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 […]
State of the Software Supply Chain: Secure Coding Takes Spotlight
After almost a year of research that involved studying 36,000 open source software projects, 12,000 enterprise development teams and 3.7 million open source releases, we at Sonatype are excited to share the “2019 State of the Software Supply Chain” report. This year, we worked with research partners Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution, and Dr. […]
5 Ways DevSecOps Can Manage Software Supply Chains
The unbridled use of open source components within the software supply chain is on a major uptick, according to new research. Even as this surge in open source dependencies fuels faster innovation, the study shows that it comes with high cybersecurity costs, as the number of breaches related to these components is similarly on the […]
A Golden Age for Developers
There’s probably never been a time since the dawn of programming when there has been more opportunity for developers—individuals and teams—to imagine, create and be successful. Developers are able to do a lot more (and do things a lot faster) with more tools, a better development ecosystem and a tighter connection with the rest of […]
RDX Eases Oracle Database Migration to PostgreSQL on AWS
RDX this week launched a set of tools designed to make it easier to convert applications running on an Oracle database to Amazon Aurora, an instance of an open source PostgreSQL database running on the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud that is compatible with Oracle databases. Announced at the AWS Summit event in Washington D.C., […]
Pivotal Software Embraces OpenJDK
Pivotal Software has officially thrown its weight behind OpenJDK, the open source version of the standard edition of Java, by adding support for OpenJDK to the Pivotal Spring Runtime on its Spring framework. At the same time, Pivotal announced it is extending its commercial support for open source Apache Tomcat servers in addition to providing […]
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 […]
Open Source Versioning: The Race to Stay Up-to-Date
Open source libraries, once shunned as risky and not ready for prime time, are now used extensively across major corporations, including insurers. The reason is simple: In time- and resource-constrained companies trying to stay technologically competitive, it doesn’t make sense anymore to try to reinvent a wheel that’s already been battle-tested. However, having made the […]
Logz.io Unveils Azure Open Source ELK Monitoring Solution
Needless to say, DevOps as a practice is largely fueled by open source. The growth and popularity of open source tools such as Elasticsearch, Kubernetes and others are driven largely by the increased flexibility, innovation and familiarity of options. While this isn’t news for developers (65% of which are active open source contributors), leading cloud […]
With YAML Support, Puppet Dives Deeper Into DevOps
Puppet this week announced an update to Puppet Enterprise that adds additional DevOps capabilities, including integration with Bolt, an open source agentless task runner that Puppet employs to make IT automation more accessible to IT administrators. Matt Waxman, vice president of products at Puppet, said adding integration with Bolt will make it easier to integrate […]
DevOps Chat: F5’s NGINX Acquisition, with F5’s Lori MacVittie
F5 Networks has acquired NGINX, the leading open source web server player. The move clearly puts F5 in the DevOps space, as well as the open source market. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Lori MacVittie of F5 along with Sidney Rabsatt of NGINX. Some great insights into why this acquisition makes sense for […]
DevOps Chat: Chef Goes All-In on Open Source
In front of next month’s ChefConf in Seattle, Chef has announced a major refinement to its business model. Affirming and clarifying its commitment to open source business models, Chef will now and in the future release all of its software as open source. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Corey Scobie, SVP of Products […]
Chef Commits to 100 Percent Open Source Code
Chef has decided to open source its entire portfolio of IT automation software as part of an effort to make it easier for organizations to construct a DevOps pipeline using the company’s software. A part of that effort, Chef also launched the Chef Enterprise Automation Stack—which combines Chef Infra for managing infrastructure, Chef InSpec for […]
Comparing Nuclio and AWS Lambda
With serverless, you delegate the responsibility of running your infrastructure to a platform provider as much as possible. This frees your engineers to focus on building what your customers want from you—the features that differentiate your business from your competitors’. For this philosophy to work, however, the platform needs to not only give you the […]
7 Ways to Introduce DevOps in Your Work Culture
As many industries are going through a wave of digital transformation, a number of key technologies and principles are being deployed to business advantage. One such principle is DevOps. This collaborative principle is proving to be extremely helpful for businesses in their pursuit of customer satisfaction and beating their competition. The DevOps trend is growing, […]
DevOps Chat: The CD Foundation, with CloudBees’ Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Tracy Miranda
A new foundation, the CD Foundation, has been formed under the auspices of the Linux Foundation to serve as the home base for a vendor-neutral movement committed to making it easier to build and reuse DevOps pipelines across multiple continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms. The first projects to be hosted under the auspices of CD […]
How CI/CD Can Fast-Track Next-Gen Media Rollouts
Using CI/CD can help digital service providers move as quickly as over-the-top content providers Online video consumption has been increasing tremendously with rapid change in consumer expectations to have seamless viewing experience across various digital devices. To capture this growing demand, it is critical for digital service providers (DSPs) to deliver fast-track rollout of next-gen […]
In AI Initiatives and Hybrid Clouds We Trust
The 2019 State of the Union Address, delivered Feb. 5, was light on anything tech-related. But just a week later, Feb. 11, technology was the focus of an executive order that launched The American Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative. Why do we need a national AI initiative, and what does it have to do with DevOps? […]
Why 2019 Will Be the Year for Shift-Left Mainframe Testing
While 2018 was the year for planning and implementing shift-left methodologies in testing, mainframe and server testers were, for the most part, left behind. These legacy infrastructure experts were tied down to old-school testing tools. Mainframes kept functioning, but tools and testing practices often became bottlenecks, preventing performance testing teams from testing more quickly mid-cycle […]
Edge Computing: Saving the Cloud from Ephemeral Data
Edge computing is rapidly gaining momentum. Last week’s Linux Foundation news on the launch of LF Edge is one more sign of accelerating growth at the edge. What’s driving this sudden intense interest? It’s more than just the sheer number of edge devices or mounting concerns around interoperability and security. Pushing compute resources closer to […]
Challenges and Tips for Taking Legacy Systems to the Cloud
Normalization of infrastructure through open source technologies is one way to make the move to the cloud an easier process for organizations. For many modern companies, growth often means growing through acquisition. As organizations become larger, it often makes sense to acquire existing companies who are already creating the solutions they need than try to […]
Best of 2018: Log Monitoring and Analysis: Comparing ELK, Splunk and Graylog
As we close out 2018, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifth in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. As organizations face outages and various security threats, monitoring an entire application platform is essential to understand the source of threat or […]
Best of 2018: 11 Popular Open Source DevOps Tools Worth Knowing
As we close out 2018, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourth in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. Companies implementing the best practices of DevOps have demonstrated that they are more effective and flexible in implementing as well as designing […]