If you read DevOps blogs today, it can be easy to assume that Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are synonymous terms. People often use them that way. But that’s a mistake. As an example of conflation of the terms CI and CD, take this page, which purports to be a “history of CI/CD […]
21 DevOps and Docker Reference Architectures
When building DevOps or continuous delivery (CD) practices relying on Docker, you can learn a great deal from others. Reference architectures reveal what choices people made, what practices they put in place and how they connected the dots. We at Sonatype pulled together a set of 21 reference architectures for folks building CD and DevOps […]
The ‘Continuous’ Illusion
Continuous delivery is an illusion. That doesn’t make it insubstantial—illusions can have a tremendous impact. Like the first motion picture: the locomotive felt so real to first audiences that they fell from their chairs, screaming. But of course, the locomotive was an illusion, merely rushing past on screen. A good magician, like a good inventor, […]
The Big Shift: The State of Continuous Delivery
I wanted to call out a new report that we have just released here at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud. The State of Continuous Delivery: The Big Shift by George Hulme, contributing editor here at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud. In this report George takes a look at the current state of Continuous Delivery and how it is helping to transform software development […]
DevOps Chat: Steve Hazel, Sauce Labs
I recently had the chance to sit down and speak with Steve Hazel, CTO and co-founder of Sauce Labs. With so much being written and talked about the role of quality assurance (QA) and testing in a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) world, it is good to hear from someone like Steve who is an actual […]
Managing Your DevOps Releases Efficiently
The Top 5 Things You Need to Know When Selecting a DevOps Release Management Solution DevOps is a modern software delivery movement that encompasses agile principles and encourages automation in application delivery. Why adopt it? It allows teams to reduce errors due to manual steps and break down silos between teams to improve communication and […]
7 Reasons to Move to Parallel Testing
While development operations are more scalable now than ever, there is one area that continues to constrain the ability of organizations to scale: functional testing. Most organizations still rely on sequential tests to deliver quality assurance. No matter how rapidly a business can produce great products, its ability to bring them to consumers quickly is […]
State of DevOps Report: Reaping Results
The newly released 2016 State of DevOps Report concludes that DevOps is “no longer a mere fad or buzzword,” but rather an established set of practices and cultural patterns. Yet, a closer look at this year’s findings reveals progress is far more substantial than any matters of perception. The report was conducted and analyzed by […]
Trusting Continuous Delivery
DevOps, continuous delivery and the pipeline for faster software development are fundamentally different from traditional software development. It’s such a different approach and a different culture that it can take some time before Dev and Ops teams embrace and trust it—a necessary step for DevOps to make progress in any organization. By mixing containers and […]
How Continuous Delivery Challenges Security
Security and continuous delivery each have implications in their effects on each other. While continuous delivery can demand new security measures, traditional security can slow continuous delivery or simply not address its security needs at all. Micro Case Study Clarifies Security Conflict Amrit Williams, now CTO of CloudPassage, shares an experience that exemplifies the challenges […]