The Foundational Era of Open Source
Contrary to popular belief, software is not eating the world. Open source software is eating the world. This was very apparent at the Linux Foundation’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event recently in San Diego. Driving this phenomenon is what I call the Foundational era of Open Source. This Foundational era of Open Source has replaced what […]
Logz.io Adds Monitoring Service Based on ELK and Grafana
Logz.io today at the AWS re:Invent 2019 conference launched Cloud Observability Platform, a monitoring and security cloud service based on ELK—open source Elasticsearch, a search engine; Logstash, a data processing pipeline; and Kibana, a set of visualization tools—and Grafana, an analytics and monitoring platform. Company CEO Tomer Levy said it’s become apparent that developers have […]
And the Builders Shall Inherit the Earth: The Democratization of IT
The democratization of IT is happening, and vendors need to recognize that if they want to survive Just back home from KubeCon/CloudNativeCon in San Diego, which can only be called a force of nature. I was joined there by more than 12,000 other folks to discuss, listen and learn about all things cloud-native and open. […]
WhiteSource Acquires Renovate to Automate Dependency Updates
WhiteSource has acquired Renovate, a provider of an open source automated dependency update platform that the company plans to make available for free. Rhys Arkins, co-founder of Renovate who is now director of product for WhiteSource, said that as software projects become more complicated, there’s an increased need for a mechanism to identify and track […]
Using Open Source for Better DevOps Outcomes
Many insurers have jumped on the DevOps bandwagon in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their systems and systems implementations. Very few insurers, however, spend much time thinking about the open source software community as a way to improve their DevOps approach–and the skills of their developers–and in that regard they’re missing a […]
Survey Surfaces Uneven Approaches to DevSecOps
A ZeroNorth survey shows implementing DevSecOps is rife with questions for many organizations, with no clear answers There’s general agreement that digital business transformation initiatives are driving an overall acceleration in the rate at which applications are developed. At the same time, however, given the critical nature of those applications, cybersecurity has never been more […]
Report: More Salesforce Customers Adopting DevOps
A survey of 201 executives who work in organizations that have adopted the Salesforce Lightning platform finds a surprising number are employing DevOps practices to customize Salesforce software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Conducted by Beagle Research Group on behalf of Copado, a provider of a commercial continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform for Salesforce SaaS environments, the survey […]
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 […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Accelerates Open Source Innovation Pace
In the span of a few short years, open source software has evolved from being a means to create the free equivalent of an existing commercial platform to now becoming the primary means of driving innovation across the IT industry. That rate of innovation has increased dramatically in the last few years. However, much of […]
DevOps Chat: Phoenix OSS Framework with DockYard
Stateless application architecture is the current de facto approach, right? Not necessarily. Stateful applications communicating over TCP sockets can and are successfully built even in today’s age of cloud-native applications. Our guest on this episode of DevOps Chat is Chris McCord, creator of the Phoenix open source software, and architectural engineer at DockYard. Chris came […]
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 […]
Kong Employs Machine Learning to Extend Services Control
At the Kong Summit 2019 conference, Kong today announced it has acquired Insomnia, an open source testing tool for application programming interfaces (APIs). In addition, it has added support for REST, Kafka Streams, gRPC, GraphQL and plugins written in Go to its service control platform. Kong also added more capabilities based on machine learning algorithms […]
DevOps Chat: Red Hat Developer Experience in the IBM Era
Red Hat Linux is a staple of most enterprise IT organizations’ software diets. Developers and IT leaders all over the world took notice when IBM acquired Red Hat. Will IBM Red Hat change? Will Red Hat continue to operate as it does today or will it be subsumed and disappear into some IBM business unit? […]
Continuous Delivery Foundation Momentum Picks Up
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) this week revealed that it now includes 33 member organizations, including now JPM Chase, eBay, Dell Boomi, Cycloid, White Source, the Association of DevOps Professionals and the DevOps Institute. Founded by CapitalOne, CircleCI, Cloudbees, Google, Huawei, IBM, jFrog, Netflix and Salesforce in March the CDF is committed to promoting the […]
Red Hat Unveils Ansible Platform
At the AnsibleFest 2019 conference, Red Hat this week announced the general availability of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform that combines several IT automation technologies into a single subscription. Built on top of Red Hat Ansible Engine, the platform also includes Red Hat Ansible Tower, a management console, and Red Hat Network Automation, an […]
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 […]
Eclipse Foundation Delivers on Jakarta EE Promise
The Eclipse Foundation today announced the general availability of Jakarta Enterprise Edition (EE) 8 Full Platform and Web Profile specifications and associated technology compatibility kits (TCKs). Announced during the JakartaOne Livestream virtual conference, Jakarta EE 8 is the follow-on open source platform to JavaEE that provides a foundation for building cloud-native applications using a familiar […]
Why Modernizing Security is Like Visiting a Fast-Food Restaurant
Fast casual restaurants are taking over the food industry. Today’s consumers want quality and speed, and the brick-and-mortar model offering immediate service paired with quality ingredients perfectly fits the bill. It’s the new, modernized dining experience. You can also argue that the same modernization taking the food industry by storm is happening in the security […]
GitHub Actions Advances Automation Strategy
GitHub Actions, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) through which DevOps tools can automate workflows, is now available in beta. Previewed last year at the GitHub Universe event, GitHub Actions is intended to provide not only a way to automate responses to events occurring within a GitHub Repository but also share those workflows across […]
DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019: Sacha Labourey Q&A
CloudBees has been active on the acquisition front, picking up Electric Cloud and Rollout in recent months: Are we going to be talking about other deals by the time DevOps World Lisbon rolls around in December? “We’re always actively looking at deals that make sense. To be truthful, we’ve set the bar pretty high at […]
The Challenge of Securing Open Source Applications
As enterprises have increased their reliance on applications over the years, there has been a significant rise in the use of reusable software components such as third-party libraries and open source code. This makes perfect sense, as this development method makes it possible to add value to applications and other software offerings quickly and easily. […]
Blockchains Done Right Are the Next Evolution in Open Source
Open source code is more than just a way to create new technology. It’s a disruptive force that changed the way software is built, from taking individual developers and turning them into thriving communities to changing how enterprises do business–building open ecosystems versus restricted walled-gardens. The next evolution of this movement is blockchain technology. Decentralized […]
The Linux Foundation Breathes New Life into Osquery
Facebook’s useful but neglected DevOps tool Osquery has gotten a new lease on life, thanks to The Linux Foundation. Anyone who has been tasked with monitoring the security of server instances in a data center or cloud knows how laborious and time-consuming it can be. Osquery, a project started by Facebook, aims to lessen this […]