Zombies Are Muttering “Agile”, “DevOps”, “Containers”, “Big Data”, and “Microservices”

Source – technologyconversations.com DevOps is the word of the year. Everyone speaks about it, and many are hoping to apply it, even though most are confused what it truly means. Inquiring about DevOps does not seem to help. If you speak with a software vendor, he’ll tell you that all you need to become DevOps ninja is to purchase his product. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Docker, Terraform, Packer, Jenkins, Nexus, Git… Every software vendor seems to have a DevOps sticker attached to

4 steps to continuous development and positive organisational change

Source – anatas.com.au Continuous delivery is a software development approach that involves implementing small but frequent improvements to a product based on user feedback. It’s a methodology widely favoured over less responsive, more traditional methods. Rather than trying to build a final complex piece of software without knowing whether anyone will use it, continuous delivery allows customers to engage with versions that are still a work in progress. Any feedback can then be looped back and corrections made sooner, more frequently and with less

June 3, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

DevOps: Using Ansible to deploy Cacti for network monitoring

Source – opensourceforu.com Cacti is written in PHP and uses the MySQL database as a backend. It uses the RRDtool (Round-Robin Database tool) to handle time series data and has built-in SNMP support. Cacti has been released under the GNU General Public License. Figure 1: Licence agreement Setting up Cacti We will use a CentOS 6.8 virtual machine (VM) running on KVM to set up Cacti. Just for this demonstration, we will disable SELinux. You will need to set the following

June 3, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Improve your teams productivity using GitHub for DevOps–and Docs

Source – ibm.com As Steven Weaver recently discussed in his blog about GitHub and the DevOps toolchain, GitHub offers a powerful tool for improving your team’s collaboration and workflow. It makes processes and procedures much more repeatable and automatable. By design, GitHub also functions as a terrific tool for capturing the “tribal knowledge” that’s embodied in your DevOps team, and turning it into documentation that can bootstrap your team into even greater productivity. Anecdotally, IBM teams using GitHub Enterprise to provide

June 3, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

How IT Ops can avoid the DevOps capacity crunch

Source – techbeacon.com DevOps and digital transformations have brought an unprecedented increase in the pace and volume of daily change in IT. While this may sound like great news to development and product groups, IT operations management is often alarmed by the potential risk that its already overloaded workforce will be squeezed beyond the breaking point. IT Ops finds itself squeezed between the “go-go-go, deploy-deploy-deploy” demands of DevOps and digital transformations and the “Don’t be the next hack! Don’t be the next outage! Slow

June 3, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Security & Development: Better Together

Source – darkreading.com How DevSecOps removes the silos between security and application development teams so that everyone can work together at the same speed. For organizations trying to accelerate their product go-to-market, DevOps has transformed application development. By knocking down the wall between development and operations it’s now possible to release incremental changes more often. The bad news is that security teams are not equipped to move as quickly, and are falling behind. For security teams looking for best practices to

June 2, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Improving Linux Security with DevSecOps

Source – linuxjournal.com Ask people who run IT departments these days what keeps them up at night, and they’ll probably tell you it’s security—or the lack of it. With the explosive growth of malicious attacks on everything from hospitals to Fortune 500s, security—not hardware, software and even staff—is what currently makes life miserable. That’s why organizations of all sizes are looking to change fundamentally how they do security. It’s no longer a single team’s job to make sure systems are secure

June 2, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Cloud native applications adoption is set to double by 2020: study

Source – cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com Mumbai: New research from Capgemini, indicates a significant step change in enterprise cloud adoption through the increased use of cloud native applications – applications and services built to perform optimally in the cloud, leveraging Platform as a Service (PaaS) Cloud-native applications can enable IT to better contribute to business agility and innovation and 15 percent of new enterprise applications are cloud native today with adoption set to increase rapidly in the next three years, jumping to 32 percent

June 2, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Integrating Codeship Pro And Docker With Percy Visual Testing

Source – documentation.codeship.com What Is Percy? Percy is a visual testing tool that lets you take screen shots, monitor visual changes and require team approval to these visual captures in an automated way as part of your CI/CD pipeline. Setting Up Percy Setting Your Percy Variables You will need to add the two values Percy provides when you create a new project inside their application – PERCY_TOKEN and PERCY_PROJECT – to the encrypted environment variables that you define in your codeship-services.yml

June 1, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Red Hat to Acquire Codenvy to Extend DevOps Tools Capability

Source – infoq.com Red Hat has announced the acquisition of Codenvy, an Agile and cloud-native tools provider. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. Red Hat’s acquisition of Codenvy adds to its portfolio of development tools providing capability for container-based and cloud-native applications. Codenvy will be incorporated into Red Hat’s OpenShift.io environment – a hosted development environment for developers building hybrid cloud services that the firm announced earlier in the month. Codenvy is based on Eclipse Che, an

June 1, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

AIOps combines machine learning and automation to transform IT operations.

Source – cio.com IT operations has become the lifeblood of all businesses today. A healthy IT organization can provide key competitive advantages for businesses in a fast-paced market. Many companies struggle to meet the high demand due to increased cloud system complexity. Distributed apps (where different parts of an app run on different systems) make it difficult to track where problems occur during an IT incident. Every minute of downtime or app failure directly impacts revenues. To mitigate these failures, IT

June 1, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

Continuous Delivery with Kubernetes the Hard Way

Source – infoq.com This post will discuss how to build up an architecture for continuous delivery from simple to complicated. At each point we’ll see the limitations of the simpler approaches, and justify adding complexity and/or refactoring the architecture. The ultimate approach described here is the approach that the Weaveworks team has found works best for them. Continuous delivery Continuous delivery is when software is produced in a way that allows it to be released little and often, rather than in

May 31, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

The Real Business Benefits of DevOps

Source – infobeans.com DevOps, an evolution of the agile methodology, has firmly planted its feet in the enterprise. 2016 witnessed DevOps growing in maturity and in adoption and it has steadily now become a standard way of working. According to the fifth annual State of the Cloud Survey, 2016 by RightScale, “DevOps adoption increased from 66 percent in 2015 to 74 percent in 2016”. Gartner estimates that in 2017 DevOps will be a mainstream strategy which is employed by more than

May 31, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

DevOps practitioners open up about enterprise adoption challenges

Source – computerweekly.com While the list of enterprise companies that have managed to adopt DevOps successfully continues to grow, many remain convinced that the benefits of continuous delivery are impossible for large and more complex organisations. “The prevailing notion is that DevOps is for startups and the Googles, Amazons and Facebooks of this world, and not for large, complex companies that have been around for decades or even centuries – but that is really not the case,” said Gene Kim, co-author

May 31, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

The search for IT’s Holy Grail: Fostering DevOps Collaboration

Source – dev.to The Tech industry is constantly drawn to new concepts and one of the most talked about topics of the moment is DevOps. This new kid on the block promises to deliver a faster response to business change while reducing single points of failure. But to successfully implement a DevOps culture in any organisation collaboration is key. Yet many teams struggle to obtain this highly sought after prize due to fear and distrust between Software Development and IT Operations.

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

New research explores continued difference between LOB and IT on cloud initiatives

Source – cloudcomputing-news.net Is it the line of business or IT leading cloud initiatives? According to the latest paper from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), IT directors believe that cloud adoption is driven principally by their IT function as part of a strategic shift, rather than the need for change driven by business decision makers. The study, which polled 250 IT and business decision makers in large enterprises, found that overall cloud adoption now stands at 88%, with more than two

May 30, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

10 Promising Cloud Startups of 2017

Source – readitquik.com Almost every company is either starting off or is on the way to embracing cloud computing as a way of business. This growing demand is giving impetus to a host of startups in the cloud computing space, with plenty of room for companies to carve their niche and grow. Yet, within this innovative field are the super-innovators who are a notch above the rest, delivering disproportionate value to their clients. Whether it is a specialized service like helping

May 30, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

IT firms look for new skill sets in prospective employees

Source – business-standard.com India’s information technology (IT) services industry is hiring engineers with skills in cloud computing, analytics and digital — the segments that clients are spending money on — even as companies tighten performance appraisals of employees working on legacy services where budgets are shrinking. Industry lobby group National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) says the sector is expected to hire 150,000 people this year, with the top two firms — Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys —

May 30, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Study reveals how companies can develop and deliver better software faster

Source – channellife.co.nz New data from almost a thousand global respondents has found there are substantial benefits to be had from cloud-based tools for DevOps. CA Technologies released the first-of-its-kind study in a move the company says quantifies the benefits for companies the combine DevOps methodologies with cloud-based tools and delivery mechanisms. Revealed at the company’s first annual ‘Built to Change Summit’, CA Technologies asserts the intelligence supports the announcement of innovations across its portfolio. The study was conducted by Freedom

May 30, 2017 bestdevops Agile, Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

8 QA Tips to Survive in the Digital Transformation Era

Source – techstory.in “90% of CEOs believe the Digital Transformation will impact their industry, but less than 15% are executing on a digital strategy.” – MIT Sloan & Capgemini This research says that each enterprise will need to adapt digital strategies in order to align the business processes and offer end-to-end customer experience. The digital transformation journey involves the huge investment into enterprise mobile apps for business operations, cloud computing for process co-ordination, Big Data for analyzing the data for the

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