DevOps Best Practices

March 22, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

3 things to ensure your team gets DevOps right

Source:- http://sdtimes.com It’s now old news to most people that the rate of change in the lifecycle of a business has accelerated dramatically over the past two decades. Ideas are born, concepts are funded, markets are created, ambitions are expanded, and business models are disrupted and abandoned at a rapid pace. This is equal parts exciting and terrifying, and IT practitioners are constantly seeking new tools to improve their responsiveness to business needs in this new environment. However, at the

March 18, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Best Practices for a Mature Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Source:- msystechnologies.com Continuous Integration(CI) is a software engineering practice which evolved to support extreme and agile programming methodologies. CI consists of best practices consisting of build automation, continuous testing and code quality analysis. The desired result is that software in mainline can be rapidly built and deployed to production at any point. Continuous Delivery(CD) goes further and automates the deployment of software in QA, pre-production and production environments. Continuous Delivery enables organizations to make predictable releases reducing risk and, automation

March 18, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Top 10 challenges to DevOps implementation

Source:- techrepublic.com As more companies adopt DevOps to improve their workflow and productivity, a number of challenges related to infrastructure and legacy systems have arisen, according to a new survey from cloud sandbox software provider Quali. In a survey of more than 2,000 IT industry executives, 54% of respondents said they had no access to self-service infrastructure—instead, they take a ticket-based approach to infrastructure delivery, which impacts productivity and increases time to market, the survey notes. And only 23% of

March 18, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, Test Driven DevOps Leave a comment

Broken DevOps Pipeline? Fix it with ARA

Source:- xebialabs.com DevOps has brought big changes—and even bigger benefits—to the way applications are developed and deployed: shortened delivery timelines, cleaned up build processes, reduced downtime and risk, and increased likelihood that a release could be performed today if needed. But it hasn’t solved all of IT’s problems. Many organizations, for example, still struggle with structural changes longer than they do with tool implementations. And the scripting required to achieve many of the benefits that these tools offer imposes its

March 17, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

How to become a DevOps manager: 5 tips

Source:- techrepublic.com Many organizations are seeing the value of DevOps, a cultural movement that integrates software developers and IT professionals who manage production operations for a smoother workflow. As the movement gains traction, it’s important for managers across different IT divisions to adapt their leadership style to maximize the benefits of this workplace change. DevOps adoption is currently all over the map, according to Jeff Sussna, founder and principal of Ingineering.IT. “There are some companies that are all in and

March 17, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Learn How Continuous Delivery is Implemented in Kubernetes

Source:- 126kr.com In a modern development environment, continuous integration and development are central to the success of a software development project. To be successful when using a continuous delivery approach, you need to avail short lived development and test environments for handling code changes. The ability to quickly create and terminate containers in Docker and Kubernetes is a feature that very well supports the continuous delivery model. In this tutorial, we will abbreviate continuous development/continuous integration as CI/CD. As a developer,

March 16, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

How should I choose the right cloud app development platform?

Source:- techtarget.com It’s an oft-asked question: Which cloud platform is the best choice for app development efforts? The answer: It depends. It’s PaaS vs. AWS Lambda. If you don’t want the hassle of maintaining your own app infrastructure, and you’re looking to focus exclusively on a cloud app development platform, you may face a dilemma between a platform-as-a-service option like Heroku or Cloud Foundry, and a serverless platform like Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda. But how are these two options

March 16, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Cloud Computing Vs. SaaS: A Comparative Analysis

Source:- hostreview.com When discussing Cloud Computing and SaaS (Software as a Service), people often think both terms are synonymous with each other. However, this is not true. Cloud Computing is a wider term awhile SaaS is a part/component of it as clarified by this diagram. What is Cloud Computing? The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines cloud computing as “a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks,

March 15, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Docker Secrets Management

Source:- codeship.com I’m sure we’ve all been there. That moment when you realize that important and sensitive access details have leaked online into a public space and potentially rendered your services to unrequited access. With the ever-growing amount of services we depend on for our development stack, the number of sensitive details to remember and track has also increased. To cope with this problem, tools have emerged in the field of “secrets management.” In this post, I am going to

March 14, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

The rules of selecting tools for continuous delivery toolchains

Source:- 126kr.com If the tool you use does not support continuous delivery values, you’re going to have a bad time implementing CI/CD with fully automated pipelines. Here are some rules for the road: The first rule is: Don’t select your toolchain until you have designed the pipeline you want to have Every action or configuration can become code in source control so you can version things and get an audit trail on changes Everything that can be invoked or configured

March 14, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

New Relic Helps Global Enterprises Accelerate DevOps Success Through Measurement Across the Application Stack

Source:- military-technologies.net SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Digital intelligence leader New Relic, Inc. (NYSE:NEWR) announced continued customer success by simplifying and streamlining the management of DevOps efforts. Companies of all sizes are embracing DevOps methodologies to help deliver software faster, reduce defects, and provide faster resolution of problems by making teams work together in an agile planning environment. DevOps teams, including at Concur, Irish Distillers, and WOW air are tracking and monitoring their software performance through the New Relic Digital Intelligence Platform.

March 11, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Troubleshooting microservices performance problems

Source:- techtarget.com Using microservices to build applications can significantly improve developer productivity, project agility and code reuse. However, the resulting architecture is more complex, which makes isolating and debugging performance problems much harder. As we discussed in an earlier article, analyzing and managing microservice performance is a “two-level problem comprising both granular telemetry of individual microservices and comprehensive, end-to-end, pan-application measurement. Microservice telemetry is used to identify internal bottlenecks, inefficiencies and bugs while application-wide monitoring seeks to see performance from

March 11, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Is Your Organization Correctly Implementing DevOps for the Database?

Source:- developer.com 2017 is going to be a good year for DevOps for the database. Both development and operations teams have realized that managing source code, tasks, configuration, and deployments are incomplete if the database is the weak link. Also, the role of the DBA has evolved to the point where they are very involved in both development and operations, because a database that is well incorporated can drastically affect your company in a positive way How It Used to

March 9, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, Test Driven DevOps Leave a comment

How to integrate business priorities into the DevOps process

Source:- appdevelopermagazine.com The business case for enterprise mobile applications is in crisis. Enterprises increased their spend on mobile application development to more than 10% of their overall budgets in 2016, yet fewer than 1% of mobile apps are successful, according to research firm, Gartner. To address this disturbing trend, enterprises are re-envisioning their mobile application development and implementing DevOps processes to increase velocity and reduce the cost of mobile app development and publishing. But this is a mistake. DevOps alone

March 9, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

5 Tips to Streamline Your Security Team

Source:- business2community.com If you’ve ever hired security pros, then you know the current talent shortage is no joke. A recent Computerworld survey found that compensation for security specialists is growing faster than for any other role in IT (up 6.4% year-over-year in average total compensation), and the competition for talent is fierce. Finding the right talent can be a lengthy process, leaving your security hopes and dreams in limbo. So, what’s an organization to do? Many companies are working hard

March 9, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Prerequisite Skills for an App Developer

Source:- cioreview.com As technology becomes cheaper and smaller, mobile technology has reached every corner of the world at a baffling speed. These mobile phones require applications to perform any task on it, starting from making phone calls to recording and editing videos. The app development market is advancing fast with the growing needs of the users. According to a report published by Red Hat, nearly 50 percent of companies are looking to hire app developers who can drive the growth

March 4, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, IT Training, Test Driven DevOps Leave a comment

10 questions every DevOps candidate should answer

Source:- techbeacon.com Strong DevOps teams require individuals with very special skills. The DevOps professionals you recruit must be able to balance coding chops with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) competence, for example. If they’re heading up DevOps, they should also have a track record of being an active liaison with the business. Many companies trying out the model have had negative experiences. They have failed to realize hoped-for advantages such as more frequent code delivery and greater application stability. Without the

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

Three Tips To Ensure That DevOps Adds Real Value To Your Business

Source:- forbes.com If you work in tech, chances are you have an opinion on DevOps. Either you think it’s a worthless exercise that creates more problems than it solves, or that it’s a must-have in today’s workplace. At my company AppLovin, we stand solidly in the pro-DevOps camp: not only for what it does for our operations, but for what DevOps does for our business. If you do go with having DevOps, it’s crucial that you think of it as

March 3, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Controlling Chaos: DevOps And The Digital Transformation

Source:- minutehack.com Recently, you will no doubt have read numerous predictions and forecasting from tech industry experts outlining their expectations of the next 12 months, with Digital Transformation (DX) often at the forefront. DX is in full swing and many organisations are moving towards a more agile approach and adopting DevOps principles. Digital Transformation Most enterprises have already begun shifting their strategies to align with their current environment; one which leverages the value of data more than that of physical

March 3, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, IT trends Leave a comment

Control Costs: Use Cloud Test Environments

Source:- sys-con.com There is no more effective way to reduce your overall test environment spend than to migrate to cloud test environments and embrace testing and infrastructure automation. The nature of test environments is inherently temporary—you set up an environment, run through an automated test suite, and then tear down the environment. If you can reduce the cycle time for this process down to hours or minutes, then you may be able to cut your test environment budgets considerably. This

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