At a time when variations on DevOps abound, get ready for the latest: GitOps. This new term promises to bring some order to what can be operational chaos and empower operational teams to leverage best practices learned from their developer counterparts. It’s early days yet for GitOps, but here’s what we think you need to understand about this new facet of DevOps. What is GitOps? Everyone we spoke with has…
In a simpler world, every CI/CD pipeline would need to support only one deployment platform. In the real world, multiplatform deployment (which means deploying an application to run on multiple OS platforms) is a must-have for many organizations. We live in an age of diverse operating systems and deploying for only one platform is often not an option. With that challenge in mind, let’s take a look at best practices…
It can sometimes feel frustrating to try to figure out how to do DevOps. That’s because DevOps is not about tools—there are lots of different tools that can help you succeed at DevOps. Nor is it about any really specific set of practices; although DevOps prioritizes things like automation and communication, it does not prescribe specific processes for enabling them. ps It can sometimes feel frustrating to try to figure…
The rise of DevOps has broken down silos and brought database administrators (DBAs) and application developers closer together to deliver software faster and in a more agile manner. This near-constant change driven by DevOps is reflected in the results of the Redgate 2019 State of SQL Server Monitoring Report. It reveals that 73% of organizations now deploy database changes multiple times per month, and 15% deploy multiple times per day,…
DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019 Conference Agenda Released, Speakers Added from ING Bank, KPMG, Microsoft, Ticketmaster, T-Mobile and US Bank BY DEBORAH SCHALM ON AUGUST 27, 2019 0 COMMENTS Event programming emphasizes the evolving business, technical and architectural practices needed to lead widespread change efforts in large organizations. PORTLAND, Ore., August 27, 2019 — IT Revolution, the industry leader for advancing DevOps, released its full conference agenda and next…
When AWS announced Lambda–a serverless Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) technology offering–the idea of encapsulating a specific task into a function that resides in the cloud was introduced into mainstream access. Now, with the rising popularity of microservices, DevOps is waking up the benefits of FaaS where it is used to build and maintain enterprise applications in agile environments. The move to serverless architecture using FaaS is one organization that is now increasingly…
Armory, the enterprise software company commercializing Spinnaker, the leading open source continuous delivery platform from Netflix and Google, today announced the findings of 2019 Accelerate: State of DevOps research report. The new study, sponsored by Armory, represents six years of research and data from more than 31,000 professionals worldwide, making it the largest and longest-running research of its kind. The Accelerate: State of DevOps report provides an independent view of…
DevOps, an IT practice rooted in philosophy and culture, helps in merging the tasks done by the systems operation and application development teams of companies. It takes a lot of effort and time to reap the benefits that come with DevOps. Businesses can quickly adapt to the changes cropping up since automation is enabled by DevOps due to the combination of the development and operations teams. Implementing DevOps correctly on…
DevOps refers to the agile relationship that exists between development and IT operations. The key goal of DevOps is to improve the relationship between these units via better communication. DevOps mainly focuses on the idea of a continuous delivery pipeline, also considered as the main building block of an Agile organization. Enterprise DevOps is the application of DevOps in an environment which has lengthy approval gates, monolithic systems, interdependent systems,…
DevOps culture has brought about a significant change in the way the IT industry operates. Breaking the siloes among different teams, DevOps encouraged a new style of collaborative functioning with all the key stakeholders involved in the software development lifecycle. Unlike the traditional waterfall model, the DevOps process engages different teams in its mission to achieve continuous development, integration, deployment, and monitoring throughout the product lifecycle. The DevOps process demands…
Preconceived notions and divisions make building security into the software development life cycle an uphill battle for many organizations. Security teams have long had the reputation of being “out of process” — that they add requirements, complicate processes, and disrupt DevOps. “The reality is that building security into the development process — be it agile, DevOps, DevSecOps, or a mix thereof — remains a significant challenge for many reasons, beginning…
I recently had the pleasure of moderating a lively discussion with security leaders at the SINET Innovation Summit 2019 in New York. The conversation explored one central question: Can security and DevOps coexist? DevOps is a well-adopted practice that fosters an agile relationship between development and IT operations by advocating better communication and collaboration between these two business units. Every organization represented on the panel (including two of the largest…
This year’s DevOps World | Jenkins World will take place Aug. 12-15 in San Francisco, at the Moscone Center. Now, chances are you don’t need any real convincing to attend this event. DevOps World | Jenkins World is, after all, the premier annual conference for DevOps- and Jenkins-related content. You’ve experienced it yourself, or heard others talking about past years’ events—how the conference is packed, year after year, with sessions…
Stackery today announced a plug-in capability that will allow developers to build and debug code destined to run on the Lambda serverless computing service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) from within an integrated development environment (IDE) running on a local machine. Company CTO Chase Douglas said the latest Stackery tool can be dropped into any IDE, either via a Stackery VS Code Serverless Tools Plug-In that automates installation or…
DevOps has now been a thing for a solid decade. As we look back at the history of DevOps, it’s worth asking: Where did DevOps come from, and why did it take off when it did? In honor of the 10-year anniversary of DevOps, I’d like to explore these questions. A Brief History of DevOps The very basic history of DevOps goes like this: First, there was agile, an idea…
At its Dash 2019 conference today, Datadog launched a series of DevOps initiatives that significantly expand the use cases for the agent software that drives the company’s monitoring services. Additions to the Datadog portfolio include Network Performance Monitoring and Real User Monitoring (RUM) services as well as the general availability of a previously announced service for monitoring serverless computing frameworks. In addition, Datadog announced it is adding Tracing without Limits…
Software developers have a lot to contend with when it comes to keeping their skill levels current. New features are constantly introduced to integrated development platforms, and programming languages evolve frequently, as do development methodologies, like Waterfall. On top of these moving parts, developers have to deliver projects on time and in the budget, follow security coding best practices and remain compliant with industry regulations. Many developers have adopted DevOps,…
DevOps initiatives have become important for 74% of organizations over the past year, but communication must improve for DevOps to be successful, according to Trend Micro. Communication between IT security and software development needs to improve before organizations can successfully implement a DevOps culture, according to the majority of IT leaders surveyed recently by Trend Micro. The survey asked 1,310 IT decision makers from enterprise and SMB organizations globally about their…
Everyone (or almost everyone) in the DevOps world likes to talk about the importance of security. But too often, these DevOps security conversations end with generic recommendations such as, “Follow the OWASP Top 10.” Don’t get me wrong—reference frameworks such as OWASP are great resources for helping to guide DevOps security. But it’s usually far from obvious to many DevOps teams how to bridge the gap between the abstract theory…
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today advanced its hybrid cloud computing strategy by announcing at its HPE Discover 2019 conference an alliance with Google to embrace Kubernetes in hybrid cloud computing environments and then extending the reach of its software-defined infrastructure for building private clouds to legacy ProLiant servers. Lauren Whitehouse, director of marketing for the software-defined and cloud group at HPE, said the HPE Composable Cloud now extends beyond new ProLiant…
