March 25, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

How to Compare and Contrast APIs to Improve DevOps Processes

Source:-devops.com The cloud is driving digital transformation, from web applications to mobile applications, from partner integrations to API monetization. Even custom applications are moving into the cloud. If you draw a line through all these trends, APIs would be at the heart of it all. We know we need to eat our vegetables to keep our heart healthy, but sometimes it is easier to order takeout after a long day of work. Healthy API hygiene works the same way. In

March 12, 2020 bestdevops Data Science Leave a comment

New Google Cloud Feature Simplifies Data Science Deployments

Source:-cdotrends.com Google Cloud this week announced a new feature that can make it significantly easier for system administrators and data scientists to set up and maintain their specialized data infrastructure environments in the cloud. Called “machine images”, the new feature essentially stores all the information needed to restore a virtual machine. While this can already be done by an older feature known as “custom images”, machine images can span multiple disks and contains instance properties of individual machines, instance metadata,

March 12, 2020 bestdevops Continuous Delivery Leave a comment

Continuous delivery pipeline transforms hotel chain’s IT ops

Source:-searchitoperations.techtarget.com As Choice Hotels moved away from homegrown scripting tools for continuous delivery, it fundamentally shifted the daily duties of its IT ops teams. The terms continuous integration and continuous delivery are often used together and combined into one tool set, but one enterprise discovered that they affect different parts of IT as teams adopt new practices. Choice Hotels began its DevOps transition more than four years ago and established continuous integration testing of application code through the open source

March 3, 2020 bestdevops DevOps, IT Monitoring, IT Training Leave a comment

16 ways to improve your code after it’s ‘finished’

Source:-itworld.com Just because you’ve squeezed out the bugs and delivered a working program doesn’t mean you should relax You’ve pushed the code through all of the tests and they came back green. The continuous integration pipeline ran all of the way through. All of the check boxes on the feature list are checked. All of the Post-it notes have moved to the completed part of the wall. Phew. It’s tempting to call the code finished and head off on vacation.

February 22, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Kubernetes storage 101: Container storage basics

Source:-computerweekly.com We look at the basics of creating storage and specifying it for applications in container storage using Kubernetes Persistent Volumes and Persistent Volume Claims Use of containerised applications, usually with a container orchestrator such as Kubernetes, is currently a huge trend in IT, and is becoming almost ubiquitous with users across all sectors. Containerised applications is a form of application virtualisation, but one that does away with the need for multiple iterations of an operating system (OS). Containers are

February 14, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Automation Hacks for DevOps Teams

Source:-devops.com 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 complex jobs. Below are some helpful automation hacks you

February 10, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Introduction to Kubernetes architecture

Source:-redhat.com If you know only the basics of Kubernetes, you know it’s an open source container orchestration platform designed for running distributed applications and services at scale. But you might not understand its components and how they interact. Let’s take a brief look at the design principles that underpin Kubernetes, then explore how the different components of Kubernetes work together. Kubernetes design principles The design of a Kubernetes cluster is based on 3 principles, as explained in the Kubernetes implementation

February 3, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Artificial intelligence requires trusted data, and a healthy DataOps ecosystem

Source:-zdnet.com 5 steps to building a healthy DataOps ecosystem that paves the way to a data-driven enterprise Lately, we’ve seen many “x-Ops” management practices appear on the scene, all derivatives from DevOps, which seeks to coordinate the output of developers and operations teams into a smooth, consistent and rapid flow of software releases. Another emerging practice, DataOps, seeks to achieve a similarly smooth, consistent and rapid flow of data through enterprises. Like many things these days, DataOps is spilling over

January 29, 2020 bestdevops Azure, Kubernetes Leave a comment

Azure Kubernetes (AKS) Security Best Practices – Part 1 of 4

Source:-securityboulevard.com Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), launched in June 2018, has become one of the most popular managed Kubernetes services. Like any infrastructure platform or Kubernetes service, though, the Azure customer has to make important decisions and formulate a plan for creating and maintaining secure AKS clusters. While many of these requirements and responsibilities apply to all Kubernetes clusters, regardless of where they are hosted, AKS also has some specific requirements that the platform users must consider and act on

January 25, 2020 bestdevops Datadog, Kubernetes Leave a comment

Fairwinds’ Astro Helps Manage Datadog Monitors in Kubernetes Deployments for Better Productivity and Cluster Performance

Source:-finance.yahoo.com Astro software automates the management of monitors for more productive engineering teams and healthier clusters Fairwinds, the leader in fully managed cloud-native infrastructure solutions, has released its open source Astro project. Astro provides an intuitive API for understanding and managing Datadog monitors in large and complex deployments. Datadog monitors collect a massive amount of data for cloud-native deployments. These monitors are typically managed manually, which is inefficient and if not managed on a consistent, ongoing basis, can affect cluster

January 18, 2020 bestdevops AWS Leave a comment

What is AWS CloudFront?

Source:-techradar.com There was a time when only huge companies could deliver content in a timely fashion. Whether it was a video distributed around the globe to employees in a remote office, a gaming network where players are in disparate countries, or even a new music streaming app offered to go head-to-head with Spotify, the options were limited. About one decade ago, it was extremely rare for a company to create their own customer Content Delivery Network (or CDN) because of

January 17, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

How Next-Gen WAF Empowers the DevOps Lifecycle

Source:-securityboulevard.com Signal Sciences next-gen WAF can send and receive data to and from a wide range of security and DevOps tools via our API and integrations with various infrastructure and security tooling. The layer 7 telemetry we gather from inspecting and decisioning on over one trillion web requests monthly can inform every stage of the DevOps lifecycle. The infographic below walks you through how our next-gen WAF enables software delivery and security teams to create and release more secure code

January 13, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

True Fit Partners With Google Cloud to Host and Leverage the World’s Largest Data Set for Fashion

Source:-apnews.com True Fit ®, the data-driven personalization platform for footwear and apparel, today announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud that makes it easy for retailers to leverage the Fashion Genome™, the largest connected data set for fashion. Retailers can use the Fashion Genome™ to insert style, fit, and size recommendations into every phase of the customer journey. Together, True Fit and Google Cloud are helping retailers go beyond the hype cycle of artificial intelligence and machine learning, to drive

January 9, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

API Security in DevOps: Are We Too Comfortable?

Source:-devops.com Postman performed its annual survey of developers, and as this survey and many other surveys have shown, developers are generally comfortable with the level of API security that their organization has implemented. This has been a consistent trend, with most developers being comfortable that they are protected. The problem is most organizations also put API security and management in the hands of developers. Knowing the rate of change going on in Agile/DevOps shops, and knowing the complexity of environment, I think

January 4, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

GET STARTED WITH KUBERNETES — WHETHER YOU’RE AN IT PRO OR NEWBIE

Source:-techgenix.com Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform created to automate the scaling, deployment, and management of containerized applications. Google engineers Joe Beda, Brendan Burns, and Craig McLuckie developed this platform before it was open-sourced in mid-2014. Now, it is maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), backed by major tech giants like Google, Microsoft, AWS, Intel, Red Hat, IBM, and Cisco. Many cloud services offer a Kubernetes infrastructure as a service (PaaS or IaaS). In his article, we

January 3, 2020 bestdevops IT Training Leave a comment

Why securing APIs every step of the way is now vital

Source:-itproportal.com The majority of API vulnerabilities are introduced at development stage. The explosion of APIs in recent years shows no sign of slowing down, becoming the glue that increasingly connects so many services in a world focused on the programmable web, mobile apps, containers, the cloud, and microservices. Software is being broken into a much larger number of smaller pieces: it took us 40 years for the first 500 million apps to be developed – the next 500 million will

December 14, 2019 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration Leave a comment

4 steps to implement a CI/CD pipeline

Source:-jaxenter.com The software industry is headed in a new direction that emphasizes rapid iteration. Longer release cycles are well-tested and stable processes, but they come at a cost. Reacting to customer feedback is slow and implementing patch releases can be complex. By shortening the release cycle, small teams with limited resources can use production releases to quickly gather a lot of data. And large companies can capitalize on market responsiveness, shorten issue resolution cycles, and more quickly innovate to improve

December 12, 2019 bestdevops IT trends Leave a comment

5 Ways To Secure Your Business In A Multi-Cloud World

Source:-forbes.com Modern software increasingly lives online, using application programming interfaces, or APIs, to ingest and expose data, stay updated, and generally work more effectively. APIs are great business accelerators with thousands of uses, from drawing on a file of recipes for a grocery website, to attaching a secure payment system to an online retailer, to adding features to existing IT infrastructure. As they grow in popularity, however, they also move into the crosshairs of bad actors, becoming a new target

December 4, 2019 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

HOW CAN AWS SAGEMAKER AND KUBERNETES INTEGRATION HELP ML DEVELOPERS?

Source:-analyticsindiamag.com Container management tools such as Kubernetes streamlines the development of applications; therefore, since its release ten years ago, it has been orchestrating containerised applications. Various organisations have embraced Kubernetes to train, evaluate, and deploy containerised machine learning models. However, delivering a machine learning model is cumbersome as it usually gets bulky. To address these challenges, AWS has introduced SageMaker for Kubernetes users to work with containerised machine learning models effortlessly. Kubernetes’ Unique Challenges Kubernetes facilitates a lot of features

November 27, 2019 bestdevops Ansible Leave a comment

Ansible Tower 3.6 introduces approval nodes

Source:-devclass.com Red Hat has quietly pushed out version 3.6 of Ansible Tower, offering users customisable notifications, workflow pauses, and better integration with GitHub and GitLab. Ansible Tower can be thought of as a web-based user interface for Ansible, which lets customers manage all sorts of IT automation tasks. It comes with a REST API for integration with other services and is also part of the Ansible Automation Platform the company announced earlier this year. The latter hit general availability a

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