Tag: deployment

'Everything as code' can create opportunities for misadventure for DevOps teams DevOps’ ultimate aim is to create efficiencies in the software delivery process. But it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes ...

The first decade or so of DevOps had one truth to it: It was about change. Not just change in the way that IT worked, but change in the way DevOps worked—particularly ...

Donovan Brown of Microsoft, in conversation with Matt Hilbert of Redgate Software, discusses database DevOps' biggest challenges When DevOps was first talked about in Flickr’s seminal "10 deploys per day" Velocity presentation ...

Imagine a world where your continuous integration/continuous deployment environment is 100 percent automated, including the passing of credentials. Capital One, a leading U.S. bank, has achieved this, and Andrey Utis, director of ...

Every few years, the IT canvas is splashed with a new initiative that sparks enthusiasm among businesses and technologists alike. DevOps is one such philosophy gaining significant momentum in today’s digital transformation ...

Containers are things for your things. That is true in the development world, too—containers are things for your software, and, like containers for your things, software containers can help you be organized, ...

DevOps has become that celebrity who's always the talk of the town but is largely misunderstood. It's even quoted in the wrong context. A few days back, while speaking at a conference, ...

There are two fundamental approaches of how to design automation processes, declarative (also often known as model) and imperative (also often known as workflow or procedural). The purpose of this article is ...

Since the widespread acceptance of virtual machines (VMs), we’ve been on a racetrack with changing technology, with little opportunity to stop and digest lessons learned. That’s not to say organizations haven’t done ...

Deployment is where Dev meets Ops. The glue that binds the two is orchestration, which places operations guidelines in the application itself. Here’s how to avoid trouble when deploying your apps to ...

Day 2 of DevOpsDays London 2016 kicked off with a presentation from the legendary Gene Kim. The theme that dominated today's proceedings was the "human factor," (fitting, as we finished Day 1 ...

Deploying software releases is a mixture of planning, testing, late hours, and celebratory beers. This checklist is intended to be a guide to help improve how your team achieves this complicated and ...