At the Kong Summit 2019 conference, Kong today announced it has acquired Insomnia, an open source testing tool for application programming interfaces (APIs). In addition, it has added support for REST, Kafka Streams, gRPC, GraphQL and plugins written in Go to its service control platform. Kong also added more capabilities based on machine learning algorithms […]
Networking: The DevOps Community Deserves Better
Developers of cloud-native applications are at the heart of a process of radical transformation shaking up the business world. Using DevOps and SRE methodologies, modern development teams are bringing a level of agility to the game that is all about freeing enterprises from the shackles of the old, pre-cloud days and letting them take advantage […]
VMware to Acquire Avi Networks for NetOps Capability
VMware announced it intends to acquire Avi Networks for an undisclosed price as part of an ongoing effort to close the gap between network operations (NetOps) and DevOps. Once this deal closes, sometime between now and August, VMware plans to add a software-based load balancer, along with a web application firewall (WAF) and a service […]
DevOps and Networking: Working to Achieve Nirvana
Enterprises don’t own the cloud, just the experience. If there’s an outage or even a hiccup in the performance or network service, it’s on the network and application teams (not the cloud provider) to fix it. But often with problems in the cloud comes finger-pointing, as network and application teams look to determine liability and […]
VMware Brings NSX Network Virtualization into DevOps Realm
At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 conference, VMware moved to bring network virtualization into the realm of DevOps by adding support for a declarative programming model and JSON data formats to version 2.4 of NSX-T. In addition, VMware is making it possible to use the open source Ansible automation framework to deploy NSX-T. Finally, […]
Go Big: Scalability in the Age of DevOps
Achieving hyperscale is a work of technical art for any business. As companies grow and customers begin to rely more heavily on your service, ensuring reliability during peak business times is mission-critical. An enormous amount of work goes on behind the scenes to ensure scalability, and oftentimes it becomes necessary to redesign or rethink processes […]
Cisco Looks to Build DevOps Community
Cisco Systems is making a concerted effort to create an era of détente between networking professionals and the rest of the IT operations teams that have embraced DevOps practices. Susie Wee, senior vice president for the DevNet community at Cisco, said the goal is to provide network operations (NetOps) teams the skills required to programmatically […]
You Have a Box: The Impact of Containers on DevOps
To continue the discussion from my last blog post, you have a box. Increasingly, you only have to ask, “What do we want to put in it?” It is interesting to see the growth and change in IT over time. The advent of containers is the focus of this particular blog, but there are many […]
The Truth Behind DevOps on the Cloud
DevOps on the cloud may seem simple enough, but in reality it can be very complex The ultimate goal of a DevOps administrator is to make sure that everything is running properly and seamlessly—so much so that management is convinced that the DevOps administrator is playing solitaire all day. To that end, a successful DevOps […]
DevOps and Containers: A Network Divided
The growth of DevOps and containers has created some interesting split responsibility scenarios. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but it is something that bears watching and fixing when it becomes problematic. Today’s topic is networking. Plenty of bits have been spewed about the situation, but it persists and is even getting more […]
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