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.

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A Case Study: How DevOps Plays a Role at Apple Headquarters

Source:-applemagazine.com Continuous updates and features are key to delivering a consistent and reliable user experience. Software companies need to go the extra mile to compete long-term and build strong relationships with their user base. This is where DevOps comes in. DevOps is a culture philosophy and agile methodology that combines development and operations. It’s clear that DevOps has a strong presence over at Apple headquarters; on any given day, you’ll find plenty of DevOps engineers positions listed on the Apple

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7 best practices: Building applications for containers and Kubernetes

Source:-enterprisersproject.com Let’s examine key considerations for building new applications specifically for containers and Kubernetes, according to cloud-native experts. Don’t let the growing popularity of containers and Kubernetes dupe you into thinking that you should use them to run any and every type of application. You need to distinguish between “can” and “should.” One basic example of this distinction is the difference between building an app specifically to be run in containers and operated with Kubernetes (some would refer to this

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5 DevOps Trends that Demand Your Attention

Source:-globaltrademag.com One of the great things about my job is that I get to go-to software developer conferences all over the world and listen to people being extremely smart. When you watch enough smart talks, read enough articles, and talk to enough people trying to get stuff done on the ground, it gets easier to spot trends—just like it’s easier to see irrigation patterns from the air than from the ground. Here are the five trends I think you should

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Windows 10: Containers are the future, and here’s what you need to know

Source:-techrepublic.com With two use cases for its containers, and five different container models, it would seem that Microsoft’s container strategy is ripe for confusion. But that’s not the case. Microsoft offers many different container models on Windows. If you’re running Windows 10 you’re running several without even realising it: wrapping and isolating all your UWP apps; using thin virtual machines to deliver security; and, if you’re a developer, either Windows or Linux Docker instances. That layered container model is key

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Checkmarx simplifies AST automation for modern development and DevOps environments

Source:-helpnetsecurity.com Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for DevOps, announced at the RSA Conference 2020 new enhancements to its market-leading Software Security Platform to empower more seamless implementation and automation of application security testing (AST) in modern development and DevOps environments. Available now, Checkmarx ‘Flow’ (CxFlow) is an orchestration module for the Checkmarx Software Security Platform that tightly integrates with application release orchestration and agile planning tools. This results in improved operational ‘flow’ of secure software development and

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JFrog Launches World’s First Hybrid, End-to-End, Universal DevOps Platform

Source:-cxotoday.com JFrog, the universal DevOps technology leader known for enabling Liquid Software via continuous update flows, has announced the availability of an industry landmark solution: The “JFrog Platform” is the world’s first hybrid, multi-cloud, universal DevOps platform. The JFrog Platform uniquely drives continuous software releases from any source to any destination. “Developers consistently tell us that for DevOps to be successful, they require several key elements: best-of-breed package management, advanced CI/CD solutions that span and control the pipeline all the

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CircleCI now has AWS GovCloud support plus several other updates

Source:-appdevelopermagazine.com CircleCI announced the availability of AWS GovCloud support among several other updates to their server solution. GovCloud is an AWS service specifically built for U.S. government agencies, defense companies, and other regulated industries such as healthcare, finance, justice/public safety, and energy. As of today, CircleCI server installations on AWS are configured to work on GovCloud — helping customers meet a variety of regulatory requirements such as FedRAMP, ITAR, DoD SRG, CJIS, and HIPAA. With AWS GovCloud, users gain the

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How to Secure DevOps Environments: Exploring Best Practices

Source:-securityboulevard.com Hard to believe, but it’s been more than a decade since the concept of DevOps was introduced. By eliminating the silos separating software development and operations teams, and fostering a more agile, collaborative environment, DevOps promised to help organizations deliver better software faster. By using automation to manage many of the tasks of building, testing, and deploying software, it now promises to improve consistency and reduce human error. IT organizations have certainly taken note. A recent survey found 45%

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When DevOps meets Software Delivery Management: A perfect pair

Source:-techerati.com We all know that CI and CD hold the power to drive digital transformation. These DevOps building blocks have allowed companies to optimise their productivity and foster innovation through high-velocity software iterations, and their far-reaching benefits have drawn attention not only from developer teams, but also from the likes of IT, operations, security, and leadership. To be precise, research has shown that security is one of the key stakeholders that are critical in DevOps implementation at 44 percent, followed

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KDDI and Ericsson achieve 5G cloud-native CI/CD software pipeline breakthrough

Source:-ericsson.com Ericsson CI/CD pipeline for cloud-native 5G Core standalone software deployment successfully tested Ericsson solution enables fast and efficient delivery of new software and functionalities while maintaining network quality Solution meets communications service provider software delivery needs for 5G networks Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and Japanese communications service provider KDDI have successfully demonstrated cloud-native CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipeline delivery for KDDI’s standalone 5G Core network – a breakthrough in delivering software features speedily and efficiently. The container-based technology enables automatic

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Weave DevOps continuous learning into a CI/CD toolchain

Source:-searchitoperations.techtarget.com DevOps shops can bake training materials into CI/CD workflows to ensure IT and development staff constantly advance their skills — but be sure to keep those materials up to date. As the rapid proliferation of DevOps tools strains traditional corporate training resources, organizations seek new ways to keep IT skill sets up to date. Self-learning is key to the professional sanity and advancement of IT professionals — including those on DevOps teams. Embedded trainings within DevOps toolchains is one

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How to chart DevOps success (securely) with Virgin Atlantic’s Martyn Coupland

Source:-techerati.com We talk DevOps scaling, security and success with Virgin Atlantic’s DevOps lead As DevOps Technical Lead at Virgin Atlantic, Martyn Coupland has two primary responsibilities. First, he is one of the subject matter experts for the airline’s Microsoft Azure platform and the subject matter expert for the Azure toolset which enables its DevOps program. In addition to the technical legwork, Martyn also provides expertise “around the softer side of DevOps” – in other words, the people and process side

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Do you really need Kubernetes?

Source:-itworld.com Is Kubernetes the perfect defense against cloud lock-in, or a needlessly complex solution to a problem nobody has? Oh, sure, Kubernetes is all the rage and of course you need one. Maybe three! But if you ever stop to think, “Why Kubernetes?”, as Paul Johnston did, well, expect lots (and lots) of opinions. One of the primary reasons IT professionals cite for embracing Kubernetes is to reduce lock-in by ensuring portability between clouds. This turns out to be better

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Wind River unveils CI/CD model for Linux

Source:-newelectronics.co.uk Wind River has unveiled a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) model for Wind River Linux customers. By following a CI/CD process customers will have access to new releases every few weeks. This will allow teams to begin to build their own continuous integration and delivery systems for their customers, get a head start on building new platforms sooner, and enjoy similar benefits of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) management, technical support, and quality typically found in annual and

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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

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GitOps Basics: Developers Are Gitting Into Deployment

Source:-securityboulevard.com The DevOps revolution has provided us with quite a few trends and buzzwords to experiment with. One of the most popular is GitOps, that term introduced by Weaveworks, echoing through practically every hall in the latest San Diego KubeCon, and its recaps. Over the past year or two, I’ve seen GitOps described as a strategy, a paradigm, a set of practices, a workflow, and even as a science. I’ve heard that GitOps is for developers dealing with Kubernetes cluster

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Stop messing up with CI/CD vs. DevOps and learn the difference finally

Source: itproportal.com When asking development pros to weigh in on the concept of DevOps, and share their views, we realised one thing. Ever since Patrick Debois coined the term DevOps in 2009, it has become a buzzword when talking about software production. The DevOps methodology has slowly taken over the workflow of most programmers, thereby marking a new era of continuous software product releases. As the team behind DeployPlace, we often interact with hundreds of developers and tech enthusiasts to

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How to Successfully Adopt Mobile DevOps Practices

Source:-devops.com Mobile DevOps is more than simply adopting a new set of tools and practices. It also comes with the need to adopt a completely different mindset, in the form of a cultural-organizational change. The approach is based on the Agile methodology, but takes its practices further— not only by getting other teams more involved, but by replacing function-based teams with product- and project-oriented teams as well. The main idea behind this is that nothing inspires collaboration like having a common goal and working together towards

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CircleCI automates Continuous Delivery to multiple clouds

Source:-zdnet.com Today’s companies use CI/CD to speedily deploy software updates, but that last step, from your pipeline to a cloud service, can be tricky. CircleCI has an answer. Modern software development is fast, continuous, and automated. Today, by research company Statista’s count, 88% of organizations are using Agile methods and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). Yet there remains one major stumbling block: Moving a freshly minted program from a CI pipeline to delivery to a cloud or other service provider. That’s

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