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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government with the Modernizing Government Technology Act, allowing agencies to apply for funds needed to update their outdated systems.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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A business and DevOps communication crash course for developers

Source – techtarget.com Under the hood of every enterprise, the same war wages: technical vs. business teams. On the technical side, you have developers, engineers, operations and IT professionals. And, on the business front, you have the C-suite, sales and marketing. It’s a clash of two different worlds. A persistent point of contention that fuels this ongoing DevOps communication battle is the lack of common vocabulary. On the surface, it may seem like technical and business teams are working against each

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The cloud for DevOps: Tools and tips to consider

Source – techtarget.com Moving applications and operations to the cloud can be scary, even when you know the payoff can be big. Indeed, cloud technology can empower your organization and provide the on-demand resources your developers need. But when you start to build the cloud for DevOps, you will face at least two challenges. First, the staff will likely have a steep learning curve. Also, the staff must be kept happy as it learns to perform DevOps correctly, and avoids unforced errors

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Forget DevOps — Is the future of cloud NoOps?

Source – fedscoop.com Though the gospel of DevOps has been a key feature in federal agencies’ playbook for cloud adoption, that’s not where the future is headed, industry stakeholders said Thursday. The buzzword-worthy strategy of integrating an agency’s engineering (Dev) and operations (Ops) teams to approach a large-scale software project through agile development and iterative testing has been a staple of the federal government’s IT modernization best practices. It’s even gone as far as to spawn buzzier titles reflecting a desire to loop in cybersecurity

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The How and Where of DevOps Automation

Source – itbusinessedge.com The key challenge to automating a DevOps environment is figuring out what to automate, and how. Multiple platforms are available to help in this quest, of course, but in the end, the enterprise needs to craft its own unique solution based on legacy infrastructure, operational goals, corporate culture, and a host of other factors. And as a steady stream of financiers of a certain fictional prehistoric biological theme park keep finding out, over-reliance on automation can be just as problematic

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How Important Is Open Source for DevOps, Really?

Source – devops.com Depending on your perspective, you might believe that DevOps and open source go hand in hand. Or you may think that, quite to the contrary, the two have little to do with each other. There are good arguments to be made for both interpretations. Let’s explore these two ways of thinking about the relationship between DevOps and open source. Match Made in Heaven? In certain respects, the two share a great deal of core philosophical overlap. Both movements

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GitLab Moves to Automate DevOps

Source  – devops.com GitLab is looking to eliminate the pain of setting up and maintaining DevOps processes by making available an option that automates DevOps processes end to end using a prescriptive approach defined by GitLab. The latest version of GitLab includes an Auto DevOps option that organizations can employ to automate the building, testing, code-quality scanning, security scanning, license scanning, packaging, performance testing, deploying and monitoring their applications. GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij said the company is now able to make this service

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Integrating Blockchain and DevOps

Source – devops.com Blockchain is one of today’s hottest technology buzzwords. And at the same time, the concept of DevOps has achieved acceptance and is gaining momentum. Blockchain and DevOps already offer a number of benefits individually. Together, they can provide significant tactical and strategic advantages. However, some challenges must be overcome simply to adopt blockchain, as well as to successfully merge blockchain and DevOps. What is Blockchain? Let’s start with an overview of blockchain. Many people mistakenly conflate cryptocurrency and

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Serverless Computing: Moving from DevOps to NoOps

Source – devops.com While some organizations do better than others when it comes to implementing DevOps, almost everyone agrees it’s a concept easier penned to paper than pinned to reality. The idea of integrating development and operations is smart, but the implementation proves troublesome. A replacement option is thus largely welcomed by developers everywhere. Enter the new concept of NoOps, which means dropping operations from any consideration during the development cycle. It’s not that operations are being ignored; that would be

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Global DevOps Tool Market 2018 Developements- Atlassian, Chef, Red Hat and Puppet Labs

Source – theperfectinvestor.com The recent report on Global DevOps Tool market begins with a description of the product, definition, scope of product and classification, specifications and DevOps Tool market outlook. The report provides DevOps Tool market forecast period from 2018 to 2023. It includes a thorough analysis of DevOps Tool market growth factors, static data, the top manufacturers/major players, and geographical region-wise analysis. It analyses historical DevOps Tool market values to work on latest market needs and estimate future market propensity. It composes

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GitLab releases Auto DevOps to accelerate DevOps Lifecycle by 200%

Source – kaplanherald.com GitLab, a single application for the complete DevOps lifecycle, announced today the release of GitLab 11.0 and the general availability of Auto DevOps that allows enterprises to accelerate their DevOps adoption. Today’s digital businesses demand fast and responsive IT teams to deliver new applications and innovation at scale. However, the modern toolchain is fragmented, siloed and complex. It slows down delivery, all while wasting time, effort and energy to push changes to the business. In fact, as per

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Too Many Scripts Can Kill Your Continuous Delivery

Source – infoq.com Avantika Mathur, product manager at Electric Cloud, spoke at Continuous Lifecycle London last month on the costs associated with an ever increasing number of scripts in a Continuous Delivery pipeline. Besides the maintenance cost, the lack of visibility and auditability on exactly what activities are being carried out before deploying a change to production is another major cost not many organizations are aware of. Solving this problem requires first recognizing the issues and establishing guiding principles for a new approach to

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