April 1, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

IT Services and DevOps: Friends, Not Foes

Source:-devops.com Development and operations, aka DevOps, is the marriage between software development and IT operations. The goal of a DevOps team is two-fold: to more quickly make products that are better for customers, and to align more closely with business goals. While it sounds pretty great, something doesn’t sit well. What about your service department? Service department representatives often become wary at the mention of DevOps. Why? They don’t want to be left behind or lose their seat at the

March 30, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

Google Announces Cloud AI Platform Pipelines to Simplify Machine Learning Development

Source:-infoq.com In a recent blog post, Google announced the beta of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, which provides users with a way to deploy robust, repeatable machine learning pipelines along with monitoring, auditing, version tracking, and reproducibility. With Cloud AI Pipelines, Google can help organizations adopt the practice of Machine Learning Operations, also known as MLOps – a term for applying DevOps practices to help users automate, manage, and audit ML workflows. Typically, these practices involve data preparation and analysis, training,

February 21, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Observability-Driven Development: From Software Development to DevOps and Beyond

Source:-devops.com In today’s world of cloud platforms and applications, typically delivered as SaaS (Software as a Service), it is critical for organizations to ensure efficient collaboration between software development and operations teams. The software development team codes the software application or platform, while the DevOps team streamlines and automates the entire production lifecycle, from development and testing to deployment. Today, applications are updated anywhere from weekly to daily, requiring fast turnaround. In the old days, every change request would go

February 20, 2020 bestdevops DevSecOps Leave a comment

DevSecOps: 3 Mission-Critical Trends to Follow in 2020

Source:-insights.dice.com The twin trends of digital transformation projects and a growing reliance on cloud services are constantly pushing enterprises to develop, deploy and upgrade applications much faster… the better to keep up with competition and stay ahead of nimble upstarts looking for market share. Meanwhile, concerns over security continue to gain importance with corporate boards and executives, who increasingly weigh these risks when making business decisions. The clash between the two (faster application development while keeping code secure) is a

February 5, 2020 bestdevops GitHub Leave a comment

UBank releases open source accessibility kit on Github

Source:-zdnet.com The kit allows iOS developers and contributors to audit the accessibility of their app. UBank has released an open source accessibility kit on Github in a move to help iOS app developers and contributors improve the accessibility for users that experience issues such as low vision, cognitive impairment, or neurological impairment. UBank digital banking chief product officer Peter O’Malley said making the accessibility kit openly available for the first time is part of the bank’s mission of “making technology

February 5, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Why DevOps Is An Attractive Target For Cybercrime Syndicates

Source:-forbes.com Late in the month of September 2019, Avast detected an intrusion into its network through a temporary VPN profile. It is believed that this was an attempt to use malware to infect the CCleaner software owned by Avast. CCleaner is a utility that many companies use to remove malware from systems. Cybercrime syndicates had successfully implanted malware into CCleaner in 2017. This attempt in 2019 is largely believed to be a similar attempt, though it failed. Docker had to

February 3, 2020 bestdevops JIRA Leave a comment

Atlassian Extends Road Mapping in Jira

Source:-devops.com Atlassian has updated its Jira project management software for managing software development initiatives to add more capabilities to road mapping tools that teams use to share plans and update progress. Matt Ryall, head of product for Jira Software at Atlassian, said the road mapping tools first provided in Jira a year ago are now being employed by 45% of customers, making it the most rapidly adopted feature in 18 years the project management application has been around. Thus far, Atlassian reports

January 25, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

Google Cloud can store all your passwords

Source:-itproportal.com Google wants to help secure your passwords, and its new tool makes it simple. Called Secret Manager, this Google Cloud service helps users store passwords, certificates and API keys. It is designed to be a centralised solution, a unified place for the safekeeping of secrets. “Many applications require credentials to connect to a database, API keys to invoke a service, or certificates for authentication,” said Google developer advocate Seth Vargo and product manager Matt Driscoll. “Managing and securing access

January 14, 2020 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration Leave a comment

How to get started with CI/CD

Source:-itworld.com For software-driven businesses, digital transformation starts with continuous integration and continuous delivery In software design and development, the key to moving faster is a collection of operating principles and practices known as CI/CD, which combines continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). CI/CD allows software development teams to deliver code changes more frequently and more reliably, and thus more quickly address the needs of the business and its customers. Continuous integration is a coding philosophy and set of practices

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