Study Traces Cybersecurity Issues to Lack of App Supervision
A global survey of 400 application developers conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Veracode, a unit of CA Technologies that provides software development lifecycle tools, shines a light on how big an issue cybersecurity has become because of organizations failing to update components. The survey finds only 52 percent of developers using commercial or […]
Using Inspec to Validate Infrastructure
So, here we were, at one of the bigger financial corporations in New Zealand, working on an elaborate infrastructure built on Docker containers. It had configurations, SSL certificates, DNS entries and all the other condiments required to spice up a tasty infrastructure curry. Though we were able to stand up our complete infrastructure environments from […]
Rundeck Gains Funding to Support Open Source IT Automation Framework
Rundeck has emerged as a popular open source job scheduler and orchestration option for IT automation that enables IT teams to build runbooks that can be easily shared with others. The company behind it—Rundeck Inc.—has garnered $3 million in seed funding to provide enterprise-class support for instances in the form of the Rundeck Operations as […]
Malicious Intent: Open Source Developers, Please Protect Your Users
For the second time in just a few weeks we’re seeing the fallout of missteps taken by publishers of open source components. It was just recently that I wrote about the GitHub id of go-bindata being highjacked. We don’t know for certain if the intentions were malicious, but the risk was obvious. Even more recently we find […]
Subtree Rises to Microservices Data Management Challenge
Fresh off raising $10 million in funding, Subtree has emerged from stealth to launch a service based on the dotmesh open source utility for microservices to enable DevOps teams to capture the entire state of applications. Dotmesh captures application state as a series of units known as datadots, and captures and tracks all versions of all […]
Should You Migrate to Git? Part 1
There are many factors to consider when making the decision whether to migrate your source code. Is it appropriate for the project? Will it work? How might it impact the quality and performance of the finished product? Git can help make the decision easier. Git is an open source version control system for tracking changes […]
Flexera Extends Scope of Open Source Scanning Tools
Now that many IT organizations have adopted an open source-first mentality to acquiring new software, tracking their dependency on all the various modules they are employing is becoming more challenging with each passing day. To help IT organizations track both usage and dependencies of open source software, Flexera has updated the FlexNet Code Insight software […]
The Value of Commercial Open Source
Adhering to the open source definition enables a large, passionate community to collaborate and share their work, insights and innovations on a given OSS project. Companies working in commercial open source add to that value by turning what may look to enterprises like “raw material” into whole product. These combined efforts serve to improve products, […]
DevOps Gets More Exciting in 2018
As 2017 winds down and the IT industry prepares for 2018, there are a number of DevOps trends that everyone should be keeping their eyes on. It’s not so much that something incredible and explosive is expected in the new year. Rather, 2018 will be a time when DevOps starts to mature alongside other trends […]
DevOps Chat: Chef Habitat Project Continues to Mature
When Chef Habitat was released a little more than two years ago (good DevOps.com story on Habitat here and a good DevOps Chat on it here), many people in the DevOps community wondered where Chef was going with Habitat. It was a really ambitious vision, but could it meet its lofty goals? Habitat is now […]
NGINX Delivers New Products to Manage Microservices
At its annual user conference in Portland, Oregon, in September, NGINX delivered releases focusing on the application platform market and support of delivering microservices architectures: NGINX Plus, an application delivery controller that combines a load balancer, content cache and web server. NGINX Controller, a centralized management and monitoring platform for NGINX Plus, which orchestrates the […]
Logz.io Extends Scope of Log Analytics Service
Log analytics is all the rage these days among IT and security professionals trying to discover the root cause of any performance issue or security breach. But there’s little consensus about how best to go about analyzing logs. Many IT organizations have made major investments in commercial platforms such as Splunk, while others prefer to […]
Kubernetes is the Universal Cloud Infrastructure
Before I started Rancher Labs, I created a company called Cloud.com where we developed Apache CloudStack. We were inspired by the early success of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and wanted to make it possible for everyone to stand up AWS-like cloud infrastructure for themselves. While CloudStack was successful in powering a number of public and […]
MongoDB Addresses Host of DevOps Issues
At its MongoDB Europe conference this week, MongoDB updated its open-source document database with the addition of MongoDB Ops Manager to simplify management of distributed instances of version 3.6 of its database. In addition, the company has added a capability that enables all updates to the database to be automatically reflected in the application in […]
AT&T Democratizes Acumos Code for AI
AT&T and India IT outsourcing company Tech Mahindra announced that code the companies jointly developed to drive artificial intelligence (AI) applications is being contributed to the Linux Foundation. Mazin Gilbert, vice president of advanced technology for AT&T Labs, says the goal of Acumos is to not only democratize access to AI software, but also consume […]
IBM Adds Cloud Foundry PaaS to Cloud Private
As IT organizations are being asked to provision and support an ever-growing number of platforms, they increasingly require an approach that abstracts away as much of that complexity as possible. With that goal in mind, IBM created IBM Cloud Private, an on-premises platform that automates the deployment of a private cloud based on Kubernetes container […]
With Distelli Technology, Puppet Expands DevOps Portfolio
At its PuppetConf 2017 conference, Puppet made it clear its ambitions now extend well beyond its namesake IT automation framework for IT infrastructure. On the heels of acquiring Distelli in September, the company announced it is adding several products to its portfolio based on technologies developed by Distelli. The new offerings include Puppet Pipelines for […]
Quest Software Extends DevOps Reach to MySQL Databases
Thanks mainly to the rise of DevOps, the number of open-source database deployments in the enterprise has risen sharply in the last two years. The driving force behind those deployments has been developers that have shown a marked preference for downloading an open-source database instead of requesting access to a commercial database from a database […]
8 Advantages of Using MySQL
MySQL is a free-to-use, open-source database that facilitates effective management of databases by connecting them to the software. It is a stable, reliable and powerful solution with advanced features including: Data Security MySQL is globally renowned for being the most secure and reliable database management system used in popular web applications including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, […]
Splunk and the ELK Stack: A Side-by-Side Comparison
This article’s purpose is to compare the “big two” in the log analytics world—Splunk and the ELK Stack. But before we go into details, a short introduction to the competitors is required. Splunk is the “Google for log files” heavyset enterprise tool that was the first log analysis software and has been the market leader […]
Continuous Testing: Solving the Biggest DevOps Bottleneck
It’s time to start implementing the practices of Continuous Testing Earlier this year, Computing Magazine conducted a fascinating study around the adoption and benefits of DevOps in its DevOps Review 2017 publication. The findings that stood out most fascinating to me where around quality assurance and testing. In this survey, the question was asked, “Where […]
Microsoft Lifts Investment in Cloud Foundry
At the Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017 conference this week Microsoft formally pledged its support for the open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment by becoming a gold member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF). Beyond influencing the future direction of the Cloud Foundry PaaS, Microsoft also revealed this week it will tighten the integration between the […]
Why DevOps Success Depends on the Right Infrastructure
Do you remember building with LEGOs? You could follow the directions that come in the box down to the letter, or you could go off-script to create something totally your own and evolve and refine it over time. Regardless of your level of creativity, if you had one of those classic green base plates to […]