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Blogs

Finishing the Pipeline: Monitoring, Tools, Automation and …

It is true that DevOps has grown to be the beast in the room. I’ll co-opt the “cloudwashing” term to call it “DevOps-washing” because it seems every tool you’ve ever used to develop and deploy applications now has a DevOps angle t…

Oct 16, 20173 min

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Sep22

DevOps Toolbox

DevOps and Data Portability

You have a classic car. You’re in the middle of restoring it, and it looks mighty sweet. Paint is polished, wheels are stock, hubcaps (or spokes) are shiny, engine is completely re…

3 min

Aug30

Blogs

XebiaLabs Shows Off ARA, More at Jenkins World

In this third spotlight on companies attending Jenkns World, another worth checking out came to mind, so I am taking a look at what XebiaLabs intends to do while there. XebiaLabs i…

3 min

Aug11

Blogs

Don’t Underestimate the Work

It is relatively common in human endeavor to attempt to figure out how much work will be involved in a project, and be wrong. The more complex the work being done and the organizat…

3 min

Jul20

Blogs

Manual Intervention or Release Automation? That is the Question

When it comes to launching nuclear weapons, there are a variety of steps and a variety of fail-safe mechanisms, all designed to ensure that those pushing the button really want to…

3 min

Jul14

Blogs

appOrbit: End-to-End Hypercloud

As cloud and DevOps have heated up, enterprise need for cloud portability and deeper DevOps integration have become pretty clear. The need for portability to avoid cloud lock-in ha…

3 min

Jun29

Blogs

Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment

I am often asked, “if we are using a continuous integration (CI) server and adopting a continuous delivery pipeline, where does continuous deployment fit in?” Good question. In a n…

3 min

Apr24

Continuous Delivery

Think of the Future When Building Delivery

We’re in a strange state of the pendulum swing right now, where speed of delivery is king and all else seems to take a back seat. Many orgs even place quality behind speed in the c…

3 min

Mar29

Blogs

6 Big, Bad Mistakes in Configuration Management, Part 2

In Part One of my article on big, bad mistakes in configuration management, I reviewed the dangers of using the wrong tools for the configuration management job. Provisioning manag…

3 min

Mar28

Blogs

6 Big, Bad Mistakes in Configuration Management, Part 1

Configuration problems come in many flavors. Some are mere nuisances. Often though, configuration errors can lead to more serious mishaps like application performance problems, pol…

3 min

Aug17

Blogs

DevOps: The Glue of Workflow

The best tool in the DevOps continuum is the sticky wrapper that holds it all together. It is the workflow that binds it and makes sense out of the term “continuous.” CIOs often ar…

3 min

Aug04

Enterprise DevOps

Integrating ARA into traditional RM

Application Release Automation (ARA) is terminology that includes several DevOps constructs from a singular, application-centric point of view. In essence, ARA implies the automati…

3 min

Jul08

Features

What CIOs need to know about building deployment quality

Application Release Automation, or ARA, is the process of packaging and deploying applications (or updates to applications) in an automated, repeatable and consistent way. In today…

3 min

Feb23

Features

Five Key Components of Application Release Automation (ARA)

What are the fundamental building blocks of successful ARA? Application Release Automation, or ARA, is the consistent, repeatable and auditable process of packaging and deploying a…

3 min