Red Hat releases OpenShift 4 for enterprise Kubernetes with Operator Hub, CodeReady Workspaces
Red Hat this week announced a rearchitected OpenShift at its Summit conference, with version 4 bringing a cloud-like experience. The company said it will be generally available next month. The release also includes Operator Hub, which makes the concept of operators a first-class citizen in the platform update, according to Brian Micklea, who runs the … continue reading
Red Hat, Microsoft bring OpenShift to the Azure cloud
Red Hat and Microsoft announced at the conference that Azure Red Hat OpenShift — a joint Kubernetes solution running in the Microsoft Azure public cloud. The partnership will allow IT organizations to use Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on-premises and to bring Azure services to those workloads. The service is backed by Red Hat’s expertise … continue reading
State of Agile report: Make investment in people
Organizations that really want to make Agile processes work realize they have to make an investment in people. That was among the findings of the 13th State of Agile Report, produced by Collabnet VersionOne and released today. The top three responses to the question of what has been most valuable in helping organizations scale Agile … continue reading
Red Hat rolls out Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat this morning announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, which the company said has been redesigned for the hybrid and multcloud era. In its announcement at the company’s annual Summit, Red Hat cited an IDC report showing that a large majority of respondents already deploy multicloud environments, and that 64 percent … continue reading
Processing changes in process
I find that I’m writing an awful lot about process these days, and I have figured out why. It’s because, if your company is like one of my old ones, your processes are awful. It’s not that all the processes themselves are awful, though some are truly poorly thought-out. A big part of the process … continue reading
Docker launches foundation to foster education
Docker today announced the establishment of a foundation to foster education about modern technology in underserved communities. Announced today at DockerCon in San Francisco, Docker Foundation is a non-profit created, according to the company, to “support organizations that align with its mission of enabling a more diverse generation of developers to build our future through … continue reading
A guide to VSM tools
The CloudBees Suite builds on emerging DevOps practices and continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) automation by adding a layer of governance, visibility and insights necessary to achieve optimum efficiency and control new risks. Since every company in the world is now a software company, this new automated software delivery system is becoming the … continue reading
Losing command and control…and living with it!
There’s a saying that goes, “Developers don’t want to miss the boat, and operations don’t want to sink the ship.” But for organizations to create value streams to observe their operations and eliminate waste while driving efficiencies, they might have to yield some control. ConnectALL’s Lance Knight recalled his time as a Novell network administrator, … continue reading
How does your solution help organizations on their value stream journey?
Alex Tacho, director of product management, CloudBees CloudBees DevOptics solves the challenges of measuring and managing DevOps results by being the only solution purpose-built to provide visibility into collaborative delivery and DevOps performance. CloudBees DevOptics lets you map and visualize end-to-end software value streams with actionable insights to measure, manage and optimize software delivery across … continue reading
Gently down the value stream
Value stream has become a part of the application development lexicon, having first gained uptake as a manufacturing exercise and now being applied to the process of delivering value to customers through software. It’s been evaluated by analysts and increasingly written about in the industry press — including the SD Times Jan. 1 cover declaring … continue reading
Open-source software use grows but risks remain, study finds
Open source software makes up more than half of enterprise codebases analyzed in 13 out of 17 industries, according to this year’s Open Source Software Risk Assessment study by the Black Duck Audit Services team at code quality analysis software provider Synopsys. But this increase in use also points to increased risk, as patches to … continue reading
Docker announces update to container platform
Docker today announced Docker Enterprise 3.0, an update to its container platform with new desktop functionality, developer tooling, simplified Docker Kubernetes Service, and the ability to run the platform as a managed service. The new release, announced at today’s opening of DockerCon in San Francisco, introduces Docker Applications, a set of tools upon which developers … continue reading
