“DevOps Got Me Through It” – Organizations all around the world went through an overnight digital transformation due to a worldwide pandemic and the shift to remote work. The businesses that embraced DevOps methodologies were able to pivot much faster with their digital strategy, allowing them to drive innovation, speed and adaptability, while providing greater […]
Securing Immutable Servers in a Serverless World
Snowflakes are beautiful, unique creations. But, let’s keep them in nature. They don’t belong in our server infrastructure. Snowflake servers, where every configuration is just a little different, can introduce unnecessary security vulnerabilities and complications. While common in IT infrastructure, in the DevOps realm they are gradually becoming ancient history. At All Day DevOps 2016, Erlend Oftedal (@webtonull), […]
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 […]
Integrating ARA into traditional RM
Application Release Automation (ARA) is terminology that includes several DevOps constructs from a singular, application-centric point of view. In essence, ARA implies the automation of a single app from build through deployment (even if that deployment is to production). Of course, embedded or implied in that automation terminology is build automation or construction; deployment automation, […]
The DevOps Scorecard
Mid-last year our team switched from doing Agile to doing DevOps. As we forayed into the journey trying to learn about DevOps and practice it at the same time, a lot of questions arose in the team. How was this different from agile and most importantly How were we going to be successful? That’s when we […]
Closing the Deltas Between Development and Production
Who hasn’t heard the classic statements “It works on my machine!” or, “Man that would have been easier with real data!”? In either case, had the development happened in production, problems would have been avoided! Fortunately, in a DevOps world, the walls between production and non-production get broken down making the reality of developing and […]