DevOps Chat: Aqua Security Seeks To Secure Containers

November 9, 2017 by Alan Shimel 1 Comments

The migration to container-based application infrastructures is accelerating at a faster pace even than we saw with hypervisor-based infrastructure 18 or so years ago. Hand in hand with this is the race to provide better security solutions that are native to and purpose-built for containerized environments. Aqua Security has established itself in the container security […]

Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators

September 20, 2017 by Derek E. Weeks 2 Comments

Admiral Calcote, also known as Lee Calcote (@lcalcote) or the Ginger Geek to his friends, gave a presentation titled, “Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators,” at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. Okay, he isn’t really an admiral—nor does anyone call him that—but he used the title “admiral” to describe what container orchestrators do, relating it to an admiral directing a […]

SecOps: The Next Stride for DevOps

August 14, 2017 by contributor 0 Comments

Global IT spending is now touching a figure of $4 trillion. In today’s technology-intensive environment, data is the biggest commodity, more valuable and powerful than ever. And like Peter Parker’s uncle Ben noted, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Security has always been a big concern for valuable things and IT is no exception. IT […]

Sprinting in a DevOps Marathon: Tips for Success

July 12, 2017 by Gabriel Deupree 0 Comments

Remember the good old days of 2007, when Heroku was the shiny toy everyone wanted? Thanks to Moore’s law and the evolution of tech, 2007 seems like a lifetime ago. In fact, 2015 seems like a lifetime ago, now that machine learning has advanced for artificial intelligence to “wake up”—but I digress. DevOps and building […]

I Can’t Go to That DevOps Conference

May 9, 2017 by Derek E. Weeks 0 Comments

Last year, I was able to attend 18 DevOps conferences. I saw some awesome presentations, met incredible people and expanded my knowledge of the latest practices at each conference. While my role as the DevOps Advocate for Sonatype enables me to get out to all of these conferences, not everyone has the time, the budget, […]

Get Your DevOps Right With These 7 Technologies

May 8, 2017 by contributor 1 Comments

Editors’ Note: As with all of our contributed articles, the views expressed in this article are of the author, not DevOps.com. Due to its vendor-agnostic stance, DevOps.com does not endorse any particular technology. There was a time when the operations team and the developers regularly were at each other’s throats. The developers were never satisfied […]

DevOps Chat: Purpose Built Appliances for Containerized Applications with Diamanti’s Mark Balch

March 31, 2017 by Alan Shimel 1 Comments

Back in my StillSecure days, building purpose-built appliances for security was all the rage. Over time, though, security-as-a-service captured much of the market (although security appliances are still a big seller). For containerized applications, you may think cloud is the way to go. But the folks at Diamanti say that purpose-built appliances for containerized applications […]

All Day DevOps: Exploring the New Ordinary

February 20, 2017 by Derek E. Weeks 1 Comments

There you were. You heard about Docker, become mesmerized, floated into its new, special world … and then all chaos broke out. Things were not that easy and you scrambled for knowledge. Some folks saw the light and stepped forward, while others are still trying to figure the out the happy path home where containers […]