Trust, You Must: 8 Tips for Adopting CI/CD
We have done continuous deployment (CD) for four years, and enable many of our customers to do continuous deployment with quality assurance (QA). We’ve helped tons of companies adopt and optimize their CD setups. We’ve found that continuous deployment is all about trust — augmented with processes and infrastructure. To that point, here are some […]
Continuous Deployment is king of the DevOps hill
One of the promises of DevOps is continuous deployment. DevOps is, first and foremost, a matter of shifting the traditional business culture more than the tools and technologies that enable it. Once that culture exists, though, one of the defining aspects of DevOps is automation and continuity. Earlier this year I wrote about the seeming […]
Essential Ingredients for Continuous Deployment
To build the system to automate the build and deployment (continuous deployment) process there are few main areas which need to be covered. Following are our prerequisites. – Source code – Builds System – Deployments – QA Automation To describe above here are the main ingredients – Configuration Management – continuous integration/ Automated Build – […]
The DevOps-Price of Segregation of Duties.
Segregation of duties will change because it must change. It has a tremendous impact on our motivation, time to market and IT Security. It influences many parts of an organization. Most organizations have started with DevOps, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment and it is only natural to think about segregation of duties at one point […]
The continuous continuousness of DevOps
Defining DevOps is getting easier, but it’s still an elusive goal. Part of the challenge is that DevOps is more of a culture than a specific “thing” and how that culture exists is subjective and varies from one organization to the next. DevOps is what you want or need DevOps to be to some extent, […]
Overcoming Siebel Complexity to Achieve Agile and Continuous Deployments
Siebel releases are complex. Executing one well is difficult. Extracting databases, migrating SRF repositories, deploying non-repository items and managing all the planned and unplanned outages is no small feat. Oh yeah, and there’s still that little thing called production. These deployments can easily take days and are updated infrequently, because the business can’t afford any […]
“I want to do Continuous Deployment”
“We want to do continuous deployment” – i’ve heard this many times, but have yet to find a scenario where it actually fit. Why? Because you are confused. And rightly so. How many two letter acronyms can be thrown at you in one movement. DevOps takes the confusion further and has two of the acronyms […]
Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment
A question comes to mind in what exactly do we need to do to move forward with Continuous Delivery and Continuous deployment, How should we start or rather where we should start from. Many times teams may not have achieved the continuous integration properly, maybe due to lack of proper tools, workflow or historical process. What […]
Choose Digital Chooses Jenkins For Continuous Deployment
Challenge: Shrink Time To Innovate Choose Digital offers a white label media store solution (think iTunes) for enterprises that want to reward brand loyalty with opportunities to use miles, points, or cash to buy digital products. As a competitive media company, Choose Digital was eager to test and adopt innovations to its software platform as […]