OpenText launched the latest version of ValueEdge -- an innovative modular, cloud-based DevOps and value stream management (VSM) platform.
The following are 2017 predictions for DevOps from the executive team at XebiaLabs, covering Analytics, Monitoring, Big Data, Serverless, Container Orchestration and more:
Analytics and Monitoring Become Critical in Software Development
Analytics and monitoring in software development will become more important. Automated processes produce large amounts of data (just like in IoT), and we're automating software releases more and more. Critical information needed to manage releases is being produced in large volume and scattered over a vast array of tools. Teams will need to be able to summarize that data clearly for business reporting, and identify and highlight unusual or surprising data for further investigation related to operations, usage, what's working/what's not.
Tim Buntel, VP of Products, XebiaLabs
Big Data Presents New Challenges
The number of data science/big data projects will increase and will have their own specific challenges around testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. Greater business focus on these projects will reinforce the adoption of cluster managers, since most big data frameworks run on one of these.
Andrew Phillips, VP DevOps Strategy, XebiaLabs
Serverless Architectures Grow in Popularity
Use of Serverless Architectures will expand. Serverless architectures let you run code without provisioning or managing servers, which goes beyond the original promises of PaaS that we have been hearing for years. You don't need a provisioned server, and you don't need an application running all the time. They also provide great horizontal scalability completely automatically. While not new (AWS Lambda was launched in late 2014, for example), next year, we'll start to see them being used more broadly, and not just as an interesting subject for a Meetup talk.
Tim Buntel, VP of Products, XebiaLabs
Next Gen Platforms Focus on Container Orchestration
In 2017, we'll see a new wave of "next gen platform" projects focused on container orchestration frameworks and re-tooled PaaS platforms. Acceptance of the need for a cross-machine resource management and scheduling framework is growing, and the vendor ecosystem is rapidly throwing weight behind this movement. There will also be an increased shift away from defining containers directly, and more towards having containers generated automatically where necessary.
With increased experience of actually implementing next gen platforms and automatically generating containers, there will be greater focus on enterprise concerns, such as access controls, audit trails and network technologies that can implement "virtual firewalls" at the level of the orchestration tier. We'll also start seeing the first wave of "it's much harder than it looks" cases.
Andrew Phillips, VP DevOps Strategy, XebiaLabs
Enterprises Move Apps to New Architectures
Enterprises will invest more in moving apps onto new architectures. The organizational gaps between Legacy (aka "Mature"), Transitioning and Modern application stacks will continue to create stress for companies in areas such as hiring, staff allocation and budgeting. With an increasing number of organizations succeeding at delivering customer-facing solutions on new platforms — for exxample, cloud and containers — companies will invest morre in moving their applications onto these new architectures.
TJ Randall, VP of Customer Success, XebiaLabs
New Way to Define Apps
Defining applications as a set of related processes will be a new de-facto standard. We'll stop defining many apps as essentially "virtual machines definitions," signaling the beginning of the end of the "bake a new AMI for each app version" approach to software delivery.
Andrew Phillips, VP DevOps Strategy, XebiaLabs
Hot Buzzwords: Pipeline and Release Orchestration
Pipeline and release orchestration will be the two hottest buzzwords for the non-Dev folks in the application delivery process, as these approaches provide the consistency in the delivery process that business demands, along with the flexibility that IT teams need to deliver solutions faster.
TJ Randall, VP of Customer Success, XebiaLabs
Derek Langone is CEO of XebiaLabs.
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.