We know that continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become a DevOps best practice. And many have learned that by adding continuous testing (CT), they can create a virtuous loop, ensuring perpetual code quality and security. They’re not wrong. Yes, testing continuously is good practice, but some incorrectly equate the concept of continuous with […]
Raise Those (Feature) Flags
I’ve written about feature flags before, but I think it’s time for a solid bit of advice: “If you are not yet using feature flags for DevOps, it is past time to reconsider.” I say this because feature flags have been a slow-growth item, with a few spikes here and there in usage, but mostly […]
It’s a Toolchain!
I was talking with some friends the other day, and we got to discussing how inaccurate the word “toolchain” is. We pundits–and even a lot of marketers–use the word toolchain regularly and, while it’s not a terrible encapsulation of what we’re doing, it is, at best, a hasty generalization. There are a lot of reasons […]
Cloud: Why Must We Be Confusing?
When I was a kid learning to play Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the concept of level was never confusing—though the authors should have seen that it very well could be. For those unfamiliar, D&D has many uses of the word level—character level, caster level, spell level, dungeon level and, increasingly, as time went on, monster […]
DevOps for Salesforce: CI/CD Challenges
DevOps encompasses a wide variety of technical and social practices for improving the development, delivery and operation of IT systems. Salesforce has become more than a CRM system; it evolved into a full-featured ecosystem and a low-code platform that made development far simpler and more approachable than traditional code-based platforms. Cross-functional teams build on Salesforce […]
Next Up: Portable CI
One thing that we’re very good at in IT is breaking new ground, coming up with ideas that work astoundingly well, getting broad adoption, then standardizing them for interoperability. When a new technology (looking at you, cloud) has problems with standardization and interoperability, we find a way around vendors’ reluctance to give you freedom of […]
Harness Acquires Drone CI Project
Harness announced it has acquired Drone.io, creator of the open source Drone continuous integration (CI) project. Company CEO Jyoti Bansal said Harness, which provides a continuous delivery (CD) platform delivered as a service, will offer Drone to organizations that want a CI platform alongside a CD service from a single vendor. However, Harness will also […]
Weighing the Cost of Improper DevSecOps
Simply put, data breaches are terrible news for companies. And, the costs associated with such attacks continue to escalate. A recent IBM-sponsored report found an average price of 3.92 million per breach. Not adapting security automation and vulnerability scanning into development pipelines could have a drastic effect not only on cost but workload efficiency and […]
GitLab Expands Scope of DevOps Ambitions
GitLab, with the release of its 12.0 update, is extending the reach of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to include both cybersecurity professionals and traditional IT operations staff. John Jeremiah, senior product marketing manager at GitLab, said the goal is to provide organizations with a single CI/CD platform that unifies the management of […]
CloudBees Allies with Atos to Accelerate DevOps Adoption
In a move that should accelerate adoption of best DevOps practices in the enterprise, CloudBees and Atos announced this week that the two are collaborating to advance adoption of continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platforms on the Google public cloud. Announced at the Google Cloud Next 2019 conference, the alliance will result in the IT services […]
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