From Laboratories to DevOps Factories for Continuous Testing
The prior blog Continuous Testing and Monitoring Essentials for SDN and NFV discussed the importance and suggested practices for testing and monitoring complex systems such as software defined networks and network functions that are virtualized . Whether the product being tested is a complex network system or not, with DevOps the laboratory is no longer […]
Rugged DevOps: Good, Bad & Ugly
The Good: DevOps has been a success for Dev. With higher expectations, better processes, more management focus and new tools like advanced PaaS and containers, developers are churning out more and more software faster than ever. Success! Or is it? The Bad: DevOps has been a success…for Dev. For Dev teams, this may result in […]
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the DevOps
What is DevOps? “DevOps is a cultural and professional movement” –Adam Jacob [movement (n): a group of people working together to advance their ideas.] So, who are these people and what’s the big idea? The people are system administrators, developers, product managers, QA technicians, security analysts, network engineers, and anyone else involved in the business […]
An obituary to a Managed Test Service
1st October 2020, Enterpirseborough , F500 Inc street Managed Test Service, 66, died Friday, 3rd October, 2020 at the Delivery governance war room in the IT head quarters of F500 inc. following a terminal illness caused by a lifetime burden of 34 SLA’s, debt burden of 44 KPIs , 29 painful claw backs by procurement […]
Dev loves Open Source. Ops needs Scale. Now What?
Crossing the divide from Dev-Ops to DevOps: At the heart of the divide between Dev and Ops are the very different needs and constraints of each organization. Traditionally their day-to-day lives are very different. So are their war stories. And so are the metrics that are traditionally used to judge Dev and Ops. Predictably, the two organizations […]
Carving through the hype – take the DevOps maturity assessment
As anyone who spends time with their family over the holidays can attest, the notion of maturity is a highly subjective concept. Whether it’s sizing up the next generation’s advancement or defaulting to time-honored inter-sibling behaviors, annual get-togethers offer tangible proof of what’s new and those things that likely won’t ever change. In the domain […]
Can We Stop Talking About DevOps?
I first heard the term DevOps from a friend in the software business when I was working at Dell HQ in Round Rock, TX. He recommended that I read The Phoenix Project, by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford. I did read it and I found it a fascinating story, but as a long-time […]
Combining SecOps and DevOps
Security has to be top of mind for most any company that is moving, or has moved, to the cloud. And, businesses know they need to act swiftly to ensure that any new products or services they’re dreaming up do not expose them to risk. How can they do that when the fast-moving nature of […]
5 Tips for Building a Winning DevOps Culture
Despite our cognitive prowess, humans are just like other animal in the food chain. We follow patterns of behavior based on survival. If food is safe to eat today, we’ll eat it tomorrow. If we can navigate a road without getting hurt, we’ll do it again and again. This explains why change is so hard. […]
Survey says network agility is still immature
At least that’s the word from SDx Central’s Cloud Management, Orchestration and DevOps 2015 Report in which 76% of respondents said the network was the most immature component in the cloud management stack. Now to be fair, the network is one of the last components (I’m looking at you, security) to get on board the “automate […]
How Fast Is Fast Enough?
One of the primary goal of DevOps is the ability of an organization to bring an idea to market faster. But how fast is fast enough? Do they need to improve time to market by 10%, 20%, 50%..90%? Do all applications need to ultimately be released within hours? In order to compete do we all […]
Digital Disrupters – Building a DevOps Leadership Profile
While the advancement of DevOps methodology remains fairly nascent for many organizations, an ever-expanding class of leading practitioners are evolving a wide range of related best practices. Beyond the well-worn concept of “unicorns” – the scant few organizations that stand as mythical examples of DevOps nirvana – this broader set of early adopters have begun […]
DevOps- Is [Ops] operations contribution equally Important?
I started my technology writing journey with a 2 part blog (One & Two) on Service Delivery Excellence, before jumping into the DEVOPS bandwagon, but now as I read across all related discussions, I end up feeling that the good kid is always the DEV and OPS are the unnecessary tag along. We always talk […]
DevOps Leadership Series 2015: Women & Diversity – a diversity of thought and contribution
Many of the leading minds and practitioners in the DevOps movement are women. I hope that comes as no surprise to you. DevOps has always embraced a diversity of thought and contribution. Case in point, close to 50% of the presenters at this year’s DevOps Days Boston event were women. In this episode of […]
DevOps Leadership Series 2015: Women & Diversity
Many of the leading minds and practitioners in the DevOps movement are women. I hope that comes as no surprise to you. DevOps has always embraced a diversity of thought and contribution. Case in point, close to 50% of the presenters at this year’s DevOps Days Boston event were women. In this episode of […]
The business benefits of DevOps
As DevOps has become more of a mainstream concept it seems like there’s less need to define what it is or explain what it does. As prevalent as DevOps is for those of us who work in the world of DevOps or organizations that have already embraced DevOps there are still many businesses out there […]
Native Integration of APM Driving DevOps Maturity
With applications performance monitoring established as one of the fundamental cornerstones of today’s DevOps methodologies, it’s easy to overlook the reality that effective instrumentation of such tools remains extremely difficult. Specifically, the biggest challenge remains creating performance metrics that address both IT and larger business initiatives. There’s no question that APM is one of the […]
“Culture” isn’t a swear word
I’ve heard a number of lazy criticisms of DevOps recently particularly where individuals talk about culture and that gets my goat. “It’s fluffy” “It’s in-actionable” “DevOps is just automation” “Cultural change isn’t relevant in a bank – its a term used by the Facebook’s of this world” I think part of this is the continuing […]
Upcoming SANS Webinar: Orchestrating Security in the Cloud
Organizations are increasingly migrating to cloud-based services to handle sensitive data and business processes, meaning security teams need to carefully review and understand what security controls are available to help protect them. Given the pace of cloud adoption, security teams need to increase security automation efforts and employ tools that can better secure their cloud […]
Are we really back to “just reboot it”?
The server infrastructure management style of pets vs cattle was originally coined by Bill Baker of Microsoft though Randy Bias of CloudScaling further popularized it in 2012 and revised and clarified in this presentation. Essentially the original “pets” style of server management has mainly hand-built, named, and configured servers that are heavily cared for as […]
The 3L rule, a general piece of advice
What I am going to describe will sound elementary to most of you, even trivial but I know that there is a difference between being aware of something and actually doing it. I have been working hard to spread the DevOps word these last few years and through experiences, project, conferences and articles I have […]
Why I became DevOps Certified
I usually do not care too much about diplomas or certifications. To me, one’s value isn’t reflected by a piece of paper but rather by his or her actions, dedication, motivation and efficiency. And yet, I decided to become DevOps certified and furthermore, become a teacher for that very same certification. Have I gone insane […]