Learn how Open Policy Agent (OPA) transformed go/no-go releases from subjective meetings into automated, auditable, policy-driven decisions embedded directly in the CI/CD pipeline.
Building a Platform for DevOps Evolution, Part Two
In the introduction to this series, we discussed the concept of change and how it applies to DevOps environments and release managers. In a world of constant changes in our surroundings and user demands, DevOps has to maintain hundreds of moving pieces across large organizations of people who, by nature, are adverse to change. This […]
Plutora Enhances VSM Platform with Release Insights
Plutora has enhanced its value stream management (VSM) platform to provide dashboards that enable DevOps teams to better optimize application delivery. Jeff Keyes, vice president of product marketing and strategy for Plutora, said dashboards added to the platform will make it possible for application release managers to leverage predictive analytics to manage application delivery in […]
Don’t Underestimate the Work
It is relatively common in human endeavor to attempt to figure out how much work will be involved in a project, and be wrong. The more complex the work being done and the organizational system doing it, the further off estimates can be. This was one of the drivers for both Agile and DevOps: to […]
appOrbit: End-to-End Hypercloud
As cloud and DevOps have heated up, enterprise need for cloud portability and deeper DevOps integration have become pretty clear. The need for portability to avoid cloud lock-in has been a desire of enterprise cloud users from day one. A variety of people are attempting to address this need, but the market is still very […]
Configuration Management vs. Application Release Automation
There are many areas of Development and Operations toolchains that are clear to understand and compartmentalize. CI/bBuild, source control, artifact repositories, log management, APM and others each are relative easy to comprehend what they do and what tools are available within each area. There may be debates about whether Git is better than Subversion, AppDynamics […]