DevOps Best Practices

How DevOps tools can be used to integrate cloud automation

Source – techtarget.com As cloud development and deployment practices move faster and become more agile, security teams have realized that the only effective ways to secure cloud application and system deployments are to develop security controls that integrate into the deployment pipeline, and to automate as much as possible. Many in the security community have dubbed this approach security as code, a take on the infrastructure as code mentality of defining all virtual and cloud-based stack components as configurable elements that are

The emergence of DevOps in the evolving digital enterprise

Source – networkworld.com Welcome to the rise of the digital enterprise, where vendors and customers engage via applications and data is the new currency. Digital enterprises operate with radically different datanomics than conventional physical businesses. Here, digital information is the business. A successful digital enterprise is constantly updating applications in response to user context, market and environment—all of which is quantified, measured and delivered with data. Everything and everyone is personified by a digital footprint. Learning that the user just bought

May 18, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

5 Simple Strategies for Building Security Into Your DevOps Process

Source – veracode.com Securing any development framework – whether Waterfall, Agile or DevOps – requires changes of culture, process, and technology. But unlike the straightforward flow of Waterfall, where security comes at the end of the process, it’s less clear where security fits in Agile and DevOps. As Securosis analyst Adrian Lane points out, Agile development includes “whatever work gets done in a sprint and does not bend to security, so you need to bend security to fit Agile.” Likewise, moving from

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

How Softer Skills Help You Succeed with DevOps

Source – infostretch.com How do you build a DevOps team from scratch? Or even, how do you improve the efficiency of an existing team? Hiring a DevOps specialist seems an obvious place to start. Budget and circumstances permitting, this should boost the initiative, but still doesn’t address how you implement the DevOps transformation across the entire team or indeed across departments. Let’s consider how enterprises engaged in DevOps transformation can get the best results from their teams. How to Prepare for

May 16, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

12 ways to improve run-time container security

Source – computerworld.com.au There still really aren’t many enterprise run-time security tools for containers available, which has skewed the conversation toward establishing defensive barriers prior to run-time – during the build, integration, and deployment stage. Of course, with rapidly evolving technology like containers, it can be all too easy to overlook the most basic security concerns, so, really, any focus at all is welcome. Efforts pointing out the security advantages of digitally signing container images at build time, and scanning them

May 16, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Puppet IT automation wades into enterprise containers

Source – techtarget.com Puppet and its enterprise customers are in the same boat, afloat through the early phases of support for Docker containers. Puppet introduced products and updates this week, which include new support for containers to help enterprise customers advance to the new technology. For sophisticated IT shops where containers are already in use, configuration management can be seen as passé. In such bleeding-edge environments, container infrastructures are immutable — destroyed and recreated continually — rather than updated with tools

May 15, 2017 bestdevops Behavior-Driven Development, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Benefits of Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Source – blogs.agilefaqs.com Should you consider BDD for your team? I just wanted to share my experience with BDD, which you could consider as food for thoughts: Why? – How often does your development team ask the business team why certain feature is important? More importantly, why now and how much of it is enough? In my experience with BDD, the approach naturally lends the teams to have a constructive discussion about this. I’ve seen this leading to a genuine collaboration

May 15, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Before You Outsource Code Development – Think About the Security Implications

Source – veracode.com Police in the Netherlands recently contacted more than 20,000 people who they suspect had their personal data stolen by a malicious web developer. This developer had built “backdoors” into applications he created for various businesses as a contractor. With the information he stole, it is alleged that he made online purchases, opened gambling accounts and impersonated victims’ family members. Outsourcing application development allows organizations to realize cost savings and provides the flexibility necessary to scale. However, as

May 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, IT trends Leave a comment

DevOps, Security, Hybrid IT: Priorities of successful IT pros

Source – enterprisersproject.com Consider how much the role of the IT professional has changed during the last 10 years. As traditional, siloed IT roles — such as network administrators, storage administrators, systems administrators, and database administrators — continue to include new responsibilities, IT professionals can no longer get by as specialists. These days, they’re are expected to be implementing new technologies and trends, inlcuding containers, serverless architecture, and IoT, while working with cloud service providers. They’re acting as liaisons to business leaders. On top of all that,

May 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Why Failure is Critical to DevOps Culture

Source – informationweek.com One of the first steps in DevOps is to understand the need for some failures and learn from them. It’s no secret that in order to fully adopt a DevOps culture, it requires acceptance of change from the C-level, down. The tricky part is that there is no roadmap or “step-by-step” guide to change a company’s culture, because every company is vastly different. A business can’t simply say, “Right now we’re going to start doing DevOps,” because so

May 12, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Improving DevOps automation with continuous delivery chain acceleration

Source – theserverside.com How do you improve your DevOps success and supercharge your continuous delivery chain? Your first thought may be to automate, automate, automate. In fact, however, DevOps automation is not enough. In order to make the very most of continuous delivery chains, DevOps teams should strive also to do continuous delivery chain acceleration, and accelerate the processes that comprise their software delivery pipeline. Continuous delivery chain acceleration and DevOps automation In many cases, organizations seeking to make software delivery faster

May 12, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

7 critical lessons businesses learn when implementing DevOps

Source – techrepublic.com Enterprise IT is changing at a rapid pace, and organizations must practice modern software development to remain relevant and competitive. One of the key trends embraced by tech teams is DevOps, combining development and operations teams to work in an agile fashion toward a shared goal. In a breakout session at the 2017 Dell EMC World conference on Tuesday, Dell EMC’s Emily Kaiser and Brian Roche, from the company’s DevOps Dojo, explained the importance of the DevOps movement

May 8, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, IT trends Leave a comment

IT security sucks: Here’s why (and how to fix it)

Source – itbusinessnet.com The rise of cybercrime across the globe has proven that traditional criminals are finding new ways to attack: Physical access to the goods is no longer required, now the basic requirements are internet connectivity, an intellect capable of operating tools built by someone else, and a pronounced lack of scruples. While the modern workforce is familiar with buzzwords like cyber crime and black hat, only 38 percent of organizations surveyed for ISACA’s “2015 Global Cybersecurity Status Report” claimed

May 5, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

DevOps success: 4 reasons teamwork comes first

Source – enterprisersproject.com DevOps is quickly becoming increasingly mainstream in enterprises. Why? Because a DevOps culture gives companies a competitive advantage by streamlining processes internally. A DevOps approach allows companies to develop and deploy software more efficiently and effectively, meaning businesses can respond to changing customer needs and competitive pressure faster than before. However, it’s important to note that adopting a DevOps model isn’t always easy. It requires a shift in the organization that unites two traditionally siloed teams, which is no

May 5, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

5 DevOps Management Faults

Source – informationweek.com By all estimations, DevOps has been proven to be effective in accelerating the delivery of applications with a consistent level of code quality. In fact, DevOps has such a big impact on enterprise IT, that some call it a “key driver of business growth” in 2017. Despite the potential, management of DevOps has proven difficult in some organizations. The biggest problems seem to revolve around improper management practices that should bind operations and development teams together. So where

May 3, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

The various DevOps pitfalls & How to avoid them

Source:- capgemini.com DevOps is simple, right? Wrong. The concept of DevOps might be simple, however the implementation is not. The following short blog will try to point out some of the key pitfalls. There are plenty of DevOps related mistakes an organisations can make. One is to treat DevOps as a solution that can simply be implemented. Another one is to see DevOps as Tools only. Some organisations seem to believe that all that is needed is to move staff from an

May 3, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Integration, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Continuous Integration Best Practices

Source:- wisdomjobs.com What are the best practices of Continuou Integration? Some of the best practices of Continuous Integration are: Maintain a code repository This is the basic step. Right from the code base to publish profiles to database scripts, everything is maintained in a Git repository. It is suggested that always ensure that everything is kept in the code repository. Automate the build A key step in the process of Continuous Integration is to automate a build by using MS Build

May 1, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

4 Tips for Successful DevOps Implementation

Source – virtual-strategy.com As technology continues to evolve, improve and develop, many companies are focusing on their IT departments to better understand this new technology and making the best use of it. Alongside technology, customer expectations and needs are on the rise as well. The necessity of DevOps implementation is thus also on the rise, as it offers a solution to meeting market demands. The foundation of DevOps is the effective collaboration between the development and operations teams. That’s why companies

April 29, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

DevOps Intelligence Changes the Game

Source – blog.xebialabs.com The moment comes as the company’s CFO lays out for Bill how he strives to align the goals of his department with the goals of the business. It’s here Bill starts to realize he must take a similar approach with IT. He ultimately turns to data about his delivery process to improve IT’s effectiveness and save his team from outsourcing—and a DevOps team is born. Ok, so real-world situations might not be as dire as the fictional

April 29, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Weekly Top 10: How to Make the Most of DevOps

Source – electric-cloud.com Welcome to another round-up of the latest news in DevOps, Agile and Continuous Delivery. In this week’s post, DevOps proves it’s here to stay, as 50% of tech leaders are now implementing DevOps – which has been proven to increase speed of software delivery while maintaining quality – saving organizations time and money. Also in this week’s news we revisit some best practices for Continuous Delivery and find out what’s in store for DevOps in the foreseeable

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