As organizations abandon the waterfall method of software development for Agile, many are stuck in what Hasan Yasar terms Water-Scrum-Fall. That is, the organization has not effectively embraced Agile and DevOps principles and remains in silos with no links to business goals. Enter DevOps, an extension of Agile thinking. While Agile embraces constant change and embeds the […]
How To Fully Automate CI/CD – Even Secrets
Imagine a world where your continuous integration/continuous deployment environment is 100 percent automated, including the passing of credentials. Capital One, a leading U.S. bank, has achieved this, and Andrey Utis, director of Software Engineering at Capital One, outlined how the company achieved this in his talk, “Application Secret Management with KMS,” at the All Day DevOps […]
Continuous Everyone: Engaging People Across the Deployment Pipeline
We have continuous integration and we have continuous deployment, but what’s continuous across all of what we do is people. Even when tasks are automated, someone wrote the automation. So, Jayne Groll evangelizes about “continuous everyone.” Jayne is the CEO of the DevOps Institute and the author of “Agile Service Management Guide.” She talked about […]
Embedding Ownership: A DevOps Best Practice
From where I sit in the DevOps community, there is often more focus on dev than on ops. Damon Edwards (@damonedwards) of SimplifyOps sought to change that with his talk, “Ops Happens: DevOps Beyond Deployment,” at the All Day DevOps conference. Damon dove right into the primary, systemic force behind most DevOps problems: silos. The […]
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 […]
DevOps: Trust, Obligations and Promises
Mark Burgess (@markburgess_osl) is a theoretical physicist, but in his keynote at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference, he talked more about economics and human interactives than physics. What does either have to do as the keynote for a conference on DevOps? Well, for a little more background, Mark Burgess is also the founder and […]
From a Commodore 64 to DevSecOps
We all know the story: a farm, a kid, a Commodore 64, and a modem maxing out at 300bps. A few unexpected phone bills later, and young Ian Allison is figuring out how to game the system so he can keep using his newfound gateway to the world of tech. According to Ian, that is […]
All Day DevOps: System Hardening with Ansible
The DevOps pipeline is constantly changing. Therefore, relevant security controls must be applied contextually. We want to be secure, but I think all of us would rather spend our time developing and deploying software. Keeping up with server updates and all of the other security tasks is like cleaning your home: you know it has […]
All Day DevOps: Exploring the New Ordinary
There you were. You heard about Docker, become mesmerized, floated into its new, special world … and then all chaos broke out. Things were not that easy and you scrambled for knowledge. Some folks saw the light and stepped forward, while others are still trying to figure the out the happy path home where containers […]
One Team, 5,000 Jobs: Life in the DevOps Jungle
Damien has 5,000 jobs. While you might gasp at that workload, Damien is not stressing out. All 5,000 jobs are automated within his team’s Jenkins pipelines. How does he do it? Damien follows four key principles to keep his cool in the job jungle: self-service, security, simplicity and extensibility. But you might be surprised that one of his most […]