To Be Continuous Podcast: The Clash in Open Source
Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about Continuous Delivery and software development hosted by Paul Biggar, Founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this episode, Edith and Paul talk about the clash in OSS between developers looking to get paid and software companies looking for things for free. This podcast is brought to […]
Dev loves Open Source. Ops needs Scale. Now What?
Crossing the divide from Dev-Ops to DevOps: At the heart of the divide between Dev and Ops are the very different needs and constraints of each organization. Traditionally their day-to-day lives are very different. So are their war stories. And so are the metrics that are traditionally used to judge Dev and Ops. Predictably, the two organizations […]
9 more open source DevOps tools we love
A while back we ran an article by Tomer Levy of Logz.io about 9 open source DevOps Tools that we loved. Of course how can you pick just 9 among so many worthy choices? So we wanted to revisit the open source DevOps tools space and add another 9 tools to the list. In a […]
The Myth of “Do It Yourself” DevOps Tools
DevOps is an approach and methodology (even a philosophy) for developing and testing new applications and deploying them into a production environment. Because DevOps is first and foremost a methodology, tools to implement DevOps should be used as a way to implement the desired methodology, rather than being an end in and of themselves. Of […]
Open Source software license and security management with WhiteSource
With the growing speed and availability of open source components, it becomes easy to add features and integration of software with other components which makes software development easier. But there are a few points to be remembered while using any open source component. Security vulnerabilities Licensing risks of open source component. Outdated open source components. […]
Tool Development – In-House or Ready made
Tool development and adoption The current pace of software development cannot manage its speed without the automation. Automation is the most important element in order to achieve agility in delivery of the product. Every part of the software development life cycle needs tools to perform their action automatically. These phases could be coding, code review, […]
9 Open Source DevOps Tools We Love
While we have been building our SaaS company, we have been investing much time in researching and deciding which tools to include in our DevOps toolkit. We’ve based these decisions on our years of experience in the IT industry, dealing with infrastructure for the most part. From building a petabyte-scale, data analytics infrastructure, our architecture, […]
The Software BOM Squad
In my previous post, “When Good Code Goes Bad“, I shared new research showing the average large development organization consumes over 15,000 known vulnerable and defective components annually. While we can’t stop software from going bad, there are practices from traditional manufacturers that we can use to improve our ability to recall and fix the “bad” […]
Bonitasoft makes business process management more agile with open source
Organizations embrace DevOps for a variety of reasons, but one of the core value propositions is speed. DevOps enables business to build, test, deploy and update applications more quickly than without DevOps. With so many quickly-moving parts, though, organizations also need tools to help keep track of it all like a business process management platform. […]
Managing Open source software components
Building any software need lots of efforts including resources, time, money, etc. It is really a great pleasure when it goes live or gets released. In parallel, there is always a chance that bugs may put the release in a difficult condition even after multiple rounds of testing. Teams can fix bugs related to software features […]
Open source and Samsung take center stage at Red Hat Summit
While much of the DevOps world was focused on DockerCon in San Francisco this week, there was also big news happening on the east coast. While DockerCon was shaking things up with the announcement of the Open Container Project the Red Hat Summit in Boston held its own share of big news and much of […]
BlazeMeter harnesses open source to deliver continuous testing for DevOps
DevOps is all about efficiency and automation—streamlining development and deployment. In order to deliver quality code quickly a culture of continuity is required—including continuous testing. BlazeMeter provides organizations with a platform for continuous performance testing in a DevOps environment. BlazeMeter claims to be a more affordable—and in some ways more powerful—performance testing platform than HP […]
RedHat Culture Keeping the DevOps Faith
Red Hat is readily recognized for its accomplishments with Linux and software design. The Red Hat DevOps culture itself started by design as a program built on training developers in operations skills and increasing operations’ faith in these developers. Red Hat’s IT Platform Operations Manager, Anderson Silva tells DevOps.com how internal teams initiated the cultural […]
Commercial vendors gift to DevOps
Open source solutions are usually brought to life because of someone’s yearning to solve a problem and share the solution with the rest of the world. Or perhaps when inventors are merely trying to get more eyes on the code for help with hidden bugs and fixes. This is not a pitch for open-source. Rather […]
Microsoft determined not to get left behind by DevOps
Microsoft is a massive company—a behemoth with a lot of inertia, and a lot of bureaucracy in place that make it difficult to adapt quickly. Under Satya Nadella, however, Microsoft is striving to re-invent itself, and—to the extent that it is possible—become more agile. For evidence of Microsoft’s new philosophy, look at how Microsoft is […]
Four open source tools to help keep you cooking with Chef
If you’re even a little familiar with DevOps concepts, you’ve probably heard of Chef. If you’ve started experimenting with or implementing DevOps, there’s a pretty good chance you’re using Chef. Chef is an awesome platform for managing a DevOps environment, but it isn’t perfect. Thankfully, missing features or gaps in the capabilities of a platform […]
Microsoft strives to embrace open source culture
In many ways Microsoft is going through the corporate equivalent of a mid-life crisis—it has reached a stage where it longs to drop a few pounds, and turn back the clock a few years. After years of tremendous success, it’s now starting to show its age, and it is struggling to adapt to the new […]
An open-source pipeline for trusted images
There are a lot of good reasons to use a trusted image (aka “foundation image”), including reliability, reduced time to launch, secure configuration. [We’ve discussed them previously] In this article we are going to describe a development and quality assurance process for making trusted (aka “foundation” or “golden”) images. First, this is the tool set […]
User pragmatism is stronger than ever
This is the third of a series of posts about why we thought the world needed another DevOps oriented company and so invested in and started StackStorm. I hope we are touching on general themes that can help others understand the rapid disruptive shift towards DevOps approaches to building and operating technology. When starting […]
What Cisco’s OpFlex means for DevOps
Some big news in networking land at Interop this year revolved around Cisco’s latest contribution to open source and the Internet, its proposed “OpFlex” control plane protocol. The protocol itself is focused on communicating with network elements and specifies encoding in a variety of formats, including JSON, that are developer-friendly. That’s nice, of course, but […]
DevOps Is Free? Sure I’ll Support It
One of the biggest misnomers about DevOps is that since it’s all about process and communications there aren’t any costs associated with adoption. Sure, you can probably gain some improvement by simply modifying your current methods for delivering IT services in your organization, however, DevOps is about more than just modest improvements. Let’s explore why […]
Deployment and Monitoring Automation with glu
glu is a free/open source deployment and monitoring automation platform. glu is a project that was started at LinkedIn mid-2009 to address the exponentially growing needs of deploying the set of applications and services that make up the LinkedIn experience. Although some projects like Chef and Puppet existed at the time, they were mostly good […]
Netflix, the Simian Army, and the culture of freedom and responsibility
What do you do if you’re entire business relies on delivering streaming video content over the Web to millions of customers, and there are no examples to follow or tools to use? If you’re Netflix, you set the example and build the tools. Netflix had tremendous success with its original business model shipping movies on […]