Donovan Brown of Microsoft, in conversation with Matt Hilbert of Redgate Software, discusses database DevOps’ biggest challenges When DevOps was first talked about in Flickr’s seminal “10 deploys per day” Velocity presentation in 2009, it was regarded by some as strange and alien to corporate culture. It was the antithesis to the accepted way of […]
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 […]
Container Considerations on Your DevOps Journey
Containers are things for your things. That is true in the development world, too—containers are things for your software, and, like containers for your things, software containers can help you be organized, efficient and secure. Chris Morgan (@cmorgan_cloud), the Technical Director, OpenShift Partner Ecosystem at Red Hat, delivered a keynote at the 2016 All Day […]
DevOps Chat: BlueOcean Puts CD Pipelines Within Reach of Every Team
Blue Ocean brings easy-to-use continuous delivery for teams to everyone. Years in the making, Blue Ocean is a major project built from the ground up for Jenkins Pipeline. I had a chance to speak with two of the key contributors from CloudBees and the Jenkins community, James Dumay and R. Tyler Croy. Tyler is on […]
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 […]
Defining What DevOps is Not
It’s not often that my emails turn into full-blown conversations on DevOps. But when it happens, it’s a great time to take advantage of the insights. John Purrier of Automic and I recently discussed DevOps sustainability. Both of us think that sustaining a modern delivery chain and adopting it are two very different things. However, […]
TASC used pipeline orchestration to onboard DevOps
I often talk about how development teams ignore their pipeline. It is easy to focus on specific tools and process, but by and large the pipeline that contains them is not being treated as its own entity. Your entire process is something that should be managed, iterated over, and measured just like the code within […]
The Continuous Delivery Pipeline — What it is and Why it’s so Important in Developing Software
Continuous Delivery (CD) is a software strategy that enables organizations to deliver new features to users as fast and efficiently as possible. The core idea of CD is to create a repeatable, reliable and incrementally improving process for taking software from concept to customer. The goal of Continuous Delivery is to enable a constant flow […]
The Delivery Pipeline is your DevOps Signature
Where is DevOps? Searching for it is like querying a rainbow for pots of gold. No single element in a development team’s lifecycle defines them as a DevOps-enabled organization. Were anything the rainbow and the gold, it would be the delivery pipeline. The deployment pipeline centers the team and the process, functioning as the signature […]