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IT Ops Implications of Continuous Delivery

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  Database DevOps tools ease app deployment at insurance firm

  Colonial Life brought its SQL-based enrollment app into the DevOps fold with a tool from Datical to replace its faulty manual update process.

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Grow rapidly into a continuous delivery pipeline

  IT organizations that undertake continuous delivery and deployment initiatives must find strategies to enable that nonstop rush into production without any space for massive or prolonged user-facing problems.

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Netflix Spinnaker pipelines tighten bond with Kubernetes

  The Netflix- and Google-led Spinnaker continuous deployment software project has added enterprise appeal with revamped Kubernetes integration.

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  SRE model requires technical, organizational optimization skills

  Practitioners categorize SRE job descriptions two ways -- by distributed systems architecture design that evolves rapidly, and also by the ability to optimize human workflows.

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  Users mull Ansible Tower features' config management controls

  Ansible users know their way around a CLI, but some envision an all-inclusive IT automation platform based on the Ansible Tower management console UI and features.

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  CloudBees sets a path to Cloud Native Jenkins

  CloudBees advanced its core CI/CD platform to broaden developers' options to create apps and access additional services in the cloud.

• September 20, 2018 20 Sep'18

  Jenkins on Kubernetes is promising, but integration needs work

  Jenkins and Kubernetes are a natural fit for automated application development and delivery, and the open source community has plans to improve how Jenkins runs on containers.

• September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

  CloudBees Core sets its sights beyond enterprise Jenkins

  CloudBees and its competitors vie to offer the visibility and data-driven performance measurement into CI/CD processes that enterprises need to strive for better DevOps governance.

• September 18, 2018 18 Sep'18

  DevOps security takes on the dark side of digital transformation

  Without better organizational discipline, digital businesses are at risk for massively disruptive data breaches and attacks. Can DevSecOps transform IT in time to avert disaster?

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  Atlassian shops size up OpsGenie buy, Jira for incident management

  Atlassian snapped up OpsGenie and rolled out Jira Ops as part of a shift in focus to IT incident management. Users will follow the strategy cautiously.

• August 06, 2018 06 Aug'18

  Enterprise IT struggles with DevOps for mainframe

  Mainframe automation tools are nascent, and many mainframe experts are reluctant to embrace DevOps. But large enterprises must address legacy platforms to realize app delivery goals.

• July 27, 2018 27 Jul'18

  Google Cloud Build puts GCP spin on cloud CI/CD

  Enterprise DevOps shops have yet another cloud CI/CD choice, as well as additional options for managed Kubernetes, function as a service and service mesh.

• July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

  Insurer accelerates DevOps test data refreshes with Actifio

  Data-intensive applications can hobble DevOps velocity, but one IT team makes fresh test data available to its developers with a tool that makes rapid copies of large data stores.

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  Database DevOps tools bring stateful apps up to modern speed

  Database DevOps is no longer a contradiction in terms, as enterprises roll out database management and persistent storage software that makes stateful apps more flexible.

• June 08, 2018 08 Jun'18

  Reflect adds color to Puppet DevOps tools

  Puppet plans to add data visualization and analysis to spruce up its DevOps tools now that it has acquired Reflect, but it's still playing catch-up in a crowded, noisy market.