DevOps Best Practices

February 15, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps News Leave a comment

DevOps Done Right Gives You a Competitive Advantage

Source:- techspective.net Have you embraced DevOps? If not, you’re falling behind. DevOps is no longer just a niche concept for cutting edge startups–it’s a business imperative. A successful implementation of DevOps culture, practices and tools gives you a competitive advantage. Ignoring DevOps just leaves you in the dust behind your competitors that have embraced it. DevOps has attained mainstream status. It is no longer a cutting-edge concept that only startups and progressive companies embrace—it’s a business imperative that delivers a

February 15, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, IT trends Leave a comment

Why Digitization Requires A New IT Operating Model

Source:- informationweek.com Digitization offers IT teams unprecedented opportunities to create value by becoming digital change agents for the enterprise, but the way most IT teams operate cannot support this ambition. As technology becomes central to company strategy and growth, IT teams face faster business change and rising volatility in demand, and they must rethink how they respond to technology spending outside of IT. In this environment, traditional ways of running IT, such as plan/build/run, are falling short. CIOs need a

February 14, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

BizDevOps: Here’s how to make it happen in your organization

Source:- techtarget.com The first time I heard the word “BizDevOps,” I had one question: How is this development different from earlier efforts to engage business executives in delivering great software? I was skeptical, but not dismissive. Yes, BizDevOps is a buzzword, but it felt like more than that. I was excited. After all, this buzzword had “biz” in the name. The very emergence of the term was a victory of sorts. This thing we call BizDevOps acknowledges something my colleagues

February 14, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Agile and DevOps: Better together?

Source:- zdnet.com Organisations across Europe believe that using an Agile methodology for software development can vastly improve the customer experience, while using DevOps can boost revenue from new sources. A new report commissioned by software company CA said that 67 percent of UK organisations using an Agile methodology saw an improvement in customer experience, while firms using DevOps practices report a 38 percent increase in business growth from new revenue sources. In addition, Agile reduces the time needed to act

February 14, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Why release orchestration is essential for Continuous Delivery success

Source:- jaxenter.com Automation provides consistency, repeatability, traceability and auditability. It allows enterprises to scale up quickly without an over-reliance on individuals. And it paves the way for a microservices approach, where different components can be integrated to create something new. But as automation has expanded into new areas, maintaining visibility and control as you speed up processes is a real challenge, especially where legacy applications are concerned. Achieving harmony Even in a largely automated pipeline, some manual steps probably still

February 13, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Integration, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

SQL Server Database Continuous Integration (CI) Best Practices And How To Implement Them – Testing, Processing And Automation

Source:- glassgraden.com Test databases should be processed with unit tests In many shops code is unit tested at the point of commit. For databases, I prefer running all unit tests at once and in sequence against a QA database, vs development, as part of a Test step, in my continuous integration workflow pipeline. Yes, issues would be caught later than at check-in, but continuous integration largely solves this with frequent iterations, including at a commit itself. So the difference between

February 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

How to create a webserver with Docker

Source:- steemit.com I’ve got some more docker for you. This time I’ll show you how to set up a simple webserver in a docker container. The Dockerfile One really important thing I didn’t cover last time was the Dockerfile. Now, if you have made a really good docker image that you want to share with others, you could just give them the image. They would have to trust you though, because it might be hard to tell if you were doing

February 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

How to decrease your Gradle build time by 65%?

Source:- kevalpatel2106.wordpress.com Gradle is very powerful build system. It handles the very complex process of building .dx files from java source code, merging all the resources and assets into the application package (.apk) and signing the application. But gradle isn’t perfect. It is comparatively slower than other build systems out there. Why should you care about build time of your project? For a long time, I was OKAY with my build timings. I thought I can live with this. I used to do

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

How to automate your app dev process—and improve code quality

Source:- networkworld.com As your business grows, it’s increasingly important to understand how to scale engineering processes and methodologies. The amount of time spent on setup, deployment and manually testing code is often ignored by technology teams and managers. Manual server configuration and code quality tests are not only error prone, but they ultimately result wasted time and money. 3 steps to automate software development Introducing automation into your Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and infrastructure scaling projects is the most effective

February 10, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Continuous Deployment with Google Container Engine and Kubernetes

Source:- semaphoreci.com Introduction This tutorial will show you how to deploy a sample microservices application to Kubernetes and set up continuous deployment using SemaphoreCI. It includes a crash introduction to Kubernetes, Google Container Engine, and building an automated deploy process. Kubernetes, or “k8s” for short, is an orchestration tool for container native applications. Note that Kubernetes is about containers, and not only Docker containers. This tutorial uses Docker because it’s the current industry standard. Kubernetes is a complex distributed system.

February 10, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Events Leave a comment

Secure Coding: The Rise of SecDevOps

Source:- databreachtoday.com For too long, ensuring that code is securely written – and bug free – has been a business afterthought. But there’s been new hope for building security into the development lifecycle, thanks to the rise of DevOps, aka rugged software, says Chris Wysopal, CTO of the application security firm Veracode. DevOps – a truncation of software development and IT operations – incorporates aspects of agile development, including short sprints – perhaps just two weeks in length – that

February 10, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

DevOps on AWS is a complex relationship

Source:- techtarget.com It’s important to have a fully stocked toolbox before deploying DevOps on AWS. Automation and monitoring tools, both from AWS and third parties, need to be in tune for deployment and operations to run smoothly and efficiently. AWS provides tools that help IT teams submit, manage and deploy code — pushing applications and features into production faster. But the DevOps transition is not always easy, and errors cost time and money. Successfully deploying DevOps on AWS requires IT

February 7, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Effective Metrics Are Critical For DevOps and Agile Success

Source:- outlookseries.com In the days of old, not very long ago, release cycles were measured in years —organizations were using “on-time” and “on-budget” as the mantra for project efficacy. Business today is compelled to deliver business technology in cycles of hours, or days. Faster cycles render not only tradition “waterfall” processes and silo based IT obsolete, it also renders traditional metrics ineffective! These arcane metrics no longer deliver the visibility and granularity tech pros need to fine-tune their delivery capability.

February 7, 2017 bestdevops Agile, Cloud Computing, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

From Yawn-Driven Deployment to DevOps Tipping Point

Source:- linux.com GS Shop is one of the largest TV shopping networks in Asia, and one of the largest e-commerce sites in Korea with more than 1000 employees and 1.5 million users daily. Vivek Juneja of GS Shop’s Container Platform Team, at MesosCon Asia 2016, shares how he and his team moved this behemoth to the new agile way of running the datacenter. We know that change is not easy, and Juneja shares many valuable insights in how to successfully

February 2, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

5 Steps to Fix Your DevOps

Source:- dzone.com DevOps. Why is everyone talking about it now? People say, “Just do DevOps,” and I laugh at that. Is it that easy? Let’s discuss some facts that you should know before moving to DevOps. We all want to do DevOps because it’s cool and trendy. Is that your answer? If so, then stop thinking about it. It’s not what you think it is. Before taking the first step to doing DevOps, ask yourself why you need DevOps and

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

5 ways to align security with your DevOps strategy

Source:- techbeacon.com In 2016, DevOps reached a tipping point. Half of all organizations surveyed indicated that they are actively using it as a model for releasing and maintaining custom applications, according to the Gartner Research note DevSecOps: How to Seamlessly Integrate Security Into DevOps, September, 2016. Yet, about 80 percent of those organizations surveyed expressed concerns that information security policies and teams are preventing them from achieving the level of agility that DevOps promises. Development, operations and security all want

January 31, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, Test Driven DevOps Leave a comment

Automating Configuration Management for DevOps Test Environments

Source:- capgemini.com 1.Background The transformation of business to a customer-centric digital ecosystem, coupled with the advent of agile- and DevOps-based IT processes, has accelerated the adoption of cloud technology solutions. Migrating these legacy IT systems to the cloud has certain, obvious advantages. By supporting global development and decreasing product deployment time, organizations worldwide have been able to rollout product features faster and accelerate the time to market. From a QA perspective, testers be able to quickly verify the testing deliverables.

January 31, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

10 Mistakes to Avoid While Implementing DevOps

Source:- tothenew.com DevOps is not merely a designation, practice, concept or philosophy, rather, it is a combination of all that emphasizes on the collaboration of both software developers and IT professionals. It is basically a culture wherein the DevOps acts as a bridge between the developers and administrators. It acts as a catalyst in automating the process of continuous delivery and continuous integration. This is why organizations are rapidly moving to adopt DevOps. Though there are a lot of good

January 28, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps Best Practices, IT Training Leave a comment

Best practices to scale agile across multiple IT teams and enterprise organizations

Best practices to scale agile across multiple IT teams and enterprise organizations Source:- itproportal.com The past few years have seen some very dramatic and eye-opening changes in software development. We have fully redefined what it means to be fast in product development and deployment, as well as the skills and tools required to be successful in the space. Take agile software development: Agile software development methods were introduced less than a decade ago, but their popularity has seen a steady

January 28, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Why security is the top issue for DevOps teams in 2017

Source:- itworldcanada.com Security, not speed, is shaping up to be the top issue for DevOps teams in 2017, a new survey suggests. According to the 2017 State of the Application Delivery Report by F5 Networks Inc., security is the number one priority among 2,000 IT, networking, application and security professionals surveyed worldwide. “Security teams are expanding beyond traditional firewalls and the legacy enterprise perimeter as a response to hackers increasingly targeting the application,” the report states. Those same security concerns

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