IT Ops Implications of Continuous Delivery

Look to the continuous deployment resource center for expert advice and news to help IT teams manage the flow of application releases with developers, as well as case studies of DevOps adopters using CI/CD, outage prevention, tool news and more.

January 06, 2021 06 Jan'21
GrubHub's infrastructure-as-code feeds pandemic resiliency

GrubHub SREs fostered more consistent deployment patterns for resources such as DNS and AWS load balancers with a move to self-service infrastructure-as-code tools for DevOps teams last year.
December 17, 2020 17 Dec'20
DevSecOps pros struggle with tech changes, top-down mandates

Upper management's rising interest in DevSecOps raises the stakes for IT pros as they contend with rapidly evolving cloud-native apps.
November 24, 2020 24 Nov'20
IT governance must catch up with DevSecOps, experts say

Government and financial services organizations that practice DevSecOps say IT governance must evolve to keep up through faster, automated control pipelines.
November 17, 2020 17 Nov'20
Puppet sets sights on unified IT automation platform, IPO

An integrated Puppet IT automation platform that runs on Kubernetes will accompany an IPO for Puppet Labs in 2021, as the company aims to update its image for the cloud-native era.

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IT operations

IT operations is the overarching term for the processes and services administered by an organization's information technology (IT) department. Continue Reading
5 DevSecOps best practices to prioritize

Successful DevSecOps isn't just about secure code -- it's securing the flows of data through code, methods and tools. Review these five security tips to button up your DevOps work. Continue Reading
continuous delivery (CD)

Continuous delivery (CD) is an approach for software delivery in which development teams produce and test code in short but continual cycles, usually with high degrees of automation. Continue Reading

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Evaluate Spinnaker vs. Jenkins for CI/CD

Jenkins is one of the most popular CI/CD tools available, but Spinnaker enables IT teams to manage complex pipelines. Is one better than the other, or should 'vs.' be swapped with 'and'? Continue Reading
ITSM and DevOps don't have to be at odds

Is it possible for ITSM and DevOps to coexist within the same organization? It is, but it raises plenty of questions about how and whether they are a good fit. Continue Reading
3 key ways DevOps benefits a business

DevOps adoption can strain an organization. Is it worth the effort? Here's what a business should expect to gain when implementing DevOps and continuous delivery. Continue Reading

Learn to apply best practices and optimize your operations.

Adapt ITSM workflows for modern IT needs

To some, IT service management may have fallen out of favor -- especially as cloud computing and DevOps rose to prominence. Don't count out ITSM just yet. Continue Reading
Streamline CI/CD with the Jenkins Blue Ocean tool

Organizations that run Jenkins may find that plugins complicate their CI/CD pipeline. Here's how the continuous delivery tool Blue Ocean can help keep things on track. Continue Reading
Reality strikes when enterprises deploy Kubernetes in production

It's easy to run containers with Kubernetes, but Kubernetes in production -- with enterprise security, monitoring and compliance demands -- is a different story. Continue Reading

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Strive for real-world technical debt management in DevOps orgs

Technical debt is a bit like the kitchen junk drawer: It's cobbled-together, useful stuff that just needed to go somewhere. But the longer you wait to sort it out, the worse it gets. Continue Reading
Deployment pipeline diagrams expose process and tech gaps

Does the specialized cloud dev sandbox cause a deployment headache? Should security teams vet code earlier in the pipeline? In this video, Gary Gruver shows what IT teams gain when they visualize code flow. Continue Reading
The ops team's role in securing IT infrastructure and apps

Organizations prioritize security, even as they deploy workloads to the cloud and adopt new dev methods. How do these trends change the IT ops team's security responsibilities? Continue Reading