“What’s in a name?” wrote the greatest Bard who ever lived. All I can say is, he lived in simpler times, when DevOps and the confusing world of continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD), CI/CD, the other CD, application release automation (ARA), pipelines, assembly lines, etc., didn’t exist. The biggest challenge today is that vendors […]
How To Fully Automate CI/CD – Even Secrets
Imagine a world where your continuous integration/continuous deployment environment is 100 percent automated, including the passing of credentials. Capital One, a leading U.S. bank, has achieved this, and Andrey Utis, director of Software Engineering at Capital One, outlined how the company achieved this in his talk, “Application Secret Management with KMS,” at the All Day DevOps […]
Patrick McClory on Building Successful DevOps Organizations
Patrick McClory has been writing code, managing DevOps and designing scalable application infrastructures for more than 10 years. Most recently, as COO and CTO of DualSpark, he served as an expert Amazon Web Services consultant, helping clients capitalize on the benefits of cloud architecture and design with modern and innovative software, infrastructure and automation strategies […]
CircleCI Injects Workflow Flexibility into CI/CD Platform
Nobody likes to be told how to get a specific task or job done. In fact, it’s arguably that very sentiment that holds backs adoption of DevOps processes inside many IT organizations. Aiming to provide IT organizations with a more flexible approach to DevOps, CircleCI has updated its continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) software […]
Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment
I am often asked, “if we are using a continuous integration (CI) server and adopting a continuous delivery pipeline, where does continuous deployment fit in?” Good question. In a nutshell, continuous delivery engines such as CloudBees or Blue Ocean are designed to trigger the execution of CI workflows across the dev, test and prod environments. […]
SauceCon Speaker Profile: Shivani Sharma, Slack
Just Say No to Flaky Tests: Releasing Code with Confidence Shivani Sharma doesn’t like anything flaky—unless it’s baked goods. Shivani is senior engineering manager at Slack, working on test automation for Slack’s iOS, Android and web applications. An avid baker, Shivani thinks flakiness should stay in the kitchen. Although “flaky” is a common adjective describing […]
All Day DevOps: Capital One Gives Credit Where It’s Due
Listening to his talk, it seems as though George Parris and his team at Capital One aren’t keeping “banker’s hours.” George is a Master Software Engineer, Retail Bank DevOps at Capital One. At the All Day DevOps conference, George gave a talk, titled “Meta Infrastructure as Code: How Capital One Automates our Automation Tools with […]
Moving That Big Project to CI/CD
Any organization that has been around for more than a few years (and many who haven’t) have a massive system that would cost a fortune to replace. Most midsized enterprises have several of them. Those systems are one of the reasons that enterprises don’t adopt CI/CD at the same rate as startups. Sure, any new […]
ShiftLeft & DevOps: A Narrative Within a Narrative?
I procrastinated watching the season finale of “Westworld” just because I ended up reading a day later how Dolores ended the episode! I don’t know who to blame: my inquisitiveness or that guy who couldn’t hold himself. It kind of feels stale when you know the ending. Finally, I finished weeding through the multiple narratives […]
Get Ready to Become a Full-Spectrum Engineer
The more things change, the more they stay the same. In software development, change has been a constant. I’ve been a software engineer for more than 25 years and have had to morph, pivot and learn new things to remain current and in demand. Plus, the industry swings like a pendulum between the need for […]
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