Can DevOps and MSPs Work Together?
DevOps and the adoption of MSP-based IT operations are both surging trends in the IT industry today. They are also trends that contradict each other in some key respects. Here’s a look at what MSPs mean for DevOps, and vice versa. DevOps and MSPs: A Primer MSPs, or managed service providers, are companies that provide […]
Value Stream Optimization: Putting Business in the Driver’s Seat
How value stream can be a major driver of DevOps success in today’s software-only world Even as DevOps reaches a pinnacle in acceptance (as of 2018, only three percent of firms had not adopted DevOps and had no plans to do so), many organizations are still struggling to get high-quality software out the door. DevOps […]
Are Your Development Processes Truly Agile?
Many organizations are making a move to agile-powered environments, but agile development is more than a name. How do you determine if your organization is truly agile? The evaluation starts with the Agile Manifesto. If you’re following the principles laid out in the manifesto, that’s a good sign that you’re on an agile journey. For […]
GitLab Updates Advance Its CI/CD Platform
GitLab has expanded the capabilities of its continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform to include tighter integration with collaboration platforms from Slack and Mattermost along with the ability to support Docker containers running on Windows. Version 11.11 of GitLab adds a caching dependency proxy for Docker images to the Premium edition of GitLab along with the […]
Textbook DevOps vs. Real-World DevOps
DevOps is one of those things—like Marxism or baking macarons—that is easy to understand in theory, but much messier to implement in practice. Real-world DevOps rarely aligns with textbook DevOps or the DevOps practices that organizations should follow in theory. That is true for a number of reasons. Let’s walk through some of the biggest […]
IBM Extends z/OS Toward DevOps Again
A few months ago, I wrote about the release of Zowe, the first Open Source project based on z/OS. Zowe is a framework for including z/OS in your applications with less pain than we have traditionally suffered. IBM supported this project as part of its view that enterprises need to have interoperability between platforms. This […]
DAOPS Foundation Hosts Global DevOps Forum
DAOPS Foundation recently hosted its “Global DevOps Development Forum” in Santa Clara, California. The meetup, which was held May 13, was hosted by Jeff Liu, a DevOps expert from Google, and drew DevOps experts from Tencent, JFrog and JD. The topics of this meeting were the history of DevOps and the introduction of DevOps capability […]
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. […]
Successful DevOps Initiatives Start With Company Culture
What initially drove the need for embarking on the DevOps journey in your team or at your company in the first place? Was it: Market shift? New leadership or an acquisition? New product or service idea? Cost savings or consolidation? All of the above? Whatever drove the need, my guess is there were pre-sales demos, […]
DevOps Security Champion: Who, What and Why?
In general, DevOps is a process and culture of organizations to get applications out the door faster and with higher quality. To do so, security champions are essential. In DevOps, security champions work as a backup mechanism in various projects and take multiple leadership roles. Security champions make effective decisions and take projects forward while […]
Chef Extends Automation Reach and Scope
At its ChefConf 2019 conference today, Chef extended its core platform in ways that collectively serve to automate further the management of applications and the IT infrastructure they are deployed on. Extensions to the Chef Enterprise Automation (EAS) Stack include the addition of Application Operations Dashboards, Migration Accelerators for moving applications to the cloud and […]
Survey Finds CI/CD Adoption Has Long Way to Go
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 conference, Codefresh published the results of a survey of 130 developers that finds not only are nearly a third (32%) not using any type of continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform at all, but 60% said their organization has yet to take full advantage of automation to accelerate application […]
Security: Are You Doing DevOps Right?
Phil Kernick, co-founder and CTO of cybersecurity specialist CQR Consulting, has no fundamental problem with DevOps, but asks, from a security perspective, “How many people do it right?” If DevOps is going to work and produce secure systems, then developers must take responsibility for security. It’s not something that can be treated as an additional […]
Using Automation Tools to Drive Collaboration, Innovation
How automation can help business move past the walls of confusion between dev and ops In the current state of things, businesses are leaning more than ever on the collective intelligence of their tech teams to drive innovation within their respective organizations. These teams are always comprised of developers and operations professionals. With the foray […]
DevOps Chat: We Are Devo, With Walter Scott
If you have massive amounts of data, Devo wants to help. The Madrid-based company specializes in the handling and processing of massive amounts of data. In this DevOps Chat we spoke with Devo CEO Walter Scott about the use cases for Devo in a data-crazy world. Walter is a seasoned CEO in the tech sector. […]
Adobe Aims to Build Developer Ecosystem
Adobe today outlined an approach to building a developer ecosystem that revolves around open source code, application programming interfaces (APIs) and DevOps processes. Matt Asay, head of developer ecosystem for Adobe, said in the last few years Adobe has increased its reliance on open source code to deliver offerings such as Adobe Experience Manager, a […]
Kubernetes Adoption: Are You Ready?
Enterprises are rapidly embracing a cloud-first strategy and microservices play a pivotal role in this journey. But enterprises are achieving various levels of success, measured by many factors includingmaturity of DevOps in the enterprise, ability to identify the right candidates for microservices, selecting the appropriate container management platform, adequate tooling and, finally, cultural shift in […]
The Bug in Production: What You Don’t Know Can – and Will – Harm You
Despite the risk of unplanned downtime, many organizations that develop software and services push them live without adequately testing for bugs that will manifest against production traffic. This is a huge gamble: Those bugs could lead to errors that bring down the service altogether. Pushing live without sufficient testing can be detrimental to your business. […]
New Relic Doubles Down on DevOps
New Relic today unfurled an extension of its monitoring platform specifically designed for DevOps teams tasked with managing complex IT environments. Nadya Duke Boone, vice president of product management for New Relic, said New Relic One, available to existing customers at no additional cost, makes it possible for DevOps teams to now visualize all the […]
Microsoft Gains DevOps Momentum
Microsoft, at its recent Microsoft Build 2019 conference, launched a series of efforts intended to make it easier for organizations to embrace best DevOps practices, including making it possible to address both continuous integration and continuous delivery within the same YAML file using Azure Pipelines. Microsoft also announced it will extend Azure Pipelines to provide […]
The Terrain of DevOps is Strewn with Pitfalls
As Gene Kim, one of the leading thinkers in DevOps, once said, “DevOps is not about what you do, but what your outcomes are.” What he’s telling us is that DevOps is about enabling a rapid flow of work that transitions from development to testing to operations, but the bottom line is that it’s about […]
Nutanix Eases Development of IoT Apps
Nutanix, a vendor of hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, has released a new developer environment that allows developers to try and test IoT and AI apps in the cloud. Starting May 7, developers can sign up for a free 10-day trial of this experience. The developer environment is built under Nutanix’s Xi IoT Platform and gives developers […]