I recently sat down with Carol Carpenter, CEO of ElasticBox. We just released the results of the survey we partnered on with ElaticBox on the “Real Value of DevOps”. There were some great takeaways in this survey for leaders looking to lead the transformation in DevOps. Carol and I discussed these takeaways and other relevant […]
ElasticBox enhances Container support with new release
ElasticBox announced a new version of their product today that enhances Container support. In yet another example of how important Containers are becoming to today’s software development scene, ElasticBox will now allow you to define microservices as Docker files in containers. Other enhancements include (from the press release) : UI Enhancement: Tags now make it […]
What is DevOps to you? New survey by ElasticBox and staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud
What is DevOps to you? Now that is a loaded question. For so long DevOps has defied definition. How can then we quantify it? How do you know if it is working? What do you spend on it? What exactly do you do when you do it? What tools do you use? While the folks […]
Bird’s Eye View of IT as a Service
In working closely with large enterprises for several years, we consistently hear businesses talk of IT needs to achieve critical and strategic goals. Commonly these large enterprises span many verticals like technology, online media, finance, banking, and more. At the heart of their business goals, lie technology hurdles they need to overcome to scale as […]
Bringing Collaboration, Orchestration and Lifecycle Management to Docker Containers
As you most likely know, Docker is a Linux container technology that stands to revolutionize or standardize the delivery mechanism of applications and services in the cloud. Docker, which just turned 1.0, has created an enormous amount of buzz, a vibrant community, and an extremely interesting ecosystem upon which developers and operations teams can draw […]
ElasticBox Jenkins Plugin – Easy Continuous Integration Setup
Introduction to Jenkins and ElasticBox ElasticBox has recently released a Jenkins plugin which makes it possible to configure a continuous integration or continuous deployment scenario without writing any code or scripts! How have we done this you ask? Simple, it was magic. In all seriousness, magic is the end result if you integrate ElasticBox and […]
Deploying a MongoDB Cluster with ElasticBox
Our founders, back in the day, were part of the .NET framework team at Microsoft. So it’s no surprise that their first version of ElasticBox was written on C#, .NET framework and SQL Server. Fast forward to 2012. As the ElasticBox vision crystallized, we wanted a robust, scalable architecture to match our vision. So we reevaluated all the existing technologies. Among other things, we […]