March 30, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

5 DevOps Trends That Demand Your Attention

Source:-rtinsights.com DevOps today plays an increasingly important role as businesses must rapidly develop, deploy, and update applications to keep pace with ever-changing customer demands and market opportunities. One of the great things about my job is that I get to go to software developer conferences all over the world and listen to people being extremely smart. When you watch enough smart talks, read enough articles, and talk to enough people trying to get stuff done on the ground, it gets

March 28, 2020 bestdevops cloud-native Leave a comment

How cloud-native app development can help future-proof your business

Source:-tahawultech.com Adopting a cloud-native strategy can provide organisations with a significant competitive advantage for many years to come, says Erica Langhi, EMEA senior solutions architect, Red Hat. The increased focus on digital transformation highlights the business advantages of change. But, due to the complexities and challenges faced in the pursuit of innovation, organisations do not always obtain real long-term value. One of the biggest challenges with digital transformation projects is that systems need to remain functional, secure, and predictable in

March 28, 2020 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration Leave a comment

Palo Alto Networks aims to secure DevOps workflows with new Prisma Cloud release

Source:-siliconangle.com Palo Alto Networks Inc. today debuted a new release of Prisma Cloud, its cloud security platform, that adds features for blocking vulnerabilities during the application development and deployment process. Prisma Cloud combines several different technologies that Palo Alto Networks obtained through a recent startup acquisition spree. The company shelled out more than $1 billion on acquisitions in 2019 alone. Palo Alto Networks is introducing a policy engine for securing continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines. CI/CD pipelines are automated workflows that

March 27, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Prisma Cloud Native Security Platform Embeds Security into DevOps Lifecycle

Source:-securityboulevard.com Palo Alto Networks is pleased to announce the latest release of Prisma Cloud, the industry’s most comprehensive Cloud Native Security Platform. This release offers DevOps and SecOps teams added visibility and security with advanced “shift left” capabilities and central CI/CD policy management, along with several other host security features and architecture improvements. These enhancements empower organizations to implement cloud security across the full DevOps lifecycle on any cloud and any stack, and ultimately unite previously divided lines of business

March 27, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

5 DevOps Trends That Demand Your Attention

March 25, 2020 bestdevops CircleCI Leave a comment

Katalon Establishes Partnership with CircleCI to Augment Go-To-Market Software Delivery

Source:-aithority.com Katalon LLC announced a partnership and integration with CircleCI to ensure a secured integration between the codeless test automation solution and the continuous integration and delivery platform, respectively Katalon LLC announced a partnership and integration with CircleCI to ensure a secured integration between the codeless test automation solution and the continuous integration and delivery platform, respectively. Katalon provides a robust cross-platform test automation solution that supports web, application programming interface (API), mobile, and desktop testing for teams with minimum requirements for programming

March 25, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Kubernetes Security: Key Factors to Consider

Source:-containerjournal.com Here are six ways organizations can increase their Kubernetes security Containers and Kubernetes adoption have been phenomenal in the last year. According to the recently published CNCF report, container adoption has jumped to 84%, with Kubernetes being adopted by 78% of respondents to orchestrate those containers. However, there are security concerns regarding containers and Kubernetes. As StackRox’s ‘The State of Container and Kubernetes Security Report 2020″ notes, Kubernetes and container security have become pain points for technical leaders and

March 24, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

The Most Logical Federal Use Cases for DevOps

Source:-fedtechmagazine.com DevOps helps agencies modernize aging applications and processes, save time, and enhance quality of life for developers. Agencies are turning to a DevOps methodology to develop applications and increase innovation but face hurdles in increasing adoption of the approach, according to a newly released white paper. The white paper from ACT-IAC, “DevOps Primer: Case Studies and Best Practices from Across Government,” notes that DevOps remains “a small pilot effort on a handful of applications” because it “usually lacks visibility

March 24, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Survey: Cloud Skills Vital to Enterprise DevOps

Source:-virtualizationreview.com The DevOps Institute has published a report on enterprise DevOps skills, finding that along with bedrock CI/CD talent, knowledge of cloud platforms and cloud environments is vital. The organization’s emphasis on worker skills is obvious from its self description as a global association committed to advancing the human elements of DevOps by equipping people with Skills, Knowledge, Ideas and Learning (SKIL). While CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) is almost synonymous with DevOps and thus was the No. 1 response from

March 23, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

To succeed in DevOps these days, go hybrid

Source:-zdnet.com Survey identifies top skills needed for the next phase of DevOps: process skills and knowledge, ability to automate, CI/CD DevOps is not just a technical undertaking, it’s a business proposition. This calls for hybrid skills that enable a more holistic view of the entire software development and deployment process. With a majority of enterprises (52%) intending to ramp up their recruiting of DevOps skills. close to two-thirds, 65%, reported having difficulties with finding these combinations of skills. building-observation-deck-world-trade-center-one-photo-by-joe-mckendrick.jpg Photo:

March 21, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Compare GitOps vs. DevOps for modern app deployments

Source:-searchitoperations.techtarget.com Despite some overlap, GitOps and DevOps differ in several important ways, especially as organizations embrace containers and application componentization. As software development tools and practices continue to evolve, it’s essential that dev teams collaborate with IT operations admins, as these admins deploy what developers design and build. DevOps and GitOps are two approaches that blur the lines between IT ops and development tasks — and while they share some common principles, they also have key differences. DevOps was conceived

March 19, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

How agile teams can get DevOps right: 6 essential steps

Source:-techbeacon.com So you’ve adopted agile. You’re holding your stand-ups, scoring your stories, doing the ceremonies the experts recommend. You’re even beginning to see the value of the agile process. You’re showing development progress in biweekly increments, including user feedback on a continuous basis, and everyone’s excited! But something feels off. It was great to start, but now your velocity is erratic. The defect list keeps growing. Testing takes longer and longer all the time. “How can this be?” you wonder.

March 19, 2020 bestdevops DevSecOps Leave a comment

Contrast Security Advances DevSecOps

Source:-securityboulevard.com Contrast Security this week added a Route Intelligence module to a Contrast Assess vulnerability assessment that automates the code scanning process. Surag Patel, chief strategy officer for Contrast Security, said Route Intelligence employs sensors in the form of lightweight agents to instrument applications so IT teams can more easily identify where vulnerabilities are located within code being developed. Those sensors allow the Contrast Assess platform to not only continuously assess applications for vulnerabilities as they are built and updated,

March 19, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Scaling DevOps for the Enterprise

Source:-devops.com Information technology has been an integral piece of the modern enterprise for multiple decades and that dependency is only growing. With digital transformation, there’s the inevitable increase in demand for new applications. As such, software development services will continue to be a vital component of the business amidst the mounting pressure to innovate and deliver. This has resulted in many organizations moving from traditional development practices to more flexible and agile methodologies. Conventional software delivery methods are also being

March 13, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

The DevOps Sweet Spot: Inserting Security at Pull Requests (Part 1)

Source:-devops.com Today’s organizations are increasingly benefiting from the modernization of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including the adoption of cloud, DevOps, Agile methodologies, containers and more. Thanks to this modernization, organizations are innovating and releasing updates faster than ever before. But these benefits aren’t without challenges. Application security arguably tops the list of challenges. Security has inherently manual bottlenecks, and is unable to keep up with the pace of automated DevOps pipelines. The result is that security is often left

March 12, 2020 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration Leave a comment

D2iQ hurries into the CI/CD space, presents Dispatch

Source:-devclass.com D2iQ has broadened its portfolio by adding newly released cloud native CI/CD platform Dispatch to its Kubernetes distribution Konvoy. The new tool, from the company formerly known as Mesosphere, aims at providing a “clear separation of responsibilities between developers and operators,” while “embracing cloud native CI/CD GitOps processes”. In Dispatch the latter simply means that configurations for pipelines and application deployment are all stored in a Git repository. To make sure that neither devs nor ops are scared away

March 9, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Managing Multi-Cloud Production Kubernetes Clusters at Brandwatch

Source:-infoq.com Brandwatch’s engineering team wrote about their experience with managing multi-cluster Kubernetes across EKS, GKE and self-managed clusters. Brandwatch runs around 150 production services across 6 independent Kubernetes clusters, which run on AWS EKS, GKE, and self-managed data centers in London. In early 2016, they started running on GKE, and found that it was a good fit for many of their services. They have automated deployments using ConcourseCI and some custom tooling, and use the nginx ingress controller for more

March 7, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Kubernetes jumps in popularity

Source:-zdnet.com The Cloud Native Computing Foundation finds in its latest survey that Kubernetes and other cloud-native programs exploding in popularity. A few years ago, if you’d heard of Docker or containers, you’d thought of shipping containers. My how things have changed! In the latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey, it found 84% of companies are using containers in production this year — up from 23% in the first survey in 2016. And what are they using to manage them?

March 6, 2020 bestdevops Ansible Leave a comment

Cumulus Rolls Out Open Source Network Automation Toolkit

Source:-sdxcentral.com Cumulus Networks today rolled out an open source toolkit that automates network testing and configuration. It uses Ansible for automation, and it helps companies deploy networks using infrastructure as code instead of configuring and managing their IT infrastructure manually. “Everyone understands the concepts of CI/CD, everyone understands the value of infrastructure as code, but they struggle to put it into production,” said Partho Mishra, president and chief product officer at Cumulus Networks. The SDN vendor has been using this

March 6, 2020 bestdevops Continuous Integration Leave a comment

D2iQ Launches Dispatch to Accelerate Continuous Integration and Delivery of Cloud Native Applications

Source:-finance.yahoo.com Cloud native platform empowers enterprises with modern GitOps processes to more efficiently build, deploy and manage application lifecycles SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — D2iQ, the leading provider of enterprise-grade cloud platforms that power smarter Day 2 operations, today announced the general availability of Dispatch, an integrated GitOps platform for rapidly building and deploying cloud native microservices-based applications. By enabling a clear separation of responsibilities between application developers and operators, Dispatch provides enterprises with the flexibility, speed and consistency required

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