Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

GitLab Shifts 18 Features Into Core Open Source Platform

GitLab this week announced it has moved 18 features that previously organizations had to pay for into the core open source version of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Scott Williamson, executive vice president of product management for GitLab, said as a general rule the company makes available DevOps tools for teams across the […]

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The Linux Foundation to Award 500 Training Scholarships

The Linux Foundation this week announced it will make up to 500 training scholarships available this year. Clyde Seepersad, general manager for training at the Linux Foundation, said the number of Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarships being made available is being increased because of both the demand for individuals with particular expertise such as Kubernetes […]

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CircleCI Surfaces More DevOps Insights

CircleCI today announced it is making it easier for DevOps teams to determine the amount of resources being consumed by its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to help make application development teams more efficient. Kunal Jain, senior product manager for CircleCI, said via the application programming interface (API) that CircleCI exposes DevOps teams can now […]

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Compuware Shifts Mainframe App Testing Left

Compuware today announced it is making it easier to shift application performance testing further left on to the shoulders of developers by adding support for a REST application programming interface (API) to its application performance management (APM) platform for mainframe applications, along with a plug-in for Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments. Sam Knutson, vice […]

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DevOps Institute Upskilling the Enterprise

DevOps Institute released its annual Upskilling the Enterprise survey and the results are as interesting as last year. The organization of DevOps teams and its interaction with speed/success was one area that intrigued me, and sent me off looking for more information on the topic. This led me to this interesting site that does a […]

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DevOps Chats: CloudBees Remains at Top of DevOps Market

In this special DevOps Chats video edition, we speak with Sacha Labourey, CEO of CloudBees. From the very beginning of the DevOps movement, CloudBees has been one of the companies at the top of the DevOps market and, based on its latest business metrics, the company remains there. Being the enterprise Jenkins company helped CloudBees […]

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Four Metrics Every Engineering Manager Needs to Monitor for Success

Engineering managers and leaders are charged with a challenging task every day: How do they support engineers to do their best work, and how do they know if their engineers are doing their best work?  The former is easier than the latter. To enable an engineer’s best work, you’ll want to make sure they are […]

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Comparing Three Approaches to Multi-Cloud Security Management

Moving to a multi-cloud environment can bring many advantages, but it also brings huge challenges in managing both the everyday operations and security of multi-cloud infrastructures. To meet these challenges, several approaches to multi-cloud management have arisen. The most common can be roughly grouped into three categories: Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) […]

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Amazon Detective – Rapid Security Investigation and Analysis

Almost five years ago, I blogged about a solution that automatically analyzes AWS CloudTrail data to generate alerts upon sensitive API usage. It was a simple and basic solution for security analysis and automation. But demanding AWS customers have multiple AWS accounts, collect data from multiple sources, and simple searches based on regular expressions are […]

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Logz.io Launches COVID-19 Dashboard

Logz.io this week launched a Community COVID-19 Dashboard Project that seeks to provide software developers and data scientists a reliable source of data to assess the global impact of the pandemic. Dotan Horovits, product evangelist for Logz.io, said the goal is to help organizations make sense of often conflicting data by making it accessible using […]

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