March 31, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

IT ops pros adopt iterative approach to security in DevOps

Source:- searchitoperations.techtarget.com Baby steps that add security in DevOps environments are better than none at all, according to experienced IT ops practitioners. Most organizations have dedicated IT security departments or personnel, but lack of a mature DevSecOps collaboration means IT ops ends up on the front lines to identify vulnerabilities and anomalies in production applications. Like it or not, security in DevOps environments is often left up to them. Attacks are often unmasked because they show up as a problem

March 31, 2017 bestdevops Build and Release, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Seven ways the mature Docker container architecture changes the game

Source:- techtarget.com What does the architecture of a containerized system look like, and how have Docker container architectures evolved as Docker matures? The answer to this question can be found by examining the different layers of infrastructure required to host containerized applications. What is a container architecture? Simply put, a container architecture is the hardware and infrastructure set up to host an application within containers. Managing a Docker container architecture is different from running just a single container. Running a

March 31, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Enabling the future of connected devices

Source:- cio.com The Fog Rolls In There is an IT market segment, with roots dating back to the 1800s, that is growing at 60% CAGR and yet, almost no one has heard of it. There is even an industry consortium for this market, with big-name founding members like Dell Technologies, Cisco, Intel and Microsoft. And when you hear the name for the first couple of times, you think it might be a prank. It’s called Fog Computing. The first time I

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Top IT Trends MSPs Need to Know Today

Source:- mspmentor.net Staying on top of the managed IT services business requires knowing the latest, greatest trends and practices in computing. Here’s a recap of the innovations shaping the IT world today. Being familiar with these trends is important for two reasons. First, this knowledge helps you provide the best services to customers — and answer their questions authoritatively when they ask about tech buzzwords they’ve heard recently. Second, you may be able to benefit by adopting some of these

March 30, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

How to build self-organizing DevOps teams

Source:- techbeacon.com The idea of a self-organizing DevOps team is enticing: Promote business growth by combining automation at all levels with the innovation that’s enabled when individuals with a sense of ownership focus on progressive transformation in an environment that encourages continuous improvement. Parties in self-organizing teams should have a keen understanding of their business goals and the ability to make decisions about how to achieve them on their own. In the context of swiftly and consistently changing market dynamics, in

March 30, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, IT trends Leave a comment

Seven Essential Steps for Transitioning to Enterprise DevOps

Source:- informationweek.com DevOps is currently the train every enterprise wants to climb aboard. In fact, many of today’s market leaders already have some sort of DevOps plan in place. As companies incorporate IT further into their business, DevOps is becoming a basic necessity for the modern enterprise. However, when it comes to actually implementing DevOps in real life, things can get a little shaky. Having helped many organizations go through this process, I’ve pinpointed some common mistakes and misconceptions —

March 29, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

3 Key DevOps Needs for Every Development Team

Source:- stackify.com Agile development has created a process for developers to rapidly ship a new version of their code. DevOps is the next step in the process. It is the ability to help get that code to production as fast as possible. DevOps should be about empowering your development team to be able to do their job and support their apps from A to Z. There are the 3 critical things I think every development team needs. 1. Automate builds

March 29, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

How Continuous Delivery Can Improve the Customer Experience

Source: fundesco.net Keeping up with the competition and the demands of your customers requires constantly enhancing and improving your website or web application experience. But traditional approaches to delivering updates won’t keep you agile. You need to start thinking about a new way to manage your web and digital experience using Continuous Delivery. Traditional vs. Continuous The traditional, and still often followed, approach to delivering updates and new features to a website or a web application is to introduce them

March 29, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Tools, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

What CIOs need to know about containers

What CIOs need to know about containers Source: ciodive.com Software development in the enterprise is no longer something left to technology companies alone. Rather, organizations across sectors have found the need for apps and software to service both customers and internal stakeholders. Whether application creation takes place internally or is contracted out, companies are investing in software that best suits their organizational needs, giving rise to new development technologies and methodologies. One such technology — software containers — has allowed

March 28, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends, Test Driven Development Leave a comment

Three Lessons From Test-Driven Development

Source:- securityintelligence.com In 1999, Kent Beck’s “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change,” became an inspiration for rethinking the way software was developed. Three years later, his “Test-Driven Development: By Example” further elaborated on the need to reconsider the way software is planned, how teams operate and, most importantly, the way software is tested. To date, there are over 170 books on Amazon about test-driven development (TDD). For readers curious about the origins and evolution of the concept, the Agile Alliance posted

March 28, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Tools, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Five security trends to watch in virtualization in 2017

Source:- datacenterdynamics.com Virtual components and environments present a particular challenge when we talk about corporate cyber security. Here are the five trends I believe will define the field of virtualization in 2017: 1. Virtualization security is focusing on integration Considering security solutions for VDI and virtualized servers, I predict that enterprises will pay more attention to the smooth integration between various systems instead of the thorough examination of product features under a microscope. Security solutions that can be integrated into

March 28, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Integration, DevOps, DevOps Process Leave a comment

What are the benefits of integrating a CI tool with Docker?

Source:- techtarget.com With the rise of DevOps, continuous integration tools came to prominence. The leading CI tool, of course, is Jenkins. But there are other capable ones like CircleCI and GitLab CI. Let’s look at why you would want to integrate Docker with one of these CI tools and how you can get started with the integration. Why integrate Docker with your CI tool? DevOps is about moving to continuous integration and continuous delivery (CD). This means every step of

March 28, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

Using 3 Tiers of Continuous Integration

Source:- rhonabwy.com Tier your tests Not all tests are equal, and you don’t want to treat them as such. I have found 3 tiers to be extremely effective, assuming you’re working on a system that can have some deep complexity to review. The first tier: “smoke test”. Lots of projects have this concept and it is a good one to optimize for. This is where the 10 minute rule that SemaphoreCI is promoting is a fine rule of thumb. You

March 28, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Five ways to reduce technical debt, rework costs in Agile, DevOps

Source:- techtarget.com Leaving some technical debt in the wake speeds software delivery, but the high interest on that debt can mean costly rework and loss of customer satisfaction. Software pros describe five ways to reduce technical debt and the problems it causes. Technical debt, also known as code debt, is a software programming phenomenon that happens when low-quality or defective code is released in software, or when defects in software are not discovered and fixed quickly. Most often, this occurs

March 27, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Integration, DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Declarative Jenkins pipeline the latest new feature in DevOps tooling

Source:- theserverside.com The Jenkins 2.0 release was more evolutionary than it was revolutionary, but one feature was anticipated more than all the other DevOps tooling enhancements combined, and that was the formal integration of the Jenkins pipeline. Well, Jenkins has managed to take continuous integration and continuous deployment tooling to the next level by improving on the late 2016 release with the enhanced, declarative Jenkins pipeline. Now the pipeline hasn’t actually changed since the 2.0 release. What has changed with

March 27, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

7 Ways for Anyone to Invest in the Cloud

Source:- yahoo.com The cloud is growing. To cut costs and boost computing power and storage, companies are increasingly turning to cloud computing to run their businesses. That bodes well for firms that build hardware, data center infrastructure companies, telecoms and computer software designers. According to a survey released in December, growth equity and venture capital firm North Bridge and research firm Wikibon expect public cloud spending to soar from $75 billion in 2015 to $522 billion by 2026 at a

March 25, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, Test Driven DevOps Leave a comment

Preventing DevOps Failures

Source:- developer.com DevOps is a culture, a philosophy that is being practiced by many companies around the world to increase the productivity, reduce costs, and boost the company’s overall revenue. DevOps as a philosophy is fundamentally a change of process—a paradigm shift. Now, such a change may or may not be acceptable to many. If this change is accepted, DevOps will succeed; otherwise, it will fail. This article attempts to highlight the reasons due to which DevOps can fail and

March 25, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News, DevOps Tools, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Puppet: Best DevOps Tool for Open Source at the 2017, DevOps Excellence Awards

Source:- marketwired.com PORTLAND, OR and LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM–(Marketwired – Mar 24, 2017) – Puppet, the standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us, has been awarded the Best DevOps Tool for Open Source at the 2017 DevOps Excellence Awards that took place on Wednesday March 22, 2017 in London. The 2017 DevOps Awards — held annually — is judged by the editors of UK publication, Computing, alongside industry experts and recognises outstanding and

March 25, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Updates, IT Training, IT trends Leave a comment

How CIOs are transforming their organizations for the digital era

Source:- itworld.com Companies are facing a digital imperative to revamp business operations to better serve customers. To accommodate these shifts, CIOs are making sweeping organizational changes, adding new key roles, setting up innovation labs and tapping modern technologies to meet strategic mandates issued by their CEOs and boards. Social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) forms the primary digital fuel for most IT organizations. But most CIOs eager to stay atop trends are also testing new products in artificial intelligence, machine

March 25, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

7 best practices for securing your cloud service

Source:- networkworld.com As enterprises move their applications and data to the cloud, executives increasingly face the task of balancing the benefits of productivity gains against significant concerns about compliance and security. Security in the cloud is not the same as security in the corporate data center. Different rules and thinking apply when securing an infrastructure over which one has no real physical control. When leveraging cloud services, enterprises need to evaluate several key factors, including: Data encryption capabilities for both

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