Harness expands its CD platform to tackle the “AI code explosion” with automated rollbacks, snowflake support, and warehouse-native feature management.
CircleCI Adds Release Orchestration Capability to CI/CD Platform
CircleCI added a release orchestration capability to its namesake CI/CD platform to give developers more control over app deployments.
ReleaseIQ Adds Orchestration Tool for Multiple Instances of Jenkins
ReleaseIQ has launched an orchestration framework for the open source continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environment that makes it possible for DevOps teams to orchestrate pipelines across multiple instances of Jenkins. Seetharam Param, ReleaseIQ CEO, said ReleaseIQ Essentials for Jenkins is an implementation of an existing orchestration platform that enables DevOps teams to orchestrate pipelines across […]
Integrating ARA into traditional RM
Application Release Automation (ARA) is terminology that includes several DevOps constructs from a singular, application-centric point of view. In essence, ARA implies the automation of a single app from build through deployment (even if that deployment is to production). Of course, embedded or implied in that automation terminology is build automation or construction; deployment automation, […]
The Automation of Compliance
Consider how much money your enterprise spends on audits. Smaller firms not subject to external regulation should consider how much money is spent on quality assurance—or the lack of it. A business that suffers from a customer-facing quality incident will, at minimum tarnish the brand of its services or at the high end, lose market […]
Dying for Intelligent Calendar Awareness
What would we die for in an integrated DevOps tooling solution—something that would make our operations partners stand up and cheer? Intelligent calendar awareness. The most fundamental construct of any release orchestrations (RO) tooling software is the calendar. RO software, no matter who the vendor is, uses a form of the calendar, to outline what […]
Humans in the Machine of Release Orchestration
Let’s face it: Most organizations are still struggling to achieve the Nirvana of full gated automation. At first, we automate the core of our DevOps services, the build and the deployment disciplines. Over time, we realize that a templated or framework (or pick your similar terminology) approach toward automation allows for scale as well as […]
The Nirvana of Gated Progression
A highly functioning enterprise-class DevOps set of services has a fundamental goal of full automation. To be honest, having the right DevOps strategist (or visionary) leading this effort is as important to achieving this goal as the combination of all the challenges and topics that must be addressed. So for the sake of argument, will […]








