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Ingenious opportunities with SlackOps on Spinnaker

To leverage the potential opportunities for managing a pipeline on spinnaker through the ease of a messenger platform, we will need to configure SlackOps. It is essential that a Slackbot is configured first before it can perform the assigned activities. What are Slackbots? A Slackbot is a type of Slack App designed to interact with […]

Ayan Ganguly

May 13, 2022

How Customers Use DevSecOps for Continuous Security and Compliance Automation

The State of Security and Compliance Automation The significant increase in malicious attacks during recent years has forced organizations to shift their efforts from reactive to proactive, preventive to diagnostic approaches. Teams that integrate security practices through their entire software supply chain deliver software quickly, safely, and reliably. This means they can successfully achieve continuous […]

Anushua Gorai

May 12, 2022

Secure and Hardened Spinnaker CI/CD Platform

Security of Open Source Software (OSS) is paramount in the minds of Enterprises using OSS projects in production environments. Many OSS projects ensure that the software is patched quickly to mitigate any identified critical vulnerabilities. The exact vulnerabilities and timeline to fix them may not align with the Enterprise using these projects. Typically, vendors providing […]

Balaji Sivasubramanian

May 9, 2022

Shining the Light on Dark Launches

One of DevOps’s core principles is feedback. Feedback is one of the “Three Ways” from which all DevOps patterns can be derived. Faster feedback means fewer problems and better features. Accelerating the feedback loop is a force multiplier because it enables faster technical and business decisions. It’s not a straight line to success. Faster feedback […]

Mark Levy

May 9, 2022

Beyond CI/CD: Progressive Delivery Overview

Learn the Benefits, Challenges, and Common Practices We live in an era of breathtaking and relentless change, driven by software innovation. Software is more strategic and critical than ever, leading to tremendous pressure to compress release cycle times. In response, the practice of Continous Delivery uses automation, tight version control, and collaboration to speed software […]

Mark Levy

May 2, 2022

Getting Started with Policy as Code

What is Policy as Code? Policy as code is also a part of the larger “as code” movement which aims at automating the compliance process where business logic is translated from a spoken language into a high-level machine language. This helps simplify, manage and enforce policies. It involves decoupling the policy from the business logic […]

Sreejith S Menon

May 2, 2022

Improve visibility and collaboration by integrating Jira with Spinnaker

A Spinnaker delivery pipeline allows code to flow through multiple automated stages, where each stage serves a different purpose. These business-critical stages are managed by Developers and DevOps engineers. These business-critical stages must be closely tracked by the management to avoid unforeseen delays and take preventive action. Why do you need to integrate Jira with […]

Ayan Ganguly

April 25, 2022

How to Deploy Code Without Fear

Automation is not enough! Automation is a prerequite for a deployment pipeline. It’s the only way to get to a repeatable, reliable, “push button” deployment. It’s been over a decade since Continuous Delivery burst on the scene. Today, most teams use homegrown scripts or some automation tool to deploy software. It’s fair to say that […]

Mark Levy

April 25, 2022

Eight Reasons Why You Should Rely on Spinnaker for Your Continuous Delivery Journey

What is Continuous Delivery (CD)? Continuous Delivery (CD) is a modern software delivery practice that helps companies automate the workflows required to deliver code changes, new features, and configurations into production safely, quickly, and sustainably. Although most organizations have adopted some kind of delivery automation for their software delivery life cycle, attaining a proper scalable […]

Anushua Gorai

April 22, 2022

Top challenges of delivering software at scale and their solution

Why do businesses need to scale software delivery? Pandemic or not, businesses of all sizes today realize the importance of scaling their software delivery. It allows them to meet growing business needs, whereas a fast delivery cycle ‌enables a faster response to errors in production. This means that DevOps teams must be capable of delivering […]

Anushua Gorai

April 14, 2022

Why is modernizing software delivery essential for business success

Modern IT organizations are capitalizing on cloud-native applications to build business resilience and operate with minimal disruptions. Cloud-native architecture has equipped organizations to be scalable, flexible, and innovative. During the post-pandemic era, several factors have triggered the adoption of cloud-native architecture and microservices. For instance, cloud-native helps organizations meet customer expectations at a lower cost. […]

Anushua Gorai

April 13, 2022

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