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DevOps strategies for IT modernization

Source – gcn.com Like most government agencies, the U.S. Courts, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Department of Agriculture need their mission-critical IT systems to always be operational.  Even when such systems are being fixed or modernized, judges, agents and crop insurers still need access to case management systems and bomb tracking databases to do their jobs. At a June 7 event in Washington, D.C., officials from all three agencies discussed how DevOps practices are increasingly enlisted

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New DevOps deployment tools dangle Jenkins alternatives

Source – techtarget.com Some enterprises have passed over tried-and-true DevOps tools, such as Jenkins, in favor of new DevOps deployment tools that offer a smoother experience. One Jenkins rival, Shippable Inc., has expanded its product to encompass both continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) during the last year, and it has added an on-premises alternative for security-sensitive enterprises this week called Shippable Server. Google and Netflix also turned heads with multicloud support in version 1.0 of the open source Spinnaker

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10 critical skills that every DevOps engineer needs for success

Source – techrepublic.com Enterprises including Adobe, Amazon, and Target are increasingly turning to DevOps as a way to deliver software and security updates more rapidly, both internally and to customers. And the spread of the workflow means there are more DevOps engineer positions available than ever. DevOps engineer came in at no. 3 on Indeed’s list of best jobs in America for 2017, in terms of salary, number of job postings, and opportunities for growth. These positions grew by 106% in

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Application Security Report Calls Out Problems in Mobile, IoT Devices and DevOps

Source – securityintelligence.com Vulnerabilities in mobile backends, web interfaces to the Internet of Things (IoT) and negligent DevOps practitioners are among the fastest growing application security threats, according to a report released at the InfoSecurity Europe conference in London this week. What’s the Problem? Research from High-Tech Bridge, a Swiss company that also operates in the U.S., said 83 percent of web service and application programming interfaces (APIs) used in apps for retail, banking and other markets could fall prey to

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Best Practices To Manage Your Hybrid Cloud

Source – forbes.com We live in a choice-driven society powered by technology. Whether it’s cutting the cable cord and moving to Ă  la carte television or ditching the concept of ownership and opting to take part in the sharing economy, people want to pick and choose what works best for their individual needs instead of relying on a single provider or product. In the case of cloud computing, a plethora of options is available to IT network teams for how they

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DevOps success relies on supportive and communicative senior leaders, research shows

Source – computerweekly.com The influential role played by supportive senior leadership in helping organisations successfully shift away from big-project, waterfall-like software development is laid bare in the 2017 State of DevOps Report. Compiled each year by software automation supplier Puppet and DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), the report seeks out the opinions of DevOps practitioners to gauge how adoption of the software development methodology is progressing worldwide. The 2017 edition includes input from more than 3,200 respondents, whose feedback has enabled

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Continuous Delivery with VSTS and Jenkins

Source – stackoverflow.com I’m trying to get continuous delivery going with Jenkins (building, deploying) and VSTS (source control). This is the desired workflow: a developer branches off master, makes changes, creates a pull request another developer reviews the PR and eventually merges it into master some system (Jenkins or VSTS) detects that a PR was merged into master and… increments a version number stored in a file within the repo commits the version change back to master builds deploys I was

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Turbonomic touts support for AWS and Azure public cloud with new release

Source – cloudcomputing-news.net Turbonomic, a Boston-based cloud and virtualisation software provider, has announced new support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure public cloud environments with general availability of its 5.9 iteration. The company says the move will ‘enable customers to confidently accelerate their journey to hybrid cloud’, with support offerings include visibility of all workloads regardless of where they reside, and lowering of public cloud bills by 30% on average. Other features include being able to migrate to AWS

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OpsHub Highlights Its Role in Accelerating DevOps Transformation at Discover 2017

Source – benzinga.com Enterprises are embracing the need to transform digitally, and they are facing challenges in delivering high-quality solutions in shorter cycle times. OpsHub enables enterprises to create a unified DevOps environment within their existing infrastructure by integrating HPE Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Application Lifecycle Management Octane (ALM Octane) and Quality Center (QC) solutions to other ALM, DevOps, CRM, and ITSM systems. As a result, organizations can increase delivery speed and quality by enhancing collaboration between sales, service and development

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Docker for Continuous Delivery: The Basics

Source – tech.cars.com we have begun to leverage Docker for building our Node.js middleware applications and front end code. This originally came out of necessity since we had some repositories dependent on version 4 of Node and others on 6, but only 4 installed on the Jenkins agents. Rather than install both versions of Node and toggle them using a node version manager like n or, worse yet, using Jenkins tags to have some agents with one version and some with

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How to approach cloud computing and cyber security in 2017

Source – information-age.com The adoption of cloud computing has been on the up since as far back as 2008, when a survey conducted by the Pew Research Institute found that cloud services were used by nearly 69% of Americans. Since then, the industry has experienced hyper-growth and exceeded the already vast predictions of how big it would become. IDC predicts that the cloud computing market in 2017 will be worth $107 billion and, according to Gartner, by 2020 a corporate ‘no-cloud’

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Agile automation techniques answer the need for development speed

Source – techtarget.com The best strategies for Agile automation testing Agile automation is a very simple concept that can be very hard to achieve. At a time when companies are expected to release application updates daily — if not hourly — only Agile automation testing and other delivery steps can make that possible. Automation, however, is far from a simple matter; it requires not only a thorough understanding of the process from end to end, but also the right tools to

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DevOps: Why getting the culture right is the key to success

Source – zdnet.com One company that aims to take advantage of that trend towards DevOps is custom software development company Ness Digital Engineering. It recently announced that it is taking on another 800 staff who would mostly specialise in DevOps and related technologies. ZDNet spoke to its CTO, Moshe Kranc, a man who started in software development working on Arpanet back in the 1970s. What’s your take on the current state of DevOps? I meet with a lot of customers and

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DevOps lessons for network acceleration and deployment

Source – itproportal.com In a business climate where “every company is becoming a software company,” it’s no surprise that enterprises are searching for best practices to accelerate their software development processes. Primary among these is DevOps, one of the leading methodologies for speeding up the delivery and performance of applications. Closely akin to the “agile” methodology, DevOps strives to align application development (the Dev) and IT operations (the Ops) to improve the entire application-management lifecycle. DevOps practices achieve their goals largely

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5 lessons: How DevOps, cloud reinvented IT Ops at Hiscox

Source – techbeacon.com As a global business insurer, Hiscox faces two significant challenges. The first is that, while we are growing at up to 30% per year in some markets, we don’t want our IT staff to balloon at the same pace. We also must stay nimble enough to fend off behemoths such as Amazon and Google that could use their stockpiles of customer data (and their ability to quickly roll out new services) to move into our industry by using

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13 Biggest Challenges When Moving Your Business To The Cloud

Source – forbes.com The use of cloud technology is on the rise, as businesses are becoming increasingly aware of the multiple benefits cloud computing can have in terms of efficiency and profitability. Whether it’s private, public, hybrid or a mix of various cloud computing models, the technology is now used by at least 70% of U.S. organizations, according to IDG Enterprise’s 2016 Cloud Computing Executive summary. The figure is expected to grow further, as 56% of businesses surveyed said they were

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3 Git hooks for continuous integration

Source – atlassian.com If you’ve used Git for a while, you’ve probably heard of Git hooks. Maybe you’ve even played around with them a bit. Git hooks are awesome in the context of continuous integration, so in this article I’ll dive into three use cases and point you to ready-made hooks you can add to your workflow. If you’re new to Git hooks, no worries: we’ll start with the basics. Understanding Git hooks Hooks are Git’s native mechanism for triggering custom

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Zombies Are Muttering “Agile”, “DevOps”, “Containers”, “Big Data”, and “Microservices”

Source – technologyconversations.com DevOps is the word of the year. Everyone speaks about it, and many are hoping to apply it, even though most are confused what it truly means. Inquiring about DevOps does not seem to help. If you speak with a software vendor, he’ll tell you that all you need to become DevOps ninja is to purchase his product. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Docker, Terraform, Packer, Jenkins, Nexus, Git
 Every software vendor seems to have a DevOps sticker attached to

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4 steps to continuous development and positive organisational change

Source – anatas.com.au Continuous delivery is a software development approach that involves implementing small but frequent improvements to a product based on user feedback. It’s a methodology widely favoured over less responsive, more traditional methods. Rather than trying to build a final complex piece of software without knowing whether anyone will use it, continuous delivery allows customers to engage with versions that are still a work in progress. Any feedback can then be looped back and corrections made sooner, more frequently and with less

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DevOps: Using Ansible to deploy Cacti for network monitoring

Source – opensourceforu.com Cacti is written in PHP and uses the MySQL database as a backend. It uses the RRDtool (Round-Robin Database tool) to handle time series data and has built-in SNMP support. Cacti has been released under the GNU General Public License. Figure 1: Licence agreement Setting up Cacti We will use a CentOS 6.8 virtual machine (VM) running on KVM to set up Cacti. Just for this demonstration, we will disable SELinux. You will need to set the following

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