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IT Modernization and DevOps News Week in Review 1.18.2021
This week’s DevOps news round-up features a double-header of news due to the Thanksgiving Holiday in the US. Directly preceding the holiday, 25,000 people gathered virtually to participate in KubeCon 2020. The event illustrated the breadth and depth of enthusiasm for Kubernetes – from mature projects to new product and service announcements.
re:Invent Round-Up of AWS DevOps Announcements
As Werner Vogels, AWS CTO, took the stage at re:Invent this week, he had a clear message for builders: there has never been a more important time to stop, assess your needs and assure you are focusing on the right things. He emphasized several key mechanisms AWS will use to help support developers in this endeavor in 2021, meeting them where they are to grow dependability, tracing, logging, and monitoring, and address global issues like climate change. These themes were reiterated in the AWS infrastructure keynote given by Peter DeSantis, SVP, AWS Infrastructure & Support. Read on for key highlights and AWS DevOps announcements from both keynotes.
How Will SASE Change Networking in 2021?
We recently shared the story of a client who we helped automate the process of testing images for publication to the Azure Marketplace, speeding time to market of its offerings. As we promised in that article, today we are sharing the next step in the process. While there is quite a bit of guidance available on how to publish a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk or unmanaged image) to the Azure Marketplace, the documentation on how to publish a managed image is lacking. So, to help we’ve outlined here the steps we took to help our client publish its managed images to the Azure Marketplace Shared Image Gallery.
AWS re:Invent Machine Learning Round-Up
Machine Learning (ML) is growing quickly. In the first-ever AWS ML keynote, Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Amazon Machine Learning, kicked off by announcing that more than 100,000 customers now use AWS for ML use cases and that AWS launched over 250 new ML features this year. Illustrating how the innovation will continue in 2021, AWS unveiled several new ML features and services at this year’s re:Invent.
How to Publish Managed Images to the Azure Marketplace
We recently shared the story of a client who we helped automate the process of testing images for publication to the Azure Marketplace, speeding time to market of its offerings. As we promised in that article, today we are sharing the next step in the process. While there is quite a bit of guidance available on how to publish a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk or unmanaged image) to the Azure Marketplace, the documentation on how to publish a managed image is lacking. So, to help we’ve outlined here the steps we took to help our client publish its managed images to the Azure Marketplace Shared Image Gallery.
AWS re:Invent News Round-Up
Capping a year of changes, Andy Jassy, AWS CEO, kicked off what will be three weeks of virtual programming at this year’s AWS re:Invent. With an expected 500,000 attendees, the conference has certainly grown. Yet, one thing hasn’t changed. re:Invent still generates a plethora of new product and service announcements. Specifically, in the first of four planned keynotes, Andy Jassy’s presentation focused on advances in container, serverless and data storage technology. In a year where innovation and reinvention became business imperatives, AWS revealed several new services to help enterprises continue to reinvent themselves in the year ahead.
Shave Days off Azure Marketplace Publishing with Automated Testing
The Microsoft Azure Marketplace is a catalog with thousands of solutions that work on or integrate with the Azure cloud. To ensure users have a quality experience with products in its Marketplace, Microsoft works with software vendors to certify each product before it is offered publicly. This process ensures that any product offered through the Azure Marketplace is compatible with the Azure cloud. However, ensuring quality can be a lengthy process. Wanting to streamline its publishing time, our client reached out for help to build a better approach.
IT Modernization and DevOps News Week in Review 11.30.2020
This week’s DevOps news round-up features a double-header of news due to the Thanksgiving Holiday in the US. Directly preceding the holiday, 25,000 people gathered virtually to participate in KubeCon 2020. The event illustrated the breadth and depth of enthusiasm for Kubernetes – from mature projects to new product and service announcements.
How To: Multi-Cluster Monitoring in Amazon EKS
Prometheus integrated with Thanos provides a standard monitoring solution to capture metrics and discover any bottlenecks in Amazon EKS Clusters and applications running in and outside the cluster with an exporter. Prometheus provides a unified way of collecting and exposing metrics and Thanos allows us to create multiple instances of Prometheus, deduplicate data and long-term data archival solutions providing a highly available and scalable solution altogether and visualized on Grafana dashboard.
IT Modernization and DevOps News Week in Review 11.16.2020
In this week’s DevOps news, Atlassian doubles-down on IT service management with the introduction of Jira Service Management. Atlassian’s latest foray into IT service management (ITSM) seeks to bring IT operations and development teams together with incident management, powered by Opsgenie; change management with rich contextual information; and a redesigned agent experience to better categorize service requests, incidents, problems, and changes.
When to Migrate from AWS Landing Zone to AWS Control Tower
In its Cloud Adoption in 2020 report, O’Reilly found that 45% of enterprises expected to move 75% or more of their applications to the cloud this year with 25% reporting plans to move all their applications to the cloud. This trend has only escalated as a mid-year report by Flexera shows that 59% of enterprises expect cloud use to exceed their pre-COVID-19 plans. The one thing holding enterprises back? The fear of getting security wrong.
IT Modernization and DevOps News Week in Review 11.9.2020
A lot of focus has been on digital transformation driven by the myriad of economic and social changes 2020 has ushered in. Bringing a new perspective to transformation in this week’s DevOps news is Infosys Knowledge Institute who has released results of a new survey finding that “nearly 44% of top-tier companies expect a collaborative CMO-CIO relationship to boost profitability by 5% or more.” As data and customer-centricity converge, Infosys finds that marketers were quick to identify agility and the evolution from customer experience to human experience as critical to future success – with 69% and 58% saying so. For its part, 62% of IT responders identified collaboration between CIOs and CMOs as significant to driving digital transformation across the enterprise.