Part of the evolution of DevOps and microservices is driven from a need to homogenize the world of IT. Organizations and developers want to be able to create, deploy, and manage code without regard for the hardware or software it’s […]
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Whether you’re one of the early adopter organizations that have been using Docker for a while, or you’re just exploring Docker and trying to figure out how to jump on the container bandwagon, you want to make sure that you
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One of the defining elements of DevOps is rapid change. Rapid change, in and of itself, is generally perceived as scary and bad by IT and security admins–and the exact opposite of what you need to achieve and maintain compliance.
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Containers are still the hot new thing in and of themselves, but we’re already seeing that morph into the next evolution–containers-as-a-service (CaaS). Cloud platform providers are beginning to offer serverless computing or event-driven platforms that basically allow for container orchestration
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Containers take the components of a traditional application and break them down into separate, self-contained elements. The whole point of containers is to break code down into smaller, more manageable, and more agile pieces. As small as they are, though,
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Every year at the RSA Conference hundreds—maybe thousands—of security vendors crowd into the Moscone Center in San Francisco with claims that their products or services are better. “Better” is a relative measure, but generally speaking the assertion is either that
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I spent last week in San Francisco at the RSA Conference. The annual event is the biggest event for the security industry and takes over the Moscone Center and surrounding area. Throughout the week I walked the show floor, visited
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Servers? We don’t need no stinkin’ servers. I’ll go out on a limb and predict that IBM won’t be using that as the marketing tagline for OpenWhisk, but it could. Microservices and containers abstract the applications–or even the components that
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Teams and organizations adopt a DevOps culture and implement DevOps tools and practices for a variety of reasons, but one of the primary goals is speed. The effort to develop and deploy at a quicker pace, however, does not mean leaving
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Cloud platforms became more or less commoditized pretty quickly. Sure, they each have their pros and cons, but the major cloud providers all do about the same thing in about the same way. The container trend is disrupting that status
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