Kubiya.ai announces the launch of its DevOps Digital Agents.
DEVOPSdigest asked experts from across the industry – including consultants, analysts, organizations, users and the leading vendors – for their opinions on the best way to foster collaboration between Dev and Ops. Part 4 covers more about combining Dev and Ops in teams.
Start with The Best Way for Dev and Ops to Collaborate - Part 1
Start with The Best Way for Dev and Ops to Collaborate - Part 2
Start with The Best Way for Dev and Ops to Collaborate - Part 3
EMBED IT OPS IN DEV TEAMS
Familiarity breeds respect. So, embedding the operations team with the software engineers not only allows for a better understanding of the day-to-day routines and broader challenges each group faces, it also creates a collegial culture.
Richard Morgan
VP of Engineering, Agiloft
IT OPS AS DESIGN PARTNER
In a DevOps world, the Ops team needs to be a design partner with engineering. Similar to earlier integration between Engineering and QA that improves product quality via built in testability, this is needed for the operations team in a DevOps world.
Scott Davis
EVP of Engineering and CTO, Embotics
OPSDEV
For a successful DevOps approach in practice, Development must position itself as a consumer of turnkey infrastructure environments. IT Operations then adopt an OpsDev approach, and provide infrastructure on demand for all steps of continuous integration – from compilation to qualification, through unit testing.
Yann Guernion
Product Marketing Director, Workload Automation, Automic Software
Read Yann Guernion's blog: OpsDev: DevOps as a Bottom-Up Process
DEVELOPERS SPEND TIME WITH IT OPS
DevOps is about sharing responsibility of the complete delivery pipeline and working towards the common goal of delivering faster quality to market. To start, development teams must spend time with operations to understand what impact their code has once it reaches operations, and which processes and tools are used to keep the system running. This insight and collaboration breaks down walls and allows developers to produce quality products from the start by understanding what impact their actions may have.
Andreas Grabner
Technology Strategist, Dynatrace
MAKE DEVELOPERS RESPONSIBLE FOR PRODUCTION MONITORING
Developers are responsible for production monitoring at the application level, which means that Dev & Ops have to work together on deployment technology and monitoring. When a developer has to troubleshoot in production, they make sure that the right kind of tooling is in place in the app. There's no throwing anything over the wall to Ops.
Andrea Adams
VP of Engineering, Spanning
INVITE THE DBA INTO DEVOPS
One overlooked opportunity for improving Dev and Ops collaboration is inviting database administrators (DBAs) to the DevOps conversation. Numerous DBA pros operate with a foot firmly set in each realm, having learned both competencies to preserve production database sustainability; these are the next resources CIOs and DevOps leaders must integrate into DevOps teams. Organizations should begin seeing positive impacts within a few months, after allowing time for DBA recommendations to progress through the operational and product development pipelines. DBAs think capacity, performance, and recoverability at highly proficient levels and can incrementally blend database changes into the release pipeline. Having these new DevOps team members that speak the language of development and the language of operations allows for purer strategic communications and clearer product requirements understanding, resulting in better business product outcomes.
Master DevOps collaboration with DBA inclusion!!!
Mike Cuppett
Author of "DevOps, DBAs, and DbaaS"
Read Mike Cuppett's blog: DBAs Hack the Collaboration Dysfunction Between Dev and Ops.
Read The Best Way for Dev and Ops to Collaborate - Part 5, covering communication.
Industry News
Aviatrix® introduced Aviatrix Distributed Cloud Firewall for Kubernetes, a distributed cloud networking and network security solution for containerized enterprise applications and workloads.
Stride announces the general availability of Stride Conductor, its new autonomous coding product that transforms the software development landscape.
CircleCI unveiled CircleCI releases, which enables developers to automate the release orchestration process directly from the CircleCI UI.
Fermyon™ Technologies announces Fermyon Platform for Kubernetes, a WebAssembly platform for Kubernetes.
Akuity announced a new offer targeted at Enterprises and businesses where security and compliance are key.
New Relic launched new capabilities for New Relic IAST (Interactive Application Security Testing), including proof-of-exploit reporting for application security testing.
OutSystems announced AI Agent Builder, a new solution in the OutSystems Developer Cloud platform that makes it easy for IT leaders to incorporate generative AI (GenAI) powered applications into their digital transformation strategy, as well as govern the use of AI to ensure standardization and security.
Mirantis announced significant updates to Lens Desktop that makes working with Kubernetes easier by simplifying operations, improving efficiency, and increasing productivity. Lens 2024 Early Access is now available to Lens users.
Codezero announced a $3.5 million seed-funding round led by Ballistic Ventures, the venture capital firm dedicated exclusively to funding entrepreneurs and innovations in cybersecurity.
Prismatic launched a code-native integration building experience.
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. announced its Check Point Infinity Platform has been ranked as the #1 Zero Trust Platform in the latest Miercom Zero Trust Platform Assessment.
Tricentis announced the launch and availability of SAP Test Automation by Tricentis as an SAP Solution Extension.
Netlify announced the general availability of the AI-enabled deploy assist.
DataStax announced a new integration with Airbyte that simplifies the process of building production-ready GenAI applications with structured and unstructured data.