Tag: DevOps best practices

Ensuring Database Security with Dynamic Secrets in Enterprise DevOps

November 11, 2020 BDCC

Ensuring Database Security in the DevOps Pipeline with Dynamic Secrets

The traditional “vault-and-forward” method for secrets management means a user or application authenticates to the vault and then gets access to the secrets they need. The fundamental problem is once those secrets are out of the vault, it is extremely difficult to ensure their safety. In the case of an application, the ways Secrets can be leaked is almost infinite. There is the code your team writes, commercial or open-source code…

What makes great DevOps teams tick

August 18, 2020 BDCC

The principles of DevOps go beyond just improving software development processes. They also help foster stronger, more productive teams Perhaps the most influential development philosophy of the last decade, DevOps brings together insights in psychology, sociology, technology, and economics, enabling IT teams to help digital businesses thrive. DevOps practices have played a key role in the success of organizations from AWS to Netflix. In “The DevOps Handbook” and “The Phoenix…

5 Essential Digital Adoptions To Grow Your DevOps Enterprise

August 12, 2020 BDCC

There are several essential digital adoptions to grow your DevOps enterprise. Studies show that the DevOps market is projected to expand to over $10 billion by 2025. In 2020, the software development demand is already increasing due to the novel coronavirus. As an enterprise developer, you know how DevOps communication and collaboration strategies can streamline your software pipeline for rapid deployment. To cope with the current climate, there are several enterprise…

3 DevOps skills IT leaders need for the next normal

July 29, 2020 BDCC

As the triage phase of COVID-19 response ends and the transformation phase begins, individuals and organizations can achieve more by focusing on three areas that DevOps pros know well Many IT organizations are moving out of the triage and stabilizing phases of their response to the COVID-19 crisis and into the transformation phase. In recent months, organizations had to learn to quickly shift into virtual operations and interactions not only with…

DevOps: 5 things teams need from CIOs

July 22, 2020 BDCC

WHAT DEVOPS TEAMS NEED TO LEARN FROM CIOs

Today, successful enterprises must be agile enough to offer flawless digital solutions while constantly responding to fluctuating market climates, customer demands, and competitive strains. Because enterprise services, product offerings, and applications are elaborate, DevOps is quickly becoming a requisite methodology for delivering business value to customers continuously and efficiently. For many leaders (myself included), it can be challenging to fully understand DevOps and its operations. Too often, this lack of…

Choose the best programming language for DevOps workflows

July 9, 2020 BDCC

DevOps teams can choose from many available programming languages. All languages have both strengths and weaknesses — some inherent to the language itself, and others dependent on a given application or context in which the language is used. To evaluate programming languages for DevOps, consider factors such as developer experience and familiarity, speed of development and flexibility. DevOps programming languages: Some basics DevOps explores the intersection between software development and…

DevOps Implementation for Federal Agencies: Benefits and Challenges!

June 30, 2020 Anand

Technology became a fundamental business strategy for every industry to thrive in the present highly competitive market. According to a market report by IDC, the global spending on information technologies and services expected to reach USD 4.3 trillion in 2020, up by 3.6% from 2019. The coronavirus pandemic has further pushed the organizations to leverage digital technologies to facilitate remote working. Federal agencies are not an exception to this! The…

Automation Hacks for DevOps Teams

February 17, 2020 BDCC

DevOps teams are expected to do more work in less time. They need to plan, test, build, secure and release applications at a fast-paced rate. Of course, the DevOps team needs to achieve all of this while maintaining high software quality. This is why automation is a crucial part of the DevOps workflow. The goal is to delegate repetitive tasks to the machine and free up dev time for more…

Why Security And DevOps Must Coexist

August 2, 2019 BDCC

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…

Why Did DevOps Become So Popular? 3 Theories

July 24, 2019 BDCC

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…

HPE Extends Hybrid Cloud Computing Strategy

June 19, 2019 BDCC

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…