The Agile Admin says DevOps is “a new term emerging from the collision of two major related trends. The first was also called “agile infrastructure” or “agile operations”; it sprang from applying Agile and Lean approaches to operations work. The second is a much expanded understanding of the value of collaboration between development and operations…
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DevOps Is: Atlassian
Atlassian says DevOps is “a set of practices that works to automate and integrate the processes between software development and IT teams, so they can build, test, and release software faster and more reliably. The term DevOps was formed by combining the words “development” and “operations” and signifies a cultural shift that bridges the gap…
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DevOps Is: (AWS) Amazon Web Services
AWS says DevOps is “the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizations using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes. This speed enables organizations to better serve their customers and compete more…
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DevOps Pipeline Security
When developing software, ensuring integrity of the product is a top priority. Manually checking source code for weaknesses is not an option when trying to protect an application, as it is generally financially infeasible for human developers to take the time to comprehensively find flaws. Thankfully, this task can be automated using security scanning tools,…
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Managing OSS for Mergers and Acquisitions
In today’s software industry, mergers and acquisitions are quite common, even considered a frequent occurrence. Some in the industry have even said they’re “the name of the game” in the software industry. While larger companies often acquire smaller ones, it isn’t at all uncommon for the opposite to occur, so no matter how large or…
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Shifting Security Left
Shifting Security Left – What Does it Mean? Shifting security left is the idea of managing and satisfying security requirements as early as possible in the software development life cycle. Imagine your software lifecycle outlined linearly on a page / whiteboard from left to right; with requirements and design on the very left and deployment…
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The Three Ways of DevOps
If you are looking to implement a DevOps strategy in your organization there are three core tenants that are widely accepted by the DevOps community. These are known as the Three Ways of DevOps. They can act as a guiding light as you are making decisions and working to change the culture in your organization.
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