Enterprises are quickly becoming an intricate mesh of many applications. As companies create more and more microservices, their deployment environments are becoming increasingly elaborate. Without proper configurations, a microservices road map could quickly become unmaintainable. According to DeployHub CEO Tracy Ragan, if development teams are pushing points to a cluster continuously, application development can suffer without high […]
For any large government agency, managing cloud migrations can be fraught with risk, complexity, and hidden costs. However, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) was able to overcome these obstacles and establish winning implementations in the public, or commercial, cloud. How? In this first of our two-part blog, we offer background on the USDA, the […]
Introduction At some point in their cloud journey, most organizations hit a major obstacle. After experimenting with a workload or two, organizations begin to scale their cloud investment and estate. It is only then that executives realize they have a problem: their teams lack the skills, tools, and processes they need to track, manage, and […]
Cloud technologies are now firmly established as the norm for enterprise IT. In fact, most organizations are now tying digital transformation strategies firmly to a cloud-first approach. According to Gartner, growth in enterprise IT spending for cloud-based offerings will be faster than non-cloud spending through 2022—what they term the “cloud shift”. And the drive is not just because of […]
The value of DevOps has continued to increase as digital transformation and cloud adoption initiatives have become mainstream in almost all sectors of the economy. OpsRamp reports that nearly three-quarters of survey respondents expect to either accelerate or maintain digital transformation initiatives and projects. Embracing DevOps practices is the only way to accelerate these activities through a seamless management of development […]
According to Forrester, as of the end of 2017, 50% of organizations were actively implementing and expanding their DevOps services. 13% of respondents have already made use of DevOps while 36% plan to adopt it in the future. And that’s not surprising. The increased productivity and performance that come with this approach bring companies more income […]
In this blog post we’re giving you an overview of the most recent DevOps reports from Puppet, DORA, and the DevOps Institute. We will highlight important information from each report below. Then, read on for the steps successful organizations can take in adopting DevOps. Puppet’s State of DevOps Every year, Puppet reports on the State of DevOps. […]
With a variety of philosophies and methodologies adopted in the tech world, figuring out what each one encompasses can be confusing. If you focus closer on an entire culture shift, such as DevOps, even that type of approach comes with as many different definitions as there are developers. Going further into DevOps are ideologies like SecOps […]
Today ICE releases its annual State of the Nation report, which this year is looking at infrastructure and the net-zero emissions target. The Chair of the report’s Steering Group, Keith Howells, provides an overview of the key findings and recommendations. As we’ve navigated the murky waters of a global health pandemic in the past months, […]
Traditionally, software development and operations have always been as isolated modules among software teams. Software developers used to write codes, whereas system administrators were responsible for integrating and deploying it. However, due to limited communication, these two teams worked in silos and were often seen working separately despite being a part of the same project. […]