Learn How DevOps Can Scale Your Business

Source – entrepreneur.com Every other day businesses are developing and innovating fast to bring convenience to their consumers. With each passing day, it’s all about the speed with which the product is made, albeit with perfection. When it comes to software products, the need is even higher. With agile software development, arose the need for DevOps. DevOps brings together software development and software operation for faster processes; it prioritises the organizational changes required for the same. In a first-of-its-kind summit, DevOps India

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Container Adoption Starts to Outpace DevOps

Source – containerjournal.com A new survey finds the number of organizations using containers is poised to pass the number of organizations employing DevOps processes in the months ahead. Less clear, however, is the degree to which adoption of containers will force organizations to embrace DevOps. The survey of 601 IT decision-makers conducted by ClearPath Strategies on behalf of the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) finds that 32 percent of respondents have adopted containers and are employing DevOps processes. But the number of respondents who

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Ops: The Other DevOps

Source – devops.com Much of the conversation around DevOps, including right here on DevOps.com, is about helping developers get easier access to production systems, increasing agility by shortening release cycles. Most of the time, this focus on developers leads to a concentration on so-called “Day One” tasks, the Dev side of the equation, to the exclusion of “Day Two” operations—the Ops side of things. Recent moves in the DevOps market underscore the fact that the weight is still very much on

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IoT for web developers: Continuous integration

Source – jaxenter.com PlatformIO is a very powerful development tool that greatly automates many setup steps from selecting and installing the necessary toolchain parts such as crosscompilers, linkers, flash tools, etc., making it much easier for developers to adapt firmware code to different target hardware. Besides its ability to integrate different embedded development platforms, PlatformIO is also characterized by its ability to trace and support the various tasks along the value chain of software development. These cross-cutting topics include automated procedures for

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Rules automation puts the “Sec” in DevSecOps

Source – helpnetsecurity.com Imagine if safety were an afterthought in automobiles: Manufacturers would create a pristine new car and then hand it off to the safety team…which would bolt airbags onto the dashboard, seatbelts onto the side panels, and bumpers onto both ends. And if they were under a lot of pressure to get the car to dealers as quickly as possible, they might just leave off some of this stuff, ship the car to the dealer, and tell the safety

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DevOps’ Role in Developing a Robust and Secure IoT Framework

Source – devops.com Creating a secure IoT infrastructure is a challenge for developers, requiring a holistic approach. It requires a dynamic framework that is capable of collecting data from a cloud backend as well as directly from the embedded hardware. Supporting this secure environment is another challenge, requiring the development of complex systems capable of deployment in a timely and cost-effective manner. This is where the relationship between DevOps and IoT proves invaluable. In this article, we will take a close

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Which DevOps testing tools do I need to know?

Source – techtarget.com DevOps requires more tool functionality than just about any other systems development lifecycle methodology. Continuous delivery (CD), the practice in which DevOps is based, requires automation at every stage of a code delivery pipeline. Development, version control, integration, testing, release management, deployment and production monitoring with orchestration are all necessary steps with necessary tools. Automated feedback is critical to the DevOps process, which makes infrastructure monitoring, application monitoring and aggregators critical components of the DevOps testing toolchain as well. Continuous

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Web app development morphs as apps and websites merge

Source – techtarget.com Rather than delivering separate mobile and web applications and websites, enterprise DevOps teams are moving to a consolidated web app development strategy. In this setting, they build one type of application, such as a single-page app or progressive web app, which has features of all three. DevOps teams, which dive into building these multi-experience apps, will be prepared for upcoming successors, such as conversational-first apps and development platforms. Progressive web apps (PWAs) will dominate new development projects over the

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Serverless computing could unleash a new startup ecosystem

Source – techcrunch.com While serverless computing isn’t new, it has reached an interesting place in its development. As developers begin to see the value of serverless architecture, a whole new startup ecosystem could begin to develop around it. Serverless isn’t exactly serverless at all, but it does enable a developer to set event triggers and leave the infrastructure requirements completely to the cloud provider. The vendor delivers exactly the right amount of compute, storage and memory and the developer doesn’t even have

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Choosing the Right Monitoring Tools for a Full-Stack Solution

Source – devops.com 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 on monitoring and performance management, delivery and operations management, lifecycle management, analytics and other solutions. Selection Criteria for Full Stack Monitoring Tools With the amount of

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DevOps, Software Development, Continuous integration, DevOps tools, continuous delivery

Source – expressbpd.com By Yoosuf Mohamed, Senior Vice President & Global Delivery Head – Cognizant Security and Engineering Practice, Cognizant These field-testing steps can help organizations make the required changes to speed software to market that meets continuously changing market needs. In today’s fast-paced digital economy, it has become clear that the traditional waterfall-style development processes are too expensive and slow to keep pace with the speed of change. Delivering software features and functionalities quickly enough to meet the continually changing

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Top 4 challenges to adopting DevOps and the best ways to resolve them

Source – jaxenter.com Most companies both large and small have already implemented or are progressing towards implementing a DevOps model into their day-to-day operations for improved workflow and productivity. DevOps is a methodology involving application delivery that encourages communication and collaboration between the operations teams and developers across all stages of the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). The collaboration between the operations and development teams promotes a well-defined integration and enables them to strive for a common goal which ensures the

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How to manage cultural change while adopting DevOps

Source – itbrief.co.nz With the rise in connected devices, big data, and an ever-increasing number of business applications, enterprises are now operating like continuous software and data factories. The most successful businesses take an agile approach, constantly updating and aligning development output with business requirements. DevOps can be an incredibly successful tool for companies, but there’s one key challenge: putting the right foundations in place. The organisations that are leading the way are already automating parts of the software engineering process

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The Importance of Cloud Automation and How to Get There

Source – solutionsreview.com Automation is driving today’s enterprise technology advancements. Some forms of automation can be relatively easy to manage on your own, but for most situations, getting a tool or service is the right choice. With how fast technologies and processes are changing, automating repetitive tasks allows teams to learn new methods and practices. Automation frees up teams throughout the IT space to work on more pressing projects. The importance of cloud automation is due to the increasingly agile IT

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3 Cultural Considerations in IT Modernization

Source – nextgov.com The Office of Management and Budget recently set the stage for IT modernization across the federal government with the Modernizing Government Technology Act, allowing agencies to apply for funds needed to update their outdated systems. Moreover, the 2018 President’s Management Agenda identifies the number one cross-agency priority goal as IT modernization. It’s high time. In recent years, at least two-thirds of the federal IT budget is funneled to operations and maintenance of outdated IT systems—some that are older than the employees tasked with their

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Application security needs to shift left

Source – sdtimes.com As teams are pressured to release software more rapidly, more and more aspects of software development are being forced to “shift left,” moving up earlier in the development lifecycle. Because of the speed in which code is updated and delivered, security can no longer be thought of as an afterthought, said Rani Osnat, VP of product marketing at Aqua Security, a company that specializes in container security. “That’s why we profess to shift left security and basically embed

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Continuous delivery from the cloud with leading DevOps deployment automation tool

Source – asiaone.com Octopus Deploy, a DevOps tool used by over 20,000 companies around the world, has today launched itscloud-hosted product, Octopus Cloud. The advancement has been in the making for the past six months, and has developers and DevOps teams excited about automating their deployments in the cloud, without having to manage and maintain their own infrastructure. CEO and founder Paul Stovell: “Octopus Cloud offers all the same features and functions that users know and love in the self-hosted product, only now

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When AI meets DevOps: Getting the best out of both worlds

Source – cloudcomputing-news.net DevOps has been widely embraced by businesses under pressure to get competitively advantageous digital deliverables to market at the fastest possible cadence—especially given the reality of limited coder headcount and the need to rigorously avoid brand-toxic snafus in the customer experience. Artificial intelligence (AI), in stark contrast, is a potentially transformative digital discipline that is still very new to most enterprise IT organizations. But while it’s certainly important that CIOs nurture AI adoption with appropriately resourced pilots, it’s

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Big growth predicted for DevOps

Source – digitaljournal.com DevOps and Fast IT adoption are set to the among the biggest growth areas for business technology, according to a new report. These are driven by the widespread adoption of cloud computing. The growth in DevOps and Fast IT is highlighted in a new report from Venafi (a privately held cybersecurity company). While the focuses on security vulnerabilities and proposes actions, it highlights a number of growth areas in relation to business machine-to-machine communication. The report is titled

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Google Explains Why Others Are Doing SRE Wrong

Source – infoq.com Stephen Thorne, customer reliability engineer at Google, recently spoke at the DevOps Enterprise Summit London on what Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is and how many organizations are failing to understand its basic premises and benefits . Confounding service level objectives (SLOs) which are focused on early failure detection with service level agreements(SLAs) which often serve as financial compensation for past incidents, not enforcing error budgetsand not dedicating at least 50% effort of SRE teams to improve the systems and tools (instead letting them continue to drown in

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