Pulumi Deepens Cloud Ties to DevOps
Pulumi has made available a framework for automating the management of multiple cloud computing platforms using familiar programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Go. Company CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi 1.0 provides a framework that enables developers to automate the deployment of applications on public clouds in a way that eliminates having to […]
CircleCI Extends CI/CD Reach to Windows Platforms
CircleCI today announced it will make available its continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform available on a variety of Windows platforms. Matt Wyman, vice president of product for CircleCI, said the decision to support Windows stems from recent Microsoft DevOps initiatives, most notably its move to acquire GitHub. As Microsoft invests more time and […]
Armory Looks to Drive Enterprise Adoption of Spinnaker
Armory this week committed to advancing adoption of the open source Spinnaker continuous delivery (CD) platform in enterprise IT environments after revealing it has raised an additional $28 million in funding. Company CEO Daniel Odio said Armory will add proprietary tools to a curated distribution of Spinnaker that will make it easier for the average […]
DevOps Chat: Armory Discusses $28M Funding, Continuous Delivery
The tribe at Armory announced the company‘s $28m series B funding, led by Insight Partners. Armory enables continuous software delivery at enterprise scale, powered by Spinnaker. That is a crisp mission statement, but beyond that Armory is bringing the open source Spinnaker to the enterprise market. As such, they are also helping the entire Spinnaker […]
Game On: Gamification for the Win
Staying competitive in today’s fast-moving digital economy is easier said than done. Operating in a digital environment requires a significant shift in company culture and an agile software environment that accelerates time to value. Creating a DevOps environment helps companies keep pace, but it requires a workforce that is empowered, excited and motivated. Gamification offers a […]
How Continuous Testing Advances Your Business Goals
The goals of any successful business fit into two broad categories: driving higher revenue and greater operational efficiency. Finding solutions to achieve both of these is an organization’s goldmine. Considering the ease of access to new, alternate products from developers across the globe, competition continues to grow. In the software industry, customer expectations magnify cut-throat […]
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 […]
Whitepaper – Easily Build Continuous Delivery Pipelines with Jenkins and Pipeline Plugin
Organizations have been orchestrating pipelines with Jenkins for years. As Jenkins and continuous delivery experience deepens, organizations want to move beyond simple pipelines and chart complex flows that map to their specific software delivery processes. For Jenkins users, creating and managing complex pipelines just became easier with Jenkins and the Jenkins Pipeline plugin. Learn what it […]
27-Factor Assessments Lead to Success With DevOps
October 2019 will mark the 10th anniversary of the first DevOpsDays, where the term “DevOps” began to catch on. In the world of information technology, 10 years is a long time and it is quite evident based on the amount of change that has transpired since then. To name a few, we have seen the […]
8 CI/CD Best Practices for Your DevOps Journey
According to a recent IDC study, the worldwide DevOps software market reached $2.9 billion in 2017 and is forecasted to reach $6.6 billion in 2022. With over 50% of organizations embracing DevOps last year, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) have become an integral part of the software development process. Your business is likely embarking on […]
Getting Webhooks Behind that Firewall of Yours
In this post I’ll show you how to receive webhooks in real time from GitHub.com, even if your CloudBees Core stuff is behind a firewall. You can generalize this to other services too – such as BitBucket or DockerHub, or anything really that emits webhooks, but the instructions will be for GitHub projects hosted on github.com. The […]
Top 10 Best Practices for Jenkins Pipeline Plugin
The Jenkins Pipeline plugin is a game changer for Jenkins users. Based on a Domain Specific Language (DSL) in Groovy, the Pipeline plugin makes pipelines scriptable and it is an incredibly powerful way to develop complex, multi-step DevOps pipelines. This document captures some definite Do’s and Don’ts of writing Jenkins Pipelines – with code examples and explanations. 1. […]
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GitLab Updates Advance Its CI/CD Platform
GitLab has expanded the capabilities of its continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform to include tighter integration with collaboration platforms from Slack and Mattermost along with the ability to support Docker containers running on Windows. Version 11.11 of GitLab adds a caching dependency proxy for Docker images to the Premium edition of GitLab along with the […]
Get Testing Bottlenecks Out of Your Pipelines
I first learned the term “deployment pipeline” when I read “Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test and Deployment Automation,” by Jez Humble and David Farley back in 2009. End-to-end automation of the build, deploy, test and release processes kick in each time a team member commits a change to the source code repository. […]
Open Source Versioning: The Race to Stay Up-to-Date
Open source libraries, once shunned as risky and not ready for prime time, are now used extensively across major corporations, including insurers. The reason is simple: In time- and resource-constrained companies trying to stay technologically competitive, it doesn’t make sense anymore to try to reinvent a wheel that’s already been battle-tested. However, having made the […]
5 Guaranteed Ways to Kill DevOps Developer Productivity
“A developer is an organism that turns coffee into code.” I still laugh when I see that quote as it reminds me of my hardcore developer days, when my cube always seemed to be directly next to the coffee machine and caffeine was management’s way of ensuring we had the energy to develop well into […]
Best Practices for DevOps in the Cloud
DevOps is commonly defined as a methodology that combines software development with IT operations. The goal is to shorten a system’s development life cycle while delivering features, fixes and updates frequently in close alignment with business objectives. Putting DevOps into practice is an ongoing experiment for many organizations. Developers often struggle with continuous integration (CI) […]
Harness Invests in Automating Continuous Delivery
Fresh off raising an additional $60 million in funding, Harness plans to make more investments in machine learning algorithms to advance continuous delivery through automation. Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal said the startup, which he co-founded with Rishi Singh, a former DevOps platform architect at Apple, is now in a position to invest more aggressively in […]
CloudBees Acquires Electric Cloud to Advance Continuous Delivery
CloudBees announced it has acquired Electric Cloud as part of an effort to extend the reach of its DevOps portfolio further into the realm of continuous delivery and application release automation (ARA). Announced at the CloudBees Days event in San Francisco, the deal follows CloudBees’ acquisition of Codeship, a provider of a cloud-based continuous integration/continuous […]
CloudBees Allies with Atos to Accelerate DevOps Adoption
In a move that should accelerate adoption of best DevOps practices in the enterprise, CloudBees and Atos announced this week that the two are collaborating to advance adoption of continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platforms on the Google public cloud. Announced at the Google Cloud Next 2019 conference, the alliance will result in the IT services […]
5 DevOps Trends Worth Knowing in 2019
DevOps today is more than the buzzword it was 10 years ago. Back then, the idea of combining development with production in your IT infrastructure was not common; the logistics were nonexistent and most of the time businesses decided it was far too much effort. However, if the last nine years has taught us anything, […]