Does “DevOps” still mean anything?

Source- enterprisersproject.com The term “DevOps” is generally accepted as being coined by Patrick Debois when he named a development conference in Belgium “devopsdays” — in 2009 — a virtual lifetime ago in the world of software development. Since then, DevOps has become the method du jour for thousands of organizations of all sizes and verticals in the never-ending pursuit to build better software faster. Its relationship with supporting methodologies like agile and continuous delivery are well and painstakingly documented. As DevOps has adapted and changed

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Getting started with CI/CD: 6 pitfalls to avoid

Source- enterprisersproject.com What shapes the long-term success of your CI/CD effort? A faster, more automated pipeline for software development? We recently outlined 4 success factors when getting started with CI/CD – and all led back to culture. That’s helpful, but it’s also productive to look at the downsides – not of CI/CD itself, but of common mistakes organizations make, especially when they’re just starting out. “If done right, proper continuous delivery and integration can lead to great customer experiences,” says Joy Scharmen, director of DevOps at Optimizely.

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Vanguard CIO: Is what you’re doing “true” agile?

Source- enterprisersproject.com Recently, I went out after work with a friend who wanted to pick my brain about agile. He had just landed a new job and his new organization was adopting agile principles. Excited for him, I began asking all kinds of questions. How frequently do they deploy software? Were they building microservices? Were they looking at public cloud? I watched his excitement drain a bit as he explained that they deploy relatively infrequently and had not discussed “breaking down the monolith” or

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How to Choose the Right Agile Methodology for Project Development in a Frugal Way

Source- business2community.com Software development has taken a critical role in transforming businesses across the industries. As organisations and firms grow, they need IT solutions to handle new consumer demands, changing business environment, and increasing competition. For continuous and sustainable growth, companies should deliver timely innovations to streamline business operations and outdo competitors. Choosing the right project management approach for software development is important to deliver effective solutions within the budget and timelines. This article will guide you on how to choose

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These are the top benefits of DevOps and Amazon Web Services

Source- techaeris.com If you’re someone who works in the IT industry, chances are you’ve been hearing the terms DevOps and Amazon Web Services quite a lot. These terms basically refer to some of the most modern approaches to software development and IT operations. While the actual definitions of DevOps and AWS vary slightly depending on the source, they will most likely continue to be a significant part of the common vernacular in the coming months and years. In most cases, there

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How DevOps will change in 2019 and beyond: 3 predictions

Source- techrepublic.com In the past few years, DevOps transitioned from a tech buzzword to a proven method of delivering software more quickly and efficiently than in the past. Implementing DevOps practices during digital transformation leads to improved organizational performance and quality outcomes, one report found, with elite DevOps teams seeing 46x more frequent code deployments, and 2,555x faster lead time from commit to deploy. Despite the benefits, most enterprise DevOps teams still struggle with how to get started in the workflow, according

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Making enterprise automation your app development advantage

Source- enterpriseinnovation.net In today’s agile, innovation-driven and dynamic market, automation rules! It allows companies to streamline, optimize, eliminate human error and reallocate valuable human resources to other value-adding tasks. Automation provides the foundation for DevOps, which brings together the two separate worlds of app development and software operations. In theory, automation can improve rollout of app releases, increase deployment speed, lower failure rates, shorten the time between fixes, and reduce mean time to recovery when apps crash. The reality, however, can

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In Digitization, Learn How to Learn More

Source- insidebigdata.com Digital transformation is all about becoming a learning organization – yet a common mistake many organizations make is believing they’re working toward a specific end state. Digital transformation is the realignment of an organization to embrace technology – specifically software – as a competitive advantage. There are really two key drivers for this: ongoing shifts in consumer expectations and pervasive connectivity. Consumer expectations continue to drive towards a highly digital experience, which is also the case for business-to-business (B2B)

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DevSecOps: More Work Ahead

Source- securityboulevard.com DevOps has come a long way since it got underway in full force nearly ten years ago.  As was recently made clear at this year’s DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) in Las Vegas, DevOps organizations have been successful when it comes to knocking down organizational silos, optimizing the delivery of software services and functionality, and shortening the time it takes to deliver digital value to customers. DevOps organizations are delivering better business outcomes. However, one area where there’s still much more work

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Open Source DevOps Platform by Infosys on GitHub

Source- dev-insider.de The IT service provider Infosys has provided an open source DevOps platform, which is also available from GitHub in a community edition. The integrated solution should help companies to implement agile and DevOps-oriented processes. With more than 2,000 predefined scripts and more than 150 DevOps pipelines, the Infosys DevOps platform was fed from scratch. The solution is designed to bring continuous integration, continuous testing and continuous delivery on the way, significantly reducing the time to application startup. The application provision should run as tool-independent as possible. For this,

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Grow rapidly into a continuous delivery pipeline

Source- searchitoperations.techtarget.com If the only thing colourful about your deployments is the language, evaluate canary and blue/green environments. One application engineering team found that continuous delivery (CD) makes the rapid-fire updates to a high volume of microservices orderly and manageable. But to truly reap the benefits, they must find ways to minimize the blast radius of live code and to catch and roll back anything that mars user experience (UX). Ibotta, a Denver-based mobile rewards app provider, adopted a continuous delivery

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GitHub’s Actions Challenge Traditional CI Vendors

Source- forbes.com In the week since GitHub announced its new Actions capability, I’ve been speaking with developers and colleagues about the implications. There is no doubt that Actions was the most significant announcement at this year’s Universe conference, held in San Francisco, CA. It was met with considerable enthusiasm from those present, even taking into account the boosterism from the more committed GitHub employees present. In essence, Actions provide a mechanism for developers to write event handlers in a language of

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Automation: One of the keys to DevSecOps

Source- securityboulevard.com Automation is one of the keys to consistent and meaningful AppSec adoption in an evolving world. Many organizations have taken the first step in integrating their development and operations teams to drive more efficient delivery of applications and innovation to the market. They have come a long way by aligning around the shared goal of delivering stable, high-quality software quickly. One way they are achieving these efficiencies is through automation. Automation in DevOps By automating manual processes and building

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Spinnaker is the next big open source project to watch

Source- techcrunch.com Spinnaker is an open source continuous delivery (CD) platform from Netflix and Google, though it now also has the backing of other major software companies. Spinnaker  1.0 launched last July, so it’s not the newest kid on the block, but the service is slowly but surely gaining momentum now, with users that include Target, Adobe, Daimler and Capital One, as well as a growing ecosystem of vendors who support it. Today, after a few years of working on the project without any

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Should You Migrate Your DevOps Architecture to the Cloud?

Source- informationweek.com This is the question I’m helping numerous customers answer right now. Development operations and the creation of a continuous development cycle are somewhat of a new concept. Ever since development leaders saw that working with broken release cycles, coding practices, and heterogenous tools actually slowed the entire process down, we’ve seen massive movement around today’s modern DevOps culture. Before we go on, I need to touch on the concept of legacy. At a high level, this is any process

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Defining software quality metrics for Agile and DevOps

Source- sdtimes.com In a Tricentis-commissioned report from Forrester released in July, “The Definitive Software Quality Metrics For Agile+DevOps,” surveyors found that it’s a common trait of companies that have seen the most success from Agile and DevOps adoption that they have made another operational transition. These companies have moved on from considering “counting” metrics — for instance, whether you’ve run tests an adequate number of times — as key indicators of success, to “contextual” metrics — whether the software meets

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DevOps India Summit Sets the Stage for DevOps’ Future in India

Source- devops.com DevOps India Summit 2018, India’s biggest DevOps conference, concluded with notable audiences and best in industry experts setting the tone for the future of DevOps in India. The summit was held Sept. 1 at the Marriott Hotel, Whitefield, Bengaluru with a pre-event workshop Aug. 31. Around 500 professionals, including corporate leaders and mid-level managers from across the country, who witnessed the best minds in DevOps sharing their valuable insights on all phases of DevOps transformation. The event was

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Is ‘Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins’ right for you?

Source- searchitoperations.techtarget.com Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins by Rafal Leszko is a comprehensive book that presents the requirements for successful DevOps implementation and management in organizations of all sizes. Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins is a valuable resource to have available when you need examples of organizations that practice CD methods via Docker for containers and Jenkins for CI/CD. The book contrasts traditional delivery methods and their challenges with CD, which Leszko portrays as the best solution. Leszko thoroughly familiarizes the reader

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Best practices for DevOps compliance and reusability

Source- devopsagenda.techtarget.com Organizations really need to ask why they adopted DevOps in the first place and how they intend to push and present a DevOps model to the rest of the company. In order to scale to full maturity with a model-driven approach, organizations will need to heed these best practices for DevOps models. Governance and compliance Some companies look at governance and compliance as, “We need to check all these boxes.” Others see governance and compliance as, “We have

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Adobe Debuts New Capabilities for DevOps in Adobe Experience Manager

Source- readitquik.com Adobe recently announced the debut of new abilities in Adobe Experience Manager, which is a part of Adobe Experience Cloud. The company is introducing its industry-first Single Page Application (SPA) Editor that enables front-end developers as well as experience authors to preview an SPA, view the JavaScript, and edit content, including video, text, and images. Thanks to this new ability, SPA content can be edited and managed in-context, helping marketing teams to easily preview content and cut down time spent on

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