This post was written by Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Guide to Software Releasability. Context We recently wrote an article on DZone about bringing security into the delivery lifecycle where we covered both the people and technical perspectives. To demo a deployment pipeline setup including automated security checks we decided to use a VM createdContinue reading “Reducing Vagrant Shell Provisioning Time”
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Database connection auditing for Continuous Delivery
This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. Continuous Delivery of software systems can be a struggle if a central database is accessed by multiple applications directly, due to the (perceived) increased risk and the need for coordination across different teams. In this post, we demonstrate some techniques for discovering theContinue reading “Database connection auditing for Continuous Delivery”
Bridge the Business-DevOps gap with agile practices
This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. Some organisations are attempting to adopt DevOps without really understanding or adopting agile practices for software product development, and so are missing out on significant opportunities for improved innovation, delivery, and operation of their software systems. This gap between DevOps and ‘product’ orContinue reading “Bridge the Business-DevOps gap with agile practices”
Joining up Agile and ITIL for DevOps success
This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. We recently gave a webinar in which we outlined how Agile and ITIL® can be used in a complementary way to help DevOps practices. Here is the video for the webinar; a summary of the talk is below, along with the slides.
A useful working definition of DevOps
This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. There has been a spate of articles published recently – triggered by discussions at the ‘2nd DevOps State of the Union’ event – that have identified an apparent need to agree on a definition of DevOps. The folks at ScriptRock wrote a typically excellent piece onContinue reading “A useful working definition of DevOps”
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