5 DevOps Terms That We All Use, Yet No One Can Define
I’m all for DevOps. Sometimes, however, I have a hard time talking about DevOps. The reason is because many of the key terms related to DevOps lack clear and precise definitions. Let me explain … DevOps is such a big deal that it has bred its very own lexicon. Search Google for “DevOps terms,” and […]
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. […]
How DevOps Can Help Speed Go to Market
With continuous evolution of IT systems, speed and flexibility have become of paramount importance for businesses. This requirement has caused a massive shift in the IT delivery system. Now, building and releasing a better product in the market is not enough for businesses to stay ahead of the competition. Organizations need an agile approach to […]
Why Unikernels Are Great for DevOps
DevOps tooling seems to be in a never-ending state of self-transformation. The continuing evolution of infrastructure and the tools that go with it are forever creating new ecosystems. On the infrastructure side, we saw VMWare, Citrix and other companies bring to market massive virtualization in the late ’90s and early ’00s. This, of course, prompted […]
SauceCon 2019 Speaker Profile: Melissa Benua
This is the second in a series of articles highlighting speakers at SauceCon 2019. SauceCon brings together the global community of Sauce Labs users and continuous testing experts to learn from each other and level up their automated testing and continuous delivery skills. This year’s event will be held April 23-25 in Austin, Texas. SauceCon […]
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 […]
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 […]
How to Get More Visibility Into Your Continuous Deployment Process
I know far too many developers who cringe at the thought of continuous deployment. Thoughts of broken code and an endless stream of customer support requests puts continuous deployment into the “nice to have, but not right now” pile. But, it might just be a case of clearing the fog on process so you get […]
CloudBees Applies Analytics to DevOps
At the heart of many DevOps initiatives is an automation server based on open-source Jenkins software developed by CloudBees. At the recent Jenkins World 2017 conference, CloudBees showed that Jenkins is now becoming the foundational element through which DevOps teams can now manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) process end to end. New additions to […]
Differentiating Between CI Pipelines and DevOps Assembly Lines
“What’s in a name?” wrote the greatest Bard who ever lived. All I can say is, he lived in simpler times, when DevOps and the confusing world of continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD), CI/CD, the other CD, application release automation (ARA), pipelines, assembly lines, etc., didn’t exist. The biggest challenge today is that vendors […]
XebiaLabs Shows Off ARA, More at Jenkins World
In this third spotlight on companies attending Jenkns World, another worth checking out came to mind, so I am taking a look at what XebiaLabs intends to do while there. XebiaLabs is one of the leading application release automation (ARA) vendors, and has a long history of working with Jenkins, so it’s a little more […]
NetOps: Thorn in the Side of Continuous Deployment?
Over the last few years, we have definitely gotten continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) down. We now can maintain a relatively constant flow of deployable code sitting and waiting for the actual deployment step to take them to production. Moving to production has been the point at which caution is introduced into the system, […]
CircleCI Injects Workflow Flexibility into CI/CD Platform
Nobody likes to be told how to get a specific task or job done. In fact, it’s arguably that very sentiment that holds backs adoption of DevOps processes inside many IT organizations. Aiming to provide IT organizations with a more flexible approach to DevOps, CircleCI has updated its continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) software […]
Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment
I am often asked, “if we are using a continuous integration (CI) server and adopting a continuous delivery pipeline, where does continuous deployment fit in?” Good question. In a nutshell, continuous delivery engines such as CloudBees or Blue Ocean are designed to trigger the execution of CI workflows across the dev, test and prod environments. […]
Using DevOps to Be an Innovation Champion
Innovation, which increasingly is cited as the competitive advantage businesses need to meet their digital challenges, is widely misunderstood; it’s mistakenly reduced to the sophisticated features of a technology or a service. As a competitive matter, innovation is more than that; it’s primarily the process of translating ideas or inventions into high-value technology features or added-value services. […]
15 DevOps Expert Opinions on Continuous Integration and Delivery
We at Shippable recently approached some DevOps experts and asked them what they really think about continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). The responses were just amazing, proving that CI/CD’s future is just bright and long in the software development process. Perhaps this insight might be of help to organizations, regardless of whether they […]
How Often Should You Release with Continuous Delivery?
If you do continuous delivery, you could release software updates as frequently as you want. But should you? Here’s what to consider when deciding how often to release. Although the terms continuous delivery and continuous deployment are often used interchangeably, they don’t mean the same thing. Under continuous delivery, you prepare all software updates as […]
Continuous Integration vs. Delivery vs. Deployment: What’s the Difference?
“Continuous” is one of the most popular words in the DevOps lexicon. What does it really mean, and what is the difference between continuous delivery, continuous deployment and continuous integration? Keep reading for some perspective. Like many technological concepts, continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment are terms that DevOps teams tend to use without […]
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 […]
An IT Practitioner’s Guide To DevOps
Two technology innovations of the past decade have fundamentally changed how IT works and given rise to the “DevOps” phenomenon. Before we dive into what DevOps is and how IT organizations should adopt this culture, let’s review what gave rise to it in the first place. Pull from Agile Development The last decade has seen […]
What Can Digital Transformation Do For You?
Contrary to what the massive articles around digital transformation suggest, your business lines’ primary concern isn’t the amazing technology innovations that pop up every day but how well they’re going to deal with your industry’s disruption. Something is sure, your IT organization’s digital transformation cannot be narrowed to technology changes; that’s a simplistic vision which ignores the disruptive impacts […]
Echidna Takes DevOps to E-Commerce Site Creation
The Echidna e-commerce firm installs and evolves e-commerce platforms, providing ongoing development so its clients can leverage e-commerce experiences to the satisfaction of their customers. “We apply carefully selected user experience technology, marketing and analytics abilities to our clients’ strategic goals to do this,” taking what it calls an “anti-Big Bang” approach to continuous deployment, […]
Continuous Delivery and Deployment: A Tale of Two Models
EnerNOC (Energy Network Operations Center) is an energy intelligence software provider with more than 1,300 employees in its Boston headquarters and international locations. The public firm helps global customers to efficiently consume energy. “Our mission is to change how the world uses energy, helping customers to improve profitability and visibility for better decision-making and sustainability […]