Best of 2018: 5 Open Source SIEM Tools Worth Checking Out
As we close out 2018, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the second in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. Security information and event management (SIEM) is the cornerstone of IT security. All other network solutions are merely data flows that feed […]
How Secure is Open Source for DevOps? 5 Considerations
Open source libraries and frameworks have important roles to play in a DevOps culture that emphasizes shorter development life cycles, collaboration and innovation. However, it’s vital not to neglect the security of these open source components. This article discusses the use of open source in DevOps and gives you five things to consider in terms […]
How DevSecOps Can Help Avoid Catastrophic Breaches
Earlier this year, Tesla’s Cloud was hijacked and used to mine cryptocurrency, exploiting a vulnerability in the company’s Kubernetes cluster. A mountain of FedEx data was recently exposed, affecting 119,000 individuals. The Equifax breach garnered international attention after an estimated 145.5 million Americans were jeopardized. In other news, we’ve reported on how the Vine Docker […]
Using Netflix’s HubCommander to Automate GitHub Organizations
Netflix owes a great deal of its exponential growth to its phenomenal tech stack. Throttling its content through a single internal API, the company was able to deliver content agnostic of device type and quickly disrupt its contemporary competitors in the consumer entertainment industry. We’re intrigued, then, when Netflix exposes some of its internal architecture […]
DataStax Announces DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra
Continues Commitment and Engagement with Open Source Community with Industry-Leading Code Contributions, Coaching and Conference SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DataStax, the leading provider of the always-on, Active Everywhere distributed hybrid cloud database built on Apache Cassandra™, today announced DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra (DDAC). DDAC is a new subscription offering designed for running a certified version of open […]
Infosys Launches Open Source DevOps Project
Infosys has decided to make its DevOps platform—which consists of more than 2,000 prebuilt scripts and more than 150 pipelines spanning 70-plus tools involving more than 25 different classes of technologies—available as an open source project available via GitHub. Ravi Kumar, president and deputy COO for Infosys, said the global systems integrator has spent the […]
IBM Acquires Red Hat to Create DevOps Behemoth
In a move that has massive implications for DevOps teams across the enterprise, IBM today announced it is acquiring Red Hat in a deal valued at $34 billion. Red Hat will join IBM’s Hybrid Cloud group as a distinct independent unit. Red Hat will continue to be led by Jim Whitehurst and Red Hat’s current […]
WhiteSource Raises $35M to Mainstream Open Source Security Management
Accelerated revenue growth, tripling YoY, underscores rapid market adoption of automated Open Source management TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — WhiteSource, the leader in continuous open source security management, announced a $35 million funding round led by Susquehanna Growth Equity, with participation by existing investors 83North and M12 – Microsoft Ventures. This $35 […]
Implementing ChatOps Using Open Source Tooling
ChatOps is an exciting proposition for organizational Ops communication. Throwing development and operational tooling into the chat conversation can ease the development pipeline, increase transparency and increase security by streamlining bug detection and remediation efforts. At the heart of ChatOps are bots, scripts and chat clients; many are pre-built and open source. In this article, […]
Pivotal Software Extends Development Platform Reach
Pivotal Software announced an expansion of its implementation of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment in addition to extending its support for Kubernetes to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. At its SpringOne Platform 2018 conference, Pivotal revealed that Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) can now extend a single instance of its distribution of the […]
Using Open Source Languages Effectively in the Enterprise
Open source languages are part of almost every business these days. In fact, according to Opensource.com, open source will be the driving force behind a great number of technology innovations due to its pervasive use. From development to quality assurance (QA) to DevOps, all kinds of coders have embraced open source languages. In doing so, […]
DevOps Chat: Open Source and DevSecOps with Azi Cohen, WhiteSource
The security of open source code is one many organizations are grappling with. Add to that the number of times that applications using open source code are updated and the integration issues that come with those updates, and it’s no wonder open source security comes into question. WhiteSource thinks it has a solution to the […]
CloudBees Extends CI/CD Scope, Reach
CloudBees, at its DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018 conference this week, unveiled a broad strategy to extend the reach and scope of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms based on the open source Jenkins software. Company CEO Sascha Labourey said CloudBees Suite will provide the equivalent of a customer relationship management (CRM) application for software […]
Mirantis Modeling Tool Extends SDI Scope and Reach
Mirantis has added a modeling tool to its portfolio that enables users to allocate IT infrastructure that has been distributed across multiple data centers to a common set of workloads. Company CEO Adrian Ionel said the latest edition of the Mirantis Cloud Platform (MCP) for building provide clouds on OpenStack or Kubernetes platforms now includes […]
Best Practices for Your SaaS Laravel Application on AWS
It is not easy to subsist in a modern cloud ecosystem. However, there are solid principles that will help you to build a perfect AWS architecture for your Laravel application, including the 12-factor methodology, design applications with a stateless approach and decoupling service components. I’m sure you are adopting many of these principles already. However, […]
Using Laravel and AWS: What You Need to Know
Most likely, you have heard about and Laravel, the open source PHP framework, and you might be planning to go to the next level to modernize your PHP Laravel application. AWS offers a number of features to help organizations scale to support millions of users, not to mention the agility and cost benefits associated with […]
Netifi Rises to Microservices Integration Challenge
Netifi this week launched an integration platform based on the open source RSocket communications protocol to replace HTTP ad REST application programming interfaces (APIs) as the mechanism for connecting microservices. RSocket was originally created by Netflix and is now being strengthened via contributions from Netifi, Facebook and Pivotal Software for use within enterprise IT organizations. […]
OpenStack and Open Source MANO: Technologies for NFV Deployment
We have experienced how open source software technologies revolutionized the application development process, which ultimately resulted in digital transformation across various industry verticals. Open source technologies now are disrupting the telecom sector for building 5G internet, which will be powered by network functions virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN). With NFV and SDN, multiple […]
Selecting the Right Service Virtualization Tool
Once you have established that implementing service virtualization (SV) as a means to remove the bottlenecks formed by critical yet hard-to-access dependencies in your test environments is the way to go forward, one important decision to make is which SV tools to use for the process. Most major testing solution vendors (including CA, Micro Focus, […]
How Important Is Open Source for DevOps, Really?
Depending on your perspective, you might believe that DevOps and open source go hand in hand. Or you may think that, quite to the contrary, the two have little to do with each other. There are good arguments to be made for both interpretations. Let’s explore these two ways of thinking about the relationship between […]
Securing Third-Party and Open Source Code Components: A Primer
The increasing popularity of open source code continues to be a boon for developers across the industry, allowing them to increase efficiency and streamline delivery. But there are security risks to be considered when leveraging open source and commercial code components, as each carries with it a significant risk of becoming the enemy within, creating […]
Open Source: Is Your DevOps Org Vulnerable to an Equifax-Style Hack?
More than half of the Fortune 100 could be at risk of falling prey to the same kind of hack that caused devastation at Equifax last year, and it all comes down to poor open source component governance. A new report out from Fortune reports that in the year after Apache Software Foundation issued an […]
Google Looks to Simplify Building of Workflows
Google this week launched the beta of Cloud Composer, a managed Apache Airflow service for building workflows that promises to simplify management of integrated DevOps processes. Apache Airflow is an incubation project being developed under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation that enables IT teams to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows using directed […]