Organizations need to innovate at speed. As software has become increasingly critical to business outcomes, delivering high quality changes quickly has become a competitive necessity. With rapidly changing applications has come a dynamic, programmable infrastructure that can meet changing business needs in the blink of an eye. In a word: Cloud. But how do development […]
CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins – CloudBees
We are happy to announce the next staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud Webinar, in partnership with CloudBees : CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins Delivering value to the business faster thanks to Continuous Delivery and DevOps is the new mantra of IT organizations. In this webinar, CloudBees will discuss how Jenkins, the most popular open source Continuous Integration tool, […]
Electric Cloud’s ship.io tackles mobile continuous delivery
As increasingly more organizations run into unique challenges around extending the continuous delivery development model to mobile applications, vendors are coming out of the woodwork to start helping organizations revamp their mobile build and test infrastructures accordingly. This week, Electric Cloud tossed its hat into the ring with the beta release of ship.io, a new […]
Three essential elements to maximize business value with DevOps
DevOps is fast becoming the winning strategy needed to accelerate the continuous delivery of exceptional software without sacrificing quality and cost efficiency. With its focus on better communication, collaboration and feedback within and across development and IT operations, DevOps is gaining many fans – even in the business, where performance is seen as being directly […]
Removing the Wall Between Dev and Ops
Welcome to the new staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud Q&A series on Enterprise DevOps. In the first post in this series, I answered five key concerns for adopting a DevOps approach in a large enterprise. Now, I want to address a more specific question from an admin at a large enterprise about the silos and barriers between dev and […]
staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud sponsors FlowCon
staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud is happy to be a media sponsor of FlowCon this year. FlowCon is a popular event held in San Francisco that focuses on lean product development, continuous delivery, lean UX, and (our favorite) DevOps. From the show producers: FlowCon brings together technologists and industry leaders passionate about innovation through lean product development, continuous delivery, lean […]
The Continuous Delivery Pipeline — What it is and Why it’s so Important in Developing Software
Continuous Delivery (CD) is a software strategy that enables organizations to deliver new features to users as fast and efficiently as possible. The core idea of CD is to create a repeatable, reliable and incrementally improving process for taking software from concept to customer. The goal of Continuous Delivery is to enable a constant flow […]
How to Find Your Continuous Delivery Rhythm
This article is a part of a series of pieces on digital innovation, accelerating change and the rise of the coded business from innovators in the Chef community. In this article we present an interview with Jez Humble, Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks, on digital innovation. Focusing on speed and scale allows you to respond more rapidly to […]
Revolving door of IT employment threatens continuous delivery
As the IT job market heats up following a long lull, enterprises will increasingly need to cope with the difficulty of maintaining operational continuity in the face of personnel churn. Whether the revolving door agitates the employee pool for developers or operations staff, the length of time necessary to off-board departing IT staffers and on-board […]
DevOps: Getting Past Audit
New business processes (and technologies) too often throw auditors into a tailspin. It’s no one’s fault, really: the decision making on what IT and process controls that need to be in place moves slow – and it is the tail to the rapidly moving technology dog. In fact, while there is no way a standard […]