OpenText launched the latest version of ValueEdge -- an innovative modular, cloud-based DevOps and value stream management (VSM) platform.
DEVOPSdigest asked experts from across the industry for their recommendation on a key technology required for DevOps. Part 2 of the list covers automation and continuous integration.
Start with 30 Must-Have Tools to Support DevOps - Part 1
9. AUTOMATION
DevOps relies, technologically, on automation and socially, on collaboration. You can't empower development and operations to collaborate and move faster until the manual scripting and configuration tasks are automated. So automation truly is the tooling foundation of DevOps. In short, automation supports a workflow that provides speed, scale and consistency – the end-state anyone practicing DevOps is trying to achieve.
Lucas A. Welch
Director of Communications, Chef
The single most important tool for DevOps success is an automation tool that is capable of supporting a variety of technologies. Our customer base needs a complete big data stack automation tool that speeds the creation of big data clusters for hard-to-system-engineer, distributed processing applications. With this type of tool developers can gain access to a Hadoop cluster almost immediately – as opposed to the weeks or months it might take through conventional channels. This allows developers and data scientists to experiment and innovate rapidly.
Brad Kolarov
Managing Partner, B23
The true must-have tool to enable DevOps is a culture of collaboration. Without trusted and transparent interaction between Development and Operations, you can't enable DevOps. Concurrent with a shift in culture is the need for automated tooling at all levels: build, test, deploy, monitor and remediate.
Bill Berutti
President of the Cloud, Data Center and Performance Businesses at BMC Software
10. CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
A continuous integration tool is vital to enabling DevOps. With the help of other tools, they form the automation backbone that consolidates developers’ code submissions, packages and tests releases, and deploys releases into production.
Krishnan Badrinarayanan
Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Riverbed
Tools alone will not drive DevOps transformations; however, if I had to pick one critical tool to DevOps, I would say it is the CI Server. If the service delivery pipeline is the blood of DevOps, then the CI Server is the heart.
John Willis
Director of Ecosystem Development, Docker
Continuous integration is the best way to tie your development, testing and deployment into a single end-to-end process that “just works”, allowing Development and Ops to focus on what they do best and deliver quality code to your users faster
Matt Solnit
CTO, SOASTA
11. BUILD AUTOMATION
Silicon Valley software teams increasingly look to Build Automation as the key to developer productivity – because it empowers developers to define the behavior of all the other downstream DevOps toolchain.
Miko Matsumura
CMO, Gradle
12. AUTOMATED CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
In my opinion, integration testing is the most important phase of software development. This makes automated configuration management a must-have in the DevOps toolbox. The growth of containers and microservices makes it all the more critical to track components and ensure that the right version of components are being tested.
Gabe Lowy
Technology Analyst and Founder of TechTonics Advisors
Read Gabe Lowy's latest blog on DEVOPSdigest: The DevOps Payoff
13. SELENIUM GRID
One must-have tool to enable DevOps is a Selenium (or Appium) grid to support automated unit and functional tests that run whenever a new code is checked in via the CI server. Ideally, this grid is on a 3rd-party cloud service so that the DevOps team does not have to deal with maintaining an image library of the latest browser, OS, and device combinations, or the delays associated with false positives that may be introduced as the result of a testing infrastructure unreliability.
Lubos Parobek
VP of Products, Sauce Labs
Read 30 Must-Have Tools to Support DevOps - Part 3, covering continuous delivery.
Industry News
Oracle announced the availability of Java 20, the latest version of the programming language and development platform.
Rafay Systems introduced Environment Manager, a solution that empowers enterprise platform teams to improve the developer experience by delivering self-service capabilities for provisioning full-stack environments.
To meet the growing demand for Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) with global organizations, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is introducing new capabilities that can boost the reliability and efficiency of large-scale Kubernetes environments while simplifying operations and reducing costs.
Perforce Software joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program and listed its free Enhanced Studio Pack (ESP) in AWS Marketplace.
Aembit, an identity platform that lets DevOps and Security teams discover, manage, enforce, and audit access between federated workloads, announced its official launch alongside $16.6M in seed financing from cybersecurity specialist investors Ballistic Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures.
Hyland released Alfresco Content Services 7.0 – a cloud-native content services platform, optimized for content model flexibility and performance at scale.
CAST AI has announced the closing of a $20M investment round.
Check Point® Software Technologies introduced Infinity Global Services, an all-encompassing security solution that will empower organizations of all sizes to fortify their systems, from cloud to network to endpoint.
OpsCruise's Kubernetes and Cloud Service observability platform is certified to run on the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes platform.
DataOps.live released an update to the DataOps.live platform, delivering productivity for data teams.
CoreStack and Zensar announced a strategic global partnership. CoreStack will provide its AI-powered NextGen cloud governance and FinOps capabilities, complementing Zensar’s composable cloud operations offering.
Delinea introduced the Delinea Platform, a cloud-native foundation for Delinea's PAM solutions that empowers end-to-end visibility, dynamic privilege controls, and adaptive security.
Sysdig announced a new foundation that will serve as the long-term custodian of the Wireshark open source project.
Talend announced the latest update to Talend Data Fabric, its end-to-end platform for data discovery, transformation, governance, and sharing.