“Continuous” is one of the operative words of DevOps. A major goal of DevOps is to make all processes continuous, which means having them proceed smoothly and constantly to avoid delays or pauses within the software delivery process. You’ve probably already heard of the importance of continuous integration and continuous delivery. But the importance of […]
What is Cloud-Native Workload Protection?
We’re living in a cloud-native age. That means that many of the paradigms that worked in the days of on-premises hosting no longer suffice. Chief among them is security. To thrive in today’s cloud-native world, organizations need to rethink their approach to workload protection and bring it up to speed with cloud-native environments. In this […]
DevOps and Networking: Working to Achieve Nirvana
Enterprises don’t own the cloud, just the experience. If there’s an outage or even a hiccup in the performance or network service, it’s on the network and application teams (not the cloud provider) to fix it. But often with problems in the cloud comes finger-pointing, as network and application teams look to determine liability and […]
DevOps Chat: OPA and the CNCF, With Torin Sandall
The Open Policy Agent (OPA) was accepted for incubation by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. In this DevOps Chat we spoke with one of the founders of the project, Torin Sandall, about OPA and why the CNCF is the right place for OPA. We also discuss the company he works for, Styra, which works with […]
Wavefront Provides Map for Microservices
VMware announced it is adding a service mapping capability to the Wavefront 3D Observability platform it provides with the Wavefront by VMware monitoring tools. Stela Udovicic, senior director of product marketing for Wavefront, said Wavefront Service Maps will make it easier for IT organizations to visualize what will soon be thousands of microservices running highly […]
Guess Who’s Coming to JFrog swampUP?
The annual DevOps gathering and JFrog user conference, swampUP 2019, is going to be here before we know it. It’s happening June 17-19 in San Francisco, providing easy access for everyone (it’s just 30 minutes away from SFO airport). What’s swampUP? For the thriving DevOps community, swampUP is the must-attend event where developers, engineers and […]
Effective Cloud Security Requires a Cloud-Native Mindset
Thousands of developers and cloud security professionals will fill the Moscone Center in San Francisco next week for the sold-out Google Cloud Next ’19 conference. Three days of breakout sessions and keynotes will immerse attendees in deep technical content and opportunities for hands-on learning. It’s all designed to help organizations embrace the cloud. A key […]
Can DevSecOps Prevent a Zombie Apocalypse?
Making consistent progress within any DevSecOps initiative often can be an overwhelming undertaking. Developers tend to outnumber operations dramatically, with little to no security accountability. This leaves DevSecOps doomed to work with the same network security stack that was originally designed decades ago for on-premises environments. Still, the expectation is to support shrinking deployment cycles […]
Distinguishing Between Cloud Washed and Cloud Native
Don’t fall for the marketing jargon: Running legacy infrastructure on a cloud instance is not actually cloud computing. Unfortunately, “cloudwashing” is common among enterprises as they attempt to jump on the cloud trend. So, how do we dispel the hype to distinguish pure cloud software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and […]
Twistlock Releases Cloud Discovery Open Source Tool for Cloud Native Services
A simple, powerful way for audit and security practitioners to discover all ‘unknown unknowns’ across cloud environments PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Twistlock, the leader in container and cloud native cyber security, today announced the release of the open source Cloud Discovery tool. Cloud Discovery gives enterprise infrastructure, operations, and security teams the ability to easily understand and […]