Tag: CD
We Will Control the World!
Don MacVittie has one request for vendors: Don’t tell us how you can manage other vendors' tools; tell us how you’re making it easier to manage yours ...
Harness Acquires Armory Continuous Delivery Assets
Harness has acquired the assets of Armory, a provider of CD platforms based on the open source Spinnaker platform and a cloud service based on a proprietary platform ...
Monitor Toolchain Health, Too
Tool everything, because the software delivery toolchain is now the core of application development and deployment, Don MacVittie advises ...
Identify Needs First
In several projects of late, I have noted a trend in otherwise rockstar IT departments: They identify an area that they wish to implement or approve and then set out to address ...
Harnessing AI in Continuous Delivery and Deployment
In my recent article Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps with AI-Engineered Tools, I explained that the continuous delivery pillar is an approach where code changes are automatically built, tested and prepared ...
Forget Change, Embrace Stability
DevOps is about change. It was introduced to accelerate change, and it has opened up a whole new world of tools and possibilities that are all based on the premise of changing ...
The Fallacy of Continuous Integration, Delivery and Testing
We know that continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become a DevOps best practice. And many have learned that by adding continuous testing (CT), they can create a virtuous loop, ensuring ...
Raise Those (Feature) Flags
I’ve written about feature flags before, but I think it’s time for a solid bit of advice: “If you are not yet using feature flags for DevOps, it is past time to ...
The Differences Between DevOps and GitOps
The transition to a DevOps model has been welcomed by many organizations that are looking to implement more efficient development processes. However, there are multiple models to choose from, with GitOps a ...
Are We Delivering?
I had an interesting conversation today where I was told, "We do great with CI but terrible at the CD part." My immediate reaction was to point at all the great CD ...
It’s a Toolchain!
I was talking with some friends the other day, and we got to discussing how inaccurate the word "toolchain” is. We pundits–and even a lot of marketers–use the word toolchain regularly and, ...
Cloud: Why Must We Be Confusing?
When I was a kid learning to play Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the concept of level was never confusing—though the authors should have seen that it very well could be. For those ...