Month: April 2020

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Ensuring a Smooth Kubernetes Deployment

Source:-containerjournal.com It’s not hyperbole to say that Kubernetes is a game-changer for developers and DevOps teams. At full power, it has the capacity to impart significant efficiency and stability that has a tangible impact on a company’s bottom line. However, as is often said, “Nothing good ever came easy.” Many of us know that Kubernetes is inherently complex. Unfortunately, this complexity can lead to oversights that can cause major security issues. Thankfully, with the right procedures in place and a

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VMware, a leader in cloud infrastructure and remote work, dropped employees at the worst time

Source:-media.thinknum.com Coronavirus pandemic shelter-at-home mandates have led to a massive rise in work-from-home tools like Zoom and Cisco Webex teleconferencing software, the former seeing usage spike by as much as 300%. This has led to reports of Microsoft Cloud server demand being up by 775%. Several of our 10 early indicators of recovery are related or connected factors, such as online classes. Yet, strangely, VMware ($NYSE:VMW) is losing employees after a quiet round of layoffs beginning in February, according to

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Comparing Three Approaches to Multi-Cloud Security Management

Source:-devops.com Moving to a multi-cloud environment can bring many advantages, but it also brings huge challenges in managing both the everyday operations and security of multi-cloud infrastructures. To meet these challenges, several approaches to multi-cloud management have arisen. The most common can be roughly grouped into three categories: Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud-native abstraction. The differences between these approaches reflect the differences between top-down and bottom-up cloud management, as each management process suits a different

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How to Secure Online Coding Platforms

Source:-devops.com The evolution of DevOps teams and a greater reliance on cloud-based computing has completely changed the coding process. Now, with Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), coding can be done entirely online. This is convenient, but are online IDEs secure? To answer this, we will focus on two popular cloud-based IDEs: AWS Cloud9 and Visual Studio Online. In online coding, the IDE is rendered inside your browser, the browser JavaScript engine uses WebSockets to initiate an Secure Shell (SSH) connection to

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DevOps needs to undergo a human transformation

Source:-sdtimes.com While most of the industry is undergoing a digital transformation, the CEO of the DevOps Institute Jayne Groll stresses the need for a human transformation. According to Groll, DevOps initiatives are focusing too much energy on technology and not enough effort with skills. The DevOps Institute released the Upskilling 2020: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report to find the most in-demand skills needed for DevOps. The data was based on more than 1,200 respondents. “Human transformation is the single most critical

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How to build a DevOps army

Source:-techbeacon.com As you scale DevOps, you need more people who understand the fundamentals—​including dev and test pros, IT operations pros, and even stakeholders. You could bring in external folks, but they’re expensive and in short supply. So start building your DevOps army now by training existing employees on the basics. Here’s what each role needs to know at a minimum, and how to provide —or where to go to get—that training. [ Continuous delivery and release automation (CDRA) demands speed

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DevOps Institute Upskilling the Enterprise

Source:-devops.com DevOps Institute released its annual Upskilling the Enterprise survey and the results are as interesting as last year. The organization of DevOps teams and its interaction with speed/success was one area that intrigued me, and sent me off looking for more information on the topic. This led me to this interesting site that does a great job of delving deeper than “We’ve all heard of Conway’s law.” Good descriptions there on what works and why that will be useful

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GitLab moves 18 of its DevOps features to open source

Source:-sdtimes.com GitLab announced that 18 of its features are moving to open source including related issues, export issues, issue board focus mode, and service desk. “This marks a major milestone in our efforts to empower the community to collaborate more robustly and to take our single tool for the DevOps lifecycle to the next level,” Sid Sijbrandij, co-founder and CEO of GitLab wrote in a blog post. The newly open-sourced feature set covers areas that span planning, creating, verifying, packaging,

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How DevOps has evolved since 2012

Source:-techrepublic.com O’Reilly’s What is DevOps?: Infrastructure as Code published almost eight years ago. A programming expert reflects on which predictions by the author came true and what’s coming next. When Mike Loukides published the long essay What is DevOps? in book form for O’Reilly Media, he gave it a subtitle that would become well-known: Infrastructure as Code. That essay, just 20 pages long, proposed a few key things: Infrastructure moves into the code. The systems that run the software, which

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DataOps and Beyond: How DevOps Methodology Transformed Our Approach to Data Science

Source:-devops.com The DevOps methodology has become synonymous with forward technical thinking–a workplace culture that reinforces best cultural practice and promotes more, better quality output by synchronizing the functions of development and operations teams. As a testament to its popularity, the term has expanded in reach to refer to a broader set of transformational software-related practices. The list continues to grow: DevTestOps, DevSecOps, GitOps, DataOps. In 2020, organizations are drawing upon thousands—if not tens of thousands—of data sources, which exist in

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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

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DevOps at Scale: Winning Strategy for Modern Enterprises

Source:-devops.com DevOps is a word that has generated massive interest over the last few years among the software-powered organizations and developers, yet many people don’t fully understand what it actually means. One thing is for sure, as cool as it sounds, DevOps is not some kind of top-secret developer army group, job profile or even a tool. It is a wonderful ideology that any firm can help itself to unite their tech crew and take the company to newer heights.

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Solving the problems of separate admins and developer teams around Salesforce DevOps.

Source:-enterprisetimes.co.uk The scope and complexity of most enterprise Salesforce projects has grown to a scale that they can no longer be managed efficiently without a mature deployment, testing and collaboration process. This demands a new kind of partnership and understanding between admins and developers. But there are potential bumps in the road. All organisations and businesses rely ever more on digital systems. They must increasingly trust the teams that maintain them to deliver innovation without risking downtime. Salesforce has become

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How Culture Plays A Key Role In Continuous Improvement

Source:-customerthink.com In my last article, I introduced a business strategy that Gartner calls ContinuousNEXT – an evolution of what we often call ‘digital transformation’ today into a business that is constantly able to adapt and change. I’d like to continue on this theme for a few more articles and in this one, I will focus on culture. The main difference between a focus on continuous improvement and a traditional digital transformation strategy is that the continuous approach embraces reality. Your

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Kubernetes Everywhere: Rancher Labs’ ‘Lightweight’ Version Scales to the Edge

Source:-enterpriseai.news As enterprise distributions of the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator stabilize, and more features are added with each quarterly version release, the expanding community of platform vendors are attempting to extend deployments of the de facto standard container manager beyond datacenters and cloud-native deployments. Among them is Rancher Labs, which on Tuesday (March 31) unveiled the latest iteration of its Kubernetes management platform designed to extend the infrastructure technology to the network edge via a “lightweight” distribution of the orchestrator. Emphasizing

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To bring Kubernetes to the edge, Rancher 2.4 scales up cluster support

Source:-zdnet.com Rancher Labs on Tuesday announced the general availability of Rancher 2.4, the latest release of its popular Kubernetes management platform. The new release takes Rancher one step closer to its vision of running Kubernetes everywhere, with architectural support for one million clusters. It also includes updates related to security and general performance. Rancher 2.4 specifically offers support for one million clusters in preview, while the GA product supports 2,000 clusters and 100,000 nodes. Those numbers will increase as Rancher

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