The whole idea behind DevOps is automation. DevOps automates the development process by eliminating or minimizing human error. If an error occurs, the applications fail quickly so the errors can be resolved promptly on a smaller scale. DevOps and cloud-native applications complement each other perfectly. Even though DevOps offers a more efficient and faster way […]
DevOps and Security: The Path to DevSecOps
A secure DevOps is highly beneficial for organizations. However, a secure DevOps environment shouldn’t be the end goal. When it comes to DevOps security, it’s important to integrate security right from scratch, secure the entire architecture, automate the security and use this technology to test the environment and the codes and respond to concerns immediately. […]
Simplify DevSecOps with a Zero Trust Approach
There are major cyberattacks and data breaches weekly, if not daily. Each incident is unique in some way, but one element common to almost all successful attacks is trust. Whether it’s a disgruntled employee conducting an insider attack, an attacker infiltrating the network using stolen credentials or an exploit that leverages a third-party vendor or […]
appOrbit: End-to-End Hypercloud
As cloud and DevOps have heated up, enterprise need for cloud portability and deeper DevOps integration have become pretty clear. The need for portability to avoid cloud lock-in has been a desire of enterprise cloud users from day one. A variety of people are attempting to address this need, but the market is still very […]
Mesos: Security Awareness and Considerations
As regular readers know, I’ve been digging into Mesos quite a bit these days and, for the most part, enjoying the entire ecosystem that has grown up around it. There are some very cool possibilities when organizing servers into one massive platform for application (or micro-service) delivery. While there is a bit of a learning […]
HashiCorp Vault Enterprise Secures DevOps Infrastructure
HashiCorp, a DevOps infrastructure company known for its Atlas platform that combines a variety of powerful open-source tools, recently announced Vault Enterprise. HashiCorp describes Vault Enterprise as a comprehensive security solution for DevOps infrastructure. Vault Enterprise is the foundation for security in the HashiCorp DevOps infrastructure suite. Open source is a virtual necessity for effective […]
The DevOps Force Multiplier: Competitive Advantage + Security
Several years ago, DevOps started hitting the eyes of enterprise business leaders when news outlets such as The Wall Street Journal and Forbes began reporting that the IT culture and methodology was helping adopters to gain a competitive advantage. Since then, we’ve seen story after story about how DevOps-focused employees are becoming the driving force […]
Zero Trust Is a Key to DevOps Security
Once upon a time, network and endpoint security was a simple matter of us vs. them—and all you had to do is keep unauthorized stuff outside your perimeter from gaining access to devices or data inside your perimeter. It’s not like that anymore, though. BYOD, mobile devices, cloud service, virtual systems and changes in attack […]
Security Breaks DevOps – Here’s How to Fix It
The concepts of communication, collaboration, abstraction, automation and orchestration are cornerstones of the rapidly growing DevOps movement. At the same time reliance on virtualized infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-a-Service has exploded, making manual provisioning and management simply not feasible anymore; it takes too long and locks up too many resources. Modern DevOps methods and tools have emerged, […]