DevSecOps: A Renewed Commitment to Secure Delivery, Part 2
If done right, DevSecOps eliminates the cultural roadblocks that often prevent organizations from getting IT security proactively involved with development and operations. Barriers are the last thing any organization should contend with when comprehensive security is an absolute priority at a time when data breaches, intellectual property theft and other cybercrimes can almost immediately cripple […]
Observability-Driven Development: From Software Development to DevOps and Beyond
In today’s world of cloud platforms and applications, typically delivered as SaaS (Software as a Service), it is critical for organizations to ensure efficient collaboration between software development and operations teams. The software development team codes the software application or platform, while the DevOps team streamlines and automates the entire production lifecycle, from development and […]
SolarWinds Strengthens AppOptics APM Platform
SolarWinds today updated its AppOptics application performance management (APM) platform by adding both service- and trace-level root cause analysis capabilities. Jim Hansen, vice president of products, application management for SolarWinds, said the goal is to provide most of the same capabilities any IT organization would find in an APM platform that would cost 10 times […]
EP 1: A Brief History of Testing
DevOps’ sister site Digital Anarchist has launched a bi-weekly video series and companion monthly roundtable on DevOps, Automation, CI/CD and testing. Featuring leaders in all of these areas, we explore the challenges and issues software delivery and IT teams face every day. How do we go faster, smarter with better quality? DevOps Unbound!
Wind River Launches CD Platform for Embedded Systems
Wind River is fostering the adoption of DevOps processes for embedded systems by making available a continuous delivery (CD) platform that its customers can download. Glenn Seiler, vice president for open source strategy for Wind River, said the CD platform is based on an open source instance of the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. […]
SaltStack Updates Enterprise IT Automation Framework
SaltStack has partnered with Tenable.io to make it possible to pull vulnerability data into the enterprise edition of its namesake IT automation framework. In addition, version 6.2 of SaltStack Enterprise now integrates with the IT operations analytics platform from Splunk to make it possible to configure the Splunk Universal Forwarder to index and analyze events […]
Automation Hacks for DevOps Teams
DevOps teams are expected to do more work in less time. They need to plan, test, build, secure and release applications at a fast-paced rate. Of course, the DevOps team needs to achieve all of this while maintaining high software quality. This is why automation is a crucial part of the DevOps workflow. The goal […]
The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things
Ever since Mark Zuckerburg uttered the phrase “move fast and break things,” it has become the motto of many development teams. Companies wanting to be the next unicorn decided this must be the way to operate. The race was on to release more, ship faster, never stop. If moving slowly and methodically wasn’t working, doing […]
Three Keys to Successful AI Adoption
Over the past several years, we have begun to see the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in businesses. According to a study for the AI Index 2019 Annual Report, more than half of respondents report their companies are using AI in at least one function or business unit. Thirty percent report they have AI embedded […]
What Is DevSecOps and How to Enable It on Your SDLC?
For the past three to four years, all the companies around the IT world have adopted agile and different application development methodologies that leverage the work for different departments or areas and helps them to develop new products and release new features to improve their processes and infrastructure. In this new Agile and DevOps world […]
Stellus Launches Next Generation NAS Platform
Stellus Technologies launched a network-attached storage (NAS) system capable of processing unstructured data at 10 times the speed of existing systems. Based on a software-defined file system written on top of a key-value store, the Stellus Data Platform can be acquired either as an appliance or in the form of a virtual image that IT […]
Survey Sees Little Progress in Drive to Shift Testing Left
It looks like the drive to shift testing left toward developers to accelerate the development and deployment of applications has stalled. A survey of 102 IT professionals involved in application testing published by Perforce, a provider of testing tools, finds only 18% of organizations test applications solely within their development feature teams. The rest continue […]
DevOps Chats: XebiaLabs/CollabNet Version One Merger Executive Discussion
In this special DevOps Chats Video Edition we dive into the XebiaLabs/CollabNet Version One Merger. Joining us for this video discussion is the CEO of the new company, Ashok Reddy and President and former XebiaLabs CEO, Derek Langone. Ashok, Derek and DevOps.com editor-in-chief, take a deep dive into the reasons for this merger and what […]
Report Pins Cloud Security Woes on Flawed DevOps Processes
By now it’s become apparent that the bulk of security incidents involving cloud platforms revolve around some type of configuration issue. An analysis of those cloud configurations published today by the Unit 42 research arm of Palo Alto Networks suggests that the root cause of the issue is most likely the templates many developers and […]
DevSecOps: A Renewed Commitment to Secure Delivery, Part 1
Security has never been as high a priority than it is today, as companies fear they’ll be the next headline, the next victim of a data breach. Executives also worry about applications meeting the high standards of compliance–either with global regulations such as GDPR, state-oriented privacy laws or the many specific ones covering finance, health […]
Survey Finds Much Room for APM Improvement
A survey of 317 application owners, developers and support team professionals in the U.S. and Canada published by SolarWinds finds that while reliance on application performance management (APM) tools is widespread, most IT teams are still relying on these tools to react to events rather than to proactively improve application experience and performance. The survey […]
Multi-Cloud Adoption to Better Enable the Developer Workforce
Over the past decade, we started to see a broader shift toward the use of multiple cloud providers by the enterprise. The need to reduce risk, optimize cloud usage, manage costs and the push to open source and cloud vendor-agnostic technologies are providing more options for developers, which will likely lead to an even steeper […]
How to Successfully Adopt Mobile DevOps Practices
Mobile DevOps is more than simply adopting a new set of tools and practices. It also comes with the need to adopt a completely different mindset, in the form of a cultural-organizational change. The approach is based on the Agile methodology, but takes its practices further— not only by getting other teams more involved, but […]
SRE Is the Most Innovative Approach to ITSM Since ITIL
For over a decade, ITIL has been the leading ITSM framework adopted by enterprises across the globe. So, what is driving a rapidly increasing interest in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) as a service management alternative? In its own words, Google refers to SRE as its approach to service management: “The SRE team is responsible for […]
SIOS Technology Automates Rebooting of AWS EC2 VM Instances
SIOS Technology Corp. this week launched SIOS AppKeeper, a tool that automatically reboots instances of EC2 virtual machines anytime they fail. Michael Bilancieri, senior vice president of products and marketing for SIOS, said SIOS AppKeeper is an extension of the work SIOS has historically done to enable servers and clusters to failover. However, many organizations […]
Implementing DevOps Goes Beyond Technology
The implementation of DevOps is primarily toward a change of process. All you need is to break down the feed store and bring in the competing individual inducements to acquire the actual benefits from DevOps. Regarding the change of process, it will either be embraced by those who are making the change and succeed, or […]
F5 Networks Launches Next-Gen ADC Based on NGINX
F5 Networks this week launched version 3.0 of its NGINX application delivery controller (ADC) that adds application programming interface (API) management tools, analytics and monitoring tools, a service mesh, a certificate manager, a developer portal and integrations with multiple continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms. Ken Bocchino, director of product management for NGINX at F5 Networks, […]
GitLab Updates Core CI/CD Platform
GitLab this week delivered an update to its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery platform that promises to make pipelines more efficient and easier to manage, in addition to making it easier to set up pipelines in Windows environments. Version 12.7 of the core GitLab platform adds support for Parent-Child Pipelines and Pipeline Resource Groups. Parent-Child Pipelines […]