The Linux Foundation Launches Continuous Delivery Foundation
The Linux Foundation announced it will provide the home base for a vendor-neutral Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) committed to making it easier to build and reuse DevOps pipelines across multiple continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms. The first projects to be hosted under the auspices of CDF, which was launched at the Open Source Leadership Summit […]
Akamai Extends Scope of DevOps Reach
Akamai today moved to further extend the number of capabilities it exposes via its content delivery network (CDN) that are designed to appeal to DevOps teams. Those enhancements include HTTP/2 performance optimizations and the ability to automatically load font libraries, as well as providing access to “middle-mile” logs that will enable DevOps teams to more […]
DevOps Chat: JFrog Acquires Shippable
The big news in DevOps today was the acquisition of Shippable by JFrog. This adds a CI/CD solution to the JFrog Enterprise+ platform and further expands JFrog’s end-to-end DevOps offering beyond Artifactory and more. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Shippable CEO Avi Cavale, JFrog CEO Shlomi Ben Haim and JFrog VP of Marketing […]
Survey: DevOps Progress Slow, but Steady
Atlassian has published the results of a survey of 500 IT and software professionals that suggest now is the best and worst of times when it comes to DevOps. On the plus side, the survey found that more than half of respondents (57 percent) are encountering fewer bugs and outages after deploying a continuous integration/continuous […]
Death of the Release: The Move to Continuous Delivery and Experimentation
As we move from continuous delivery to continuous experimentation, we also must develop new practices As software development processes have evolved, we have mostly said goodbye to the idea of defined product versions. Many modern product delivery teams are taking this a step further—even the concept of a “product release” is starting to fade. Instead, […]
Always-on Development: Why Continuous Delivery Relies on Security by Design
How continuous delivery can help organizations in their application security efforts The old model of developing secure applications followed a structured, siloed, step-by-step process—build, check, release. Organizations’ desire for speed has forced development teams to ramp up their release cycles by any means necessary, even if it means bypassing incremental scanning for flaws that could […]
Role of DevOps in Mobile App Development
Emerged out of Agile methods in 2001, DevOps basically represents a fundamental departure from the traditional waterfall software development approach. DevOps is a modern software development method that focuses mainly on the effective collaboration between software developers, project managers and operations staff, while also aligning with business goals at the same time. DevOps came into […]
Semaphore 2.0 Brings Continuous Delivery to Teams of All Sizes
Since its inception in 2012, Semaphore has been focused on making code testing and deployment a quick and easy process. The cloud-based CI/CD platform from Rendered Text enables users to get up and running within a matter of minutes—which the company claims is at least twice as fast as other offerings. The company is releasing […]
DevOps Chat: CI/CD with the Semaphore Platform
As the old saying goes, “speed kills.” When it comes to development, a lack of speed can kill, too. Marko Anastasov and the Semaphore team have strived to make Semaphore the fastest continuous integration tool in the market. With version 2.0 of Semaphore, they believe it truly is. With his background in development, Marko brings […]
Defining DevOps: How Do You Know When You Have Achieved DevOps?
Key to understanding where you are in your organization’s journey is by defining DevOps Much has been written about the compelling benefits of DevOps. However, the lack of a commonly agreed definition and clear prescription for implementing DevOps have left many people puzzled. Ask a group of experts, “How do you know when you have […]
Electric Cloud Extends Continuous Delivery Platform
Electric Cloud is making available a software-as-a-service (SaaS) pricing option available for its ElectricFlow application release management and continuous delivery (CD) platform. In addition, version 8.5 of ElectricFlow adds support for a Kanban-style pipeline view, object tagging for custom reporting and improved searchability and a continuous integration (CI) dashboard to track and analyze build processes, […]
HSBC Speeds Software Delivery with CloudBees Core
HSBC Speeds Software Delivery with CloudBees Core HSBC’s Global Head of Digital Platform Operations, Cheryl Razzell discusses how CloudBees Core helps developers to build new products for customers and push to production more frequently. I see total evolution of the HSBC environment to encompass CloudBees Core and aligning the roadmaps of CloudBees and HSBC to create a […]
CloudBees Extends CI/CD Scope, Reach
CloudBees, at its DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018 conference this week, unveiled a broad strategy to extend the reach and scope of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms based on the open source Jenkins software. Company CEO Sascha Labourey said CloudBees Suite will provide the equivalent of a customer relationship management (CRM) application for software […]
Continuous Discussions, Episode 90: Gene Kim and DOES18 Speakers
In a recent episode of the Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) podcast, we hosted Gene Kim and several speakers from the upcoming DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas (DOES18) conference. We’re proud Founding Partners of the event and always enjoy having IT thought leaders join us ahead of the show to talk about DevOps, the conference program and more. In […]
VMware Extends DevOps Reach via SaaS Apps
VMware, at the VMworld 2018 conference today, announced it will be delving deeper in the realm of DevOps with the launch of a continuous delivery pipeline dubbed Code Stream. In addition, VMware announced Cloud Assembly, a set of declarative tools that enable IT organizations to spin up a cloud in as little as 10 minutes […]
Choose Your Toolstack — and Manage It — Wisely
Every DevOps toolstack has a control point, be it a bus, an app, a management app or whatever. Something always is in control and driving the other pieces of the architecture to do their part. It is a basic tenet of automation that jobs are mostly kicked off by something in the software hierarchy. In […]
7 Signs You’re Mastering Continuous Integration
A majority of organizations think they are doing continuous integration (CI), yet when asked if they are following key practices of CI such as running tests to validate every build, many of them aren’t. Ask yourself the following: “Are we building our application with every change, or at least multiple times a day? Do we […]
Why You Need Chaos Engineered into Your Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Nearly a decade ago, I began working at Amazon as an engineer. Cloud technology was just starting to revolutionize how companies launch applications, and early adopters were seeing the benefits of not having to purchase, provision and manage their own hardware. On the flip side, larger companies (especially those that store sensitive information) were still […]
Continuous Delivery is Not Continuous Deployment
Every once in a while, it is worth revisiting a topic that flies under most people’s radar. The differences between continuous delivery and continuous deployment is one of those topics. While those steeped in DevOps are well-aware that software can be delivered daily (or even more frequently), deployment is less frequent, and more dependent upon […]
Continuous Integration Principles You Can’t Afford to Ignore
After recognizing the potential benefits from both continuous delivery (CD) and continuous integration (CI), many organizations have started implementing DevOps in their business operations. However, even today, many organizations don’t completely understand the core principles of continuous integration. Many people think that they are performing continuous integration as part of the DevOps implementation, but they […]
Code Delivery: Pipeline Automation for the Speed to Innovate
Many developers steeped in the world of agile startups view continuous delivery pipelines as an accepted standard requirement for software development. Yet many companies, particularly large enterprises with traditional infrastructure, still struggle to make this approach a standard part of their development process. Whether your company is an enterprise looking to make continuous delivery pipelines […]
Puppet Expands Scope of Pervasive Automation Initiative
Puppet today unveiled a series of initiatives as part of a continuing campaign to make IT automation available pervasively across the enterprise. Omri Gazitt, chief product officer for Puppet, said the first step in that effort is making it easier for IT organizations to discover what assets they need to manage. Puppet Discovery is an […]
Agile Development: The 3 Methods You Need to Master
As organizations embrace the age of Agile and digital transformation strategies, every brand is looking for a competitive advantage. To succeed, organizations need to focus on the user, offering services to users on their terms, on their devices and at their convenience. Even more, users expect these offerings to be visually appealing and fast. That’s […]