January 31, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, Test Driven DevOps Leave a comment

Automating Configuration Management for DevOps Test Environments

Source:- capgemini.com 1.Background The transformation of business to a customer-centric digital ecosystem, coupled with the advent of agile- and DevOps-based IT processes, has accelerated the adoption of cloud technology solutions. Migrating these legacy IT systems to the cloud has certain, obvious advantages. By supporting global development and decreasing product deployment time, organizations worldwide have been able to rollout product features faster and accelerate the time to market. From a QA perspective, testers be able to quickly verify the testing deliverables.

January 31, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

10 Mistakes to Avoid While Implementing DevOps

Source:- tothenew.com DevOps is not merely a designation, practice, concept or philosophy, rather, it is a combination of all that emphasizes on the collaboration of both software developers and IT professionals. It is basically a culture wherein the DevOps acts as a bridge between the developers and administrators. It acts as a catalyst in automating the process of continuous delivery and continuous integration. This is why organizations are rapidly moving to adopt DevOps. Though there are a lot of good

January 29, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News, DevOps Tools, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Bug fixes polish Docker container management

Source:- techtarget.com Just as into every life some rain must fall, into every software some bugs must creep — and Docker is no exception. Docker container management received some incremental, but important, improvements this month, with fixes to security and domain name system (DNS) bugs. The updates underscore why security in depth is critical in container environments. Docker responded in mid-January 2017 to a security vulnerability in runC, called CVE-2016-9962, which was reported earlier in the month. The vulnerability could

January 29, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Amazon launches Cloud Directory, purpose-built storage for hierarchical data

Source:- techrepublic.com Amazon’s new Cloud Directory product, announced Thursday, could bring additional flexibility and scalability to enterprise directories. The key value proposition of Cloud Directory is that it offers users the ability to create directories with hierarchies spanning multiple dimensions. According to an Amazon press release, more traditional directory tools like Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS), and LDAP-based directories, only allow for a single hierarchy. The idea is that, in allowing the management of multiple hierarchies, Cloud Directory

January 28, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps Best Practices, IT Training Leave a comment

Best practices to scale agile across multiple IT teams and enterprise organizations

Best practices to scale agile across multiple IT teams and enterprise organizations Source:- itproportal.com The past few years have seen some very dramatic and eye-opening changes in software development. We have fully redefined what it means to be fast in product development and deployment, as well as the skills and tools required to be successful in the space. Take agile software development: Agile software development methods were introduced less than a decade ago, but their popularity has seen a steady

January 28, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Why security is the top issue for DevOps teams in 2017

Source:- itworldcanada.com Security, not speed, is shaping up to be the top issue for DevOps teams in 2017, a new survey suggests. According to the 2017 State of the Application Delivery Report by F5 Networks Inc., security is the number one priority among 2,000 IT, networking, application and security professionals surveyed worldwide. “Security teams are expanding beyond traditional firewalls and the legacy enterprise perimeter as a response to hackers increasingly targeting the application,” the report states. Those same security concerns

January 27, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Tech Jobs That Are Said To Boom In 2017

Source:- itechpost.com With the advancement of technology, more and more jobs are being created. Some as to this day are still growing and do not have a precise definition as to what that job really do, because it may differ from companies. Here are said to be the tech jobs that will boom this 2017. Just a heads up, the list is based on some researchs, while the definition of the job descriptions is taken and based on various websites,

January 27, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Top 5 Reasons to Assess Your Cloud Adoption Maturity in 2017

Source:- cisco.com As highlighted in IDC’s recent CloudView Survey, almost 78% of organizations use some form of cloud today, yet only 3% of the companies IDC surveyed have optimized cloud strategies in place. The most mature cloud organizations are defined by their use of DevOps, hybrid and multi-provider clouds, micro-services, and containers, and they consume cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) and security applications. In fact, greater cloud maturity leads to millions of dollars in annual benefits per cloud-based application. ($3M

January 27, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Updates, IT trends Leave a comment

The shifting role of the IT professional In 2017

Source:- information-age.com Constantly evolving technology means that IT roles are changing to reflect this increasing dependency. In 2017, it’s out with the old and in with the new as we predict a shift in the role of the IT professional. Traditional, siloed IT roles—network administrators, storage administrators, systems administrators, database administrations, and more—are already changing. And in 2017, we will see IT pros taking on new responsibilities, such as working with cloud service providers in hybrid environments, prioritising new technologies

January 25, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Report: 111 billion lines of code will have to be secured this year

Source:- sdtimes.com As new pieces of software are being written every day, the threat of malicious hacking continues to grow. According to a new report, there will be about 111 billion lines of new software code created this year, and with them will come billions of software vulnerabilities. “Applications have become inviting targets for malicious actors, but securing those programs has proven to be challenging to both security teams and developers,” according to the report. “Too often, key vulnerabilities get

January 25, 2017 bestdevops Build and Release, Continuous Integration, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Development problem solving, the LinkedIn way

Source:- techtarget.com For those wondering what it’s like to be on a 3×3 mobile release schedule, look no further than LinkedIn which has 3 releases a day and a plan to never let code be older than 3 hours before committing to it. Even if your company is the size of LinkedIn, that’s a big enchilada to get through daily and for it to happen everything — including testing — has to move along like clockwork. But even with these

January 24, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps News, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Testing, Metrics, Security—Major Trends in DevOps in 2017

Source:- readitquik.com DevOps (Development and Operations) depicts the agile relationship between IT Operations and Development in an enterprise. DevOps facilitates better relationship between the two business units through better collaboration and communication and thereby help the enterprise achieve greater digital agility. While DevOps focuses on improving development and operations, software development and services company, predicts that the main focus of Dev Ops in 2017 is expected to be testing, metrics and security. “As organizations race to deliver innovations to market, they

January 24, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Global DevOps Tool Market – Puppet Labs, Chef, Docker Inc, RedHat, Atlassian

Source:- longshortreport.com DevOps Tool Industry Report introduced a Market Segment, Product Types, with Sales, Revenue, Price, Market Share and Growth, focuses on top players in these regions/countries, Size, Share, Demand, Analysis, Manufacturers, Type and Application, Forecast 2016 to 2021 The research study Global DevOps Tool Industry offers strategic assessment of the Global DevOps Tool market. The industry report focuses on the growth opportunities, which will help the Global DevOps Tool industry to expand operations in the existing markets or aid

January 23, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Top tips to achieve cloud visibility in your cloud environment

Source:- itbrief.co.nz While cloud is the word on every enterprise’s lips this year, the path to digital transformation is still a bumpy road, with visibility and insight issues that can hamper effectiveness, according to Ixia. A recent Ixia study on virtualisation found that 37% of organisations monitored their virtual environments at the same level as their physical networks. This lack of visibility might be a good tradeoff now, this will change if things go wrong, says Ixia VP of solutions

January 23, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News Leave a comment

Canonical launches Ubuntu Tutorials

Source:- betanews.com Linux is arguably the most successful open source project in all of history. The success of the kernel — and operating systems that use it — are not due to any one man or woman. Actually, the achievements are thanks to the Linux community. In other words, it is a team effort — developers, users, and more. For a Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu, to continue its progress, Canonical needs developers to remain interested — this includes getting

January 21, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

De-risking the cloud

Source:- zdnet.com Whatever has happened to cloud? From risk bête noir to flavour of the month – how did that happen? Surveys across the board show huge growth in the adoption of cloud computing, especially hybrid cloud: in a recent report, 95% of IT professionals said they were using the cloud, and 75% said they were using hybrid cloud. And the report also found that security was no longer the top cloud challenge, with the top spot now occupied by

January 21, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Integration, DevOps Tools, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Code Development Still not Seeing Security Involvement

Source:- infosecurity-magazine.com Code development should have security built in from the start to avoid headaches further along the line, and tools and processes exist to make this possible. Speaking at the Checkmarx “Shift Left” conference in central London, security researcher Troy Hunt said that it is hard to put numbers on security of code, and it is hard to look at code once it is written and determine if it is good or bad, but if it is bad, it

January 21, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

How DevOps went mainstream in 2016

Source:- itproportal.com 2016 was the year that DevOps became part of IT organisations’ everyday language. While forward thinking, agile businesses have embraced DevOps from the outset, what we’re seeing now is what, in the Technology Adoption Lifecycle are known as “the late majority” shifting towards new DevOps practices. Bringing development and operations together to deliver what a business needs, quickly, reliably, flexibly defines the DevOps approach. It can transform how an organisation works, breaking down traditional barriers between IT teams

January 20, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Process, DevOps Tools, IT Training, IT trends Leave a comment

Engineering Your IT DevOps Career Pathway

Source – cbtnuggets.com DevOps still is new enough that certifications are evolving and emerging. In time, the IT industry will make clear what certifications are most necessary and most highly valued, but until then, we have some suggestions for training and certification pathways to help you engineer a successful DevOps career. IT Certification and Training Pathways DevOps emerged as a response to the challenges of siloed Dev and IT departments, resulting in failures. Generally, the goal is to solve those issues,

January 20, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Basic DevOps Principles and its 5 Unsung Tools

Source – ibm.com What is DevOps The term “DevOps” typically refer to the emerging professional movement that advocates a collaborative working relationship between Development and IT Operations, resulting in the fast flow of planned work (i.e., high deploy rates), while simultaneously increasing the reliability, stability, resilience and security of the production environment. Our DevOps online training enlightens you on how DevOps differs from Agile. One tenet of the Agile development process is to deliver working software in smaller and more frequent increments, as opposed

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