ChatOps helps DevOps teams streamline communication by executing workflows directly in chat. Learn the benefits, use cases, and best practices for enterprise ChatOps adoption.
CTO.ai Launches SlackOps Tool for DevOps
CTO.ai has launched SlackOps, a platform for managing DevOps workflows in real-time via the Slack communications and collaboration service. Company CEO Kyle Campbell said many DevOps teams are embracing Slack to share updates with one another. SlackOps takes that preference for DevOps a step further to enable complex DevOps processes, also known as ChatOps, to […]
The Role of Bots in DevOps
DevOps has evolved from its infancy into a mainstream focus area for a majority of CIOs. DevOps has become a main focus and has been shaping the world of software and infrastructure engineering and operations for the last few years. Some of the key DevOps trends include: DevOps assembly lines automation. Smart, actionable alerts from […]
Smashing the (DevOps) Stack for Fun and Profit
Most organizations that I deal with have a similar story for the promulgation of DevOps in their data center. The story is similar for bringing in most new technology and techniques: A team that usually does a new project without any attachments—relatively small compared to projects at the center of the business—adopted DevOps from the […]
Implementing ChatOps Using Open Source Tooling
ChatOps is an exciting proposition for organizational Ops communication. Throwing development and operational tooling into the chat conversation can ease the development pipeline, increase transparency and increase security by streamlining bug detection and remediation efforts. At the heart of ChatOps are bots, scripts and chat clients; many are pre-built and open source. In this article, […]
6 Must-Haves When Using Chat for Incident Management
Over the last few years, teams have realized the benefits of sharing and distributing knowledge in chat applications such as Slack. Today, teams are extending the use of these applications beyond collaboration by embracing ChatOps. ChatOps empowers teams by bringing complex day-to-day operational work into shared chat channels. If done correctly, it drastically reduces context […]
AIOps: Managing the Second Law of IT Ops
Or, why IT systems keep breaking The tension between the two halves of DevOps is long-standing, going back long before the term was even invented. What underlies the split between Development and Operations is a fundamental difference, like an actual physical law. Let’s explore that analogy together. IT Ops is fundamentally a constant fight against […]
From Waterfall Incident Management to Collaborative IT Operations
What can Ops learn from Dev in the transition from sequential, reactive IT support to real-time DevOps? One of the signature ideas of DevOps is right there in the name: the blurring of the boundary between the historically separate worlds of Development and Operations. On the face of it, this seems like a great idea. […]
ChatOps: Has the Fat Lady Already Sung?
One of the sometimes unsung stars of the DevOps scene is ChatOps. I have heard lots of folks use the term, but what does it really mean to you? ChatOps is a phenomenon that started, perhaps not surprisingly, inside of GitHub. It was only natural that developers leveraging the repository to share and build better […]
Automation, ChatBots Can Improve DevOps
At its heart, the goal of DevOps is to foster better communication between the development team and operations team at an organization. When these two teams are systematically connected, they can easily stay in sync on most issues and there is strong coordination in building and delivering the product to customers. Automation and ChatBots can […]