DevOps Chat

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!