DevOps Chat: The Kubernetes and Multi-Cloud App Journey with Rafay
After Akamai acquired his company, Haseeb Budhani decided to take on his next challenge and start Rafay. Rafay focuses on the complexity and repetitive aspects of deploying and managing Kubernetes applications. Rafay addresses complexity by providing application abstraction, cluster blueprinting and enterprise-ready integration, making Rafay a great candidate for multi-region, multi-cloud, hybrid and edge/MEC adoption. […]
A New Paradigm in Container Security with Service Mesh
Containers have been around for some time, but only recently has the technology become mature enough for large enterprises to adopt it both on-prem and in the cloud. The obvious benefits for developers include the ability to dramatically reduce the time to production and the ability to lower the operational burden. This is further supported […]
Data Monoliths Go Cloud-Native with Kubernetes
Breaking monolithic applications into independently scalable services is the core of the cloud-native application model. By making cloud-native apps easy to deploy and manage, Kubernetes has contributed to a big change in IT practices. Initial cloud-native conquests started with stateless services and quickly grew to encompass applications that manage data. Database management systems have long […]
Learning Production Troubleshooting Techniques in Microarchitectures
One of the great things about our industry is the ability for anyone to get started doing development with a minimal amount of tools. Anyone can learn to do development with just a computer of some sort, a text editor, a tutorial and their brain. In fact, the initial basics of how to think through […]
DevOps Chat: From 0 to 1,000 Deploys Per Month with Redbox
Many organizations want to implement the latest DevOps/SRE practices, but many struggle with transforming the existing processes over to new streamlined processes. How does an organization transform from zero automated deploys to 100s/1000s a month? Most importantly, how do you show the value of Spinnaker to your business as a whole? November’s Spinnaker Summit 2019 […]
Identifying and Abstracting Business Intelligence from Kubernetes Workloads
In the age of big data, businesses are inundated with data points. While they know there’s an abundance of valuable resources available to them, making sense of this data to derive actionable insights is often still a challenge. CNCF industry survey data shows workload complexity and monitoring remain top challenges for enterprises in terms of […]
From Pets to X-as-Code: Enabling Control and Predictability for ITOps at Scale
Amy Wheelus, vice president of network cloud at AT&T, recently spoke about declarative predictability at the Open Networking Summit in Antwerp. AT&T is the world’s largest telecommunications company providing mission critical communication services where people’s jobs–and lives–can be on the line. As they move away from labor-intensive IT operations toward cloud-native automation, there is a […]
Survey: IT Striking Balance Between Innovation, Reliability
When it comes to managing IT, most DevOps teams are locked in an eternal struggle to balance innovation with reliability. There’s always a keen interest in being able to take advantage of the latest and greatest IT platform. However, new IT platforms don’t achieve the level of maturity required to build and deploy mission-critical applications […]
Kubernetes and Service Mesh With StackRox
DevOps and Kubernetes enable organizations to “go with security,” adding security to the code instead of on top of it. In other words, security is built-in rather than bolted on. This is one of the aspects of security in the DevOps world with a Kubernetes system that Ali Golshan, co-founder and CTO of StackRox, explained […]
DevOps Chat: Holistic Kubernetes and Cloud-Native App Security, With StackRox
More than ever, application security is a top priority. Beyond secure coding practices, a holistic app security strategy addresses the full application and infrastructure stack. This includes containers, microservices, orchestration, infrastructure software and the cloud. Bolting on the next security tool may not be the answer. Kamal Shah, StackRox CEO, joins us on this DevOps […]
The New Era of Kubernetes, With StackRox
Orchestrators are becoming the operating systems of cloud for the future. Which one do you think has become the dominant one? Ali Golshan, co-founder and CTO of StackRox, placed his bet on Kubernetes right from the start. StackRox is a Kubernetes-native security platform that helps DevOps and security teams operationalize security, providing richer context, native […]
An Inside Look at GitOps
At a time when variations on DevOps abound, get ready for the latest: GitOps. This new term promises to bring some order to what can be operational chaos and empower operational teams to leverage best practices learned from their developer counterparts. It’s early days yet for GitOps, but here’s what we think you need to […]
Survey Sees Cloud Foundry Momentum Gains
At a time when many organizations are wondering to what degree they should rely on legacy application development and deployment platform versus emerging container-based platforms, the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) today released the results of a survey that shows reliance on the organization’s namesake open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment continues to grow. Announced at the […]
Weighing the Cost of Improper DevSecOps
Simply put, data breaches are terrible news for companies. And, the costs associated with such attacks continue to escalate. A recent IBM-sponsored report found an average price of 3.92 million per breach. Not adapting security automation and vulnerability scanning into development pipelines could have a drastic effect not only on cost but workload efficiency and […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: VMware Transformed
At the VMworld 2019 conference this week, VMware in no uncertain teams made it clear it wants to become a major DevOps force. Following the acquisition of sister company Pivotal Software last week, VMware is moving to build out an application development framework for building and deploying cloud-native applications based on Kubernetes. That effort coincides […]
Morpheus Data Simplifies Management of Ansible and Kubernetes
Morpheus Data is moving to make it easier to adopt and manage both Ansible and Kubernetes. Its Morpheus 4.0 update, announced today, includes a distribution of Kubernetes as well as tighter integration with the open source Ansible automation framework. Brad Parks, vice president of marketing and business development for Morpheus Data, said in the case […]
Pivotal Embraces Spinnaker for Continous Delivery
Pivotal Software has added support for the Spinnaker continuous delivery platform to its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment for the open source Cloud Foundry PaaS. Richard Seroter, vice president of product marketing at Pivotal, said version 2.6 of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) extends the reach of the Spinnaker CD platform developed by Netflix to its PaaS environment […]
DevOps Chat: Chaos Testing With xMatters
Introducing chaotic, unpredictable test software into your methodical testing regime is a good idea, right? Yes, it’s a branch of testing called Chaos Engineering, or Chaos Testing. Netflix’s Chaos Monkey famously introduced many of us to the idea that resilient systems, networks and software become more resilient and less brittle if we use chaotic testing […]
Agile Stacks Extends Reach of DevOps Automation Platform
Agile Stacks this week announced it is extending the reach of its namesake DevOps automation platform to Kubernetes and additional cloud services. Company CEO John Mathon said that by extending the reach of the company’s platform to include Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure and Red Hat’s OpenShift distribution of Kubernetes alongside existing support for […]
HPE Extends Hybrid Cloud Computing Strategy
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today advanced its hybrid cloud computing strategy by announcing at its HPE Discover 2019 conference an alliance with Google to embrace Kubernetes in hybrid cloud computing environments and then extending the reach of its software-defined infrastructure for building private clouds to legacy ProLiant servers. Lauren Whitehouse, director of marketing for the software-defined […]
Pre-Commit Job Workflow in Azure DevOps
Many organizations use a combination of open so Many organizations use a combination of open source and commercial tools and Azure DevOps (formerly called VSTS) and an application lifecycle management (ALM) tool that includes features such as Azure pipelines. This article talks about how to achieve an end-to-end DevOps setup in Azure Pre-requisites: Subscription Project […]
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 […]
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 […]