engagements […]
OverOps Allies With SonarQube To Improve Application Quality
OverOps, a provider of tools for dynamically analyzing code at runtime, has partnered with SonarQube, a provider of static analysis tools for source code, to enhance application quality by unifying code analytics. Chen Harel, vice president of product for OverOps, said the two companies have collaborated to create a plugin through which DevOps teams can […]
2nd Watch Allies With GitLab for Managed DevOps Service
2nd Watch today launched a managed DevOps service based on the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform from GitLab that it will operate on behalf of customers in addition to coaching them on how to adopt best DevOps practices. Stefana Muller, a senior product manager, said the 2nd Watch Managed DevOps service combines the managed and […]
Scaling DevOps for the Enterprise
Information technology has been an integral piece of the modern enterprise for multiple decades and that dependency is only growing. With digital transformation, there’s the inevitable increase in demand for new applications. As such, software development services will continue to be a vital component of the business amidst the mounting pressure to innovate and deliver. […]
Wind River Launches CD Platform for Embedded Systems
Wind River is fostering the adoption of DevOps processes for embedded systems by making available a continuous delivery (CD) platform that its customers can download. Glenn Seiler, vice president for open source strategy for Wind River, said the CD platform is based on an open source instance of the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. […]
How to Successfully Adopt Mobile DevOps Practices
Mobile DevOps is more than simply adopting a new set of tools and practices. It also comes with the need to adopt a completely different mindset, in the form of a cultural-organizational change. The approach is based on the Agile methodology, but takes its practices further— not only by getting other teams more involved, but […]
Why Is QA so Important in Executing a DevOps Implementation Strategy?
In a rapidly growing global digital landscape, enterprises are facing many challenges. These include changing customer behavior and the need to be in line with the latest technology trends. To address these challenges and to stay up the competition curve, enterprises are adopting a slew of strategies. These comprise expanding the capacity of processes, quick […]
Best of 2019: The Time Has Come for an Engineering Approach to DevOps
As we close out 2019, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the third in our weeklong series of the Best of 2019. Do you want to know how to do DevOps? Are you doing DevOps but not satisfied with the results you are getting? DevOps […]
Synack: DevSecOps Being Accelerated by Cultural Shifts
The 2020 State of Compliance and Security Testing Report from cybersecurity testing platform vendor Synack claims that some of the world’s largest organizations are encountering a significant cultural shift within their development teams, and that bodes well for those seeking to build DevSecOps teams. For the report, Synack surveyed leaders from more than 300 organizations […]
Predictions 2020: How to Make the Case for Adopting CI/CD in Your Organization
The practice of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is fundamental to modern software development. And yet, many organizations are still using slow, error-prone, manual processes to build, test and deploy their software. Sometimes, the blocker can be engineers who don’t want to change how they’ve always done things, but most often folks in the […]
DevOps Chats: Continuous Delivery at Airbnb
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Airbnb is rapidly moving from a monolith Ruby on Rails application to a distributed SOA/Kubernetes architecture in Kubernetes. The new architecture uses self-service codified pipelines and easy webhook integrations, scale adoption and collaboration across the company. Even though continuous integration isn’t new to Airbnb, every team now needs to be able […]
When Should You Go for Microservice Architecture?
There is steady increase in the adoption of microservice architecture style since 2014 (Figure 1). Microservice architectural style structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services that implement business capabilities. An architecture style is a family of architectures that share certain characteristics. For example, N-tier is a common architecture style. Architecture styles generally […]
DevOps Chat: 2019 Accelerate Report with Dr. Nicole Forsgren
There are many interviews you do as part of the role as editor in chief of DevOps.com. Then there are some that make it all worthwhile. Anytime I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Nicole Forsgren, it makes all of the other things I do worthwhile. She has a clarity of vision borne from […]
DevOps Chat: CI/CD Scalability Lessons with CircleCI
The software development tool needs of a two to three person team can be much different than those of a large enterprise. CI/CD is a common approach nearly all software teams establish. But what needs of a larger software organization do you adopt early on and which simply add more complexity than benefit? Rob Zuber, […]
Quality Engineering Has DevOps and Agile in the Driving Seat
As opposed to the traditional software development lifecycle (aka waterfall), today’s Agile and DevOps-based software development process is more outcome-oriented. The unrelenting pace of the changing market landscape has made the hybrid, Agile plus DevOps way of software development absolutely critical in addressing customer demands and staying competitive. The focus on Agile and DevOps is […]
Autodesk Builds Better Software Faster with CloudBees Core
Autodesk Builds Better Software Faster with CloudBees Core Autodesk embraces DevOps, CI & CD to strengthen its competitive market position and deliver higher quality software and features to its customers even faster. I am convinced that we could not have done this without CloudBees. George Swan Senior Director, Build Platform [su_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gwHCV_njDg&feature=youtu.be”] devopsy.kinsta.cloud
How to Implement an Effective CI/CD Pipeline
DevOps bridges the gap between development, operations and IT services teams efficiently. To foster a DevOps culture, implementing the right DevOps tools with the right DevOps process is essential. Continuous integration/continuous delivery/continuous deployment (CI/CD/CD) help developers and testers ship the software faster and safer in a structured environment. Unlike the traditional software life cycle, the […]
Continuous Delivery Foundation Momentum Picks Up
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) this week revealed that it now includes 33 member organizations, including now JPM Chase, eBay, Dell Boomi, Cycloid, White Source, the Association of DevOps Professionals and the DevOps Institute. Founded by CapitalOne, CircleCI, Cloudbees, Google, Huawei, IBM, jFrog, Netflix and Salesforce in March the CDF is committed to promoting the […]