May 19, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

The Role of QA Testing in Continuous Delivery

Source – rainforestqa.com With more traditional develop-first-then-test models, the rate at which you can merge or ship codes depends on how fast you can test it. Every new or updated feature must go through the cycle. As a result, you can only move as fast as your QA process allows. That’s why in order to do continuous delivery, you need to adopt an equally continuous QA process. How QA Impacts Continuous Delivery It’s much cheaper and faster to fix bugs that

How DevOps tools can be used to integrate cloud automation

Source – techtarget.com As cloud development and deployment practices move faster and become more agile, security teams have realized that the only effective ways to secure cloud application and system deployments are to develop security controls that integrate into the deployment pipeline, and to automate as much as possible. Many in the security community have dubbed this approach security as code, a take on the infrastructure as code mentality of defining all virtual and cloud-based stack components as configurable elements that are

May 18, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

The emergence of DevOps in the evolving digital enterprise

Source – networkworld.com Welcome to the rise of the digital enterprise, where vendors and customers engage via applications and data is the new currency. Digital enterprises operate with radically different datanomics than conventional physical businesses. Here, digital information is the business. A successful digital enterprise is constantly updating applications in response to user context, market and environment—all of which is quantified, measured and delivered with data. Everything and everyone is personified by a digital footprint. Learning that the user just bought

May 18, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

5 Simple Strategies for Building Security Into Your DevOps Process

Source – veracode.com Securing any development framework – whether Waterfall, Agile or DevOps – requires changes of culture, process, and technology. But unlike the straightforward flow of Waterfall, where security comes at the end of the process, it’s less clear where security fits in Agile and DevOps. As Securosis analyst Adrian Lane points out, Agile development includes “whatever work gets done in a sprint and does not bend to security, so you need to bend security to fit Agile.” Likewise, moving from

May 18, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

Continuous delivery book asserts automation is key to effective DevOps

Source – theserverside.com The installation and use of a CI server is a standard in any IT department that is bold enough to throw around the term DevOps, but simply having a Jenkins or Concourse server running jobs every hour or two doesn’t mean you’re doing continuous integration right. “I’d say that continuous integration is nowadays a commodity, up to the point where people actually have forgotten what it actually means. People are using integration servers just to do a regular

May 17, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

How Softer Skills Help You Succeed with DevOps

Source – infostretch.com How do you build a DevOps team from scratch? Or even, how do you improve the efficiency of an existing team? Hiring a DevOps specialist seems an obvious place to start. Budget and circumstances permitting, this should boost the initiative, but still doesn’t address how you implement the DevOps transformation across the entire team or indeed across departments. Let’s consider how enterprises engaged in DevOps transformation can get the best results from their teams. How to Prepare for

May 17, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps and cloud infrastructure permutations

Source – csoonline.com One of my DevOps concerns with data center applications is the testing of infrastructure and the applications that ride on top of it. It is overly complicated. Each application has thousands of parameter combinations that can be used. How does one know which parameters are critical and the range of options a given parameter can have? Testing parameter combinations is a nightmare. So, it is often neglected. One of the key benefits of cloud computing are the limited

May 17, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

Continuous integration in agile software development

Source – 126kr.com Nowadays there are a lot of complications and obstacles on the way to the production. Now if you are not agile, it becomes literally a hell adding new functionalities. Therefore a lot of corporations and startups switch to agile methodologies and start using CI to achieve agility in software development. There is a big buzz about agile transformation in the companies, for example Mango, HSBC, Edreams and many others are going through agile transformation. It seems that it

May 17, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

Open source for hybrid cloud success: Is it an open and shut case?

Source – computerweekly.com The FOSS acronym – standing for free, open source software – has been a clarion call for many since the open source movement started, despite being nominally based on a misinterpretation of what open source is all about. A group of people got together in 1998 to examine the “free software” market, out of concern that the concept was being hijacked and perverted in political and moral terms, prompting a push to create a more commercially oriented definition

May 16, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Tips to Achieve Agility in DevOps

Source – dqindia.com DevOps is one of the key factors in a growing number of large companies and organizations to bring agility, reduce time to market, high quality products. Successful adoption of DevOps model needs dedicated investment, resources, cultural shift and is continuous journey. DevOps has become key to enable Continuous delivery and Agility in organizations. It helps scale organizations to deploy solutions rapidly and consistently. Some of the salient elements to achieve these as part of DevOps model implementation within

May 16, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

4 cool Kubernetes tools for mastering clusters

Source – infoworld.com Kubernetes, the cluster manager for containerized workloads, is a hit. With the Big K doing the heavy lifting in load balancing and job management, you can turn your attention to other matters. But like nearly every open source project, it’s a work in progress, and almost everyone who works with Kubernetes will find shortcomings, rough spots, and annoyances. Here are four projects that lighten the load that comes with administering a Kubernetes cluster. Kube-applier A key part of

May 16, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

12 ways to improve run-time container security

Source – computerworld.com.au There still really aren’t many enterprise run-time security tools for containers available, which has skewed the conversation toward establishing defensive barriers prior to run-time – during the build, integration, and deployment stage. Of course, with rapidly evolving technology like containers, it can be all too easy to overlook the most basic security concerns, so, really, any focus at all is welcome. Efforts pointing out the security advantages of digitally signing container images at build time, and scanning them

May 16, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Puppet IT automation wades into enterprise containers

Source – techtarget.com Puppet and its enterprise customers are in the same boat, afloat through the early phases of support for Docker containers. Puppet introduced products and updates this week, which include new support for containers to help enterprise customers advance to the new technology. For sophisticated IT shops where containers are already in use, configuration management can be seen as passé. In such bleeding-edge environments, container infrastructures are immutable — destroyed and recreated continually — rather than updated with tools

May 15, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Microsoft’s new tools help devs manage cloud deployments on the go

Source – heraldkeeper.com The Basic tier will be broadly available and the Standard tier will be available in a limited number of Azure regions. While new tools and updates were demonstrated and discussed, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella set the tone for the conference by noting a fundamental shift in the world view of computing. Described by Microsoft as a database built from scratch to “power planet-scale cloud services” with both strong power and fault tolerance capabilities and the ability to handle

May 15, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Docker failed to start on windows 10

Source – github.com Environment OS: : Windows 10 enterprise 64 bit Version: 1511 OS Build: 10586.633 Docker Hyper-V has been enabled. Expected behavior The docker should run on windows 10 Actual behavior See the error information below. Docker does not start. Information When docker starts then it throws the following exception: Unable to start: The running command stopped because the preference variable “ErrorActionPreference” or common parameter is set to Stop: ‘MobyLinuxVM’ failed to start. ‘MobyLinuxVM’ failed to initialize. ‘MobyLinuxVM’ failed to

May 15, 2017 bestdevops Behavior-Driven Development, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Benefits of Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Source – blogs.agilefaqs.com Should you consider BDD for your team? I just wanted to share my experience with BDD, which you could consider as food for thoughts: Why? – How often does your development team ask the business team why certain feature is important? More importantly, why now and how much of it is enough? In my experience with BDD, the approach naturally lends the teams to have a constructive discussion about this. I’ve seen this leading to a genuine collaboration

May 15, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Before You Outsource Code Development – Think About the Security Implications

Source – veracode.com Police in the Netherlands recently contacted more than 20,000 people who they suspect had their personal data stolen by a malicious web developer. This developer had built “backdoors” into applications he created for various businesses as a contractor. With the information he stole, it is alleged that he made online purchases, opened gambling accounts and impersonated victims’ family members. Outsourcing application development allows organizations to realize cost savings and provides the flexibility necessary to scale. However, as

May 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, IT trends Leave a comment

DevOps, Security, Hybrid IT: Priorities of successful IT pros

Source – enterprisersproject.com Consider how much the role of the IT professional has changed during the last 10 years. As traditional, siloed IT roles — such as network administrators, storage administrators, systems administrators, and database administrators — continue to include new responsibilities, IT professionals can no longer get by as specialists. These days, they’re are expected to be implementing new technologies and trends, inlcuding containers, serverless architecture, and IoT, while working with cloud service providers. They’re acting as liaisons to business leaders. On top of all that,

May 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

3 Steps to Making 6 Figures: Top Tech Jobs are in High Demand

Source – edgylabs.com If you think that robots and AI are about to change your job, then you’re probably right. Here are three steps you can take to show how automation creates demand for new positions and new skill sets. You may have someone warning you about the coming robot revolution, where those that own robots make all the money. In this dystopian nightmare, the rest of us are left unemployed. Quite frankly, we don’t see it that way. Everyone here at

May 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Why Failure is Critical to DevOps Culture

Source – informationweek.com One of the first steps in DevOps is to understand the need for some failures and learn from them. It’s no secret that in order to fully adopt a DevOps culture, it requires acceptance of change from the C-level, down. The tricky part is that there is no roadmap or “step-by-step” guide to change a company’s culture, because every company is vastly different. A business can’t simply say, “Right now we’re going to start doing DevOps,” because so

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