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How DevOps can help businesses during COVID-19

Source:-pcquest.com PCQuest, in association with Datamato and IBM, held a live webinar on the theme of “DevOps As a Key Differentiator” to give businesses a guided tour on how DevOps and Cloud Adoption can become a key differentiator for BFSI and Retail sectors during Covid-19 crisis. Sunil Rajguru, Editor, PCQuest, said that this current crisis presents an opportunity for businesses to embrace digital technologies to ride through the crisis and prosper. The live webinar was well-attended and participants got detailed

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Why container-management platforms are on a 30% a year growth spurt

Source:-telecomtv.com In an attempt to overcome management challenges associated with the adoption of agile development methodologies, organizations are using container-management platforms, spurring the market to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30 percent from 2018 through 2023, according to Omdia. The adoption of cloud-native technologies using a microservices architecture is increasing the agility and flexibility of organizations by enabling the delivery of more frequent changes to meet the demands of businesses. This utilization of a microservices architecture

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Thycotic DevOps Secrets Vault Now Provides Just-in-Time Access to Cloud Platforms with Dynamic Secrets

Source:-prnewswire.com Thycotic, provider of privileged access management (PAM) solutions to more than 10,000 organizations, including 25 of the Fortune 100, today revealed a new just-in-time functionality that ensures security of cloud platform access. The new release of Thycotic’s DevOps Secrets Vault solution supports dynamic secrets creation for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platforms Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (Azure) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Managing privileged access to IaaS platforms According to IDG, almost two-thirds, 61%, of companies use platform-as-a-service (PaaS), 89%

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Docker partners with Snyk on container image vulnerability scanning

Source:-siliconangle.com Software container company Docker Inc. said today it’s teaming up with the British cybersecurity startup Snyk Ltd. to provide what it said is the first native vulnerability scanning service for container images. The companies said they intend to create a more streamlined workflow that will secure the application development process for millions of developers who work with Docker containers. For the first time, developers will have continuous security integrated with their preferred container tools, ensuring greater agility and productivity

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Why is Enterprise Kubernetes Important?

Source:-containerjournal.com Ahead of the Enterprise Kubernetes SKILup Day happening May 21, Chief Ambassador for the DevOps Institute, Helen Beal, polled the group of DevOps Ambassadors on why Enterprise Kubernetes is important. To read about the insightful contributions from DevOps practitioners all around the world, check out the listings below. Helen Beal DevOps Institute Ambassador from Chichester, England “DevOps ways of working demand we reduce our batch size so that we can quickly build and test and receive feedback on our

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Beyond infrastructure: Turning cloud computing into concrete, measurable benefits

Source:-venturebeat.com It might seem odd to give advice on cloud adoption at this point in the hype cycle. After all, much of the industry considers public cloud a settled area with established practices and success stories. Surely there’s more than enough advice to help newcomers plan and execute their cloud transition? Despite all the available information, I still see organizations struggling along the way on their cloud journey. Many well-intentioned cloud migration programs sputter and stall in their attempt to

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How to Scale Microservices CI/CD Pipelines

Source:-devops.com As opposed to a traditional monolith, microservices architecture can theoretically bring many benefits. Microservices decouple software elements, enable reusable components and allow independent development cycles. However, in practice, microservices are prone to many issues. or example, teams accustomed to a traditional monolithic build process may find it difficult to reshape their established practices. Furthermore, as the number of microservices increases into the hundreds, managing separate CI/CD pipelines for each service becomes untenable, especially as DevOps components aren’t always optimized

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DevOps improve code quality, but security must happen sooner

Source:-computerweekly.com GitLab survey finds developers are adopting DevOps to improve code quality, but more needs to be done on secure coding. The annual GitLab survey of over 3,650 software professionals has reported that more than one-third (35%) are new to DevOps. Just under one-fifth of the software developers surveyed said they have been using DevOps for a year or less, and a further 20% said they have been practising it for over five years. According to GitLab, about 27% are

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Desktop As A Service (DaaS) Market Technology Advancement 2020- KEMP Technologies, Vmware, Amazon WorkSpaces, Citrix XenDesktop, BigAir

Source:-heraldwriteup.com The report titled “Desktop As A Service (DaaS) Market” has recently added by MarketInsightsReports to get a stronger and effective business outlook. It provides an in-depth analysis of different attributes of industries such as trends, policies, and clients operating in several regions. The qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques have been used by analysts to provide accurate and applicable data to the readers, business owners and industry experts. Top Key Players: KEMP Technologies, Vmware, Amazon WorkSpaces, Citrix XenDesktop, BigAir, Cisco,

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Kubernetes Autoscaling Explained – Top 3 Methods

Source:-securityboulevard.com One of the strengths of Kubernetes as a container orchestrator lies in its ability to manage and respond to dynamic environments. One example is Kubernetes’ native capability to perform effective autoscaling of resources. However, Kubernetes does not support just a single autoscaler or autoscaling approach. In this post, we discuss the three forms of Kubernetes capacity autoscaling. 1. Pod Replica Count For many applications with usage that varies over time, you may want to add or remove pod replicas

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Cisco Aligns With Google to Meld DevOps and NetOps

Source:-devops.com The extension of a partnership between Cisco Systems and Google to drive tighter integration between their respective software-defined wide area network (SD-WANs) offerings and cloud platforms promises to accelerate the convergence of NetOps and DevOps. John Apostolopoulos, vice president and CTO for Intent-Based Networking Group at Cisco, said in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic it’s clear more organizations will be employing SD-WANs as an alternative to virtual private networks. Many of those SD-WAN deployments, however, will be on

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Why injecting security into DevOps is a no-brainer

Source:-techbeacon.com Despite a significant uptick in awareness of DevOps security issues, many companies aren’t on top of the software development security challenges they face, and must rely on outside teams to handle their software security program. Surveys show that there is significant resistance to company-wide DevSecOps implementations, and that many managers view incorporating security standards into DevOps processes as a roadblock to agile software delivery. Why the negative attitude toward DevSecOps rollouts with so many software managers? For starters, many

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A Terraform Registry tutorial to build and share modules

Source:-searchitoperations.techtarget.com Before IT teams share Terraform modules through the tool’s public registry, they must familiarize themselves with these prerequisites and technical steps. Software development encourages code reuse through reusable artifacts, such as libraries, packages and modules. Most programming languages enable developers to package and publish these reusable components and make them available on a registry or feed. For example, Python has Python Package Index and PowerShell has PowerShell Gallery. For Terraform users, the Terraform Registry enables the distribution of Terraform

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What your DevOps team needs to know: 4 lessons from exploited vulnerabilities

Source:-techbeacon.com In March 2019, an online intruder discovered that cloud storage used by financial giant Capital One suffered from a vulnerability in the firm’s application firewall and storage servers, allowing the attacker to send commands from one to the other. The exploitation of the vulnerability—an issue known as server-side request forgery (SSRF)—resulted in the leaking of sensitive personal information on more than 106 million individuals in the United States and Canada. Capital One had misconfigured its web application firewall, failing

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Redis and Microsoft to deliver Redis Enterprise as integrated tiers of Azure Cache for Redis

Source:-helpnetsecurity.com Redis Labs announced a new strategic agreement with Microsoft Microsoft to deliver Redis Enterprise as new, fully integrated tiers of Azure Cache for Redis. The new service offering, available in Private Preview, will unlock the power of Redis for Azure customers’ mission-critical workloads through advanced, enterprise-grade functionality, including Redis on Flash, modules, and, in the future, the ability to create an active geo-redundant cache for hybrid-cloud architectures. “We are excited to partner with Microsoft to bring Redis Enterprise to

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N4Stack unveils Azure Service Tiles ensuring customers and easier move to the cloud

Source:-helpnetsecurity.com N4Stack, the division of Node4 which brings together the database, DevOps and cloud practices to provide a range of enterprise consulting and managed services, has announced the launch of Azure Service Tiles. This new product suite will allow customers that are both new to Azure, and those that have already begun their move to the cloud, to have a smooth transition and a best practice approach to adopting Azure in-line with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). Driven by

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From pair to p-AI-r programming: Kite floats paid-for spin of its GitHub-trained code autocomplete assistant

Source:-theregister.co.uk Too lazy to type out Python? But not too tight to pay $20 a month? Kite will today launch a subscription-based coding assistant that tries to help programmers craft stuff quickly and efficiently. Founder and CEO Adam Smith told The Register his San Francisco upstart has spent more than six years developing a product that is, essentially, autocomplete for source code. Over that time, Kite has amassed about 250,000 monthly active users for its free version known as Kite

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Microsoft and Redis Labs collaborate to give developers new Azure Cache for Redis capabilities

Source:-azure.microsoft.com Now more than ever, enterprises must deliver their applications with speed and robustness that matches the high expectations of their customers. The ability to provide sub-millisecond response times, reliably support the demands of enterprises from small to large, and scale seamlessly to handle millions of requests per second are critical to modern application development. At the same time, technology solutions need to be more open and flexible to handle cloud native architectures while maintaining mission-critical uptime and reliability. Microsoft

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GitLab Positioned in the Niche Players Quadrant of the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing

Source:-globenewswire.com Evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute as an application security testing provider SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GitLab, the single application for the DevOps lifecycle, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner in the Niche Players quadrant of the 2020 Magic Quadrant report for Application Security Testing (AST). GitLab was one of eleven vendors evaluated in the report. This is GitLab’s first year placed within the Magic Quadrant report for AST.

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NearForm: What’s next for Kubernetes?

Source:-computerweekly.com Kubernetes is a fast-evolving toolset, with a growing capability to deliver speed and agility in how enterprises deploy, scale and manage their applications. Kubernetes is going serverless There are some fundamental changes on the way for Kubernetes… and one of them is that it’s going to go serverless. It’s happening already in AWS with Fargate, the serverless compute engine for containers that works with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). At the moment, a

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