September 11, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Implement DevOps the Right Way

Source:-business.com An effective DevOps strategy must be tailored to your specific workplace. Cross-departmental communication is standard practice in most IT companies. You can’t get the car moving if you don’t operate as one massive, well-oiled machine, right? Barriers often exist between departments, making communication a challenge and hindering your organization’s ability to quickly get products to market. This is where DevOps enters the picture. DevOps can help DevOps, at its core, is a system of collaboration that does away with

Cisco Extends Ansible Support to Advance DevOps

Source:- devopsCisco Systems announced today that it is further embracing the open source Ansible automation framework on its storage area network (SAN) platform as part of an effort to extend best DevOps practices to IT infrastructure. The latest version of the Cisco MDS 9700 platform modules automates tasks such as VSAN configuration, device-alias and zoning configuration. Adarsh Viswanathan, product manager for data center storage at Cisco, said the company has embraced the Ansible framework because it’s an open framework that

July 20, 2019 bestdevops AWS Leave a comment

AWS MSP Mission Assists Boston Celtics’ Hoop Dreams With The Cloud

Source:-crn.com ‘Their organization has been around for quite a long time, so we helped them really move from the waterfall software development approach to an agile software development approach,’ says Glenn Grant, Mission’s co-founder and president of its Eastern U.S. division. ‘And we’re continuing to work with them to upgrade the infrastructure to keep pace with that.’ The Boston Celtics were bounced from the NBA’s Eastern Conference semifinals by the Milwaukee Bucks in May, but the storied basketball franchise is

July 19, 2019 bestdevops GitLab Leave a comment

No love lost between security specialists and developers

Source:-zdnet.com GitLab finds 68% of security professionals feel that less than half of developers can spot security vulnerabilities, but most people feel it’s a programmer’s job to write secure code. Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve noticed hardly a day goes by without another serious security foul-up. While there’s plenty of blame to go around for these endless security problems, some of it goes to developers who write bad code. That makes sense. But when GitLab, a DevOps company,

July 19, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps at the US Patent and Trademark Office

Source:-blog.sonatype.com Discussions of DevOps in government are always popular because it is a tough subject. Few have successfully cracked the code, and, even if they have, it is a slow, uphill climb with unique challenges. Consider the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (US PTO) Fee Processing Next Generation (FPNG). It is effectively an e-commerce site run by the U.S. Government. The US PTO is the agency in the United States that registers trademarks and awards patents. It is self-funded, meaning

July 18, 2019 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Pivotal swings to Kubernetes

Source:- devclass.com Pivotal has done a major turn in the direction of Kubernetes, announcing that its flagship PAS platform will run on the container orchestration platform. The announcements come a month after the Dell/VMware backed firm got a roasting from investors over its tardiness embracing Kubernetes, after scaling back its financial forecasts. The new services are not a reaction to that – CEO Rob Mee had flagged up the Kubernetes announcements during the earnings call. But it is notable that they

July 18, 2019 bestdevops Azure Leave a comment

Microsoft wants to operate above a 99.995% Azure uptime

Source:- ciodive.com Dive Brief: Microsoft is working to improve Azure reliability across its 54 cloud regions, said Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure, in a blog post Monday. As part of the effort, Microsoft is adding a quality engineering team into the CTO’s office, which will work with the site reliability engineering team. In the last year, Azure averaged a 99.995% uptime across its global cloud infrastructure, according to Russinovich. To provide more redundancy in the event of an incident, Microsoft

July 17, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

3 Reasons Why DevOps Is More Popular Than Ever

Source:- devops.com How popular is DevOps? More popular than ever, if Google Trends is to be believed. Here’s a look at how the popularity of DevOps has increased over time, and what has driven the change. The Spiking Popularity of DevOps Here’s what Google Trends tells us about interest over time of the term “DevOps” over the past 15 years: And here’s the data for the same term over the past five years: As you can see, talk about DevOps

July 16, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Voices in DevOps – Episode 8: A Conversation with Christina Noren of CloudBees

Source:-gigaom.com In this episode, host Jon Collins speaks with Christina Noren about her experience running Agile organizations and how DevOps can be implemented at various stages in an organizations life. Christina has more than 20 years of experience in product, services and operations at successful, venture-backed companies, such as Splunk, Zuora, Portal and Sonic Solutions. She has a particular strength in identifying and refining product offerings in evolving markets. At Splunk, she was employee #12 in 2005 and remained on

July 16, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Successful Scaling: 5 Critical Steps for DevOps Expansion

Source:- devops.com Over the last five or six years, companies of all sizes have adopted DevOps practices and tools as a solution to increasing the speed and quality of releases. Typically, adoption starts with one or two pilot projects that demonstrate success with DevOps. But simply using the automation, requirements management and deployment tools of DevOps does not guarantee successful scaling across an enterprise. “One of the mistakes made by senior executives is that they underestimate the amount of challenges it

July 15, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

What is DevOps Foundation and the top 7 career aspects of the course

Source:- inventiva.co.in The DevOps methodology is a process which ultimately helps organizations evolve and improve products at a more rapid pace as compared to traditional software development processes. This enables software organizations to gain a competitive edge over companies in the market. There are concepts which blend agile methodologies as well. It isn’t a surprise that DevOps professionals are some of the highest paid employees in the IT sector and some technical experts agree that it is a lucrative career path

July 15, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Is DevOps really that different from Agile? No, says Viktor Farcic [Podcast]

Source:-hub.packtpub.com No one can seem to agree on what DevOps really is. Although it’s been around for the better part of a decade, it still inspires a good deal of confusion within organizations and across engineering teams. But perhaps we’re all over thinking it? To get to the heart of the issues and debates around DevOps, we spoke to Viktor Farcic in the latest episode of the Packt Podcast. Viktor is a consultant at CloudBees, but he’s also a prolific

July 13, 2019 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Kubernetes catches up with operational reality

Source:-computerweekly.com With Kubernetes now established in many organisations as the container orchestration platform of the future, are cracks already starting to show? Well, not exactly – but if I could pull out one common theme from what’s hot in the world of cloud-native, it’s the dawning light of Day Two. That’s a shorthand term used for when this stuff goes live – the Ops end of DevOps, if you like. Going live was only to be expected, yet as so

July 12, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

How to find devops staff who are good at both technology and people

Source:- infoworld.com A new study shows that to optimize devops you need a mix of hard technology skills and soft people skills. But how do you get that combination? Do cloud-oriented devops people need to be people-oriented, as well as technology-oriented? That seems to be the case, according to a new report by the Devops Institute. When it comes to recruitment, the study found that there is an equal balance in enterprises in looking for soft skills and in looking for

July 12, 2019 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Choosing the Right Enterprise Kubernetes Management Solution

Source:- it.toolbox.com According to a Forrest Group report, Kubernetes is winning in the “war for orchestration”. Since its launch in 2014, Kubernetes has grown exponentially in popularity, quickly becoming the standard for container management. Being open-source, several third-party enterprise Kubernetes management solutions were developed to help with clusters management. Read on to learn more about these container management tools and how to choose the right one for your organization. Why Enterprises Should Use Kubernetes Kubernetes is an open-source container management tool,

July 12, 2019 bestdevops IT Training Leave a comment

IT Service Management (ITSM) Software Market 2019 Strategic Assessment-ServiceNow, Atlassian, Ivanti (HEAT Software), IBM, CA Technologies

Source:- financialplanning24.com IT Service Management (ITSM) Software Market report contains a forecast of the next 5 years, starting 2019 and ending 2025 with a host of metrics like supply-demand ratio, IT Service Management (ITSM) Software market frequency, dominant players of IT Service Management (ITSM) Software market, driving factors, restraints, and challenges. The report also contains market revenue, sales, IT Service Management (ITSM) Software production and manufacturing cost that could help you get a better view on the market. The Report Focuses

July 12, 2019 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

The Pros and Cons of Kubernetes for HPC

Source:- hpcwire.com To Kube or not to Kube?” That is the question now active in the HPC community. If you work in IT, the rise of Kubernetes (K8s) has been hard to miss. Just five years after its initial release, Kubernetes has emerged as the new darling of open source, enjoying popularity and adoption second only to Linux. At the time of this writing, Kubernetes boasts over 80,000 code commits by approximately 2,200 separate developers. 1 A Kubernetes primer For

July 12, 2019 bestdevops Azure Leave a comment

Microsoft launches Azure Lighthouse in general availability, updates Azure Migration Program

Source:- venturebeat.com Next week marks the kickoff of Microsoft’s annual Inspire convention in Las Vegas, where the Seattle company reliably announces a slew of enterprise product updates across its portfolio. This year, in addition to Microsoft Teams news and a new AI for Good initiative, it launched Azure Lighthouse in general availability alongside Azure Migration Program enhancements Azure Lighthouse In essence, Azure Lighthouse is a control panel that integrates with portals, IT service management (ITSM) tools, and monitoring tools to let

July 11, 2019 bestdevops IT Training Leave a comment

Doing DevOps in an Interconnected World

Source:- devops.com Doing DevOps would be simple if you had total control over the tools, code and infrastructure that your company used. But the fact is, you don’t. Instead, we live in a world where most CI/CD chains connect in some way to third-party resources or processes. In other words, doing DevOps effectively means integrating with entities that are external to your organization. Here’s a look at what this entails in practice and why it’s so important. The Interconnected World

July 10, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

DevSecOps Survey Finds Failure to Communicate

Source:- devops.com A survey of 1,310 IT decision-makers conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Trend Micro finds that while nearly three-quarters of respondents (74%) said integrating developer, IT operations and cybersecurity processes has become more important over the past year, more than one-third (34%) said these silos are making it more difficult to create a DevOps culture in the organization. A full 89% said software development and IT security teams needed to be in closer

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