April 20, 2018 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

Why DevOps? The simple answer is it creates safer processes

Source – techtarget.com While we adopt new technologies to innovate, streamline, generate wealth and cut costs, there is another reason to do DevOps that might be even more important. Why DevOps? It can make you safe. Break down barriers We’re all familiar with the benefits of technology, but even today, a large number of businesses aren’t as quick to adopt new ideas as others. A number of research studies show the benefits of technology, but sometimes that’s not enough to force

April 20, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Why DevOps must become BizDevOps for business and IT collaboration

Source – information-age.com Nowadays, pretty much anyone who is anyone in the world of application software development is familiar with the concept of DevOps. It’s about bringing together development and operations to facilitate continuous integration, application monitoring, and the automated, frequent delivery, testing and updating of app portfolios: agile methodology at speed. But while speed of application delivery is important, it isn’t everything. At the end of the day, the big question is whether a project can be considered a success

April 17, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Nine Steps for Developing a DevOps Mindset

Source – globalbankingandfinance.com Stories about various industries and companies going digital cram the headlines. For example, airlines are readying for the digital shift to tackle increasing air traffic; meanwhile, Marks & Spencer has hired a principal technology partner to ‘drive digital-first.’ At the centre of all this is the need to boost productivity. Many companies still use inefficient manual processes instead of automation, however. Building apps to eliminate paper and streamline operations provides the obvious advantage of saving time, but it can also uncover new

April 16, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Try these Salt commands to master the config management tool

Source – techtarget.com The best way to learn a new configuration management tool is to explore the command-line interface. Try these Salt commands to develop hands-on skills with the tool. This tutorial on Salt commands covers ad hoc tasks, how to write custom grains and a method to install and remove software. Before following along, ensure that Salt is installed and you have a basic understanding of how the tool works, including minions, pillars and grains. The examples use the server names walkerrowe.copahost.com and eurovps.

April 13, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

How DevOps Can Help in Improving Customer Satisfaction

Source – customerthink.com The advent of Digital Revolution has changed, not only the way people live their lives, but also the way businesses interact and reach out to their customers. In fact, major overhauls have occurred in terms of giving overall customer satisfaction, particularly in the technological aspect of a 21st-century company. These advancements in technology is widely influenced by the emergence of new consumer markets. These markets are composed of Millennials and Generation Z (Gen Z). By this time, it’s quite clear to everyone that these

April 12, 2018 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

DORA and Google to collaborate on DevOps research

Source – appdevelopermagazine.com DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) has announced a new research project between DORA and Google Cloud: The Accelerate State of DevOps Report. Together, DORA and Google Cloud will conduct original, in-depth research to understand what issues matter most to developers. The two companies aim to unlock new findings that will give their customers a clear path forward with guidance to improve resource management, productivity and quality of their IT teams. “Our customers migrate to the cloud to change

April 10, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

How five UK CIOs are using DevOps

Source – cio.co.uk CIOs and other leading tech and IT business leaders explain how they’re using DevOps to The DevOps philosophy is gaining traction among CIOs as the evidence grows on the benefits of the strategic blending of “development” and “operations”. We spoke to a selection of IT leaders about how they’re using DevOps to support faster and more responsive software development. Transport Systems Catapult IT Director Alex Farr has formed a virtual DevOps team at the innovation centre for intelligent mobility. The unit was established to

April 4, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

5 DevOps Mistakes that Can Crush ISV Startups

Source – devprojournal.com Industry experts will tell you the best way to evolve your startup ISV into an established ISV is with DevOps— and they’re probably right. DevOps, however, which has only been in the mainstream for a little less than a decade, can be a difficult concept to master, and many software developers—especially startups—are still navigating the learning curve. As you set the course for your business, make sure you don’t make these DevOps mistakes that can not only stand

March 30, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps survey highlights complexity and culture worries

Source – betanews.com Top barriers to DevOps adoption include stagnant organizational cultures and managing a jumble of legacy processes. A new survey of DevOps and IT professionals from sandbox software company Quali finds 22 percent of respondents cite organizational culture, 21 percent legacy processes, and 20 percent growing software complexity as their top concerns. Other worries include the lack of standardized mechanisms for continuous testing (13 percent); managing the setup, tear-down and automation during different stages of the DevOps lifecycle (13

March 28, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, Software Leave a comment

What is the right storage software needed for DevOps to be a success?

Source – information-age.com A major operational problem in on-premises enterprise data centres has emerged over the past 10 years. This is rearing its head as a fundamental mismatch between the infrastructure and the needs of increasingly virtualised applications. There is a major contrast between what organisations want their staff to focus on – strategic projects, new application deployment, new customer acquisition and releasing new products – and the things they end up spending too much time on. This includes infrastructure ‘plumbing’

March 27, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps Today: What Does It Mean to You?

Source – informationweek.com DevOps is moving forward. Is your organization coming along for the ride? As DevOps becomes ever more widely respected and adopted, the fundamental concepts driving the approach are rapidly evolving and improving for the better. The latest DevOps iteration is BizDevSecOps, which aims to introduce a “whole company” approach to deriving business value from IT. “One of the best aspects of DevOps is really its bringing of Lean and Agile principles together, so it’s a continuous improvement process,”

March 24, 2018 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

Four common barriers that impede DevOps at scale

Source – computing.co.uk The software producers that report the best performance across a variety of metrics are those that release code most frequently. So says Rob Vanstone, technical director at continuous delivery vendor XebiaLabs, speaking at the Computing DevOps Summit this week. The aim then is to iterate faster. The problem for large organisations is how to reduce the software delivery lifecycle at scale. “What we see is teams starting to do pockets of innovation, typically scripting, typically automation and then saying ‘hey,

March 23, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

DevOps Security Watch: Three Trends To Track In 2018

Source – informationsecuritybuzz.com In the face of incessant competition, countless organisations are turning to DevOps to improve efficiency and accelerate innovation. While this approach delivers proven benefits, DevOps is also creating new security risks and reviving old ones. That’s because these very organisations are failing to adequately train or develop staff to implement best practice in security, leaving them vulnerable to both internal and external threats. At a time when managing their security portfolio effectively is crucial, many are unwittingly introducing

March 19, 2018 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

How Dev and Ops Can Work Together for Continuous Delivery

Source – informationweek.com Your organization has created a DevOps group, embarked on a journey to implement Agile methodology, and has been working towards continuous delivery. But have you really examined what that all means? Have you thought about the fact that you will be making one of the most difficult changes that can be made in an organization — a cultural change? This year the pair will appear together for the first time on a conference stage at Interop ITX 2018

March 16, 2018 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

DevSecOps tools maturing, much to the relief of DevOps developers

Source – theserverside.com Ensuring the software an enterprise deploys is secure and ensuring that there are no software vulnerabilities in the applications an organization produces have always been an inexact science. But in this age of DevOps, more pressure than ever is being placed upon the shoulders of the typical software developer, creating a need for DevSecOps tools that will reduce the DevOps developer’s burden. Low-level, programmatic security has always been a software developer’s responsibility, but best practices have always demanded

March 16, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

6 DevSecOps best practices: Automate early and often

Source – techbeacon.com Organizations that want to integrate security into their DevOps pipelines should adopt tools and practices that unite application development, IT operations, and security teams under a common DevSecOps rubric. The goal is to make security part of the software development workflow, rather than bolting it on later in the cycle, as has been the case with waterfall development models. This shift is upending traditional notions of how, when, and where security controls should be integrated into software, and

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