GitHub Alternatives: The Benefits and Drawbacks of 4 GitHub Rivals

Source:-itprotoday.com There are several GitHub alternatives that provide all of the core functionality of GitHub, but may be better development choices. You can barely mention Git without mentioning GitHub. For many developers, GitHub is the go-to solution for managing coding projects. But the fact is that, despite GitHub’s massive market share and mindshare, GitHub is only one of several platforms that provide a Web-based interface for using Git. Why might you choose from among the GitHub alternatives that are available? Let’s take a look at

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DevOps firewall: How pre-configuring your cloud deployment can ensure compliance

Source:- helpnetsecurity.com Following the recent massive Capital One data breach, it’s clear that even some of the world’s largest and most respected companies working in the cloud are still vulnerable to compliance and security issues. In this case, federal prosecutors charged a Seattle woman with stealing more than 100 million credit applications. As the details of the attack became public, the Capital One AWS environment came under scrutiny. It’s now accepted that the attack vector the hacker took began with

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Why democratising DevOps capabilities is the only way to stay ahead today

Source:-itproportal.com Today, a self-service platform and automation are key to accelerating and enabling effortless app deployment on demand. My son plays tennis on his high school’s varsity team. While he doesn’t play at a professional level, he’s had every opportunity to learn the skills and techniques of world-class athletes, using the same equipment that they use today. Over the years, tennis rackets have evolved from large, heavy pieces of solid wood to ultra-light and flexible man-made materials like graphite. It’s

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Kubernetes platform from Red Hat gets updated

Source:-appdevelopermagazine.com Red Hat Inc., has announced Red Hat OpenShift 4.2, the latest version of Red Hat’s trusted enterprise Kubernetes platform designed to deliver a more powerful developer experience. Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 extends Red Hat’s commitment to simplifying and automating enterprise-grade services across the hybrid cloud while empowering developers to innovate and enhance business value through cloud-native applications. Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 aims to make cloud-native technologies easier to use and more accessible for developers via capabilities that automate the set-up and

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Build a DevOps toolchain that’s efficient and effective

Source:-searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com Is it possible to create a DevOps toolchain that meets the needs of developers, IT operations teams and business staffers? Here’s how to devise a strategy. Organizations that want to build a DevOps toolchain have an unprecedented number of products to evaluate. This process can be daunting for a business that wants to build a toolchain that is both comprehensive and efficient. Capabilities sought in a DevOps toolchain can include integrated development environments, repositories, CI/CD, code review, release orchestration,

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Extending CI/CD: Kubernetes Continuous Deployment for Microservices

Source:- jaxenter.com In a cloud native world enamored with microservices and serverless, meet Quarkus – Java’s brilliant response to technologies like Node.js, Python and Go that had proven quicker, smaller and arguably more nimble. Donload your free beginner’s tutorial written by JAX London speaker Alex Soto.In part one of this tutorial, we learned about the basics of Docker and Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD). We used CI/CD to build and test a Java Spring microservice application, and the end result was a ready-to-deploy

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DevOps Security Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Source:- securityboulevard.com DevOps is helping organizations develop software faster. DevOps is a software development approach that utilizes the Agile methodology to integrate and streamline the development and operations process. The result is a faster and more efficient development process.  The downside of DevOps is that the fast pace it promotes doesn’t cover security. The solution is to include security protocols and practices across the DevOps pipeline. If you’re interested in adopting the DevOps approach, read on to learn about the challenges

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Masters of Puppet say: There’s no magical one-size-fits-all answer to doing DevOpsery

Source:- theregister.co.uk Puppetize PDX 2019 Despite standing squarely in the path of the GitLab juggernaut, DevOps automation outfit Puppet is betting that a one-size-fits-all approach will end up fitting nobody particularly well. While the company extolled the benefits of picking the best tool for each job in the DevOps chain to the 400 attendees at the company’s Portland Puppetize PDX event, across the Atlantic GitLab were cheerfully listing its platform’s targets (including Puppet) in its drive to create a single DevOps application.

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PTC CIO: 4 lessons from our DevOps journey

Source:- enterprisersproject.com IT chief Abbas Faiq shares DevOps lessons learned, from change management to training, on PTC’s road to faster software releases DevOps isn’t a new adventure for us at PTC. We first started our DevOps journey about four years ago with a team that was primarily focused on release management, software deployment, and automation of these two functions across the development team. We started early, but I wouldn’t say we crossed the finish line with that first iteration. We incorporated some

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AWS’ open source entreaties now include cloud credits

Source:- searchaws.techtarget.com AWS is offering an olive branch to the open source software community through the issuance of promotional credits that developers can use in conjunction with its cloud platform. AWS has ramped up its public efforts around open source through sponsorships, more code contributions and by open sourcing some of its own technology, the company said in a blog post. Now it has expanded its existing promotional credit program to open source projects. “Typically, these credits are used to perform

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Red Hat beefs up Kubernetes and cloud-native tools with latest OpenShift release

Source:-fiercetelecom.com Red Hat on Wednesday announced it has added new developmental tools and automation capabilities to its latest version of OpenShift. OpenShift 4.2 is aimed at speeding up the development of cloud-native applications that are based on Kubernetes. The new bells and whistles on OpenShift are also a counter of sorts to VMware’s announcements this year that it was buying Pivotal Software, which it already owned a stake in, to bolster its Kubernetes war chest. OpenShift 4.2 was designed to

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Puppet to start pulling a few strings in the cloud-native world with Project Nebula

Source:- theregister.co.uk Public beta for new shiny, plus many Tasks make a Plan in upcoming Enterprise 2019.2 Puppetize PDX DevOps darling Puppet took to the stage at the company’s Portland Puppetize PDX shindig yesterday to whip the covers off Project Nebula, before giving us a sneak peek at an updated Puppet Forge and a preview of Puppet Enterprise 2019.2. Puppet, which prides itself in putting the C and D in CI/CD is best known for its automated deployment toolset, aimed at

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Talend Cloud is Now Available on Microsoft Azure

Source:- dbta.com zTalend, a provider of cloud data integration and data integrity, is releasing Talend Cloud on Microsoft Azure, offering a secure and scalable Integration Platform-as-a-Service for collecting, transforming and cleaning data. With embedded data quality and native integration performance, Talend Cloud on Microsoft Azure delivers the trusted data companies need to make real-time business decisions, accelerate advanced analytics, and meet regulatory compliance requirements.   Talend Cloud is optimized for Azure and also provides support for multi-cloud and hybrid environments

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What is CI/CD?

Source:- techrepublic.com The new Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery software development life cycle promises serious improvements for enterprise companies. The traditional Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model goes something like this: Planning Implementation Testing Documentation Deployment and maintenance Maintaining The SDLC model has been used for years and it has served the industry well. However, with the advent and widespread usage of containerized applications, the old model doesn’t really work all that well. Why? Speed. One of the main benefits of containerized

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How To Make Continuous Security Work For You

Source:- forbes.com Accelerating app release cycles is a top challenge for organizations in the cloud-native era. The most competitive companies are shipping software in minutes, which means developers are creating code at speeds never seen before. Those on the production side of this rapid software release cycle have to manage these new software updates with a continuous production pipeline that never stops. This approach calls for continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), enabling engineering teams to ship software to

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Tailor and create compliance rules with this AWS Config tutorial

Source:-searchaws.techtarget.com Get started with this guide to AWS Config rules. Learn how to customize AWS Config managed rules with CloudFormation and create new rules with AWS Lambda. There’s more to AWS Config than just out-of-box rules. Most organizations have specific compliance needs and must tailor their cloud compliance rules to meet those challenges — demands that AWS Config can accommodate. In this AWS Config tutorial, we’ll walk through the different ways to customize Config rules. The first approach is to

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Docker is in deep trouble

Source:-zdnet.comIn a leaked internal memo, Docker CEO reveals the troubled company is looking for more money. Docker, the technology, is the poster child for containers. But it appears Docker, the business, is in trouble. In a leaked memo, Docker CEO Rob Bearden praised workers — despite the “uncertainty [which] brings with it significant challenges” and “persevering in spite of the lack of clarity we’ve had these past few weeks.”  Lack of clarity about what? Sources close to the company say it’s simple:

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Serverless Security Threats Loom as Enterprises Go Cloud Native

Source:-sdxcentral.com Enterprises are rapidly adopting serverless computing because of improved security as well as the need for speed and greater operational efficiency. However, as they increase their usage of serverless functions, companies must understand how this affects their threat landscape — and how to implement security measures such as runtime controls and API discovery and usage inspection, according to a new Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) study that looks at how organizations are securing cloud-native applications. Application security company Data Theorem commissioned the study, Security for DevOps –

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Portshift Moves to Secure Microservices

Source:-containerjournal.com Portshift this week added a Policy Advisor control interface that enables organizations to identify the most efficient and secure connections that can be made between microservices based on containers. Zohar Kaufman, vice president of research and development for Portshift, says the extension to a platform that enables organizations to create a zero-trust application environment by assigning identities to applications also makes the Portshift Cloud Workload Protection Platform applicable to emerging cloud-native applications. Any communication between microservices that is not specifically allowed

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Bridging the Gap Between Security & DevOps

Source:-darkreading.com An inside look into the engineering mindset of DevOps from the vantage of a career security professional. Last month, I had the eye-opening experience of attending my first pure-play DevOps conference, DevOps World, put on by CloudBees. Inconveniently one week after Black Hat, the conference could not have been more dissimilar. Suffice it to say it was a significant learning experience for a career security person. I learned about security through the eyes of DevOps engineers, many of whom spoke candidly

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