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WinOps Conf 2016 – DevOps-ification of Windows Server

(This is a guest post from Chris O’Dell, co-author of Continuous Delivery with Windows and .NET (with Matthew Skelton) and developer on the Platform team at JUST EAT) WinOps describes itself as “the world’s only dedicated conference to ‘Windows in a DevOps world’”.  The 2016 conference took place on 24 May in London; the event partnerContinue reading “WinOps Conf 2016 – DevOps-ification of Windows Server”

“Securing a Continuous Delivery Pipeline” – featured in DZone

DZone has recently published Matthew Skelton‘s and Manuel Pais‘ report on continuous delivery pipeline from the security perspective – “Securing a Continuous Delivery Pipeline”. The report was featured in their guidebook for continuous delivery as well – “The DZone Guide To Continuous Delivery, Vol III”, which is a collection of must-read articles featuring all you need to know aboutContinue reading ““Securing a Continuous Delivery Pipeline” – featured in DZone”

Expanding The Definition Of Done

This post was written by John Clapham. Look around your team board, is it there? Perhaps there’s a scruffy, and curled post-it to one side, maybe by now it has fallen face down and joined the dust, old avatars and used markers on floor. Perhaps though your definition of done is in better shape; whatContinue reading “Expanding The Definition Of Done”

Highlights from Huawei Cloud Congress, Prague 2016

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. Huawei, the telecommunications equipment giant is slowly but surely shifting the focus from carrier business to the cloud computing market. Since 2010, Huawei heavily invested in product innovation and big data and do not plan to stop.

Reducing Vagrant Shell Provisioning Time

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”

Continuous Integration with Static and Dynamic Website Testing

This post was written by Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Guide to Software Releasability. Continuous Integration (CI) enables you to have a reliable, repeatable, automated process to prepare your site for release, removing manual, error prone steps. With relative ease, you can add in automated checks, both generic static analysis and moving onto custom automated testsContinue reading “Continuous Integration with Static and Dynamic Website Testing”