Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has become a hallmark of quick software release life cycles. Nowadays, many teams support CI/CD pipelines for their software, offering a repeatable pathway to build, test and deploy code. A CI/CD pipeline is necessary to support an iterative, rapid deployment approach—yet, maintaining one is not an easy task. Enter […]
Unified Enterprise DevOps Platforms Eliminate Bottlenecks
Nearly all enterprise digital transformation projects include moving software to DevOps processes and platforms. The effort, cost and time it takes to be successful with these transformations depend on a lot of factors, but one thing stands out: as indicated in my white paper Unified Enterprise DevOps Platform Why? How? And What?, “An enterprise with many […]
Armory Offers Framework to Extend Spinnaker
Armory, provider of a curated instance of open source Spinnaker continuous delivery (CD) software, is making generally available an open source plugin framework for any instance of Spinnaker. Announced this week at its online OPEN CORE SUMMIT, the framework has already been employed to create 15 plugins for Spinnaker, including an observability tool from Armory […]
Copado Adds Value Stream Management to Salesforce DevOps Platform
Copado, a provider of a DevOps platform for building applications that extend software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications from Salesforce, this week announced it has added value stream management capabilities. Andrew Leigh, chief marketing officer for Copado, said providing a platform that accelerates the development and deployment of application code is no longer sufficient. The winter 2021 release […]
JFrog Sets Future Course Post-IPO
Another milestone in the march toward mainstream adoption of best DevOps practices was reached this week, with JFrog becoming a public company. JFrog CTO Yoav Landman said the funding that the provider of a continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform is receiving from investors is a clear vote of confidence in DevOps. The next major DevOps […]
Solving the DevOps Dilemma in the COVID Era
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing businesses to double down on DevOps transformation initiatives across the enterprise, pushing companies to be more agile and implement software changes throughout their organization at a much faster rate. However, too many IT departments rely on older, complex processes to approve software changes coming from DevOps teams and simply cannot […]
Five Attributes of a Great DevOps Platform
As we move toward 2020, the expectations are high, the software industry is moving faster and the demand for rapid and continually improving digital experiences have raised the standard. To match the needs and demands of the market, firms around the world are embracing the DevOps culture to ensure and streamline the development, packaging, testing, […]
JFrog Delivers on Hybrid Cloud Promise for DevOps
JFrog announced the availability of what it claims to be the first available hybrid DevOps platform capable of spanning multiple clouds. Dror Bereznitsky, chief product officer for JFrog, said the JFrog Platform integrates a range of DevOps tools within the context of the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform that the company previously developed, with the […]
Cybersecurity Fears May Drive Shift to Managed DevOps
Should organizations consider using a managed service for DevOps to keep their platforms up to date and secure? The recent disclosure of a vulnerability that would allow open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms to be employed to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack highlights how challenging it is to secure the […]
CircleCI Achieves SOC 2 Compliance for DevOps Platform
CircleCI has achieved a SOC 2 compliance rating for the DevOps platform it makes available via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Tad Whitaker, security manager at CircleCI, said CircleCI is the first provider of a SaaS platform for DevOps that has invested the hundreds of thousands of dollars required to achieve SOC 2 compliance. SOC 2 […]