DevOps News & Support Resources

April 14, 2017

If you are the VP or Director of IT Operations, chances are that you are responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure and ongoing support of business applications. You also maintain a robust portfolio of IT service offerings that are aligned with ITIL and other standards. You are measured on how well you demonstrate IT value to […]

Red Hat Delivers Advanced Network Automation with Latest Version of Ansible

April 13, 2017

Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Ansible 2.3, the latest version of the leading simple, powerful, and agentless open source IT automation framework. Ansible 2.3 provides performance enhancements and advanced networking capabilities, including adding connection methods designed to increase flexibility and improve […]

What is DevOps? – Book

April 12, 2017

IT Books

Have we entered the age of NoOps infrastructures? Hardly. Old-style system administrators may be disappearing in the face of automation and cloud computing, but operations have become more significant than ever. As this O’Reilly Radar Report explains, we’re moving into a more complex arrangement known as “DevOps.” Mike Loukides, O’Reilly’s VP of Content Strategy, provides […]

VMware to Acquire Wavefront to Accelerate Delivery of its Cross-Cloud Management Services

April 12, 2017

VMware

VMware will Leverage Wavefront’s Platform to Help Developers Optimize their Cloud and Modern Applications with Real-Time Monitoring Analytics VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, today announced its intention to acquire Wavefront, the leading metrics monitoring service for cloud and modern application environments. Terms were not disclosed. The transaction […]

The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm: Building, testing, deploying, and monitoring services inside Docker Swarm clusters – Volume 2

April 11, 2017

IT Books

The book envelops all aspects of building, testing, deploying, and monitoring services inside Docker Swarm clusters. We’ll go through all the tools required for running a cluster. We’ll go through the whole process with clusters running locally on a laptop. Once we are confident with the outcome, we’ll translate the experience to different hosting providers […]

Citrix: Developing Modular Web Applications in Early 2017

April 11, 2017

Citrix Systems

Lately, I’ve been working on a continuous integration devops dashboard for XenApp/XenDesktop, written as a SQL server database, web service and HTML5 application. The tools are evolving quickly and therefore there is a lot of out of date information on the web so I wanted to produce some notes for my colleagues which may be of wider […]

The DevOps Adoption Playbook: A Guide to Adopting DevOps in a Multi-Speed IT Enterprise Book

April 10, 2017

IT Books

Achieve streamlined, rapid production with enterprise-level DevOps The DevOps Adoption Playbook provides practical, actionable, real-world guidance on implementing DevOps at enterprise scale. Author Sanjeev Sharma heads the DevOps practice for IBM; in this book, he provides unique guidance and insight on implementing DevOps at large organizations. Most DevOps literature is aimed at startups, but enterprises […]

Microsoft + Docker – Investing in the future of your applications

April 10, 2017

Microsoft

Did you know when you combine Docker’s cross platform support of Linux and Windows containers and Microsoft cloud technologies, you get a comprehensive offering that can support virtually every enterprise workload? One platform, one journey for all applications Microsoft and Docker aim to provide a modern platform for developers and IT pros to build, ship, […]

Why Bing.com couldn’t wait for Microsoft Windows Server 2016

April 10, 2017

Microsoft

At Microsoft, we have a tradition of “eating our own dog food.” That means we begin running portions of our business on new products during the final technical preview period to make sure they are truly ready for general availability for all customers. We were thrilled when the Bing team decided to deploy Windows Server […]

Redefining the ADC: Bridging the gap between traditional (IT) and DevOps app delivery

April 10, 2017

Citrix Systems

Learn how Citrix is redefining the ADC to bridge the gap between traditional and DevOps app delivery with Citrix NetScaler. This video is from the fine folks at Citrix

Who says you can’t turn back the clock? DevOps find more time with Ansible and HPE OneView

April 7, 2017

HP Enterprise

With the advent of Daylight Saving Time, many of us spring clocks forward during the summer months to utilize the daylight hours. Then during the winter, we fall back to the regular schedule. I prefer the fall back scenario, as it gives me an extra hour that day to get more things done. Too bad […]

Cisco: Extending Ansible Automation to Cisco UCS and Nexus

April 6, 2017

Cisco

Administrators can use now use Ansible as their common tool for configuration management, deployment, and orchestration of Cisco UCS standalone rack servers and Cisco Nexus. Ansible can help you set up infrastructure quickly and easily. Guest Blogger: David Soper, Technical Marketing Engineer One of the goals of many organizations implementing DevOps initiatives is to simplify […]

Rancher and NeuVector Partner to Deliver Management and Security for Containers

April 4, 2017

NeuVector

The addition of NeuVector to the Rancher application catalog enables DevOps to efficiently and securely deploy containers for enterprise applications As more enterprises move to a container-based application deployment model DevOps teams are discovering the need for management and orchestration tools to automate container deployments. At the same time, production deployments of containers for business […]

NeuVector and Rancher Labs Partner to Deliver Container Management and Security

April 3, 2017

NeuVector

Addition of NeuVector to the Rancher application catalog enables DevOps to efficiently and securely deploy containers for enterprise applications NeuVector, which delivers continuous network security for containers, today announced that it has partnered with Rancher Labs to make container security as easy to deploy as application containers. Enterprise DevOps teams can now use NeuVector’s container […]