Dev Ops
Keep track of the different types of tools and technologies that affect DevOps. Find articles that will give you the information you need to improve collaboration and integration between your software developers and IT operations.
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DevOps – A History Lesson
“DevOps has been done before – Mainframe Endevor stands for ENVironment for DEVelopers and OpeRations.” Anonymous Mainframer Why is Endevor spelled incorrectly? One evening at a conference, I was having dinner with a mainframer and asked him “why is Endevor spelled wrong?” He simply stated, it is an acronym for “Environment for Development and Operations.”
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How to Achieve True IT Agility – The Value of AIOps
Large organizations are like dinosaurs; it takes time for a message to make it all the way from the tail, where pain is felt, to the head, where decisions can be made, and back down to the tail. In IT Operations, which must react in real time to an environment that is evolving constantly, this
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Continuous Deployment – The Final Step of Continuous Delivery
We are almost there. Agile practice has driven the adoption of continuous build orchestrated by a continuous integration workflow. Continuous build has led us to continuous test now driven by the continuous delivery pipeline. The final piece of the puzzle is continuous deployment. Continuous build and continuous deployment have some factors in common. The build
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The Universal Package Manager – the Most Critical Link in Your DevOps Toolchain
The days of giant, discrete batches of code making up an application are behind us. Modern software has undergone an industrial revolution of sorts with its own version of interchangeable parts. Libraries and artifacts have quickly become an essential part of development. This shift from a monolithic application code base, to applications built on 100s
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DevOps? “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there”.
We are seeing many organizations starting to adopt DevOps. The majority having already deployed Agile but not getting the hoped for benefits because of…….dare I say it….’Ops’. Developers see Ops as the people that say ‘NO’ to everything or the D e l a y I n g factor slowing everything down. As a result
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Bringing DevOps and ITSM Together – itSMF NZ Conference 2017
CALMing Influences Bringing together the themes of DevOps and IT Service Management is the goal of this year’s itSMF New Zealand conference, being held at Te Papa Tongarewa, the Museum of New Zealand in Wellington, June 12-14. This year’s event is titled “itSMFnz17: CALMing Influences”, this allows speakers to present on the integration of ITSM and
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Defining the Continuous Delivery Tool Chain
Tools for automation With so many tools serving the continuous delivery market, what job each tool does may be unclear. This article explores the roles of IT Automation, Application Release Automation and Test Automation for building out a stronger and broader continuous delivery pipeline. Continuous Delivery is the process of pushing new code up the
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Theory of Constraints and Practices of DevOps
DevOps is grounded in the Theory of Constraints that focuses on identifying and improving the weakest link in an organization’s value chain. Yet DevOps only improves part of the IT value chain. What about the functional requirements, value realization by the users, and the relationship with IT’s business partners? What is your biggest bottleneck? Is
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