February 11, 2020 bestdevops Continuous Delivery Leave a comment

Analyst Watch: 5 steps to master continuous delivery

Source:-sdtimes.com Melissa is a technical professional in charge of application development for a large manufacturing organization. In the past few months, she’s had to make some changes to promptly meet the demands of the customer and the business — including regularly updating applications with user feedback and responding to new shifts in the market and changes to business strategy. Melissa realizes she needs to develop continuous delivery, a software engineering approach where teams constantly produce valuable software in short cycles

February 8, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Retail software firm takes broad view of Kubernetes security

Source:-searchitoperations.techtarget.com Kubernetes platform security has supplanted container-level security for enterprises such as retail software vendor Aptos as they deploy microservices in production. Kubernetes security has become the focal point for protecting cloud-native workloads among enterprises as they deploy containers and microservices in production. Initially, container security specialists such as Aqua, Twistlock and StackRox focused on scanning container images within the DevOps pipeline, then added container runtime scans for live production environments through agents deployed on individual hosts. More recently, however,

February 8, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Dynatrace deepens AIOps ties with Kubernetes monitoring

Source:-searchitoperations.techtarget.com Dynatrace has expanded the number of metrics it can feed into its Davis AIOps engine from Kubernetes infrastructure, thereby enhancing autoremediation features for container workloads. Dynatrace has sharpened its Kubernetes monitoring tools and brushed up its ability to apply AIOps to the container orchestration platform, in response to further growth in cloud-native application development among enterprises. Dynatrace’s AIOps engine, Davis, now collects metric data from the Kubernetes API and Prometheus time-series monitoring tool about Kubernetes clusters, including pods, nodes

February 8, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

The top 5 DevOps trends: What being mainstream means to your team

Source:-techbeacon.com The past year was a landmark in terms of DevOps adoption. According DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), 2019 saw the pool of “elite” performers in DevOps practices triple. “For the last year or two, we’ve heard from several industry analysts that DevOps has ‘crossed the chasm,’ and now our data supports that,” said Nicole Forsgren, founder of DORA and head of the Research and Strategy Group for Google Cloud, about the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. In short,

February 7, 2020 bestdevops GitHub Leave a comment

GitOps Basics: Developers Are Gitting Into Deployment

Source:-securityboulevard.com The DevOps revolution has provided us with quite a few trends and buzzwords to experiment with. One of the most popular is GitOps, that term introduced by Weaveworks, echoing through practically every hall in the latest San Diego KubeCon, and its recaps. Over the past year or two, I’ve seen GitOps described as a strategy, a paradigm, a set of practices, a workflow, and even as a science. I’ve heard that GitOps is for developers dealing with Kubernetes cluster

February 7, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

3 problems DevOps won’t fix

Source:-enterprisersproject.com DevOps offers plenty of efficiencies, but it’s no guarantee of business success. Here are three common challenges that require more than just a solid DevOps strategy DevOps has been around for more than a decade now, and for companies that aspire to be cloud-native, its benefits are clear: shorter lead time for changes, more frequent production deployments, and greater efficiency in managing failures and recoveries. But for all the contributions that DevOps has brought to software engineering, it’s not

February 7, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Securing DevOps Environments Is Key, Public Key Infrastructure, to Be Precise

Source:-cbronline.com DevOps teams are by their nature dispersed Beginning as something of a countercultural trend adopted by a few forward-thinking enterprises, DevOps has since moved into the mainstream as speed and automation have begun to play more prominent roles, writes Tim Callan, Senior Fellow at Sectigo. Tim Callan Tim Callan According to Gartner, around 50% of enterprises today with a development function have applied DevOps in some capacity to their portfolio and now, with an ever-growing need for rapid software

February 6, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Dynatrace extends Kubernetes support, observability goes ‘full-stack’

Source:-computerweekly.com Dynatrace used its Perform conference 2020 in Las Vegas this week to announced new enhancements to its support for Kubernetes. The company’s explainable AI engine Davis now ‘automatically ingests’ additional Kubernetes events and metrics, enabling it to deliver ‘precise’ answers in real time about performance issues and anomalies across the full stack of Kubernetes clusters, containers and workloads. Dynatrace now also automatically discovers, instruments and maps heterogeneous container technologies within Kubernetes. The company says that this makes even the

February 6, 2020 bestdevops DevSecOps Leave a comment

DevSecOps: A Renewed Commitment to Secure Delivery, Part 1

Source:-devops.com Security has never been as high a priority than it is today, as companies fear they’ll be the next headline, the next victim of a data breach. Executives also worry about applications meeting the high standards of compliance–either with global regulations such as GDPR, state-oriented privacy laws or the many specific ones covering finance, health care, energy and other industries. It’s a bit of a challenge introducing new tools and processes into a longstanding software development life cycle, even when

February 5, 2020 bestdevops Cloud Computing, Microservices Leave a comment

Bell Canada Implements Cloud-Native and Microservices-based Digital Solution to Enhance Next Generation Customer Services

Source:-globenewswire.com ST. LOUIS, Feb. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX), a leading provider of software and services to communications and media companies, today announced that Bell, Canada’s largest communications company, has implemented RevenueONE, a key building block of CES20 which is Amdocs’ market leading, cloud-native customer experience suite, on Amdocs Microservices360. Building on a longstanding managed services relationship, this latest implementation further supports Bell’s commitment to champion customer experience by simplifying its retail engagement with customers. Communications Service Providers

February 5, 2020 bestdevops Application Security Leave a comment

Survey Finds Much Room for APM Improvement

Source:-devops.com A survey of 317 application owners, developers and support team professionals in the U.S. and Canada published by SolarWinds finds that while reliance on application performance management (APM) tools is widespread, most IT teams are still relying on these tools to react to events rather than to proactively improve application experience and performance. The survey finds 9 out of 10 IT professionals are making use of APM tools that are either deployed on-premises or accessed via a software-as-a-service (SaaS)

February 5, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

4 COMPANIES THAT ARE VOCAL ABOUT THEIR LOVE FOR KUBERNETES

Source:-techgenix.com Microservices has changed the face of application development. Several organizations have been experimenting with microservices for a while now and a huge number of these companies have already changed the way they develop applications. Microservices and containers are just made for each other. Containers are smaller components of an application that take lesser time to set up and use way fewer resources than VMs. Containers are also completely walled off from each other and this helps your microservices-based application

February 4, 2020 bestdevops Vmware Leave a comment

A brief history of VMware, containers and its competitors

Source:-searchvmware.techtarget.com VMware has long been synonymous with virtualization. However, with the rise of containers, the vendor has pivoted strategies to compete with the likes of Red Hat and Docker. VMware got off to a slow start in the container market, but recently, the vendor has made moves to improve its standing there. Early returns point to potential but not guaranteed gains as the market continues to take shape. Enterprise interest in containers is rising. By 2022, more than 75% of

February 3, 2020 bestdevops JIRA Leave a comment

Atlassian Extends Road Mapping in Jira

Source:-devops.com Atlassian has updated its Jira project management software for managing software development initiatives to add more capabilities to road mapping tools that teams use to share plans and update progress. Matt Ryall, head of product for Jira Software at Atlassian, said the road mapping tools first provided in Jira a year ago are now being employed by 45% of customers, making it the most rapidly adopted feature in 18 years the project management application has been around. Thus far, Atlassian reports

January 31, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

SPARKING THE GAP BETWEEN AI AND DEVOPS

Source:-nextplatform.com The term “AIOps” is getting a lot of work these days, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Massive amounts of data is coming at enterprises from all directions, not only from inside their own datacenters but also from the cloud and the edge, driven by such trends as the Internet of Things (IoT), the growing use of multiple clouds – both public and private – a proliferation of devices at the edge and applications being created and moved in rapidly increasing numbers of containers. Contained

January 31, 2020 bestdevops IT Training Leave a comment

How to Improve Cloud Native API Management

Source:-thenewstack.io APIs are now the essential building blocks of digital businesses. The advantages they offer DevOps today include: bringing new demands for organizations to create and monetize APIs and API products. maximizing application adoption and reuse across internal and external APIs. ensuring API security. supporting cloud environments that increasingly rely on Kubernetes, microservices, service meshes and CI/CD. WSO2 API Manager 3.0 helps to improve API-management capabilities while addressing both API developer and consumer requirements. Notable among all the new functions

January 24, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Consolidation This Way Comes

Source:-devops.com The merger of XebiaLabs and CollabNet VersionOne announced this week will accelerate the ongoing consolidation of providers of DevOps platforms that has been slowly gaining momentum for the better part of two years. Under the terms of the agreement, the unnamed combined company will be led by Ashok Reddy, formerly with Broadcom, CA Technologies and IBM. Current XebiaLabs CEO Derek Langone will become president of the combined company. Current CollabNet VersionOne CEO Flint Brenton is stepping down from the

January 23, 2020 bestdevops IT Training Leave a comment

Digital Transformation Isn’t A Project, It’s A Way Of Operating

Source:-forbes.com Why achieving a state of IT agility is a precondition for creating transformative business outcomes. Despite continuing to invest in digital transformation, many enterprises are not seeing the desired outcomes. A recent study by McKinsey & Company, for example, found that many companies’ cloud investments have not helped them to fully reach their transformation goals. Low angle view of man jumping over buildings against sky Digital transformation requires achieving an ongoing state of agility and responsiveness.GETTY At least part of

January 16, 2020 bestdevops Cloud Computing Leave a comment

HOW CLOUD COMPUTING WILL BE IN 2020

Source:-analyticsinsight.net Cloud computing has been a Top 3 trend in IT since it flourished with the introduction of AWS’s S3 data storage in late 2006. Its predecessor, the ASP (application service provider), was a significant spearheading innovation, yet it, by and large, was a fragile and problematic solution. It took a ton of experimentation, time, investment, testing, QA and achievement and disappointment for cloud providers to deploy solid, top-notch applications for a large number of employments. Presently it works very

January 9, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

The Year Ahead for Kubernetes and Container Security

Source:-securityboulevard.com A new study out conducted among the DevSecOps community shows that Kubernetes use is rapidly growing within the enterprise, and not just within test or development environments. As organizations try to catch their breath with the rapid adoption rate, the security community is scrambling to adapt to containers and cloud native architectures as the new normal. The Alcide Kubernetes survey queried 200 professionals from development, operations, security, and cloud architect teams. It found that 45% of companies are now

« 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 »