DevOps Updates

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

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2017, Refining The Fundamentals

Source:- forbes.com It is now a full 20-years since Microsoft first offered its Visual Studio software development product to the market. Still then, with a new release in 2017, the focus is very much on how the firm can provide productivity-focused refinements for the programmers who will use it to create the apps that we use every day. “With Visual Studio 2017, we’ve invested in several key areas – refining the fundamentals,” insists Julia Liuson, in her role as corporate vice

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Visual Studio 2017 Launched By Microsoft

Source:- zeenews.india.com   New Delhi: US tech giant Microsoft on Wednesday launched Visual Studio 2017 bringing new capabilities for developers to build any type of application for any platform. Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 is an integrated development environment (IDE), supporting developers of all types of applications, for every platform, in nearly every language. Its predecessor, Visual Studio 2015, was installed over 21.1 million times since its release. “Visual Studio 2017 delivers a great cloud and mobile development experience, boosts DevOps

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The 5 big DevOps changes you will see in 2017

Source:- geektime.com Following a Gartner Report from 2016 which revealed that most organizations will use and implement DevOps by the end of this year, 2017 started off with a DevOps bang. This year began when an enormous amount of capital was poured into DevOps technology companies by VCs, and larger-scale adoption of tools was approved in this year’s IT budgets with the recognition that DevOps was a “must-have” in businesses. A survey of 252 Gartner Research Circle members showed that

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Kubernetes is now generally available on Azure Container Service

Source:- infoworld.com Microsoft and Google don’t get along all that often, but they do agree on using Kubernetes for cloud container orchestration. Kubernetes is generally available for use with Azure Container Service, Microsoft’s managed cloud container hosting offering, as of Tuesday. ACS support for Kubernetes comes along with the service’s existing support for the Apache Mesos-based DC/OS and Docker Swarm. Containers provide an isolated, portable and consistent runtime for applications that’s particularly well-suited to deployment in a cloud environment. Orchestrators

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Amazon Web Services Introduces Amazon Chime

Source:- ucstrategies.com Amazon Web Services, Inc. is making its move on the Unified Communications (UC) market, with Amazon Chime. This new UC service provides video and audio meetings, chat, and sharing on desktops, iOS, and Android devices, in an attempt to compete with services like Skype for Business, GoToMeeting, and WebEx. Amazon Chime boasts high quality video, voice, chat, and screen sharing that can be launched with one click. Customers can host and join meetings, and receive calls when the

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‘Coding is dead, automation the real deal’

Source:- thehindubusinessline.com MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 17: If you’ve been spending years learning a programming language such as Java or .Net, there’s a message for you from your potential employers: “Coding is dead”. Yes, coding as we know it, may not longer be relevant in the world taken over by machine learning and automation. “Coding is dead. I don’t need to do any native development anymore,” Nitin Rakesh, newly appointed CEO of IT services firm Mphasis, told BusinessLine. ‘Cloud first’ “Large public

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Introducing Docker Datacenter on 1.13 with Secrets, Security Scanning, Content Cache and more

Source:- docker.com It’s another exciting day with a new release of Docker Datacenter (DDC) on 1.13. This release includes loads of new features around app services, security, image distribution and usability. Let’s dig into some of the new features: Integrated Secrets Management This release of Docker Datacenter includes integrated support for secrets management from development all the way to production. This feature allows users to store confidential data (e.g. passwords, certificates) securely on the cluster and inject these secrets to

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Docker Introduces Secrets Management

Source:- crn.com Docker’s latest update helps enterprise customers protect their secrets. An update released Thursday for Docker Datacenter, the container-tech pioneer’s commercial offering, implements a container-native framework for controlling access to sensitive information like API keys, encryption keys and passwords, along with a security scanning feature that can detect vulnerabilities and bugs. The new feature for managing access-control secrets, architected to facilitate large container deployments, can deliver those protected pieces of information to specific, authorized containers in a cluster. Secrets

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Microsoft Brings Continuous Delivery Tools Extension to Visual Studio 2017

Source:- winbuzzer.com Visual Studio 2017 customers can now take advantage of a new DevLabs extension. Microsoft has announced Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio in a blog post on Tuesday. The company says the deployment makes it easy to manage pipelines on Visual Studio Team Services. In its blog post, Microsoft says Continuous Delivery Tools simplify the process for setting up automated build, test and release pipelines. This is for an ASP.NET 4 and ASP.NET Core application targeting Azure. Using

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News IT leaders need to know

Source:- financialpost.com VMware updates NSX VMware has updated its NSX network virtualization platform with two new releases, VMware NSX for vSphere 6.3 and VMware NSX-T 1.1. NSX for vSphere features enhanced security, extension of a unified virtual network to remote datacentres, and better support for vCloud Director. NSX-T adds support for VMware Photon Platform, an enterprise cloud-native infrastructure platform, expanded support for KVM distributions from Canonical and Red Hat, updated support for OpenStack Newton and Mikata, and access to a

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Jenkins gets new pipeline feature, sees increase in usage

Source:- sdtimes.com Jenkins saw a surge of growth in 2016. The Jenkins project, a community behind Jenkins, has released results from its 2016 Community Survey that show the open-source automation server saw an increase in usage across organizations already using Jenkins, organizations new to Jenkins, and organizations implementing Continuous Delivery. “As an ever-increasing number of teams implement DevOps, we are seeing them naturally turn to Jenkins as the de facto business-critical solution for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery,” said Sacha

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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

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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

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Amazon launches Cloud Directory, purpose-built storage for hierarchical data

Source:- techrepublic.com Amazon’s new Cloud Directory product, announced Thursday, could bring additional flexibility and scalability to enterprise directories. The key value proposition of Cloud Directory is that it offers users the ability to create directories with hierarchies spanning multiple dimensions. According to an Amazon press release, more traditional directory tools like Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS), and LDAP-based directories, only allow for a single hierarchy. The idea is that, in allowing the management of multiple hierarchies, Cloud Directory

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Top 5 Reasons to Assess Your Cloud Adoption Maturity in 2017

Source:- cisco.com As highlighted in IDC’s recent CloudView Survey, almost 78% of organizations use some form of cloud today, yet only 3% of the companies IDC surveyed have optimized cloud strategies in place. The most mature cloud organizations are defined by their use of DevOps, hybrid and multi-provider clouds, micro-services, and containers, and they consume cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) and security applications. In fact, greater cloud maturity leads to millions of dollars in annual benefits per cloud-based application. ($3M

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The shifting role of the IT professional In 2017

Source:- information-age.com Constantly evolving technology means that IT roles are changing to reflect this increasing dependency. In 2017, it’s out with the old and in with the new as we predict a shift in the role of the IT professional. Traditional, siloed IT roles—network administrators, storage administrators, systems administrators, database administrations, and more—are already changing. And in 2017, we will see IT pros taking on new responsibilities, such as working with cloud service providers in hybrid environments, prioritising new technologies

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Report: 111 billion lines of code will have to be secured this year

Source:- sdtimes.com As new pieces of software are being written every day, the threat of malicious hacking continues to grow. According to a new report, there will be about 111 billion lines of new software code created this year, and with them will come billions of software vulnerabilities. “Applications have become inviting targets for malicious actors, but securing those programs has proven to be challenging to both security teams and developers,” according to the report. “Too often, key vulnerabilities get

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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

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De-risking the cloud

Source:- zdnet.com Whatever has happened to cloud? From risk bĂȘte noir to flavour of the month – how did that happen? Surveys across the board show huge growth in the adoption of cloud computing, especially hybrid cloud: in a recent report, 95% of IT professionals said they were using the cloud, and 75% said they were using hybrid cloud. And the report also found that security was no longer the top cloud challenge, with the top spot now occupied by

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