DevOps Chat

There is a great new book coming out called the Kitty Hawk Venture. In the vein of Gene Kim's The Phoenix Project, Kitty Hawk is also a novel, rather than your typical business text. It is the story of a fictional company in the airline industry, but is based on a true story. It is due out in July but you can pre-order on Amazon now: https://www.amazon.com/Kitty-Hawk-Venture-Continuous-Delivery/dp/1484236602 In this DevOps Chat we speak with one of the authors of the book, CA VP, Aruna Ravichandran about the book, about continuous testing and her passion for DevOps. This is Aruna's 2nd book on DevOps, in addition to her many other activities. She is a dynamic personality and I think you will really enjoy this chat and the book!

In this episode of "The CEO's View" we again chat with Derek Langone of XebiaLabs. Derek tackles a tough question: What's killing your digital transformation? Hint: It might be you. No one ever said these transformations are easy. A few missteps could doom your progress. But don't give up, keep at it, follow some of Derek's advice here and you might just transform successfully.

In our continuing series of "The CEO's View" with Derek Langone of XebiaLabs we take a bit of a deep dive into DevSecOps and how it has risen to the top of the list in Derek's conversations with organizations around the world. Great discussion with some keen insights, enjoy!

In this special edition DevOps Chat we speak with acclaimed DevOps leader and author, Gary Gruver, DevOps pioneer and thought leader, Helen Beal and Electric Cloud executive Sam Fell about the upcoming DevOps Workshop which will follow the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. The workshop takes place on June 27th. You can get information and tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/devops-workshop-from-new-learner-to-executive-leader-with-gary-gruver-and-devops-institute-tickets-45409188104 . Also be sure to check out DevSecOps Days the day after this workshop in London! https://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=44808855493

It's always great to catch up with Robert Reeves, CTO, founder of Datical. Datical just released a new survey about the State of Database Deployments in Application Delivery (https://www.datical.com/whitepapers/survey-the-state-of-database-deployments-in-application-delivery/). Have a listen to our chat and be sure to download the survey report!

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Kurt Glazemakers of Cyxtera, the makers of AppGate SDP. SDP stands for software defined perimeter and the Cyxtera security division has a new release out with some exciting new features. Have a listen to get the scoop.

Yaniv Yehuda of DBMaestro has his ear to the ground on what is happening with DevOps for databases. He talks to us about the state of the market and what is the latest from DBMaestro. Have a listen and learn

SRE is a very hot field right now. Some say it is "the ops in DevOps". We chat with Stig Sorenson of the Bloomberg SRE team about how Bloomberg is using SRE to make their business more responsive to their customers. Stig and the Bloomberg team are really at the forefront of what is happening in the SRE field, so this is a great look in.

Sinead Glynn of IBM discusses a couple of trends in cloud service management. How does DevOps, ITIL, ITSM, SRE, as well as Machine Learning and AI factor into this. Hybrid cloud versus multi-cloud. Sinead has a great catbird seat to observe all of these changes. It is an exciting time to be in Ops and Sinead gives us a peek inside.

DOES London 2018 speaker, Ann Marie of IBM gives us a preview of her session on whether audit and compliance is a DevOps Killer. Have a listen to get a preview of her talk and be sure to register for DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2018: https://events.itrevolution.com/eur/

In this DevOps Chat our guest is Andrea Martinez Crawford, distinguished engineer and CTO for DevOps at IBM's Hybrid Cloud division. Andrea and Alan Shimel, editor-in-chief of DevOps.com talk about what is a "modern application" versus a legacy app. With special emphasis on what this means for DevOps. Great discussion!

Mirco Hering is a DevOps expert with Accenture. He is also an accomplished blogger and now a DevOps author. His book DevOps for the Modern Enterprise from IT Revolution is available on Amazon and other sites that sell books. Mirco in his role with Accenture is also very tuned into the Asia-Pacific region's DevOps scene, as well as Europe. We discuss a little bit about both AP and Europe as well as a preview of DOES London 2018. Great conversation with a real DevOps practitioner.

Chris O'Malley is bullish on mainframes. As you would expect someone who is the CEO of Compuware. But it is more than just bullish. Today's mainframes can run as fast as you need them too. Want to run Java or JS node? No problem. There is no reason to treat the mainframe as if it is not a native of today's computing environments. In fact for many tasks the mainframes is the best tool for the job. Chris is a great advocate and I think you will find this chat very interesting.

Appian World is just a few weeks away. Featuring a hackathon, keynote by The Woz and more, it promises to be a great time down on Miami Beach. DevOps.com will be there shooting video, reporting on the conference and talking to real, live practitioners. We spoke with Malcom Ross, VP of product marketing for Appian and a keynote speaker at Appian World himself. He gave us some great insight into conference, but more important into what is going on in the world of Low-Code. You can get more info at https://appianworld.appian.com/

Tim Hockin is Principle Software Engineer at Google. He is also one of the founders of the Kubernetes project and works on Google Cloud Platform. When he talks about containers and microservices, pay attention. :-) We caught up with Tim and spoke with him about microservices and how to refactor your applications if it makes sense. Enjoy1

Interop China has been growing steadily since its inception in 2013. It is part of the Cloud Connect conference. This year they are featuring both DevOps and DevSecOps tracks and talks. Jayne Groll of the DevOps Institute is the DevOps track chair and Alan Shimel of DevOps.com and Security Boulevard is speaking at DevSecOps.com. We sat down with Molly Huang and Kelly Yao of UBM China to discuss this years event. It sounds like it will be a great one!

When two legends in the InfoSec world start a new company, people take notice. Jeremiah Grossman and Robert "RSnake" Hansen recently announced their new venture BitDiscovery (http://www.bitdiscovery.com) was coming out of stealth, fresh off a venture raise and the acquisition Robert's company, Outside Intel. BitDiscovery offers a radically different way of doing asset inventory and website discovery. Rather than scanning when you want to discover your assets, with BitDiscovery, you just query the master database that the company has assembled and it tells you what it has already found there. This is possible because BitDiscovery keeps a snapshot updated constantly of just about the entire Internet. That is one Big Data based solution right there. Robert and Jeremiah are just the kind of guys to make something like this work. Also after speaking to them, I believe that with that kind of data, there will be a lot more uses for this technology that will present themselves to the BitDiscovery team. With the track record of these two pioneers, look for big things!

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Scott Wilson of CA Automic about the modern software factory, software pipelines, CD/ARA and more. That is a lot packed into just about 15 minutes! Scott is always an interesting guest with good things to say and learn from. Enjoy!

In this chat we spoke with Prem Chandraskearan, VP of Software engineering at Barclaycard. Prem has led the DevOps transformation there. He sums up his learning with this: The best way for an organization to approach DevOps is from a collaborative angle. When development and operations experts actively work together in a cohesive effort, solutions are well designed, efficient and smart from both a development and maintenance perspective. When operations is viewed as a software problem, Dev and Ops can work in tandem to implement a tool that is holistically a part of the process from start to finish. DevOps is always a work in progress, but the initiative can only improve with quality resources that implement a variety of backgrounds and perspectives on both Dev and Ops working together. Barclaycard has had some interesting challenges with DevOps due to being in the credit card/banking industry, so for example, the “you build it, you run it” mantra doesn’t work as well for us as it would for other enterprises implementing DevOps. It is definitely a learning curve, and our goals and best practices are still coming to fruition, but we are continuing to find ways to automate. The best way to get teams to work together is to simply ensure that they are not in silos, meaning that if there are distinct dev and ops teams, they must spend time in each other’s sectors to understand the pains, how the functions work, what makes it tick, etc. When the development and maintenance perspective are strategized in tandem, it automatically makes for a better, more streamlined workflow. The best way to ensure a DevOps initiative’s long-term success is to ensure that the foundation of the program is collaborative and understanding of how each function works. With this, automation testing for failure is imperative to discover problems that are typically only otherwise found in production. If all the bases are covered and the process is streamlined and collaborative, the overall quality of your DevOps function will be much higher.

Aqua Security have established themselves as a leader in the container security space. Rani Osnat, VP of Aqua Security and a frequent guest gives us an update on the latest developments around Kubernetes, security controls and the newest version of AquaSec, 3.0.

This is the first in a new series of DevOps Chats that we will be recording featuring Derek Langone, CEO of XebiaLabs. Derek will be sharing his unique view as the CEO of one of the leading agents of DevOps transformation in the enterprise, XebiaLabs. If you are an executive looking at digital transformation, you should listen to what Derek has to say. Enjoy!

In his role as chief product officer at New Relic Jim Gochee has had a front row seat to dozens, if not hundreds of organizations undergoing digital transformation. He gives us some of his observations and tips in this interesting DevOps Chat. Enjoy!

In this DevOps chat we sit down with Judit Sharon, CEO of OnPage. OnPage has been providing alerting and incident management services primarily to the health care industry before DevOps was called DevOps. As DevOps has exploded on the scene, the security and functionality built into OnPage was a perfect fit for ITOps and DevOps teams. As a result OnPage has expanded beyond its Health Care industry roots to become a very popular solution in the DevOps space. OnPage recently conducted a survey on the state of alerting in the IT Ops space. Judit gives us some insight into the findings, but you can download the full survey report at https://www.onpage.com/the-state-of-it-operations-ebook/. Great conversation, enjoy!

Harry Sverdlove has a long history in security first at Carbon Black and now as the founder CTO of EdgeWise Networks which emerged from stealth last August. Edgewise has solutions around Network Security and the cloud. Many think network security does not apply to cloud, but oh yes it does. By the same token (no pun intended), network security plays with DevSecOps as well. Harry and I have a great discussion on this and more.

GitLab has a very complete and ambitious plan to offer a complete DevOps solution to its customer base. Leveraging open source plus great service and premium feature sets, GitLab has become a leader in the DevOps field. I spoke to GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij and new VP of product marketing, Ashish Kuthiala about the vision of GitLab being a single application for the whole software development and operations lifecycle.

Have you ever thought you had a great idea for a business, but weren't sure what comes next? Think you can do better than those people you work for now? Just had the dream of starting your own company? If so there is a new playbook for you. My friends Rajat Bhargava and Will Herman have written the Startup Playbook to help. We sit down with serial founder, Bhargava to discuss the new book, what is the best advice in there and 3 tips that every founder should know. A bit off of our usual DevOps, but a great chat. Enjoy! Also, you can download a kindle version of the book for 99 cents! Here is the link: https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Playbook-Founder-Founder-Veterans-ebook/dp/B078QCRYWJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding Finally a few times at the end I referred to the book as the Founders Playbook. I tried to dub in Starters Playbook, but frankly my interviewing skills are better than my sound engineer skills. Apologies.

Few areas in DevOps are hotter than continuous testing. Automating various types of tests as part of your CI/CD pipeline is a bit of a holy grail in the DevOps world. Tricentis is a company that is offering a tried and proven enterprise solution in this area. Having perfected their technology over the last 6-7 years and having raised $165m in capital, Tricentis is poised to deliver. In this DevOps Chat we sit down with Tricentis CEO Sandeep Johri to discuss the market, the opportunity and what Tricentis is up to. Great conversation!

The environments that we deploy applications in have certainly changed over the last 10 years. This is true for the way we secure applications as well. Barracuda Networks has ridden this wave to cloud native and making solutions for developers, devops teams and security and risk teams. We speak to Tim Jefferson, VP of public cloud for Barracuda on how they are adapting and helping to shape this market

Application Security Requirements & Threat Management (ASRTM)is a great way to: • Lowering costs to build secure software • Making security measurable • Turning unplanned work into planned work • Freeing up time away from remediation, and into feature development • Having a single process that works with in-house, outsourced, and commercial software • Providing confidence that software is secure, when requirements are linked to verification In this chat with Rohit Sethi of Security Compass, we discuss ASRTM and how it helps DevOps teams, security teams and DevSecOps.

One of the hottest new trends in the cybersecurity world is what is being called "Deception". While honeypots and such have been around for a long time, the idea of purposely deceiving your attackers has really gained momentum, especially in the age of APT (advanced persistent threats). The team at Illusive Networks has pioneered this approach to safeguarding your infrastructure. In this Security Boulevard Chat we sit down with Illusive Networks Ofer Israeli to discuss the "art of deception."

Rosalind Radcliffe is a treasure of the mainframe world. It is always an interesting interview whenever we get the chance to speak with her. In this chat, Rosalind updates us on the newest generation of Big Iron from IBM, the z14 systems. Rosalind also tells us about some of the new capabilities of z14 that allow you to go as fast as you need it in your organization. Rosalind says it is time to move away from thinking of bi-modal IT. Even multi-speed IT is outdated. Today's mainframe can keep up with anything you throw at it.

Michael Kaczmarksi is an IBM Fellow and CTO of DevOps and Service Management. In his distinguished career at IBM he has obviously seen technologies come and go. Michael gives us an inside look at IBM's Cloud Private offering and how it relates to DevOps, Service management, hybrid cloud and so many other contemporary technologies in the market today.

In this DevOps Chat we are joined by Andy Richman of Park My Cloud and Samir Mehra of Cloud Health Technologies. Both of these cloud experts give sound advice on how you can best and most efficiently manage your cloud infrastructure whether it is on AWS, Azure, Google or anywhere else. If you are interested in optimizing your cloud deployments (who isn't?), then have a listen.

They already number in the billions, but connected devices or IoT were not all built with security as top of mind. In this chat we speak with Mike Nelson, VP of IoT Security at DigiCert, a global leader in digital security for connected systems and devices. Mike tells what to do with your legacy devices and systems to help make them more secure and what to look for in systems going forward so that you can be as secure as possible. Great practical advice.

In this DevOps Chat find out how the developers of Wolfpack (http://wolfpack.run) are saving over 50% of their prior costs for cloud by using Park My Cloud's cloud management platform. Though the cloud offers many benefits to app developers and others, controlling the costs of these apps can sometimes elude organizations big and small. Cloud sprawl can quickly lead to cloud bills. In this chat we speak with Jonathan Chashper, CEO of Wolfpack about how his company got a handle on the cloud and is saving over 50% of what they were paying before.

Microservices and Containers: Mastering the Re-Platforming of the IT Infrastructure The re-platforming of the enterprise IT infrastructure is no small undertaking and is usually provoked by a shifting set of key business drivers. That is precisely the case today. The term digital transformation is in the hearts, minds and on the lips of top-level business executives and IT leaders alike. The underlying traditional or legacy infrastructures that have dominated enterprise IT for nearly 30 years simply cannot handle the workloads or power the applications that will drive business decisively forward. Both microservices and containers are destined to play a major role in this enterprise re-platforming, for different reasons. Containers for their part hold significant benefits both for developers and the development effort as well as for the organization itself. Understanding this range of benefits is instrumental to securing IT budget for containers going forward. In this interview, Jim Scott, director, enterprise strategy and architecture at MapR, can discuss the most promising and compelling tools, technologies and solutions destined to play a major role in this re-platforming of the enterprise. Jim will highlight how to stay one clear step ahead as IT undertakes what is arguably its most mission-critical task in a generation.

Chef Habitat is growing up. Along the way it is really becoming quite a useful platform for application automation, including beefing up your security and compliance. We had a great update from the Chef team on what is new with Habitat. We have two Chef folks, Jaime Winsor, a co-author of Habitat and Tasha Drew, senior product manager and Blake Irvin of SmartB, a Habitat user.

Chef has spent a lot of time bringing security and compliance into the software development lifecycle (SDLM). They have several solutions both open source and commercial which can help with your DevSecOps practice. I had a chance to sit down with Dan Hauenstein and Dominick Richter. Dominick is one of the founding members of dev-sec.io and co-creator of Chef Compliance.

Container adoption rates are skyrocketing. Securing these environments is both a tremendous opportunity and a daunting challenge. Aqua Security has taken on this challenge. With their most recent funding announcement and other momentum news, they are making their play to lock down the container security market and establish themselves as the market leader. I had a chance to catch up with Rani Osnat of Aqua to hear about their funding news, how they are going to use the money and what the challenges are in the container security space.

Do you know suffer from Cloud Sprawl? Do you know how many instances you have and what is on each one? Getting handle and managing your cloud, hybrid cloud or multi-cloud can quickly outgrow companies both big and small. In this DevOps Chat we speak with ParkMyCloud CEO Jay Chapel who gives us some practical tips and advice how to get cloud sprawl under control.

Harness.io launched from stealth today with a goal of disrupting the CI/CD market. Made up of members from the AppDynamics founding team, Harness has a plan to bring a higher level of CI/CD functionality to those who require it. DevOps Chats caught up with Steve Burton, VP of product marketing at Harness to understand how theContinuous Delivery-As A-Service Platform seeks to make it happen.

In this DevOps Chat we catch up with Dr Kristian Stewart of IBM. Kristian talks to us about how dev and ops can work together. He calls it shift ops left and shift dev right. He has some great ideas borne out of his years of experience in the field. Kristian's background is as follows: Dr Kristian J Stewart, Architect - Hybrid Cloud Event Management and Analytics Kristian currently leads architecture for IBM's Netcool Event Management offering, and is part of the team providing as-a-service capabilities to IBM's clients with Cloud Event Management. He has worked in Systems and Service Management for 18 years. He lives in England with his wife and two daughters, two cats, and five Raspberry Pis.

OpenMake has been involved in the software integration and delivery process for many years. The CI/CD revolution that is inherent in much of what DevOps is about has changed the company and their model in ways not imagined. DeployHub has been open sourced and has really found a community. DeployHub Pro has landed OpenMake on the Gartner MQ. We speak with OpenMake CEO Tracy Ragan about road to open source and DevOps success.

IBM's latest enterprise system, z14 is in general release. Beyond pure speeds and feeds, the z14 has capabilities that go far beyond where any z system has gone before. Pervasive encryption, hybrid cloud integration, many new APIs and more make the z14 "the biggest release in z systems over the last 10 years at least" according to Hayden Lindsey, VP of Enterprise DevOps. Hayden is our guest in this chat and he lays out all of the reasons why z14 isn't your grandads mainframe

Steve Boone is the product owner and development manager for Urban Code Deploy. He has helped hundreds of companies adopt, implement and scale their agile and DevOps practices as part of their digital transformation. In this chat Steve gives us some insights into how can you measure your DevOps success.

Wouldn't it be nice to have the entire continuous delivery topography laid out in a nice map that shows how they are all interconnected? Sort of like a subway or metro map? Well now you have it and it is interactive! The good folks at Automic, a CA Technologies company just released their Continuous Delivery Map. It is really cool and they are adding to it all the time. I caught up with Scott Wilson of Automic and had a chat about the Continuous Delivery Map. As usual the streaming audio of our conversation is immediately below, followed by a transcript of our chat.

The path to cloud can be best navigated utilizing DevOps. JT Giri, co-founder and CEO of nClouds, is helping enterprises and startups alike migrate to the Cloud and adopt DevOps practices at the same time. It is a formula that is proving very successful. I had a chance to sit down with JT and discuss this path in this episode of DevOps Chat.

Chef is doing everything it can to automate as much of your IT process as possible. From config management to deployment, compliance to testing, Chef is trying help. With several open source projects, as well as enterprise class solutions, there is a lot to pick from. We check in with Ken Cheney, CMO of Chef for our regular check in on whats new. Have a listen and enjoy!

Jenkins World 2017 is right around the corner, August 28-31st in San Francisco. This years event is by far the biggest one yet! I had a chance to sit down with Sacha Labourey, CEO of CloudBees. He gives us some great info on why Jenkins World is a can't miss event. You can get a 20% discount on Jenkins World by using the code JWHGILMORE @ https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkinsworld. DevOps.com will be there filming videos as well as Alan Shimel, DevOps.com editor in chief will be moderating a panel on DevSecOps as well. See you in San Francisco at Jenkins World!

When doing research around launching DevOps.com, one of the most interesting and leading figures in the DevOps movement was Damon Edwards. It has always been a goal to sit down with Damon for a DevOps Chat. While having interviewed him numerous times for DevOps TV, for this chat, Damon joins us to discuss Rundeck(https://www.rundeck.com)and how it is helping flesh out the Ops in DevOps. Damon is super knowledgeable and well versed in this and other areas, so this chat is a really informative episode. Enjoy!