DevOps Process

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 Process, Test Driven DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps Implementation Without Containers

Source:- informationweek.com One of the reasons to adopt a DevOps approach to software delivery is to remove the bottlenecks in your production deployment processes. For server side software, this often involves many pieces, including: The application environment, such as operating system parameters Third party components, such as application servers, web servers, and databases Your application software that runs on top To remove the deployment bottlenecks, DevOps aims to break down the barriers between developers and IT operations staff (hence the

March 4, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Process, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

UDeploy Tool Tutorial

Source:- smlcodes.com 1. Introduction IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy orchestrates and automates application deployments, middleware configurations and database changes to on-premises or cloud-based development, test and production environments. Your team can deploy as often as needed—on demand or on schedule, with security-rich, self-service release management. Whether you require on-premises or as-a-service, IBM UrbanCode Deploy helps you accelerate your time to market, drive down deployment costs, reduce risks and achieve continuous delivery. IBM UrbanCode Deploy provides Automated, consistent deployments and rollbacks of applications

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 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 2, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps Process Leave a comment

The Value of Service Virtualization for Agile and DevOps Teams

Source:- techwell.com In our current software development and testing landscape, it’s critical to pinpoint and eliminate as many bottlenecks as humanly possible. If there’s something along your regular development lifecycle that can be tweaked or moved around for the sake of greater speed and better quality, it’s a no-brainer to make that move. If you’re looking to remove these constraints, service virtualization should be high up on your list of things to take advantage of in 2017. The idea is

March 1, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Process, Test Driven DevOps Leave a comment

How to make mobile app security testing automation a DevOps reality

Source:- nowsecure.com Eighty-one percent of enterprises and 70 percent of small-to-medium businesses have adopted DevOps according to the RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report.1 In comparison, only 29 percent of mobile apps, on average, undergo vulnerability testing according to the 2017 Study on Mobile IoT Application Security conducted by Ponemon Institute.2 I think the gap between these two statistics can be reduced with some minor effort. The purpose of this article is to explain how to make mobile app security

February 27, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps, DevOps Process Leave a comment

An Interview: Continuous Delivery, the ObjectStyle Way

Source:- dzone.com In this interview, Alesia Krush talks to Evgeny Vintik, a Team Lead at ObjectStyle, about his experience making Continuous Integration part of his team’s day-to-day software development routine. OS: As far as I know, you were the one who introduced Continuous Integration into your team’s routine here at ObjectStyle. What inspired you to do that? EV: Prior to ObjectStyle, I worked for a company where Continuous Integration was the norm. We were using TeamCity to cooperate and were

February 25, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, Test Driven DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps from the Front Lines: Enterprise Adoption Principles and Pitfalls

Source:- sys-con.com So, what do I think of when I’m told a company wants to adopt DevOps? The first thing that comes to mind is the size of the organization, and how far they want to take DevOps best practices. I really want to know what DevOps adoption will mean for the company. In my experience, it gets especially interesting for large organizations that rely on a lot of applications and teams. There are important principles that support adoption. First,

February 24, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Why automation doesn’t necessarily remove the need for QA

Source:- techrepublic.com In software development, the rise of automation tools has largely eliminated human involvement. ON one hand, it’s easy to say that automation has further eliminated the need for QA but that’s not the case. As experts have noted, QA is still essential, as is human intervention in some cases, to ensure a quality product is deployed. “Test automation may largely eliminate the need for manual testing in some scenarios, but it will never eliminate the need for QA,”

February 24, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Is DevOps security about behavior or process?

Source:- networkworld.com One of my main roles is improving the security of the software produced by my employer, and it was in that role that I attended the annual gathering of the security industry in San Francisco last week. The RSA Conference is one of the two global security conferences I attend, the other being Blackhat. While Blackhat has become more corporate, it’s still dominated by hackers and focuses more on vulnerabilities, whereas RSA is very much a corporate event

February 23, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Process Leave a comment

DevOps and Automation: There’s a Big Difference

Source:- enterprisetech.com Confusion abounds that DevOps and development automation are synonymous. An online search for implementing DevOps practices leads to lists of tools meant to automate everything from development to QA to deployment. While automation is certainly a key aspect of DevOps, the two are not identical in practice. Businesses that misunderstand that concept are often faced with less optimized workflows, and it can lead organizations to assume automation tools are the silver bullet to solving their IT problems. Understanding

February 20, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Extending AWS CodeBuild with Custom Build Environments

Source:- amazon.com AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed build service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. CodeBuild provides curated build environments for programming languages and runtimes such as Java, Ruby, Python, Go, Node.js, Android, and Docker. It can be extended through the use of custom build environments to support many more.Build environments are Docker images that include a complete file system with everything required to build and test your project. To

February 20, 2017 bestdevops Agile, Continuous Integration, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Agile Data Integration: Continuous Integration with Jenkins and PDI

Source:- 126kr.com Download and Install Jenkins Sample installation using Tomcat: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 cd ~/apps wget http://mirrors.ukfast.co.uk/sites/ftp.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.0.M17/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.0.M17.zip unzip apache-tomcat-9.0.0.M17.zip rm apache-tomcat-9.0.0.M17.zip chmod 700 apache-tomcat-9.0.0.M17/bin/*.sh cd apache-tomcat-9.0.0.M17/webapps wget http://mirrors.jenkins.io/war-stable/latest/jenkins.war cd ../bin sh ./startup.sh Go to localhost:8080/jenkins and enter the password (which can be found under ~/.jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword . After logging in you will be presented with an option to install plugins . At this stage you want to install the Git plugin . Schedule PDI

February 18, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Building a Docker Media Server – Docker Networking Basics

Docker containers are distinct entities. It’s almost as if they were individual, single app computers running on the network. To allow them to communicate – with each other as well as other devices and network services – Docker Engine configures and manages network access for your app containers. This network access can be configured in various ways depending on your needs. As you’ll soon discover, when installing and configuring app containers, you’ll need a good understanding of Docker networking basics to ensure those

February 16, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

7 Spices of ContinuousDelivery Pipeline

Source:- sys-con.com A Continuous Delivery pipeline as part of an Agile transformation is like spices in a meal. Without them, the food is bland and worthless. On the other hand, the right blend of spices will leave you craving more, stimulating your senses and energizing you. But as any good cook will tell you, it can be a bit difficult to find the exact right blend of spices for a specific dish. Salt and pepper are usually basic requirements, but

February 16, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Where, and How, to Become Agile

Source:- itbusinessedge.com The overriding theme of virtually all technological developments in the enterprise these days is agility. Without that, all the speed, scalability and efficiency built into modern infrastructure won’t amount to a hill of beans when it comes to competing in the digital economy. With agility in both infrastructure management and software developments, organizations have the means to pivot business processes on a dime so they can not only respond to changing market conditions quickly but capitalize on new

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 6, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Process Leave a comment

DevOps transformation headaches: who you gonna call? Silo busters

Source:- itproportal.com In the classic Ghostbusters movies para-psychologists save New York City from being overrun by ghosts. While there may well be some long-deceased software lurking on a dusty mainframe, today’s large organisations are not being held to ransom by ghosts but by the proliferation of data silos. Many of these new silos are an unexpected fall-out from the digital transformation drive that is sweeping big business. The task of silo busting just got tougher. We’re now in a world where

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