The DevOps Bottleneck: Why IaC Orchestration is the Missing Piece
If you work in DevOps, you’ve heard it a thousand times: “Do more with less.” More automation, more security, more reliability—but with the same (or fewer) people. Meanwhile, your development teams keep growing, pushing out new features at breakneck speed. Yet somehow, the infrastructure team is supposed to scale magically to keep up. Let’s be […]
Building Complex Software at Scale with Tameem Hourani
RapDev founder Tameem Hourani dives into what it really takes for software engineering teams to develop and deploy complex software at scale. Hourani talks about the challenges of maintaining a blameless culture in DevOps, even as software complexity continues to grow. The discussion explores how teams can strike a balance between rapid innovation and system […]
Addressing the Problem of Drift Detection and Drift Cause Analysis
Perhaps the biggest challenge of IaC operations is drifts — a scenario where runtime environments deviate from their IaC-defined states, creating a festering issue that could have serious long-term implications.
Symbiotic Security Platform Discovers Security Vulnerabilities as Developers Write Code
Symbiotic Security emerged from stealth this week to launch a namesake platform that enables application developers to discover and remediate vulnerabilities and other errors in real-time as code is being written.
Survey Sees Positive DevOps Outlook Driving Investments
A survey of over 500 DevOps practitioners finds that approximately 60% of respondents plan to boost investments in DevOps tools and platforms in the next two years, with 20% planning significant budget increases.
Operations as Code: Transforming Operational Excellence
The push toward digital transformation and cloud-native infrastructure is inevitable. This shift brings the need to manage operations with the same rigor and automation we apply to infrastructure or security. Many organizations have embraced the ideas of everything in a pipeline and all things as code. While platform engineering and other teams have created answers […]
ZEST Security Brings Generative AI to Cloud Infrastructure Security
ZEST Security has launched a platform that leverages generative artificial intelligence (AI) to remediate code created using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools.
To Monetize HashiCorp, IBM Must Perform an Unprecedented Balancing Act
IBM’s multi-billion dollar deal to buy HashiCorp has left the hybrid cloud industry guessing what the future holds in store for the most popular provider of tools for DevOps and infrastructure-as-code (IaC).
Benefits and Best Practices for Infrastructure as Code
By adopting IaC best practices, such as version control and automated testing, organizations can significantly enhance their operational agility and responsiveness to changes.
Scaling with Terraform: How to Manage Infrastructure at Scale
These key points can help you effectively manage Terraform infrastructure at scale, ensuring your systems are resilient, scalable and compliant with organizational policies and industry standards.
Security, Automation and Developer Experience: The Top DevOps Trends of 2024
If you want to know what’s truly changing in the world of DevOps – as opposed to which conversations are most hype-worthy – these are the places to look.
Hashicorp Versus OpenTofu Gets Ugly
Hashicorp is accusing the open source OpenTofu Project of swiping some of its BSL-licensed Terraform code. Enter the lawyers.
The IaC Weight on DevOps’ Shoulders
It’s often challenging to adopt modern DevOps practices around infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Here’s how to make the journey smoother.
Survey: Significant Shift in IaC Tool Preferences
A Firefly survey suggests usage of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools is evolving rapidly in the cloud computing era.
Immutable Infrastructure: The Next Step for DevOps
For DevOps teams, immutable infrastructure offers a transformative approach to organizational security for companies of all sizes.
DevOps Halloween: Tricks and Treats
In the spirit of Halloween, let’s explore the tricks and treats of DevOps choices to ensure your team ends up with a bag full of treats rather than some nasty tricks.
OpsCanvas Generates Code to Automate DevOps Workflows
OpsCanvas unveiled a Draw & Deploy platform that generates code to provision cloud infrastructure via a chat interface.
Nitric Adds Support for Additional Languages to IaC Alternative
Nitric today announced it has added support for the Go and Kotlin programming languages to its application framework. The framework automatically creates code to provision infrastructure based on the way the code used to write an application has been developed. Rak Siva, vice president of engineering for Nitric, said that approach eliminates the need to […]
The DevOps Pendulum: Agility Vs. Control
Engineering, like everything else in life, is all about balance. In DevOps, the balance is between control and agility.
How AI Transforms DevOps Infrastructure
AI can help manage cloud resources for DevOps by predicting future needs based on usage trends and automatically adjusting resources to optimize cost and performance.
Pulumi Embeds Terraform Conversion Tool in Platform
At its virtual PulumiUP event, Pulumi this week announced it embedded an ability to convert instances of Terraform into its infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform via a simple command line interface (CLI) command. In addition, Pulumi added a Review Stacks capability that automatically creates a dedicated cloud environment to review code every time a pull request is […]
It Is Time for DevOps to Focus on Ops
The advent of both Agile development and DevOps were great steps in improving an IT process that had become ossified, with policies that alternated between resistance to change and trying to do things better/faster. Between them, Agile and DevOps broke the cycle of resistance … but only for development. The confusion around CI/CD is a […]
Cloud Drift Detection With Policy-as-Code
Cloud configurations can change and change often. Introducing new technologies, releasing new features and supporting new business requirements entail a constant flow of configuration changes in web application development. However, drift occurs regardless of how well-designed your IaC implementation is. The term “drift” is used to denote a state in which the actual state of […]