I realize it is traditional to start writing a new blog with some background and a deep introspection as to the author’s personal motivation for writing said blog, but I’ve never been one for tradition. Thus, for my first official DevOps post, I think I’ll jump write in with a technical tutorial on a problem […]
So, you wanna DevOps?
How do you start your career in DevOps? How do I shift my team to use those approaches? This is a question I run into more and more frequently. Either while speaking to candidates, or among colleagues looking to move their IT operations into a more devops aligned culture. I want to look at that […]
DOCKERCON 2014
Registration and call for papers are now open for DockerCon 2014! DockerCon is a two-day Docker-centric conference organized by the team at Docker Inc. We’ll have speakers talking about Docker, DevOps, operations and development. Our talks will include topics that will interest Developers, SysAdmins as well as C-level executives. The conference will start with general session with keynotes in the mornings, untill 11:00am, followed by three […]
Why Baking Security Into the DevOps Framework is Vital to Its Success
I attended my first official DevOps conference in Israel in September 2013. But I was initially introduced to DevOps by my customers – firewall and network managers who, through their efforts to automate security policy management, found themselves dealing with a new and like-minded set of IT stakeholders – DevOps teams. They said DevOps was […]
Improving Communication Through Autotmation
One of the great traits of an organization that adopts DevOps principles or even just an Agile methodology is that everything, and I mean everything, is more dynamic. While each company will have a different level of fluidity in their processes, Clip Interactive’s source control and deployment processes are very fluid. As such, we attempt […]
DevOps: It’s All Open Source’s Fault
Blame DevOps on open source. After all, it was the open source movement that gave developers the idea that they were free to code, free to build applications and other software for their companies without needing prior approval. It was open source that crowned developers kingmakers. It was open source that gave developers the freedom […]
You Can’t Sell DevOps
A few days ago, I made an introduction for colleague Jason Dixon (@obfuscurity) over email, and described Jason as “a leading supporter of the DevOps movement”. A mere 17 minutes later, Jason replies to me, “Are you trolling me?”. I was aghast. Granted, I haven’t known Jason terribly long (measured in months), but I’ve been […]
Changing Organizational Culture – A Sweaty Use Case
When we think about changing organizational culture our immediate reaction is usually – yeah right, go fight city hall – and we take the Homer Simpson route, and don’t even bother trying. Over the course of the last year, I managed to achieve what felt like an impossible change within my organization, and I took […]
DevOps – A wake up call to security vendors
DevOps is changing the way IT works. Through a collaboration of development and IT teams, organizations can achieve tremendous scale at increased speed to deploy and maintain critical applications and infrastructure. The key technologies of virtualization and configuration automation have made this possible. Without these technologies, development may not slow down, but deployment would slow […]
The Fourth Seat at the IT Service Velocity Table
Agile. Devops. SDN. Development. Operations. Network. Notice anything missing? How about security? On the one hand, that could be because we’ve finally managed to realize that security is an integral part of every aspect of IT and it’s by default embraced by the other three groups already. I’ll pause while you stop laughing and catch […]