Keep DevOps operations relevant in the age of code

Source – techtarget.com When I was right out of college, I actually interviewed for computer operator jobs twice. The first was an overnight shift at a hospital, starting at 10 p.m. and ending at 6 a.m. Operators had to run backup jobs, type in the command from the command line, switch tapes when the tapes filled and stuff envelopes when there was nothing to do. It wouldn’t be long until I’d see a listing of the career opportunities in IT, with

March 7, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps Futures: SREs, Re-Skilling, and New-Ops

Source – informationweek.com It’s time to ditch the phrase no-ops. DevOps gives IT the opportunity to expand their current skill sets in new roles and become better leaders by managing cross-functional teams. No, all we see are new-ops. When you think about it, DevOps is really IT’s Cinderella story. Often an afterthought and left to do the less glamorous work, IT was one day approached by a fairy tech mother called DevOps, who waved her wand to reveal what IT was

March 6, 2018 bestdevops Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

Integrate DevOps and containers with simple tool adjustments

Source – techtarget.com Organizations adopt DevOps methodologies to reduce application development time and improve code quality, consistency and security. They adopt containers for many of the same reasons. A typical implementation pulls together multiple tools for development and deployment tasks in a chain. It must be flexible enough to accommodate: different programming languages, such as C, Python and Go; application targets, both mobile and web; and diverse deployment platforms, including virtual servers, cloud services and containers. Given the ever-increasing popularity of

March 6, 2018 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

Building Open Source Security into DevOps

Source – infosecurity-magazine.com DevOps is a philosophy of IT operations that binds the development of services and their delivery to the core principles of W. Edwards Deming’s points on Quality Management. When applied to software development and IT organizations, Deming’s principles seek to improve the overall quality of software systems as a whole. This is done in part by decomposing the system into manageable components, which can be owned by teams. These teams have the freedom to quickly resolve any issues

February 27, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Rely on the DevOps methodology to avoid disaster

Source – techtarget.com The DevOps methodology is more than just a flavor-of-the-month buzzword. It’s a new way to do things that can help catapult a business ahead of the competition. Synergy between development and operations incorporates automation and monitoring for quicker development and a deployment cycle that’s designed to improve release quality and scheduling. That’s the formal description anyway. But is that really what DevOps is about? A DevOps methodology is not the solution to all IT problems, but it’s not

February 22, 2018 bestdevops Agile, DevOps Leave a comment

Why Should Agency DevOps Teams Care About Microservices?

Source – meritalk.com Until now, most Federal agencies built their computing architectures like the aging buildings that house most of their headquarters, as huge monolithic structures that are inefficient, require frequent maintenance, and are wholly inflexible. Now, companies like Red Hat are offering a new path using microservices technology, which takes huge application stacks and breaks them down into tiny, modular components that can expand or contract based on needs, eliminating waste while ensuring critical services are always available regardless of

February 16, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Democracy & DevOps: What Is the Proper Role for Security?

Source – darkreading.com Security experts need a front-row seat in the application development process but not at the expense of the business. With the advent of the cloud and DevOps, the job of implementing security has been dispersed more widely across IT. This has led to significant gains in speed and agility, but it has also created unacceptable risk for the business. For security, the pendulum has swung too far toward democracy. We need to pull it back. It’s easy to

February 16, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

From DevOps to DevSecOps: Structuring Communication for Better Security

Source – darkreading.com A solid approach to change management can help prevent problems downstream. Security has long been considered an afterthought in the software development process, with ad hoc measures typically tacked on just before release. This approach is no longer adequate in sustaining today’s expectations for rapid and reliable service. DevSecOps is emerging as a superior way to integrate security throughout the DevOps cycles, using better intelligence, situational awareness, and enhanced collaboration. It entails a solid approach to change management,

February 15, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

How cybersecurity will evolve to become part of DevOps

Source – securitybrief.asia DevOps has been breaking down business siloes and improving efficiency, but it’s time those principles were brought to cybersecurity initiatives, according to Palo Alto Networks. DevOps relies on the idea that teams should automate the tasks involved in deploying, securing, maintaining, and phasing out the processes that IT and security teams have done manually in the past. This lets DevOps teams to deliver applications and support services faster. DevSecOps is about making security principles integral to the DevOps

February 13, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

What Skills Are Needed to Excel at DevOps?

Source – itbusinessedge.com DevOps is not merely a new technology, it’s a new way of working. With both software development and IT operations melded into a single workflow, specialists in both disciplines will need to redefine their roles and their overall contributions to the finished product. And that means acquiring new skillsets. In many cases, this will involve training on the latest platforms and adapting to the latest techniques and best practices, but it will also require the development of a

February 6, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Three ChatOps examples demonstrate DevOps efficiency

Source – techtarget.com The always-connected, device-centered work environment of the future is far from the isolating, solitary experience many once feared. It’s positively chatty. The trend toward interactive collaboration environments has come to IT operations and development teams in the form of ChatOps, an alternative command interface for a diverse set of infrastructure and application administration tasks. It’s ironic that, at the moment when AOL is shutting down its iconic AIM service, enterprise collaboration platforms, such as Slack, Atlassian Hipchat and

February 1, 2018 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

A software defined network requires reinventing IT devops

Source – networkworld.com It’s common for a newly released application to have a few bugs in it. Customers may grumble, and IT service requests may increase, but life goes on and people will figure out how to work around the issues. The same cannot be said for a network software upgrade. If the network goes down, everything grinds to a halt, and service to employees and customers ceases. In the old hardware network model, an operator relied on three to four

January 31, 2018 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Analysing security solutions in cloud computing technology

Source – cloudcomputing-news.net Ever more companies are proving that cloud computing continues to be a major trend in the IT field. For instance, IDC recently predicted that spending on public cloud services would reach $160 billion by the end of this year. When it comes to security, however, the same issues and concerns persist today as they did several years ago. Take any research report which asks about organisations’ concerns with cloud migration and security is usually the number one. What

January 29, 2018 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Avoid These Common DevOps Pitfalls

Source – itbusinessedge.com Virtually everybody is interested in doing DevOps these days, but more than that, there is tremendous pressure to do DevOps right. After all, the IT landscape is littered with technologies and initiatives that seemed to promise great things but, for one reason or another, failed to deliver. When it comes to DevOps, the concept is solid – faster, more agile, development, lower costs, a better user experience – so the only thing that can really foul it up

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

7 of the best DevOps tools for 2018

Source – cbronline.com Enticed by promises of agility, cost-effectiveness and update efficiency, companies across the spectrum are embracing DevOps. Billed as the modern answer to fluid system improvement, DevOps is supposedly a smoother, faster and more cost effective software development tactic in contradistinction to the staggered waterfall or cascade approaches. Emerging out of the agility movement in software culture, DevOps combines development and operations to form practices where services systems are built for resilience and scalability, allowing engineers to deliver updates

January 23, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

7 leadership rules for the DevOps age

Source – enterprisersproject.com If DevOps is ultimately more about culture than any particular technology or platform, then remember this: There isn’t a finish line. It’s about continuous change and improvement – and the C-suite doesn’t get a pass. Rather, leaders need to revise some of their traditional approaches if they expect DevOps to help drive the outcomes they seek. Let’s consider seven ideas for more effective IT leadership in the DevOps era. 1. Say “yes” to failure The word “failure” has

January 22, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

What to do if you have a DevOps failure (and you will)

Source – techtarget.com DevOps offers significant promise for organizations seeking to better integrate business development with IT. When teams automate their processes and reduce the time it takes to test code and integrate improvements across platforms, they maximize efficiency. Automation does not, however, equate to automatic success. Creating a DevOps program is difficult — adoption has to be about more than the technology — and without the right plan and processes in place, there is a good chance you could have

January 18, 2018 bestdevops Agile, DevOps Leave a comment

How technology changes the rules for doing agile

Source – enterprisersproject.com More companies are trying agile and DevOps for a clear reason: Businesses want more speed and more experiments – which lead to innovations and competitive advantage. DevOps helps you gain that speed. But doing DevOps in a small group or startup and doing it at scale are two very different things. Any of us who’ve worked in a cross-functional group of 10 people, come up with a great solution to a problem, and then tried to apply the

January 13, 2018 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

It’s critical to create the correct DevOps team structure

Source – techtarget.com DevOps is all about breaking down barriers. That’s great, up to a point. But what happens when you break down too many barriers? How do you find a balanced DevOps team structure without going too far? These are important questions for any DevOps shop to ask itself. There is such a thing as too much DevOps. Here’s how to tell you’re approaching this natural limit. DevOps versus structure DevOps doesn’t advocate for the total erasure of structure. It

January 11, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, IT trends Leave a comment

IT ops pros predict routes to DevOps efficiency in 2018

Source – techtarget.com IT operations is a fast-moving river of change. It might bend or fork as it travels, you might go over a Waterfall, but it never doubles back. Expert IT professionals and analysts –– many of whom write tips on the tools and technologies you use every day — lay out their predictions for where IT operations is heading in 2018. Everyone expects a heavier emphasis on DevOps efficiency through smarter adoption and evolved tools and practices. Another broad

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