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April 26, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps News Leave a comment

Which Comes First: DevOps or Culture Change?

Source – informationweek.com By now, most people in IT and product management understand DevOps. The power of DevOps, like Agile, is that there’s no strict rule set to follow, nor is there a standard to adhere to. It’s open to interpretation and adaptation according to your own corporate, customer, product, or cultural situation. However, corporate culture sits square in the cross hairs of what DevOps aims to improve. With this in mind, is it better to change corporate culture at the

April 25, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News Leave a comment

9 Big Mistakes DevOps Teams Make

Source – informationweek.com If organizations want to maximize the benefits they experience as a result of embracing DevOps, they’ll need to avoid these “gotchas”. If you’re going to adopt DevOps, you better do it right. According to the RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud report, 84% of enterprises and 72% of small to medium-sized businesses have adopted some DevOps practices. These organizations are attracted to DevOps benefits like greater agility, improved customer satisfaction, greater employee morale, greater productivity and business

April 25, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps News Leave a comment

The pros and cons of adopting a DevOps model

Source – computerworld.com.au In today’s digital era, mastering the customer experience through a continuous delivery of applications is a must. Hence, more and more organisations are focusing on adopting DevOps principles. Many Australian companies – such as Commonwealth Bank and AMP – have already embraced a DevOps model, and we anticipate many more organisations will join them as DevOps is likely to become mainstream within the next few years. In fact, a recent survey of almost 2,000 senior managers at

April 20, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps News, DevOps Process Leave a comment

8 Crucial DevOps Success Tips

Source – news.sys-con.com Effective collaboration and communication are highly valued by the DevOps culture, and it’s been like that for a reason. It is an industry where even departments within the same company tend to distrust one another, and where distributed offices full of crucial roles are the norm. Thus, any possible positive improvement in the interaction between people is welcomed, especially for an organization where several moving parts need to collaborate in order to create a product on time and

April 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News Leave a comment

Continuous Deployment of a Python Flask Application with Docker and Semaphore

Source – semaphoreci.com Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll go through the continuous integration and deployment of a dockerized Python Flask application with Semaphore. We’ll deploy the application to Heroku. Continuous integration and deployment help developers to: Focus on developing features rather than spending time on manual deployment, Be certain that their application will work as expected, Update existing applications or rollback features by versioning applications using Git, and Eliminate the it works on my machine issue by providing a standardized testing

April 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News Leave a comment

How To Install Gradle On Ubuntu

Source – linuxhelp.com Gradle is a free and open source automation toolset based on Apache Ant and Apache Maven and builds support for development lifecycle. It uses domain specific language rather than XML form for project configuration. This tutorial explains the installation procedure of Gradle on Ubuntu. Installation procedure To start the installation procedure, first update the system repositories using the apt-get update command. root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports

April 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News Leave a comment

How to use Dockerfiles

Source – techrepublic.com With Docker images, you can easily deploy containers without having to worry about maintaining the same overhead required by virtual machines. These containers can be pulled from the Docker Hub with ease, for easy use. Let’s say, for example, you want to pull down the latest Ubuntu image for development purposes. However, before you start development, there are a number of changes you need to make to the image (such as updating, upgrading, and adding the build-essential package

April 12, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Which DevOps Skills Pay the Most?

Source – insights.dice.com Those DevOps experts who command the highest salaries also possess some extraordinary skills. Not only do they know the ins and outs of the latest enterprise automation technology, for example, but they also have the “soft skills” necessary to operate collaboratively across any given organization. They can finesse their way through every stage of the software-development lifecycle, all the way through implementation. Most of all, DevOps experts are good at handling transitions. While most employees regard change

April 11, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps News, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Top 4 obstacles to DevOps adoption and how to successfully eliminate them

Source – jaxenter.com Many organizations want to apply DevOps principles in their organization but they don’t really know what DevOps is, what it requires from the employees, what value it will bring and how to start a DevOps journey. Other have already given DevOps a try but they faced misunderstandings and challenges that slowed them down. If only there was a way to experiment with DevOps before actually adopting it. Meet The Phoenix Project, the simulation which comes to the

April 11, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps News, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

AppDynamics interviews container expert Liz Rice

Source – sys-con.com I was delighted to spend time with container guru Liz Rice recently, ahead of the presentation Liz will deliver at AppD Summit Europe. There are over 460K Dockerized applications and more than 5 billion containers have been pulled so far. Why do you think containers as a concept have caught on so quickly? Containerization-related technologies existed before Docker arrived on the scene, but Docker made it easy to use at the command line. This opened the advantages

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 5, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News, DevOps Tools, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

CA Technologies (CA) Completes the Purchase of Veracode

Source:- nasdaq.com CA Technologies CA recently announced that it has completed the acquisition of a Burlington security software company Veracode, for approximately $614 million in cash. The deal, signed in early March, was subject to customary closing conditions. Founded in 2006, Veracode offers cloud-based software that helps organisations to run large-scale performance and load tests quickly, easily and inexpensively during the building and deployment process. The company serves more than 1,400 customers, which includes Boeing and Thomson Reuters, and its

March 25, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News, DevOps Tools, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Puppet: Best DevOps Tool for Open Source at the 2017, DevOps Excellence Awards

Source:- marketwired.com PORTLAND, OR and LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM–(Marketwired – Mar 24, 2017) – Puppet, the standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us, has been awarded the Best DevOps Tool for Open Source at the 2017 DevOps Excellence Awards that took place on Wednesday March 22, 2017 in London. The 2017 DevOps Awards — held annually — is judged by the editors of UK publication, Computing, alongside industry experts and recognises outstanding and

March 24, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Beware False DevOps Metrics

Source:- devops.com Metrics are important for any manager seeking to continuously improve critical work processes and the resulting work-product. That’s why DevOps leaders need DevOps metrics. With the right ones, those leaders can guide their organization’s adoption of DevOps best practices—progressively optimizing staff productivity, business agility and customer experience. But, what are the right metrics for DevOps success? And, what are the wrong ones? These next few blogs will offer field-proven guidance on DevOps metrics. Much of the material in

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 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News Leave a comment

Visual Studio 2017 Coming March 7

Source:- infoq.com Following a recent spate of release candidates, Microsoft has begun final preparations for the formal release of Visual Studio 2017. Microsoft has announced that March 7, 2017 will be the official release date for VS2017. This release marks the 20th anniversary of the original release of Visual Studio in 1997 which in those days included Visual J++, Visual FoxPro, and Visual InterDev along with Visual C++. In preparation for formal release, Microsoft is still working to finish VS2017 and

January 29, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News, DevOps Tools, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Bug fixes polish Docker container management

Source:- techtarget.com Just as into every life some rain must fall, into every software some bugs must creep — and Docker is no exception. Docker container management received some incremental, but important, improvements this month, with fixes to security and domain name system (DNS) bugs. The updates underscore why security in depth is critical in container environments. Docker responded in mid-January 2017 to a security vulnerability in runC, called CVE-2016-9962, which was reported earlier in the month. The vulnerability could

January 24, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps News, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Testing, Metrics, Security—Major Trends in DevOps in 2017

Source:- readitquik.com DevOps (Development and Operations) depicts the agile relationship between IT Operations and Development in an enterprise. DevOps facilitates better relationship between the two business units through better collaboration and communication and thereby help the enterprise achieve greater digital agility. While DevOps focuses on improving development and operations, software development and services company, predicts that the main focus of Dev Ops in 2017 is expected to be testing, metrics and security. “As organizations race to deliver innovations to market, they

January 24, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Global DevOps Tool Market – Puppet Labs, Chef, Docker Inc, RedHat, Atlassian

Source:- longshortreport.com DevOps Tool Industry Report introduced a Market Segment, Product Types, with Sales, Revenue, Price, Market Share and Growth, focuses on top players in these regions/countries, Size, Share, Demand, Analysis, Manufacturers, Type and Application, Forecast 2016 to 2021 The research study Global DevOps Tool Industry offers strategic assessment of the Global DevOps Tool market. The industry report focuses on the growth opportunities, which will help the Global DevOps Tool industry to expand operations in the existing markets or aid

January 23, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News Leave a comment

Canonical launches Ubuntu Tutorials

Source:- betanews.com Linux is arguably the most successful open source project in all of history. The success of the kernel — and operating systems that use it — are not due to any one man or woman. Actually, the achievements are thanks to the Linux community. In other words, it is a team effort — developers, users, and more. For a Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu, to continue its progress, Canonical needs developers to remain interested — this includes getting

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