March 31, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Application Testing is Making a Comeback for Agile DevOps Teams

Source – business2community.com “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges.” In the classic film, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, this line was spoken by a group of bandits who clearly didn’t need law and order on their side. Today, one could easily picture a different type of bandit that has been disrupting application development and coding, uttering something very similar. “Testing? We don’t need no stinking testing.” Yep, for a few years now, it has seemed like agile developers and

March 30, 2018 bestdevops Agile, DevOps Leave a comment

Advice and tips about DevOps for beginners

Source – techtarget.com Brand new to DevOps? Here’s our get started guide If you or your organization is brand new to DevOps it might feel as if you’ve traveled to a foreign country. Nearly everything you thought you knew about software development, deployment, testing, security and UX is altered when seen through the DevOps lens. DevOps for beginners really isn’t for the faint of heart, but with advice, time and patience, you’ll get there. For developers, the move to DevOps requires

March 30, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps survey highlights complexity and culture worries

Source – betanews.com Top barriers to DevOps adoption include stagnant organizational cultures and managing a jumble of legacy processes. A new survey of DevOps and IT professionals from sandbox software company Quali finds 22 percent of respondents cite organizational culture, 21 percent legacy processes, and 20 percent growing software complexity as their top concerns. Other worries include the lack of standardized mechanisms for continuous testing (13 percent); managing the setup, tear-down and automation during different stages of the DevOps lifecycle (13

March 29, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Common DevOps Myths and Misconceptions

Source – informationweek.com For those who think that DevOps is a one-off project or simply a set of tools, check out why those and other beliefs are myths. Business leaders across industries know that accelerating speed to market is more than a goal, it is a survival skill. Sony CEO, Kazuo Hirai, succinctly described the pressure many executives feel, especially in the tech sector: “We need to execute with faster speed, which means effective decision-making, effective execution.” While many industry

March 29, 2018 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

PolarSeven Achieve AWS DevOps Competency

Source – prnewswire.com PolarSeven, Accelerate Your Cloud Automation, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) DevOps Competency status. This recognises that PolarSeven provides proven technology solutions and deep expertise helping customers: implement their continuous integration and continuous delivery practices automating infrastructure provisioning and management with configuration management tools on AWS Achieving the AWS DevOps Competency differentiates PolarSeven as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member that provides specialized demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success with a specific focus

March 28, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, Software Leave a comment

What is the right storage software needed for DevOps to be a success?

Source – information-age.com A major operational problem in on-premises enterprise data centres has emerged over the past 10 years. This is rearing its head as a fundamental mismatch between the infrastructure and the needs of increasingly virtualised applications. There is a major contrast between what organisations want their staff to focus on – strategic projects, new application deployment, new customer acquisition and releasing new products – and the things they end up spending too much time on. This includes infrastructure ‘plumbing’

March 27, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps Today: What Does It Mean to You?

Source – informationweek.com DevOps is moving forward. Is your organization coming along for the ride? As DevOps becomes ever more widely respected and adopted, the fundamental concepts driving the approach are rapidly evolving and improving for the better. The latest DevOps iteration is BizDevSecOps, which aims to introduce a “whole company” approach to deriving business value from IT. “One of the best aspects of DevOps is really its bringing of Lean and Agile principles together, so it’s a continuous improvement process,”

March 26, 2018 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

GitLab 10.6: CI/CD for GitHub, increased Kubernetes support

Source – jaxenter.com DevOps without CI/CD is like trying to build a house out of popsicle sticks. Sure, it can be done, but oh man, are you making your life harder than it needs to be. So, the fact that GitLab, one of the most popular Git-repositories on the internet, still didn’t support CI/CD with GitHub has been something of a thing. Now, that problem is gone forever with GitLab 10.6. GitLab’s popular built-in continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment

March 24, 2018 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

Four common barriers that impede DevOps at scale

Source – computing.co.uk The software producers that report the best performance across a variety of metrics are those that release code most frequently. So says Rob Vanstone, technical director at continuous delivery vendor XebiaLabs, speaking at the Computing DevOps Summit this week. The aim then is to iterate faster. The problem for large organisations is how to reduce the software delivery lifecycle at scale. “What we see is teams starting to do pockets of innovation, typically scripting, typically automation and then saying ‘hey,

March 23, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

DevOps Security Watch: Three Trends To Track In 2018

Source – informationsecuritybuzz.com In the face of incessant competition, countless organisations are turning to DevOps to improve efficiency and accelerate innovation. While this approach delivers proven benefits, DevOps is also creating new security risks and reviving old ones. That’s because these very organisations are failing to adequately train or develop staff to implement best practice in security, leaving them vulnerable to both internal and external threats. At a time when managing their security portfolio effectively is crucial, many are unwittingly introducing

March 23, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Sonatype Nexus Named Best Open Source DevOps Tool

Source – globenewswire.com Sonatype, the leader in open source governance and DevSecOps automation is proud to announce that Nexus Repository has been named Best Open Source DevOps Tool by Computing at the DevOps Excellence Awards 2018. The distinction was announced on March 21 in London at the DevOps Excellence Awards gala where Computing recognized outstanding achievements from organizations, personalities and solutions operating within the DevOps space. “Nexus Repository has become a defacto standard within DevOps toolchains worldwide and is simply the

March 22, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

DevSecOps Needs Less Hype, More Adoption in 2018

Source – scmagazine.com “Development, operations and security are fundamentally intertwined. A well-designed, developed and managed system is the foundation of a secure system. DevOps must evolve to a new vision (that) balances the need for speed and agility of enterprise IT capabilities with the enterprise need to protect critical assets, applications and services.” Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald wrote those words back in 2012 when he and colleague Cameron Haight introduced the concept of DevSecOps – the seamless integration of security experts,

March 21, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Firms need to move from DevOps to DevSecOps, says expert

Source – computerweekly.com DevOps delivers proven benefits in terms of business agility, but it can also create new security risks and revive old ones, according to a DevOps specialist. Risk is the result of organisations failing to train or develop staff adequately to implement best practice in security, said Elizabeth Lawler, vice-president of DevOps security at CyberArk. “This failure leaves organisations vulnerable to both internal and external threats,” she told Computer Weekly. At a time when managing their security portfolio effectively

March 19, 2018 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

How Dev and Ops Can Work Together for Continuous Delivery

Source – informationweek.com Your organization has created a DevOps group, embarked on a journey to implement Agile methodology, and has been working towards continuous delivery. But have you really examined what that all means? Have you thought about the fact that you will be making one of the most difficult changes that can be made in an organization — a cultural change? This year the pair will appear together for the first time on a conference stage at Interop ITX 2018

March 19, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Making progressive (web apps) rock for DevOps

Source – computerweekly.com Kinsbruner wants to uncover the mechanics behind an application stream being called Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and examine why the could be the next big thing. Firmly of the opinion that PWAs are hailed as a means of pushingt the mobile web forward, Kinsbruner reminds us that they can potentially bring parity to web and native apps, while also providing mobile specific capabilities to web users. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Google came up with the term itself and PWAs are seen

March 16, 2018 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

DevSecOps tools maturing, much to the relief of DevOps developers

Source – theserverside.com Ensuring the software an enterprise deploys is secure and ensuring that there are no software vulnerabilities in the applications an organization produces have always been an inexact science. But in this age of DevOps, more pressure than ever is being placed upon the shoulders of the typical software developer, creating a need for DevSecOps tools that will reduce the DevOps developer’s burden. Low-level, programmatic security has always been a software developer’s responsibility, but best practices have always demanded

March 16, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

6 DevSecOps best practices: Automate early and often

Source – techbeacon.com Organizations that want to integrate security into their DevOps pipelines should adopt tools and practices that unite application development, IT operations, and security teams under a common DevSecOps rubric. The goal is to make security part of the software development workflow, rather than bolting it on later in the cycle, as has been the case with waterfall development models. This shift is upending traditional notions of how, when, and where security controls should be integrated into software, and

March 15, 2018 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps Tech Trends to Look Out For in 2018

Source – fluxmagazine.com DevOps is something that more businesses are using to boost the technology they offer to clients. In 2018, DevOps Tech is highly likely to play an even greater role in the creation and testing of new tech, but what will the trends for this year be? We take a look at what could happen in the coming months. Reliance on the Cloud So how does DevOps work? Cloud computing and DevOps are both playing major roles in how

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