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Latest featured content about Devops

Pallet - DevOps for the JVM

Sections
Operations & Infrastructure
Topics
Clojure/West 2012,
Devops,
Automation,
Deployment,
Clojure/West,
IT Service Management,
Infrastructure,
Conferences,
Testing,
Cloud Computing

Antoni Batchelli introduces Pallet, a devops platform for the JVM for provisioning and configuring servers, configuring clustered services, deploying and managing software, servers and services.

News about Devops

Cloud Foundry Celebrates First Anniversary By Highlighting Its Community

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Operations & Infrastructure,
Architecture & Design,
Development
Topics
Cloud Foundry,
Devops,
VMWare,
PaaS,
IT Service Management,
Infrastructure,
Cloud Computing,
Companies

At an VMware-hosted event in Palo Alto, the Cloud Foundry team summarized their first year as an open source, multi-language Platform as a Service (PaaS). VMware CTO Steve Herrod pointed to the project’s strong developer adoption and thriving ecosystem as proof that this platform has staying power.

Thoughtworks Technology Radar March 2012

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Process & Practices,
Architecture & Design,
Development
Topics
Puppet,
Chef,
Devops,
Maven,
Continuous Delivery,
Automated testing,
IT Service Management,
Automation,
Infrastructure,
Scrum,
Languages,
Build systems,
Agile Techniques,
Data Warehousing,
Testing,
PowerShell,
Agile,
git,
Emergent Architecture,
Cloud Computing,
github,
Experience Design,
Programming

ThoughtWorks recently published the latest update to its Technology Radar; a report produced to help technology decision makers understand emerging trends in software development techniques, tools, languages and platforms. There are some interesting observations of interest to Agile software development teams.

NoOps: Its Meaning and the Debate around It

Sections
Operations & Infrastructure,
Development
Topics
Devops,
Operations,
PaaS,
IT Service Management,
Infrastructure,
Cloud Computing,
Debate

Some PaaS companies propose NoOps solutions where the developers do the minimum amount of operations needed, the rest of it being hidden in the cloud. But the NoOps term has sparked a debate, some considering it inappropriate.

Articles about Devops

Test automation and Continuous Delivery

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Process & Practices
Topics
Devops,
Continuous Delivery,
Continuous Integration,
Test Automation,
Agile Techniques,
IT Service Management,
Infrastructure,
Automation,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Agile Test,
Testing,
Agile,
Cloud Computing

This article shows how automating certain programmable aspects of a test suite can help software delivery. Covered are automated testing, costs per deployment, tests as documentation & manual testing.

Interview and Book Review: Continuous Delivery

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Operations & Infrastructure,
Process & Practices,
Development
Topics
Continuous Delivery,
Devops,
Agile Techniques,
Infrastructure,
IT Service Management,
Agile,
Cloud Computing

Continuous delivery means that a software product is production-ready from day one of the project, even if all features not implemented, and the product can be released to users on demand. InfoQ spoke with Jez Humble and David Farley, authors of "Continuous Delivery" book on the continuous delivery concept and how it can be used to deliver the software product more efficiently.

Going Live: The Role of Development and Operations in Preparing and Deploying Software Packages

Sections
Operations & Infrastructure,
Development
Topics
Devops,
Operations,
Deployment / Datacenter,
Business/IT Alignment,
IT Service Management,
Infrastructure,
Cloud Computing,
Enterprise Architecture

A discussion of how Development, Operations and others can collaborate to prepare a good deployment package. minimizing the potential for error, improving clarity, and allowing for customization.

Presentations about Devops

Games for the Masses - How DevOps Affects Architecture Design

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Operations & Infrastructure,
Architecture & Design
Topics
Devops,
QCon London 2012,
QCon,
Infrastructure,
IT Service Management,
Performance & Scalability,
Conferences,
Architecture,
Game,
Cloud Computing

Jesper Richter-Reichhelm presents the DevOps integration at Wooga, and how their system architecture has evolved over the years in order to cope with the increasing number of players.

Glu-ing The Last Mile

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Operations & Infrastructure
Topics
Puppet,
Continuous Deployment,
Devops,
Strange Loop 2011,
Strange Loop,
Agile Techniques,
Operations,
IT Service Management,
Tools,
Infrastructure,
Cloud Computing,
Agile,
Conferences

Ken Sipe introduces Glu, an open source deployment automation tool coming from LinkedIn, showing how to perform Glu configuration along with a demo of using it.

Interviews about Devops

Patrick Debois on the State of DevOps

Sections
Operations & Infrastructure
Topics
Puppet,
Chef,
Devops,
Infrastructure,
IT Service Management,
Cloud Computing,
Nagios

Patrick Debois discusses the ideas behind DevOps, popular DevOps tools like Chef and Puppet, DevOps vs NoOps, and much more.

Jez Humble on Continuous Delivery

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Operations & Infrastructure,
Process & Practices
Topics
Customers & Requirements,
Continuous Integration,
Feedback,
Devops,
Domain-Driven Design,
Lean Startup,
Automated testing,
Project Management,
Infrastructure,
Lean,
IT Service Management,
Business,
Automation,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Continuous Improvement,
Design,
Methodologies,
Agile Test,
TDD,
Agile Techniques,
Agile,
Programming,
Cloud Computing,
DVCS,
Reliability,
Software Craftsmanship,
Testing,
Agile2011,
BDD

In this interview at Agile 2011, Jez Humble discusses continuous delivery and the deployment pipeline, emphasizing the importance of feedback and automating tests at every level to validate deployments. Gone are the days of massive acceptance test scripts. He also talks about the evils of feature branching, and speaks on the DevOps practices to collaborate all the way through the delivery cycle.