Containers Vs. Bare Metal, VMs and Serverless for DevOps

Source:-https://containerjournal.com/ As I explained in my prior blog, Containers Practices Gap Assessment, containerizing software is valuable for DevOps. Yet, as I work with clients on their DevOps journeys, I continue to encounter organizations that haven’t grasped the importance of using containers relative to bare metal, virtual machines (VMs) and serverless computing solutions. This article is intended to help organizations understand the difference and the advantages that containers offer for DevOps. The workhorse of IT is the computer server on which

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Best online resources to learn DevOps

If you’re new to DevOps and confused about where to start the learning process, then this is the right page to know the best resources available to learn DevOps. In this blog post, I am going to share some of the best online resources available which you can take or follow to become an expert DevOps professional. Organizations are expecting new engineers to manage the full lifecycle of their applications. This means continuous development, continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous deployment,

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Containers and Kubernetes For Continuous Testing

Source:-https://containerjournal.com/ Software services architected as microservices, packaged in containers, and orchestrated with Kubernetes changes the game for continuous testing because of the excellent alignment with the five tenets of continuous testing. The DevOps Institute describes continuous testing as an essential tenet of DevOps. Continuous testing allows for continuous assessment of incremental changes as part of establishing a culture and environment where building, testing and releasing software can happen rapidly, frequently, reliably and safely. In my book, Engineering DevOps, I explained

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DevOps Teams: Automate Container Security to Protect CI/CD Pipelines

Source:-https://containerjournal.com DevOps is one of the most efficient ways of developing apps and programs, as it allows for real-time adjustments that guarantee excellent results for clients and enterprises. It’s highly versatile, makes targeted changes easy and can be modulated to a high degree. However, with such an advanced level of connectedness, security threats abound. There has been a steady rise of cyberattacks over the previous years, with this year hitting a record number because of a high number of organizations

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Azure gets classy with Java resource management libraries

Source:-https://devclass.com Java may be slipping down the charts, but Microsoft is still feeling the love for the world’s second most popular language. The Azure cloud is now equipped with new libraries to ease the integration of Java code with online resources, the company announced in a blog post. “The latest Azure Resource Management Libraries for Java is a result of our efforts to create a resource management client library that is user-friendly and idiomatic to the Java ecosystem,” said Weidong

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Kovair Releases It’s New Kubernetes Plug-In for It’s DevOps

Source:-aithority.com Kovair Software, One of the Leaders in the Software Tools Integration Domain, Today Announced the Release of Its New Kubernetes Plug-In for the Kovair DevOps Solution. Kovair Software, one of the leaders in the software tools integration domain, announced the release of its new Kubernetes plug-in for the Kovair DevOps Solution. Kovair DevOps  in conjunction with it’s award-winning Omnibus, supports Hybrid Multi-Cloud Enablement. This enterprise-class automation solution helps to reduce time to market and leverage the benefits of Kubernetes

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Retail software firm takes broad view of Kubernetes security

Source:-searchitoperations.techtarget.com Kubernetes platform security has supplanted container-level security for enterprises such as retail software vendor Aptos as they deploy microservices in production. Kubernetes security has become the focal point for protecting cloud-native workloads among enterprises as they deploy containers and microservices in production. Initially, container security specialists such as Aqua, Twistlock and StackRox focused on scanning container images within the DevOps pipeline, then added container runtime scans for live production environments through agents deployed on individual hosts. More recently, however,

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Dynatrace extends Kubernetes support, observability goes ‘full-stack’

Source:-computerweekly.com Dynatrace used its Perform conference 2020 in Las Vegas this week to announced new enhancements to its support for Kubernetes. The company’s explainable AI engine Davis now ‘automatically ingests’ additional Kubernetes events and metrics, enabling it to deliver ‘precise’ answers in real time about performance issues and anomalies across the full stack of Kubernetes clusters, containers and workloads. Dynatrace now also automatically discovers, instruments and maps heterogeneous container technologies within Kubernetes. The company says that this makes even the

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SPARKING THE GAP BETWEEN AI AND DEVOPS

Source:-nextplatform.com The term “AIOps” is getting a lot of work these days, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Massive amounts of data is coming at enterprises from all directions, not only from inside their own datacenters but also from the cloud and the edge, driven by such trends as the Internet of Things (IoT), the growing use of multiple clouds – both public and private – a proliferation of devices at the edge and applications being created and moved in rapidly increasing numbers of containers. Contained

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Predictions 2020: Cloud computing sees new alliances and new security concerns

Source:-zdnet.com In 2020, the cloud computing market will sees interesting new alliances and face new security concerns. Read Forrester’s 2020 cloud predictions to find out more. Last year, Forrester predicted that enterprises would start modernizing core business apps with cloud computing in 2019, and that transformation has indeed taken off. 2019 also brought major acquisitions (IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat, and VMware reabsorbed Pivotal) and surprising new alliances (Oracle partnered with Microsoft on high-speed links between Oracle Cloud

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Medlife Uses AWS to Efficiently Manage Containers and SMS

Source: crn.in India’s healthcare system is vast and dispersed, with both public and private systems in place and varying degrees of quality between rural and urban clinics. Providers are often spread across great distances, and patients may have to visit three or more sites to access care. Medlife was launched in 2014 as an online pharmacy and one-stop healthcare platform, offering consultation with in-house doctors via outbound calls, as well as lab services at its diagnostic center in Bangalore. Catering

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Containers 102: Kubernetes and the Basics of Container Orchestration

Source: redmondmag.com To know containers is to know Kubernetes, the gold standard for container orchestration and deployment. Here’s an explainer for how Kubernetes works and what makes it tick. In the first installment in this series, you learned about why and how containers became a new paradigm in IT infrastructure. When containers first emerged, there was a quick race to develop a container management system to provide functionality like networking, high availability and — important for database workloads — persisted

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How to change a root password in a Docker image

Source: techrepublic.com If you deploy Docker containers based on an official imagine, you might want to set a root password for heightened security. You’ve probably already read that some Docker images were released with null passwords. This could have easily led to serious security issues on any container you might have deployed with that pulled image. Although this isn’t typical, you might want your containers to deploy with a heightened sense of security. While this may not be the best

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Powering Edge With Kubernetes: A Primer

Source: containerjournal.com Adoption of Kubernetes into data centers or cloud has been remarkable since it was released in 2014. As an orchestrator of lightweight application containers, Kubernetes has emerged to handle and schedule diverse IT workloads, from virtualized network functions to AI/ML and GPU hardware resources. Kubernetes’ core capabilities have improved exponentially as IT workloads have become more diverse and new technologies introduced. Kubernetes is now being adopted at edge infrastructure, which has fewer capacity resources and a persistent connection to the

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Containers and Cybersecurity: Ansible, Kubernetes, More to Consider

Source:- channelfutures.com Containers are a very big deal in enterprise computing right now. If your organization isn’t already using them, then trends indicate it probably will soon. This application virtualization technology has had profound implications for some companies that have embraced DevOps, and there is plenty of potential for it to have a similar impact on security operations. To understand why, it’s good to start with an understanding of just what containers are. A modern application is a collection of

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How to successfully use containers

Source:- techhq.com In traditional software development, code developed in one environment doesn’t necessarily run the same when deployed in another; there often are bugs and errors. Running software in containers in the cloud can help developers overcome many of these issues, and adoption of containerization ecosystems like Docker and Kubernetes continues to grow. In fact, 451 Research predicts that application container technology will grow by 40 percent before 2020. And Gartner predicts that by 2022, more than 75 percent of global organizations will be running containerized

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How to improve DevOps value with containers and microservices

Source:- techradar.com DevOps is not simply a set of tools or systems, but rather a methodology requiring stakeholder buy-in for successful execution. DevOps is based on collaboration—using operations, best practices, and organizational culture to streamline and connect development teams and IT operations. The better the system design, the better the DevOps implementation. Deriving the best value from DevOps requires agility many legacy systems can’t deliver. To maximize efficiency, DevOps must operate on a flexible system, such as one running microservices and containers

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DevOps at Trainline has been a ‘great adventure’

Source- computing.co.uk In 2015, Trainline adopted DevOps in a bid to speed delivery. It started by virtualising services and containerising them, and the new platforms demanded a new way of working. Sana Essid is a platform operations engineer at Trainline. With the infrastructure hosted on AWS, this mostly entails monitoring the cloud services, building new containerised microservices and helping to standardise the architecture. An operations engineer for 15 years at a number of different organisations, she has seen some big changes in

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How Jenkins X updates this CI/CD tool for the cloud, Kubernetes

Source- searchmicroservices.techtarget.com Jenkins was one of the first essential technologies of the DevOps revolution. As such, development and operations teams around the world constructed expansions, build packs and plugins for this CI/CD tool. Unfortunately, Jenkins wasn’t built for the cloud or designed for containers. In fact, most Jenkins environments differ substantially from a Docker or Kubernetes ecosystem. This left many developers struggling to figure out how they could continue to use this tried-and-true open source automation server. This is the problem that Jenkins X was designed to

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Devops predictions for 2019

Source- computerworlduk.com Devops thinking is arguably mainstream today, and there were plenty of developments afoot in 2018 that suggest 2019 will be an intriguing year to follow the space. Loosely defined, devops is the combination of developer and operations teams through an organisational culture change, assisted by automation tooling with the goal of releasing software as quickly as possible. Naturally this makes it an enticing proposition to enterprises, especially those who may be at the start of their “digital transformation”, even

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