News Category: DevOps
Chris Binnie | April 16, 2019 
Linux Server Hardening Using Idempotency with Ansible: Part 3
In the previous articles, we introduced idempotency as a way to approach your server’s security posture and looked at some specific Ansible examples, including the kernel, system accounts, and IPtables. In this final article of the series, we’ll look at a few more server-hardening examples and talk...
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Chris Binnie | April 8, 2019 
Linux Server Hardening Using Idempotency with Ansible: Part 1
I think it’s safe to say that the need to frequently update the packages on our machines has been firmly drilled into us. To ensure the use of latest features and also keep security bugs to a minimum, skilled engineers and even desktop users are well-versed in the need to update their software....
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The New Stack | March 29, 2019
SREs Wish Automation Solved All Their Problems
Although the SRE job role is often defined as being about automation, the reality is that 59 percent of SREs agree there is too much toil (defined as manual, repetitive, tactical work that scales linearly) in their organization. Based on 188 survey responses from people holding SRE job roles,...
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Kubernetes Blog | March 28, 2019
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Get details on the new features of Kubernetes 1.14.
Kubernetes 1.14: Production-level support for Windows Nodes, Kubectl Updates, Persistent Local Volumes GA
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.14, our first release of 2019!
Kubernetes 1.14 consists of 31 enhancements: 10 moving to stable, 12 in beta, and 7 net new. The main themes of this release are extensibility and supporting more workloads on Kubernetes with three major features...
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eWeek | March 27, 2019
Kubernetes 1.14 Enhances Cloud-Native Platform With Windows Nodes
The first major update of the open-source Kubernetes cloud-native platform in 2019 was released on March 25, with the general availability of Kubernetes 1.14.
Kubernetes is a broadly deployed container orchestration system project that is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and...
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The New Stack | March 22, 2019
CI/CD Gets Governance and Standardization
Kubernetes, microservices and the advent of cloud native deployments have created a Renaissance-era in computing. As developers write and deploy code as part of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) production processes, an explosion of tools has emerged for CI/CD processes, often...
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DevOps .com | March 21, 2019
Why Unikernels Are Great for DevOps
Unikernels are single-purpose virtual machines (VM). They only run one application—which is interesting when you think about it, because that’s precisely how a lot of DevOps practitioners provision their applications today. There is way too much software to provision nowadays—pools of app servers,...
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DevOps .com | March 19, 2019
Why You Need DevOps and the Cloud
DevOps and the cloud are not only two of today’s biggest tech trends, but are inextricably linked. Research from DORA’s 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report and Redgate’s 2019 State of Database DevOps Report outline a clear correlation between cloud and DevOps adoption, with the two working...
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DevOps .com | March 13, 2019
The Linux Foundation Launches Continuous Delivery Foundation
The Linux Foundation announced it will provide the home base for a vendor-neutral Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) committed to making it easier to build and reuse DevOps pipelines across multiple continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms.
The first projects to be hosted...
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The New Stack | February 27, 2019
Kubernetes Warms Up to IPv6
There’s a finite number of public IPv4 addresses and the IPv6 address space was specified to solve this problem some 20 years ago, long before Kubernetes was conceived of. But because it was originally developed inside Google and it’s only relatively recently that cloud services like Google and AWS...
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