CircleCI has unveiled what it describes as the first package manager designed specifically to address configuration tasks involving software delivery automation. Matt Wyman, vice president of product for CircleCI, said the Orbs package manager condenses commands, executors and jobs into single, reusable lines of code that automate tasks on the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform […]
CloudBees Further Extends Jenkins CI/CD Reach
CloudBees announced it is expanding the scope and reach of its Jenkins open source continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform into the realms of compliance and serverless computing frameworks. Announced at the DevOps World | Jenkins World conference in Nice, France, a new plugin for Jenkins adds support for the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) defined […]
VMware Extends DevOps Reach via SaaS Apps
VMware, at the VMworld 2018 conference today, announced it will be delving deeper in the realm of DevOps with the launch of a continuous delivery pipeline dubbed Code Stream. In addition, VMware announced Cloud Assembly, a set of declarative tools that enable IT organizations to spin up a cloud in as little as 10 minutes […]
From Thought to Leadership
Thought leadership is a term that those of us in the industry hear a lot. A thought leader is a person who has ideas/thoughts that push the edge and brings great ideas to the rest of us. Most vendors want to be seen as thought leaders—and some do, through the agency of rocking individual employees. […]
Jump-Start Your Kubernetes Journey with JenkinsX
Containers are very quickly being adopted as the stable way of deploying services. More and more organizations are adopting immutable architecture and containers provide an excellent way to achieve that. But along with the stability comes the complexity of deployment, along with managing workload, scaling and updating. That’s in addition to having to create a […]
451 Research Report Highlights Value of DevSecOps for the CI/CD Pipeline
One of the compelling benefits of DevOps for many organizations is speed. Between breaking down silos, streamlining processes and automating routine tasks, the process of developing and deploying software can be significantly faster. A new report from 451 Research and Synopsys, however, points out the value of incorporating DevSecOps in the equation, especially with continuous […]
What Andreessen’s ‘Software’ Essay Means to Development Today
It’s been nearly seven years since Marc Andreessen’s essay, “Why Software is Eating the World,” brought to light software’s role in determining the next wave of winners and losers. Today, his essay is still relevant. The past decade saw the consumerization of IT in business. It also witnessed the shift in software consumption from desktops to […]
CI/CD and its Effects on Release Managers
The role of release management in the development of any software package has drastically changed with the introduction of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). CI/CD has made the development process more agile, and it has made the role of release management significantly more challenging. To understand and grasp the changes brought into the role […]
Building a Services and IoT Platform with DevOps, Part 3
Business needs and IoT demands are taking new dimensions in connecting millions of devices, people, process, tools and systems. With endless possibilities of creating new IoT solutions, DevOps teams are the key players who handle the challenges in successfully rolling out a IoT solution while handling the business, development, operations and infrastructure demands in the […]
3 Practical Steps to Employing DevOps
Everyone seems to be talking about DevOps but, if you are new to it, it might all seem a little overwhelming. One of the hardest things about DevOps is knowing where to begin. This is because to “do DevOps” its seems you have to suddenly start using a lot of new processes and tools at […]