Benefits and Drivers of Full-Stack Monitoring

Source – devops.com As organizations undergo digital transformations, there is increasing need to modernize the way IT operations is managed and to deliver applications faster, while at the same time delivering business value by managing applications’ availability, performance and outages in a cost-effective way. Because outages have a huge impact on revenue, there is a growing demand for site reliability people and monitoring systems, which can enable them to handle applications’ uptime, performance and reliability with a proactive and predictive monitoring

Making the Database Key to DevOps

Source – devops.com The speed of business today demands that the development and deployment of applications is fast-moving, with frequent yet error-free releases. That’s why the adoption of DevOps is trickling down from Amazon, Facebook, Google and the other usual suspects to every company that relies on technology to drive its communications or sales with users. The database is now entering the picture, too, because when front-end applications are changed, there often needs to be a change at the back end

June 21, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps Improving Outcomes through Improved Business Processes

Source – digitallearning.eletsonline.com There has been a lot talked about artificial intelligence and automation however, not much has been written about DevOps, which is a software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops), says Anand Sahay, CEO, Xebia, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN). Why is there a need for courses in DevOps? Digital has completely changed the way people want to do business today. It is forcing businesses to adopt digital technologies and

June 21, 2018 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

Cloud-Computing Service, a Security Risk or Security Benefit?

Source – techshout.com As dozens of cloud-based IT management software solutions pop-up promising various perks and discounts, one would probably question the validity of cloud-based software as an option. Is it a higher security risk to develop your business to be ‘on the go’ but prone to hacking? Or is the flexibility of cloud-based software the future of the IT business management industry? Here are a few points to consider in gauging the growing trend and its possible dangers and benefits.

June 20, 2018 bestdevops Cloud Computing, Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

What Can the Cloud Do for DevOps?

Source – devops.com The cloud has enabled DevOps to grow and expand well beyond traditional boundaries set forth by on-premises production environments. With Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other cloud services providers, DevOps devices are intended to speed advancement by empowering engineers to change, test and push code in a computerized design. This enables organizations to create and send administrations and applications significantly faster than in traditional development environments. Organizations following DevOps and continuous delivery (CD) practices follow various approaches such

June 16, 2018 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps adoption lagging, MSPs can step in

Source – channelnomics.com DevOps adoption is still at a crawl, pointing to space for MSPs to step in and provide high-value service, according to research solution provider 2nd Watch released this week. A survey of over 1,000 IT managers and directors in companies with at least 1,000 workers by Seattle, WA-based MSP 2nd Watch this week points to the vast majority of organizations not gearing up for DevOps practices. DevOps, as 2nd Watch defines it, is the practice of operations and development engineers working

June 16, 2018 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

Why DevOps development depends on continuous testing

Source – techtarget.com To reap the full benefits of DevOps — quicker releases of high-quality software — successful organizations know they must introduce continuous testing throughout their software delivery process. The test phase cannot exist as an independent step at the end of a development cycle. Continuous integration and continuous delivery often spur this realization — these practices serve as the foundation for a successful DevOps approach. What IT leaders and their teams often don’t realize, however, is that the key to the proper

June 15, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

DevSecOps: Embedding a Security Practice into your DevOps Approach

Source – devops.com It’s a no-brainer that the element of security cannot be compromised even to the smallest of extents in today’s competitive, fast-paced, modern technology-driven IT infrastructure. However, to keep up with the rapid developments of other processes in this agile world, security is often given relatively less importance and in some cases, even left behind. As the term suggests, DevSecOps is primarily concerned with the incorporation of security in the DevOps pipeline. The intended primary function of DevSecOps is

June 15, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

5 Steps to Put a Faltering DevOps Plan Back on Track

Source – informationweek.com DevOps encompasses a set of practices that automate and streamline processes between software development and IT teams, enabling organizations to build, test, and release software faster and more reliably. That’s the goal, anyway. But what happens when a DevOps initiative doesn’t meet an organization’s anticipated goals or, worse yet, actually begins exerting a negative impact on software development? That’s when it’s time to go back to the virtual drawing board and steer the initiative back onto its planned course.

June 14, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

DevOps requires a fresh approach to security

Source – itworldcanada.com DevOps originated from the need/desire to break down the silos between development and quality control. The need to be more agile, to continuously produce and deliver code in a quick, iterative approach, while maintaining quality. The developers became accountable for the quality of code that went into production. When practiced properly, agile development is an efficient approach that allows for constant upgrades and feature releases, while maintaining code quality. However, security has still remained a tack-on afterthought. Enter

June 12, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Puppet Report Sees Long DevOps Journey Ahead

Source – devops.com A recent report published by Puppet suggests the level of DevOps maturity within most organizations is still relatively slight. In fact, most of the respondents reported high levels of manual work still occurring across configuration management, deployment, testing and change approval processes. Alanna Brown, director of product marketing for Puppet, said the “State of DevOps: Market Segmentation Report” makes it clear that DevOps is being embraced to solve specific pain points with specific IT departments. As a result,

June 12, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Why DevOps Is Your Key to Becoming a Digital Entity

Source – informationweek.com I’ve been working with a lot of organizations that are in full-swing with their “digital transformation” initiatives. They’re doing virtualization, cloud, better security, and focusing on improved user mobility. From there, you can throw in a bunch of other market trending words like AI, machine learning, and you’ve got some pretty impressive things down on paper. Sound familiar? It’s quite possible that you’re in your own process to “digitize” your organization. However, a major challenge over these years

June 11, 2018 bestdevops Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration, DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Reflect adds color to Puppet DevOps tools

Source – techtarget.com Data visualization specialist Reflect enlivens the growing Puppet DevOps tool portfolio, but it’s unclear if Puppet’s wares will catch enterprise customers’ attention in a busy marketplace. The purchase of Reflect, a startup company based in Portland, Ore., shows that Puppet has little choice but to reinvent itself as containers pull users’ attention away from traditional configuration management, analysts said. Data visualization, a way to portray data so that it’s easily understood by people, will also be increasingly important

June 11, 2018 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Securing DevOps Without Undermining It

Source – itbusinessedge.com Everybody wants to do DevOps right, and part of that equation is making sure applications and services remain secure even as development and integration transition to a continuous workflow model. But chaos, even the controlled chaos of DevOps, poses a particular challenge to security. It opens up too many attack vectors and introduces too much uncertainty into what is now a very staid, stable data environment. When everything, even infrastructure, is defined and managed as code, security requires

May 26, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Forget the DevOps mindset, and change habits and behaviors instead

Source – techtarget.com People talk about the DevOps mindset. They say it’s a way of thinking, as if DevOps is only achievable if you use the power of your mind. And if people don’t think in a certain way, then DevOps will remain elusive. That may be partly true, but I’m not very good at reading people’s minds. Most people aren’t. Habits over DevOps mindset The reality is there is no DevOps mindset. DevOps is a series of behaviors and habits that people have.

May 24, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

DevOps at Scale: Best Practices in Use Today

Source – informationweek.com IT professionals in the field discuss some of the best practices that help to make DevOps initiatives successful. Achieving the theoretical benefits of DevOps in practice can be hard. Plus, while much DevOps focus is on mobile, web and internal apps, it is also being adopted in many larger scale and often electronics-based projects, involving complexity, volume and compliance. We asked some of the companies we’ve been working with about their DevOps experiences and they have three stand-out

May 18, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps is a culture, but here’s why it’s actually not

Source – techtarget.com When we heard about DevOps for the first time, some of us imagined it was a buzzword that would disappear like many a hipster phenomenon. The fact that we still talk about DevOps every day and have for more than five years, proves it is not just a buzzword, but a necessity for the software industry. What’s hard about DevOps is its adoption. Even as many companies have become DevOps unicorns, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Netflix, others continue to

May 18, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

4 Bad Habits DevOps Administrators Fall Into

Source – devops.com The concept of DevOps is central to any organization’s ability to deliver applications and services quickly and efficiently. As it gains traction in many high-profile organizations, DevOps administrators must work to integrate DevOps practices, tools and techniques into a wide range of teams, from development and support to operations and management. Completing this implementation seamlessly leads to better productivity and a smoother overall workflow. Bad Habits Derail DevOps But along the way, administrators tend to fall into bad

May 17, 2018 bestdevops Cloud Computing, Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

Software development slow because ‘Most of our ideas suck’

Source – theregister.co.uk If you want a vision of the future of software creation, imagine a boot process spinning up a server, forever. Speaking at Continuous Lifecycle London* on Wednesday, Mike Roberts, co-founder of consultancy Symphonia Cloud, employed less Orwellian terminology for tomorrow: continuous experimentation. Perhaps you’ve heard of continuous delivery, the trending software engineering practice that aims to accelerate development cycles while making them simultaneously speedy and boring. Continuous experimentation takes that a step further by reducing development cycles to

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