A question I am asked frequently about DevOps – and a perennial challenge to all DevOps slide artists – is what exactly we mean by the idea of ‘closing the feedback loop’ Q. What do you mean when you mention ‘closing the feedback loop’? Ops monitor our systems today, and alert devs when they are […]
Right-Picking the First Project to Go DevOps On
One of the hardest things to do when starting a new initiative is picking the right project to work on. Should I start with App A? App B? Does it really matter as long as I get started on this DevOps thing and prove its value to management? Yes, actually, it might. If you think about […]
Enterprising DevOps in Banking sector
“Shift left” is common in project life cycle management where the risks are mitigated early in the cycle by involving QA team early in the planning & development phase. In the IT support systems, shift left empowers support staffs with enough tools, processes & knowledge base so that the issues get resolved at a point […]
Ensuring security and managing risk in enterprise DevOps
Today’s question in this recurring series comes from a developer in a typical large enterprise – risk averse, tightly controlled, highly secured – a major challenge to any DevOps transformation: Q. I work in a large government department that is tight on security. We have strict policies on separation of duties, can’t share users IDs […]
My Little Operations: DevOps is Magic
Bear with me, it will all make sense in the end. If you aren’t familiar with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (because you don’t have a child who watches it over and over and … well, over) let me sum up for you: There’s a pony who knows something horrible is coming. She […]
Encouraging a ‘big picture’ view of enterprise DevOps
Welcome to the latest post in a series where I answer some of the many questions on how to approach an Enterprise DevOps transformation at scale. Human issues continue to pop up – not surprising, as people and culture are at the heart of DevOps. This next question asks how to encourage a ‘big picture’ […]
Provisioning versus Configuration Example
A few weeks back I wrote about the difference between configuration and provisioning noting, primarily, that there are differences between the two tasks. It remains an important distinction to make because it’s really where the rubber meets the road (or the app meets the network) where it becomes important. As the infrastructure/network side of the […]
Being Agile is all about controlling the flow
For businesses, Agile is the new fashionable initiative as was E-business was in the 2000’s, Six Sigma was in the 90’s and Total Quality Management (TQM) was in the 80’s. If we look back across the spectrum of these initiatives, we need to examine how many of these initiatives met the goals the business was […]
Specialists vs. Generalists for Enterprise DevOps
Welcome back to the staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud series, ‘Enterprise DevOps Q&A.’ I have a backlog of Q&A in store, but don’t let that stop you sending in more! If I can’t answer them myself, I will try to find someone who can. For this post, I was recently asked about the challenge that large enterprises are facing […]
Making DevOps Work in Complex Enterprise Environments
Welcome back to the staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud series, ‘Enterprise DevOps Q&A’. Remember, if you have specific questions about Enterprise DevOps, let me know and I will try to answer them for you. Today’s question is: Q. In large enterprises, there are always environmental differences. From public cloud to internal hosting, from virtual desktops to legacy and mainframe […]
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