Topic: devops
ITOps 2020 predictions from around the industry
Tim Armandpour, SVP of engineering at PagerDuty Forget reliability — with the adoption of resilience engineering and the proper use of automation, operators can expect a 20% reduction in unplanned work. Today’s organizations are fixated on the reliability of their technology. But any developer can tell you that the reality is not if it will … continue reading
ITOps news digest: Fairwinds Insights, RedisInsight, and StackRox Kubernetes security platform 3.0
Fairwinds new SaaS platform is launching a free public beta program. Fairwinds Insight is an open-source project for DevOps teams managing multiple Kubernetes clusters. The project is designed to give teams insight into any potential problems. According to the company, it can reduce the time it takes to research, learn and deploy Kubernetes auditing tools; … continue reading
DevOps Institute announces a new course for site reliability engineering
The DevOps Institute today announced a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation certification that will be available to registered education partners starting in January of next year. While there is no prerequisite to take the examination, a training course through an accredited partner is required. According to the company, the certification content includes practical advice, related … continue reading
Report: What is holding back digital transformation?
Traditional IT operations challenges, like conflicts between Dev and Ops, siloed teams, and reactive incident management, are roadblocks to success in a digital world. In a new report called “Adapt or Perish: The OpsRamp Report on Modern IT Operation in the Digital Age,” OpsRamp set out to determine what factors prevent IT teams from embracing … continue reading
6 Best Practices for Creating a Container Platform Strategy
Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders globally are facing demand from the C-level to use containers to speed up application delivery. But the rapid adoption of container technology does not necessarily mean that it is a fit for every organization. Containers can help enterprises modernize legacy applications and create new cloud-native applications that are both scalable … continue reading
Report: 94 percent of ITSM personnel aren’t fully integrated into DevOps
While the burgeoning of DevOps environments in enterprises has brought development teams together and sped up software delivery, only 6 percent of IT service management personnel state that they are fully involved in their company’s DevOps activities and ambitions, according to a survey by Sysaid. This number is down from the 13 percent who felt … continue reading
IT Operations in 2020: Five Things to Know
The threat of digital disruption has forced senior executives and technology leaders to rethink business models, data assets, and distribution channels, to create more innovative products and services that will delight customers and overcome more nimble competitors. Over the last decade, enterprises have completely transformed the way they build, deploy, manage, and maintain mission-critical services … continue reading
Red Sky Ops to optimize apps in Kubernetes environments
Carbon Relay is introducing a new open-source project to help DevOps teams manage and improve the performance of Kubernetes-based applications. RELATED CONTENT: AIOps Exchange to lay the groundwork for AIOps’ future According to the company, DevOps teams often struggle with how many valuable infrastructure resources are provisioned for an application in a Kubernetes environment, which … continue reading
Google previews new Knative-based managed Kubernetes service
Google Cloud is adding a complete managed serverless offering that handles all forms of infrastructure management for DevOps teams, taking low-level programming and deployment tasks off of their hands. The new Google Cloud Run, launched at this week’s Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, aims to let developers move any type of code into … continue reading
F5 Networks brings NetOps and DevOps together with NGINX acquisition
As part of its effort to bridge NetOps and DevOps, F5 Networks has announced that it is acquiring application delivery company NGINX for $670 million. According to the company, bringing the two together will enable users to focus more on their applications instead of having to worry about their infrastructure. “F5’s acquisition of NGINX strengthens … continue reading
PagerDuty brings security closer to operations
PagerDuty wants to unify the security operations among developers, operations and security teams. The company announced PagerDuty for Security Operations with new and existing security integrations across the company’s ecosystem. “With PagerDuty for Security Operations, we now bring security professionals into the fold to operate in a unified platform to engage in real-time security response,” … continue reading
Gremlin releases new chaos engineering tool
Chaos engineering company Gremlin is introducing an easier way for DevOps teams to start using chaos engineering. According to the company, chaos engineering is an approach to detecting failures before outages happen. “With the ongoing migration to microservice, serverless, and cloud environments, we believe the industry has answered ‘why do chaos engineering,’ and has begun … continue reading
