DevOps Best Practices

April 5, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

9 common mistakes when implementing DevOps

Source:- ciklum.com DevOps can be a godsend, but if used improperly, DevOps can also tank your project. Let’s look at nine common mistakes made when implementing DevOps. 1. Building a DevOps department The point of DevOps isn’t to create a new department strictly for DevOps, but instead to create a new collaborative model that unites existing departments. 2. Failing to streamline software Over-complicated software systems that have too much sprawl require siloed management and make systems over complicated for users. If

April 5, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps News Leave a comment

The first-aid DevOps toolkit: What does it contain?

Source:- jaxenter.com DevOps unchained We set out to define DevOps but we learned that one cannot and should not put a label on this ever-changing movement. Greg Bledsoe, managing consultant at Accenture claims that his own understanding of DevOps has evolved considerably while Jason Bloomberg, the president of Intellyx, believes that at the core of this movement lies empathy. Helen Beal, head of DevOps at Ranger4 says that DevOps is not just one person’s job but there are some gaps that

April 4, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, IT trends Leave a comment

Eight best practices for hiring DevOps engineers

Source:- zdnet.com Technavio, a market research firm, predicts that the worldwide DevOps market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 19 percent through 2020. Companies in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and services are all adopting DevOps methodologies to speed new applications to market, as is the public sector. What is attracting firms to DevOps? The word itself, which originated as a combined expression of ‘software DEVelopment’ and ‘information technology OPerationS’, describes a methodology and supporting tools that invite

April 4, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

DevOps success factors: Culture, APIs and security

Source:- zdnet.com As little as a decade ago, software was shipped in a CD-ROM to a storefront, purchased, and likely abandoned after the user’s initial installation. Today, code is shipped via the internet, meaning that continuous software updates are not only achievable, but expected, whether it’s for desktop, mobile, or browser-based applications. In an age where competitive advantage requires fast time to market, high service levels, and relentless experimentation, enterprises that cannot continuously deliver improvements risk losing in the marketplace.

April 4, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, IT trends Leave a comment

DevOps: Challenges and considerations

Source:- itproportal.com Every few years, a new buzzword appears on the IT canvas that sparks hype and excitement among businesses and technologists alike. DevOps is one such term that has continued to gain momentum and is highly-relevant in today’s digital transformation landscape. It’s also a term that’s quite misunderstood. Here are some thoughts that define this term, while also explaining its benefits and challenges. What is DevOps? Very simply put, DevOps embodies Development plus Operations within software development. Traditionally, these

April 3, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, IT trends Leave a comment

4 DevOps Metrics to Improve Delivery Performance

Source:- versionone.com How well do your DevOps metrics provide insight into the speed, risk, and quality of software delivery? Read this article to learn the four most critical measures of DevOps performance. Data-Driven DevOps We have a challenge in devops. The minute we convert backlog items into source code and then convert that source code into binary artifacts, we lose all visibility into flow. It’s very difficult to track a specific backlog item in the form of a binary artifact

April 1, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Using DevOps principles for better application modernization

Source:- techtarget.com A modern application is an app that adheres to DevOps principles. What does that mean? Keep reading for an explanation of app modernization the DevOps way. Defining DevOps principles To understand what the “DevOps way” is, you have to understand DevOps principles. Briefly, DevOps is an approach to software development that emphasizes constant collaboration between developers, IT ops admins and everyone else who plays a role in software development. By maximizing communication across the organization, DevOps aims to

April 1, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

5 Tips for a Trouble-Free Cloud Migration

Source:- tech.co If you’re considering migrating to the cloud, you’re not alone. According to a recent survey, companies run 79 percent of their workloads in the cloud. It’s easy to see why: in a cloud environment, you benefit from redundancies that bring you as close as possible to 100 percent uptime. It may sound ideal, but there are hidden roadblocks to migrating to the cloud. Before you make the move, ask yourself these five crucial questions: How Much Downtime Should

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 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 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 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 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

March 24, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Integration, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Tutorial: Set up a continuous testing pipeline with Node.js

Source:- assertible.com Continuous integration is large part of modern development workflows. Most of us are familiar with basic CI services that automatically build code as new changes are pushed. But what if you took that a step further and not only built your code, but also deployed and tested it within the same pipeline? This is continuous development. Let’s outline the steps of the pipeline: Continuous integration: Push new code to GitHub, which is then built by CircleCI. Continuous deployment:

March 24, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

How to start a DevOps project: Pick the low hanging fruit and just go for it

Source:- computing.co.uk The best way to launch a new DevOps project is simply to pick the low-hanging fruit, or what should be a relatively simple and necessary body of work, and just go for it, without spending months in planning. That’s the opinion of Steven Armstrong, principal DevOps automation engineer at Paddy Power Betfair (pictured). Armstrong was speaking at Computing’s recent DevOps Summit, where the audience was also told about a firm which handed out cricket bats to developers in

March 23, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Continuous delivery orchestration: How to choose the best suite for your pipeline

Source:- techbeacon.com Continuous delivery of software is hard. There is no one approach that guarantees that you will be able to compile, integrate, build, deliver, and (if necessary) deploy an application with the push of a button, or even several buttons. Even in the recent past, most of these have been manual steps. Yet if there is to be a way to deliver software rapidly and seamlessly for the business, you have to be able to get a variety of

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