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March 20, 2017 bestdevops IT Training Leave a comment

The Ultimate DevOps Toolkit

Source:- xenonstack.com DevOps isn’t a tool or a product. DevOps is a process and balanced organization approach for improving collaboration, communication among development and operation. Redesigning and find new ways for faster and Reliable Delivery for accelerated time to market, improved manageability, better operational efficiency, and more time to focus on your core business goals. DevOps Toolchain During Transformation Towards Agile & DevOps, DevOps needs a platform where we can define workflow with different Integrations. Implementing DevOps Culture into your

March 20, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Container orchestration primer: Explaining Docker swarm mode, Kubernetes and Mesosphere

Source:- insights.hpe.com Containers, a lightweight way to virtualize applications, are an important element of any DevOps plan. But how are you going to manage all of those containers? Container orchestration programs—Kubernetes, Mesosphere Marathon, and Docker swarm mode—make it possible to manage containers without tearing your hair out. Before jumping into those, let’s review the basics. Containers are the fastest growing cloud-enabling technology, according to 451 Research, primarily because containers use far fewer system resources than do virtual machines (VMs). After

March 18, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Best Practices for a Mature Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Source:- msystechnologies.com Continuous Integration(CI) is a software engineering practice which evolved to support extreme and agile programming methodologies. CI consists of best practices consisting of build automation, continuous testing and code quality analysis. The desired result is that software in mainline can be rapidly built and deployed to production at any point. Continuous Delivery(CD) goes further and automates the deployment of software in QA, pre-production and production environments. Continuous Delivery enables organizations to make predictable releases reducing risk and, automation

March 18, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Top 10 challenges to DevOps implementation

Source:- techrepublic.com As more companies adopt DevOps to improve their workflow and productivity, a number of challenges related to infrastructure and legacy systems have arisen, according to a new survey from cloud sandbox software provider Quali. In a survey of more than 2,000 IT industry executives, 54% of respondents said they had no access to self-service infrastructure—instead, they take a ticket-based approach to infrastructure delivery, which impacts productivity and increases time to market, the survey notes. And only 23% of

March 18, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, Test Driven DevOps Leave a comment

Broken DevOps Pipeline? Fix it with ARA

Source:- xebialabs.com DevOps has brought big changes—and even bigger benefits—to the way applications are developed and deployed: shortened delivery timelines, cleaned up build processes, reduced downtime and risk, and increased likelihood that a release could be performed today if needed. But it hasn’t solved all of IT’s problems. Many organizations, for example, still struggle with structural changes longer than they do with tool implementations. And the scripting required to achieve many of the benefits that these tools offer imposes its

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

How to become a DevOps manager: 5 tips

Source:- techrepublic.com Many organizations are seeing the value of DevOps, a cultural movement that integrates software developers and IT professionals who manage production operations for a smoother workflow. As the movement gains traction, it’s important for managers across different IT divisions to adapt their leadership style to maximize the benefits of this workplace change. DevOps adoption is currently all over the map, according to Jeff Sussna, founder and principal of Ingineering.IT. “There are some companies that are all in and

March 4, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, IT trends Leave a comment

Three Tips To Ensure That DevOps Adds Real Value To Your Business

Source:- forbes.com If you work in tech, chances are you have an opinion on DevOps. Either you think it’s a worthless exercise that creates more problems than it solves, or that it’s a must-have in today’s workplace. At my company AppLovin, we stand solidly in the pro-DevOps camp: not only for what it does for our operations, but for what DevOps does for our business. If you do go with having DevOps, it’s crucial that you think of it as

February 21, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Docker Tools that Developers will Find Useful

Source:- opensourceforu.com Docker allows IT departments to focus on applications, not virtual machines, as a standard unit of production. Looking at recent trends, there have been many projects created by the Docker community that have advanced the developer experience. This article takes a look at a few Docker tools that may be useful for developers. Docker was introduced to the world with no prior announcement, by Solomon Hykes, founder and CEO of dotCloud at the Python Developers Conference in Santa Clara,

February 17, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Docker’s tops for devops, AWS is the cloud king

Source:- infoworld.com Docker is the king of devops tools, hybrid cloud is beating public-only and private-only clouds, and Microsoft Azure is making sizable headway in public cloud. Those are some of the key insights from this year’s edition of SaaS provider RightScale’s State of the Cloud report, which is derived from a survey of more than 1,000 IT pros around the world. Docker keeps climbing — and here comes Kubernetes If there’s one devops tool that’s out in front with

February 17, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Automated Test Environments for DevOps

Source:- capgemini.com 1 Test Environments Management: Key Challenges A testing environment is a setup of software and hardware in which the testing team tests a new software build. A test environment consists of pre-production or staging environments, and is generally a downgraded version of a production environment to help uncover pre-production defects. Building and maintaining a test environment is important. Often, dedicated test environments are maintained at various stages like developer test, dedicated test, integration test, and pre-production or business

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 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

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 20, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Process, DevOps Tools, IT Training, IT trends Leave a comment

Engineering Your IT DevOps Career Pathway

Source – cbtnuggets.com DevOps still is new enough that certifications are evolving and emerging. In time, the IT industry will make clear what certifications are most necessary and most highly valued, but until then, we have some suggestions for training and certification pathways to help you engineer a successful DevOps career. IT Certification and Training Pathways DevOps emerged as a response to the challenges of siloed Dev and IT departments, resulting in failures. Generally, the goal is to solve those issues,

January 17, 2017 bestdevops Build and Release, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Automated deployment tools mitigate the risk of human error in DevOps

Source:- techtarget.com Seemingly endless options abound for IT shops automating application and infrastructure deployment. And that’s exactly the problem. DevOps methodologies and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) software development processes have unleashed an explosion of automated deployment tools all designed to streamline this pipeline. IT and development organizations cobble together complex tool chains that orchestrate the application lifecycle, from code development and integration to testing and production deployment. Many tools originated to solve a particular problem, e.g., automated system configuration

January 14, 2017 bestdevops DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Days, DevOps Events, DevOps News Leave a comment

Top 2017 DevOps Conferences to Attend

Source:- sys-con.com Every year, a new slate of conferences focus on helping those who work in the world of DevOps learn the latest IT technologies, performance challenges, languages, frameworks, platforms, software developments and career management techniques. However, with tight travel budgets and time constraints, it’s vital you choose the right ones to attend. Below you’ll find a wide variety of DevOps conferences, some small in nature offering lots of hands-on training as well as very large conferences attracting the “who’s

January 13, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Habitat application portability and understanding dynamic linking of ELF binaries

Source – blog.chef.io I do not come from a classical computer science background and have spent the vast majority of my career working with Java, C# and Ruby – mostly on Windows. So I have managed to evade the details of exactly how native binaries find their dependencies at compile time and runtime on Linux. It just has not been a concern in the work that I do. If my app complains about missing low level dependencies, I find a binary

January 9, 2017 bestdevops Build and Release, DevOps, DevOps Process, IT Training Leave a comment

Build and buy: Key to forming DevOps environment

Source:- searchcio.techtarget.com DevOps has moved beyond hype to become a staple of enterprise IT. Consider recent statistics: Some 74% of 1,060 responding IT professionals say they’ve adopted DevOps in their organizations, up from 66% in 2015, according to the 2016 State of the Cloud survey from RightScale. And 73% of the 200 responding IT decision-makers have adopted some DevOps processes, according to the State of Software Release Efficiency survey from a Vanson Bourne report commissioned by Appvance. DevOps professionals

January 2, 2017 bestdevops DevOps Best Practices, DevOps News, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Why you’ll NEVER nail that DevOps interview

Source – venturebeat.com Many companies these days are constantly complaining that they are struggling to recruit good talent. There are rumored talent acquisition wars and agreements between large companies like Google and Apple, and I’ve often heard these types of issues referenced in talks. Just recently I heard Battery Ventures’ Adrian Cockcroft say that, while he was at Netflix, large companies often asked him, “Where does Netflix hire such great talent?”, and his reply to the Comcasts and others was that

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