Implementing DevOps Goes Beyond Technology
The implementation of DevOps is primarily toward a change of process. All you need is to break down the feed store and bring in the competing individual inducements to acquire the actual benefits from DevOps. Regarding the change of process, it will either be embraced by those who are making the change and succeed, or […]
Synack: DevSecOps Being Accelerated by Cultural Shifts
The 2020 State of Compliance and Security Testing Report from cybersecurity testing platform vendor Synack claims that some of the world’s largest organizations are encountering a significant cultural shift within their development teams, and that bodes well for those seeking to build DevSecOps teams. For the report, Synack surveyed leaders from more than 300 organizations […]
Developers Are Gaining Clout, and We Need to Pay Attention
I’ve been watching the ascent of developers for quite some time. A few years ago, I wrote an open letter to developers in which I noted their power and collective influence over the direction of technology across industries. As creators of our digital future, developers hold incredible power—and with that power comes great responsibility. Developers […]
Got a DevOps Tool? Take Part in Our Annual DevOps Tools Survey
The DevOps tools market is growing at a fast clip, with market values ranging from $8 billion to $12 billion worldwide by 2022, depending on which analyst you trust most. That growth is due in large part to the number of vendors entering the DevOps space, offering a bevy of tools designed specifically for addressing […]
source{d} Delivers Enterprise Edition of SDLC Platform
source{d} has made available an enterprise edition of its software development lifecycle (SDLC) platform that includes visualization and analytics tools along with additional management capabilities. A free community edition of the core source{d} platform, which is stripped of most of the enterprise-class tools, also is now available in beta. Company CEO Eiso Kant said the […]
Atlassian Adds Pre-Configured Pipelines to Bitbucket CI/CD
One of the primary reasons DevOps processes have not been widely adopted across the enterprise is that building pipelines across all the tools required is a painstaking effort. As a result, most pipelines today are constructed using manual pipelines. However, Atlassian has announced it is now making available pre-configured Bitbucket Pipelines that DevOps teams can […]
7 DevOps Lessons in 2018: The Path to DevOps Success in 2019
We all learn from mistakes, right? But it would be better if we learned faster and didn’t repeat them in our future exercises. And this is exactly what we will discuss here in this blog. For a while now, we’ve been overwhelmed by the idea of the DevOps principle. We love how the collaboration between […]
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 […]
Using Trade Studies in Vetting Tool Stacks
Adding to your tool stack should entail more thought than, “Start your free trial today!” It’s great when there is an application need and cloud-based tools are easily grabbed with a few clicks. However, surveying alternatives before making a tool stack change can prevent costly mistakes. Trade studies can help vet best-fit tools for evaluation. […]
DevOps Transition: The Cultural Commitments and Challenges
Enterprises can achieve certain levels of success by filling a need in the market, hiring skilled teams and utilizing cutting-edge tools and technologies. However, to set themselves apart and chart a course for long-term success, they need to address the values, beliefs and behaviors that make up organizational culture as carefully as they address business […]
Roadblocks to Successful DevOps Often Human, Not Technical
Usually, when people talk about DevOps, they focus on the technical aspects. However, in my experience we need to highlight what lies behind technology: the people. To effectively implement DevOps, we have to understand that many obstacles are not technical, but human. In working with various organizations in their DevOps journeys, I have seen six […]
DevOps is Failing, But Here’s How to Succeed
As the Data Economy continues to gain momentum, many companies have turned to DevOps in hopes of achieving agility and velocity to compete and win. Whereas it’s no secret that DevOps can have a major impact on agility, what’s not widely known is that most DevOps projects actually fail. In fact, a simple search of […]
DevOps & DataOps: Catalysts for Organizational Transformation
Over the past few decades, use of the internet has increased exponentially. Nowadays, the need to build quality web applications and managing its huge data effectively is a huge concern of any organization. Thus, there has been continuous exploration for finding better methods of software development and data management. To meet the need of today’s […]
DevOps Chat: ‘Day 2 DevOps’ with IBM’s Eric Minick
Now that the concept of DevOps has been around for a few years and more organizations have embraced it, the natural question for many is, “What now?”—especially considering DevOps success is measured by different yardsticks. IBM’s Eric Minick is has been grappling with the concept of “Day 2 DevOps”—enterprisewide rollouts, multiple toolchains, etc.—and the best […]
Why the DevOps Trinity is Key for Digital Transformation
As digital technology continues to disrupt and transform businesses across industries and around the world, the ability to deliver high-quality software rapidly will make the difference between survival and extinction for many companies. DevOps seeks to change the dynamics in which operations and development teams interact. Ultimately, successful adoption of DevOps and the process of […]
Choosing the Right Monitoring Tools for a Full-Stack Solution
According to the marketsandmarkets report on APM tools, the monitoring tools market is expected to grow to $4.98 billion by 2019, at a CAGR of 12.86 percent and the DevOps market would attain market size of $8,763.8 million by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 18 percent during 2017 -2023 (source: markets business insider), with more focus […]
Living in a DevOps World, Part 2
Part one of this article focused on some of the more behind-the-scenes benefits of an Agile DevOps approach. In part two the focus turns to some of the other traditional problems that a well-executed DevOps approach can address, and how doing so can benefit an organization in more ways than just a technical perspective. By […]
Spring Cleaning 101: Polishing Up Your DevOps Processes
Dev teams should take time to tune up agile processes and continue advancing their shift toward DevOps Release cycles are accelerating, but not as fast as development teams want. Customers’ desired release rates are moving at an unimpressive pace; those looking to push out new updates on a weekly basis often find it looks more […]
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 […]
Google Unveils Suite of APM Tools
Google today announced that it is making available application performance management (APM) tools based on the same technology it employs to manage its internal IT environment. Morgan McLean, a product manager at Google, said Stackdriver APM is based the open source StackDriver Trace and Debugger tools Google originally developed for its DevOps teams. The APM […]
DevSecOps: Don’t Invest In Hope
A successful DevSecOps approach is rooted in action, not hope. There is a lot of investment in hope. I hope we won’t get breached. I hope our DevOps teams aren’t deploying thousands of vulnerable containers. I hope our developers aren’t downloading millions of vulnerable open source components. I hope our developers and security teams will […]
The Role of DevOps in Building an AI-Ready Infrastructure
The successful application of machine learning for artificial intelligence (AI) requires several contexts to be addressed, primarily the technical, data and business considerations. The Technical From a technical standpoint, in building an AI-ready framework there are choices to be made such as which machine learning framework to select, the type and structure of learning function […]