DevOps lessons learned from the field: People, process and technology

Source:-jaxenter.com Two years ago, I sat in an OpenShift Container Platform boot camp to better understand container technologies. During our break, the instructor asked if we had read the yellow book, and I wondered what the shuffling around the room meant. Someone had gotten up to the front of the room to pull the book out of their bag. “Yeah, I’m reading it now.” “Good, you should all read this book,” the instructor announced. He called it the bible of

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Closing the DevOps and database gap

Source – sdtimes.com Security isn’t the only aspect overlooked in a DevOps approach. According to Robert Reeves, co-founder and CTO of Datical, a database automation company, database deployments are often forgotten about. “Pushing out the application is the easy part of DevOps,” he said. “It is managing and automating database changes that is the real challenge.” According to Reeves, the database deployment process is often slow, error-prone, and resource intensive because a lot of companies are still doing it manually; but

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DevOps will kill DevOps, ultimately

Source – computerweekly.com DevOps, as we know, is the portmanteau coming together of Developers and Operations to create an amalgamation of cultural philosophies, working practices and technology tools designed to make software application development more Agile and less painful. So what’s the goal of DevOps, ultimately? If DevOps comes into existence inside any given software application development shop, then how does it exist in the long term? Eternal DevOps Is good DevOps an established long term connection between Developers and Operations that pervades for

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