April 17, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Why you shouldn’t choose between an agile approach and a DevOps approach?

Source – ibm.com You may hear your IT department talking about implementing an agile approach or DevOps development. Both promise better and faster software development through collaboration. How are they different, and which is better for your business? Agile software development principles enable developers to deliver new functionality quickly while responding to changing business requirements. Development teams deliver incremental features frequently, perhaps every couple of weeks. Traditional approaches often take months or even years to deliver new systems. In the meantime,

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

Continuous Integration Using Visual Studio Team Service

Source – c-sharpcorner.com Introduction We can configure our Visual Studio Team Service project, which can automatically build and deploy to Azure app Services. This article tells you how to configure a basic ASP.NET WEB API application in Visual Studio Team service with automatic build and release to Azure app service. Prerequisites Visual Studio 2015+ Azure subscription This article flows, as per the following, Create a new project in VSTS with GIT version control Add a existing project to the newly created

April 15, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

The 7 worst automation failures

Source – csoonline.com There are IT jobs that you just know are built for failure. They are so big and cumbersome and in some cases are plowing through new ground that unforeseen outcomes are likely. Then there are other situations where an IT pro might just say “whoops” when that unforeseen result should have been, well, foreseen. UpGuard has pulled together a group of the biggest instances in the past few years in which the well-intentioned automation of a company’s IT systems

April 15, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Tools, IT trends Leave a comment

DevOps Maturity Model report: trends and best practices in 2017

Source – atlassian.com DevOps has been a cultural force in the world of software and operations for 10 years. Like many grassroots movements, DevOps practices have been slowly but steadily gaining traction among operations and software teams in all sorts of industries. But where has 10 years of cultural change, infrastructure improvement, and tooling gotten us? To answer this question, we partnered up with xMatters, one of our strategic technology partners that integrates with our products to provide a collaboration layer for DevOps, to

April 15, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

The Essential DevOps Process We’re Ignoring: Continuous Response

Source – cloudscaling.com Continuous response—or “CR”—is an overlooked link in the DevOps process chain. The two other major links—continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD)—are well understood, but CR is not. Yet, CR is the essential element of follow through required to make customers happy and to fulfill the promise of greater speed and agility. At the heart of the DevOps movement is the need to greater velocity and agility for the business in our new digital age. CR plays a

April 15, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

Reasons Continuous Delivery Considered As Key For Success of Developer’s Career

Source – careermetis.com Have you ever heard the word Continuous Delivery? It is an advanced software engineering approach that allows teams to create software in small cycles, making sure that the developed software can be released at any time. This is one such approach that mainly aims at developing, testing, and releasing software quickly and often. This approach is highly well-known among professional developers as it decreases the cost, time, and risk of serving changes by enabling more incremental updates to

April 14, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

6 Steps to Hiring and Retaining Great DevOps Talent

Source – news.sys-con.com As with two other big trends in digital delivery over the past decade or so—‘Cloud’ and ‘Agile’—the awareness and expectation of DevOps can be oversold and too easily misunderstood by key stakeholders. In a world where people increasingly ask for a simple summary, striking a balance between selling the benefits and highlighting the challenges and required investment, needs to be given due attention. DevOps cannot be reduced to a one-line description. This is as true in the

April 14, 2017 bestdevops Agile, Continuous Delivery, IT trends Leave a comment

Running Agile at scale: Three challenges

Source – searchcio.techtarget.com Across large enterprises, IT leaders are developing a new operating model to respond to digital demands. This model presumes that applications development will need to scale the use of Agile methods if teams are to support digital products and services at the cadence of continuous delivery. In their quest to run Agile at scale, many organizations have made substantial investments in tools, training, and frameworks like SAFe. But these investments by themselves are insufficient. When it comes

April 13, 2017 bestdevops IT trends Leave a comment

6 tips to solve Mobile App Testing problems

Source – pcworld.idg.com.au More emphasis than ever is being placed on enterprises to create an amazing UX with their mobile apps. As If delivering error free apps was not pressured enough these superior quality apps must be delivered faster than the competition while facing a constantly evolving technological landscape. The expectations and pressures of these situations will often drive a wedge between Testing and QA Teams. This is Where CI/CD (continuous integration/delivery) methodology comes in. Preserving the Developer/QA relationship The key

April 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News Leave a comment

Continuous Deployment of a Python Flask Application with Docker and Semaphore

Source – semaphoreci.com Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll go through the continuous integration and deployment of a dockerized Python Flask application with Semaphore. We’ll deploy the application to Heroku. Continuous integration and deployment help developers to: Focus on developing features rather than spending time on manual deployment, Be certain that their application will work as expected, Update existing applications or rollback features by versioning applications using Git, and Eliminate the it works on my machine issue by providing a standardized testing

April 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News Leave a comment

How To Install Gradle On Ubuntu

Source – linuxhelp.com Gradle is a free and open source automation toolset based on Apache Ant and Apache Maven and builds support for development lifecycle. It uses domain specific language rather than XML form for project configuration. This tutorial explains the installation procedure of Gradle on Ubuntu. Installation procedure To start the installation procedure, first update the system repositories using the apt-get update command. root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports

April 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News Leave a comment

How to use Dockerfiles

Source – techrepublic.com With Docker images, you can easily deploy containers without having to worry about maintaining the same overhead required by virtual machines. These containers can be pulled from the Docker Hub with ease, for easy use. Let’s say, for example, you want to pull down the latest Ubuntu image for development purposes. However, before you start development, there are a number of changes you need to make to the image (such as updating, upgrading, and adding the build-essential package

April 12, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Which DevOps Skills Pay the Most?

Source – insights.dice.com Those DevOps experts who command the highest salaries also possess some extraordinary skills. Not only do they know the ins and outs of the latest enterprise automation technology, for example, but they also have the “soft skills” necessary to operate collaboratively across any given organization. They can finesse their way through every stage of the software-development lifecycle, all the way through implementation. Most of all, DevOps experts are good at handling transitions. While most employees regard change

April 12, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT Training, IT trends Leave a comment

10 commandments of IT Ops in the DevOps era

Source – techbeacon.com You might think that IT operations is becoming irrelevant these days, as orchestration and DevOps tools now supposedly do the job for you. I’m sorry to break it to you, but that’s just a myth. Throw it in the pile with other busted myths, such as the ability to see the Great Wall of China from space, bulls’ hatred of red (they’re actually colorblind), and vitamin C’s effectiveness in curing colds. But according to this growing meme,

April 12, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Updates, IT trends Leave a comment

Low Code: What IT Needs to Know

Source – informationweek.com As low code, which minimizes the amount of coding needed to build out applications, becomes a new norm, it is important to consider how the rise of citizen developers will affect the enterprise. Across industries, from healthcare to manufacturing and financial services, organizations are undergoing digital transformations. This is creating a competitive job market for skilled developers, such as mobile app developers, and in turn, can cause a talent shortage. As demand for mobile apps in the

April 12, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Process Leave a comment

‘Can do’ attitude of DevOps teams is driving cloud-first strategies

Source – computerweekly.com The cloud-first strategies of businesses across sectors are maturing, with DevOps teams playing a leading role More than half (51%) of financial services businesses in Europe have a strategy to put IT in the cloud wherever possible, and 84% expected to do so within two years, with DevOps teams leading the way. According to a survey of 102 senior executives by ReRez Research for cloud software supplier ServiceNow, this puts financial services above the average for cloud

April 12, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

You need your ‘cloud brain’ more than ever

Source – infoworld.com How we do IT is changing. As it changes, we need to alter the way we think about IT. I like to call that new thinking as having a “cloud brain.” So what the hell is a “cloud brain?” A few core attributes include the following: The ability to stop looking at all workloads as things that must exist in a corporate datacenter. Platforms can reside anywhere: colocation providers, cloud providers, in your datacenter, or on your

April 11, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps News, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Top 4 obstacles to DevOps adoption and how to successfully eliminate them

Source – jaxenter.com Many organizations want to apply DevOps principles in their organization but they don’t really know what DevOps is, what it requires from the employees, what value it will bring and how to start a DevOps journey. Other have already given DevOps a try but they faced misunderstandings and challenges that slowed them down. If only there was a way to experiment with DevOps before actually adopting it. Meet The Phoenix Project, the simulation which comes to the

April 11, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps News, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

AppDynamics interviews container expert Liz Rice

Source – sys-con.com I was delighted to spend time with container guru Liz Rice recently, ahead of the presentation Liz will deliver at AppD Summit Europe. There are over 460K Dockerized applications and more than 5 billion containers have been pulled so far. Why do you think containers as a concept have caught on so quickly? Containerization-related technologies existed before Docker arrived on the scene, but Docker made it easy to use at the command line. This opened the advantages

April 11, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Continuous deployment using Jenkins

Source – thumbtack.com When I joined at Thumbtack, back in late 2015, we had continuous delivery infrastructure for monolith builds. As more engineers joined, we noticed that a significant amount of time went to deploying the latest build. Moreover, there was a trend of having bigger deploys (so call train deploys) and rollbacks tend to be harder. It was a clear indicator we needed to invest into the deployment pipeline. Continuous delivery At Thumbtack, we use Gerrit for code review.

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