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  • CloudBees Advances Continuous Delivery

    CloudBees Advances Continuous Delivery

    At the DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 conference, CloudBees released an update to the continuous delivery (CD) platform it gained via its acquisition of Electric Cloud, signaling the company’s commitment to investing in a platform that’s employed widely in the enterprise.

    CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey said the rechristened CloudBees Flow builds on the application release orchestration (ARO) platform to further automate the last mile of a DevOps process.

    Version 9.1 of CloudBees Flow provides a path to increased visibility into how a release is progressing, including the ability to view the inventory being deployed to a given environment and deeper insights into all the sub-pipelines that make up an overall release.

    The latest release also provides more granular control over release pipeline execution, customizable dashboards within the platform’s Release Command Center and data archiving capabilities that make it easier to comply with regulatory mandates.

    Labourey said that while companies that have developed commercial software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications tend to have very mature DevOps processes, most enterprise IT organizations are still defining the best DevOps practices they want to implement across their organization end to end. CloudBees Flow provides a continuous delivery framework for automating the deployment of applications at enterprise scale that complements the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform, he said.

    Labourey noted the goal is to eventually unify continuous delivery processes across multiple platforms, including the ARO platform provided by Electric Flow, the Jenkins CI/CD platform and the Jenkins X and Spinnaker platforms that are optimized for building and deploying microservices-based applications on top of Kubernetes. As part of that effort, earlier this year CloudBees became a founding member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), an arm of The Linux Foundation dedicated to foster best continuous delivery practices.

    Most organizations that have adopted CI/CD platforms have seen varying degrees of success in taking advantage of continuous integration to accelerate the development of their applications. Continuous delivery, however, has proven to be a much bigger challenge. Organizations tend to struggle with everything from making sure they have the appropriate infrastructure resources available to support a new release of an application to debugging application code before and after it’s deployed in a production environment.

    It may be a while before most enterprise organizations truly master DevOps processes end to end. However, given how dependent on software most organizations are, increased reliance on DevOps processes has become a prerequisite for any form of digital business transformation. As the volume of software being developed increases, the rate at which updates to applications are being made also increases substantially. Most organizations are not going to be able to keep pace with that rate of change by relying on legacy software development and deployment processes.

    In many more cases now, however, the challenge organizations are wrestling with is not so much whether to transition to DevOps, but rather determining which DevOps processes to standardize on to satisfy the elevated expectations of business leaders anxious to provide customers with that next great application experience.

    — Mike Vizard

  • CloudBees Harnesses Additional Cloud Bursting

    CloudBees Harnesses Additional Cloud Bursting

    At the DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 conference, CloudBees announced that the latest version of its CloudBees Accelerator platform now supports cloud bursting to all three of the major public cloud service providers.

    CloudBees Accelerator makes it possible to distribute the build, quality assurance and testing cycles across a large cluster of inexpensive servers. Version 11.1 further extends that capability into the public cloud by adding support for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, alongside existing support for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

    Company CEO Sacha Labourey said as organizations embrace multiple clouds for application development and deployment, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms will need to span hybrid cloud computing environments. Most organizations are not yet making use of multiple public clouds to develop an application, but they are increasingly relying on external cloud resources to augment the infrastructure resources they have available in on-premises IT environments.

    In addition to providing cloud bursting support for Azure and GCP, version 11.1 of CloudBees Accelerator provides support for Android Q, a forthcoming update to the widely employed mobile operating system due out in the third quarter of this year. Other new capabilities include support for the SSL and TLS cryptographic protocols and improvements to out-of-the-box support for Windows, including the ability to distribute and cache Visual Studio projects.

    Version 11.1 of CloudBees Accelerator also now makes it possible to apply CloudBees Electrify, a framework for optimizing the use of all available infrastructure in parallel, to accelerate build tools such as MSBuild and Scons. In addition, it provides improvements for the open source Yocto Project, an initiative from the Linux Foundation that streamlines the creation of Linux distributions for embedded systems. CloudBees Accelerator enables developers to at least triple the speeds of builds using BitBake build tools or Buildroot files and patches.

    As expansion occurs in both the volume and types of applications that organizations rely on to build and deploy faster, the need to rely more on automation also is increasing. Many DevOps processes that organizations adopt initially have been crafted manually. As organizations become more adept, however, it becomes apparent there is an opportunity to automate a wide range of lower-level processes. Frameworks such as CloudBees Accelerator essentially provide a layer of abstraction that enables organizations to devote more time and energy to writing application code.

    In fact, the next wave of organizations adopting DevOps is likely to benefit greatly from all the processes that the first wave of adopters helped automate by identifying best DevOps practices. It remains to seen just how automated the entire CI/CD environment can become with the rise of, for example, artificial intelligence (AI), but with each passing upgrade cycle, the accessibility of DevOps increases thanks primarily to advances in automation. Those advances not only make it easier to share best DevOps practices across an enterprise, but they also make it feasible for more organizations to embrace DevOps because the level of expertise required to master those DevOps processes declines.

    — Mike Vizard

  • CloudBees Looks to Drive Software Delivery Management

    CloudBees Looks to Drive Software Delivery Management

    At its DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 conference, CloudBees today unfurled an early preview of the CloudBees Software Delivery Management (SDM) service, which applies analytics to metrics gathered by the company’s continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms to enable organizations to optimize DevOps processes based on their business goals.

    CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey said CloudBees is trying to take DevOps to another level by providing a unified view of all development activity and the impact any delay those projects might encounter will have on the organization.

    The CloudBees SDM service provides access to a Contributions dashboard to provide insights into work prioritization and dependencies that are hindering other projects, as well as an Efficiency dashboard to provide retrospective insights that can be used to improve development going forward.

    In addition, the CloudBees SDM service surfaces suggestions and alerts based on a policy and rules-based engine that identifies issues that warrant deeper investigation, such as code that doesn’t comply with a regulatory compliance mandate.

    There’s also an integrated feature flag management that enables DevOps teams to manage delivery and rollout of application features based on business and operational metrics.

    Finally, the CloudBees SDM service provides access to a Product Hub module, which provides visibility into all the data, resources, development and delivery activity around a specific product, and a Value Stream Management module, through which additional business insights relating to feature contributions and the overall status of a specific project are surfaced.

    Labourey said the CloudBees SDM service initially will be available as a cloud service, but the company expects to make an on-premises edition available as well.

    The goal is to provide IT leaders with a framework for managing multiple development teams that roughly equates to the capabilities a customer relationship management (CRM) application provides managers of sales teams, which should make it easier for organizations to identify best DevOps practices that should be shared across the organization, said Labourey. DevOps practices have been adopted unevenly across many organizations. The CloudBees SDM platform goes further than legacy approaches to software development lifecycle (SDLC) platforms in that it also makes it easier to identify what impact DevOps processes also are having on the business, he said.

    Longer-term, Labourey also noted the CloudBees SDM platform will act as the mechanism through which machine and deep learning algorithms will be applied, once a critical mass of data is acquired.

    CloudBees envisions its SDM service being used as a tool to coach developers on how to build better code faster. However, there always will be organizations that will make use of any SDLC platform as a vehicle primarily employed to drive higher levels of developer productivity, noted Labourey.

    Whatever the motivation for adoption, advances in analytics are transforming the way every process is managed. Software development is no exception; it’s one of the first job functions where advanced analytics most likely will be applied aggressively.

    — Mike Vizard

  • What to Expect from DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019

    What to Expect from DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019

    The clock is ticking. DevOps World | Jenkins World, the world’s biggest annual gathering of Jenkins users and DevOps practitioners, is just around the corner, scheduled for August 12-15 in San Francisco. The agenda is set. The DevOps Community is rolling out the red carpet. Are you coming?

    You’ll be among the largest gathering of DevOps superheroes. We’re also pulling out all the stops, offering more speaker sessions, a bigger expo set-up and a themed superhero after-party for conference-goers to let loose at, following a full day of activities.

    Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, the city of San Francisco itself is a world-class conference draw. We’re looking forward to sharing a few days with a record 2,000 attendees in just a few short weeks.

    This year’s theme is “Transform and Deliver,” and the conference will deliver on a number of fronts. It will entertain, educate and maybe even surprise attendees with the wide array of offerings planned for the four-day time frame. It also will focus on the concept of delivering software–highlighting the value digital transformation has in delivering software more efficiently, more quickly and with higher quality.

    Whether you are already prepping for the show or still considering a trip, here are a few of the things on tap for this year’s event.

    Sessions and Speakers

    At DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to learn and engage at every turn. This year’s San Francisco event will feature more than 100 sessions covering a wide range of DevOps-, software delivery- and Jenkins-related topics. In San Francisco, sessions will be conducted by practitioners from organizations such as: Adobe, CloudBees, Eli Lilly, Fugue, Google, IBM, Latam Airlines, Liberty Mutual, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP Labs and The Hartford.

    Let’s talk specifics. This year, attendees can learn about everything from cloud native and Kubernetes to pipeline development and management, CI/CD, release management, data and reporting, DevOps and security/compliance. Highlights include From Zero to DevOps Superhero: The Container Edition, with Jessica Dean of Microsoft; Continuous Delivery Directly to the Car, with Rafal Kowalski of Grape Up; 10 Attributes of the DevSecOps Elite with Derek Weeks of Sonatype and Hasan Yasar of Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute.

    The conference will feature a series of keynote addresses, as well. Speakers will include CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey, Jenkins Founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi, CloudBees VP of Marketing Shawn Ahmed, CloudBees VP of Product Management Ben Williams, CloudBees CMO Andre Pino, Google Cloud Developer Advocate Dave Stanke, Redmonk Co-founder James Governor, CloudBees Director of Open Source Community Tracy Miranda, Cloud Native Computing Foundation CTO/COO Chris Aniszczyk, Jenkins X Co-creator James Strachan, Netflix Director of Delivery Engineering Andy Glover and Google Cloud Platform Engineering Manager Tara Hernandez.

    Training, Workshops and Jenkins Certifications

    If the training and workshops–held on the conference’s first two days–help provide the skills needed to help your organization transform to DevOps, the final two days (August 12-13) offer up a wide variety of sessions from experts that will enable you to deliver success.

    Training topics will include Continuous Delivery with Jenkins X, DevSecOps Engineering Certification, DevOps Leader Certification, Jenkins Admin Fundamentals, CloudBees Core Fundamentals and Continuous Delivery with Jenkins on Google Kubernetes Engine. All trainings and workshops are available to add onto the full conference sessions pass for an additional cost.

    Attendees registering for the conference will receive a free Jenkins certification exam voucher ($150 value) for the Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE) or Certified CloudBees Jenkins Platform Engineer (CCJPE) exams. You can choose to sign up for an on-site exam at DevOps World Jenkins World (first come, first served) or use it at a later date. There are also several half-days, one- and two-day courses that can be added during the event registration process to help attendees prepare for certification.

    Networking and Expo

    Beyond the official sessions, there will be ample time to network with colleagues and check out the latest and greatest from industry vendors on the expo floor. Exhibitors include DevOps World’s showcase sponsor Google, premium sponsors Sonatype and VMware, and other sponsors such as GitKraken, Gradle, Honeycomb, Incredibuild, Mattermost, Instana, OverOps, Scalyr and Zebrium.

    Awards

    The DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 Awards recognize the achievements of DevOps innovators and Jenkins practitioners around the globe, with two categories of awards announced during the conference: The Jenkins Community Awards, celebrating individual Jenkins community contributors, and the CloudBees Innovation Awards, honoring companies that demonstrate quantifiable business value from DevOps, CI and CD using CloudBees solutions.

    Jenkins awards include honors such as Jenkins Security MVP, Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate and Most Innovative Jenkins X Implementation. CloudBees Innovation Awards include the DevOps Automation Excellence Award, the DevOps Scalability Achievement Award and DevOps Rising Star Award.

    After-Party

    Everyone who attends DevOps World | Jenkins World is a DevOps superhero. On the Wednesday night of the conference, grab your capes and masks to celebrate with the industry. Join us for our superhero-themed party!

    Are you ready for this year’s show?

    Learn more about DevOps World | Jenkins World. Then register and use code DWJW20 to get a 20% discount off your registration.

    — Martha Samper

  • DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019: Sacha Labourey Q&A

    DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019: Sacha Labourey Q&A

    CloudBees has been active on the acquisition front, picking up Electric Cloud and Rollout in recent months: Are we going to be talking about other deals by the time DevOps World Lisbon rolls around in December?

    “We’re always actively looking at deals that make sense. To be truthful, we’ve set the bar pretty high at the moment. Not only are we focusing hard on executing on those acquisitions, we’re delivering on a vision we’ve laid out for the future in a category we call Software Delivery Management.”

    What are you most looking forward to at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019?

    “Always the same: Meeting with great people, hearing about the great innovations in the Jenkins and Jenkins X community, and really, checking out everything all these talented companies are doing. The amount of creativity and innovation we see year after year at DevOps World | Jenkins World is truly amazing.”

    How is CloudBees addressing gender and diversity at this year’s event?

    “We have supported diversity at DevOps World | Jenkins World for a very long time. We’ve tried to encourage diversity in our recruitment of speakers and in our acceptance of them. Specific to this year’s conference, on the Wednesday of the conference week (August 14), CloudBees is sponsoring a Women In Tech mixer, as part of the conference activities. On Thursday, August 15, we’re sponsoring a Diversity and Inclusion luncheon. At the luncheon, a panel of speakers tackle the topic Connecting Diversity and Inclusion with Business Outcomes.

    Outside of DevOps World | Jenkins World, here are some other ways we’ve been trying to be inclusive and supportive of diversity:

    • CloudBees encourages diversity in our hiring. Our industry is heavily white male, but we are committed to achieving more diversity within the company. We’ve been benchmarking ourselves against the industry to see how we rank, relative to our peers. We are not satisfied with the results. We employ highly capable transgender, minority and culturally diverse people. We will continue to make this a priority.
    • We are currently a customer of Power to Fly and are working with them to help attract more women into technical roles. We hosted a Women in Tech event in conjunction with Power to Fly in our Raleigh office on June 25.
    • We have actively supported women in DevOps (as evidenced by the blog series on our website about Women in DevOps). We have had specific breakouts at company meetings and at past DevOps World conferences for Women in Tech.
    • We have supported an internal team of women who applied to speak at the Grace Hopper conference. We are very proud that two have been accepted.
    • Our Customer Advisory Board has increased female representation from two to six (out of about 30 total members).

    As positive as this is, it’s not enough and we are not satisfied with our gains in diversity. We continue to focus on this important area.”

    How has the evolution of DevOps World mirrored CloudBees’ growth?

    “We’ve really witnessed it all since 2010 and before. We’ve been part of the first steps of CI, the move to the right and the quest for ever-increasing automation. We’ve seen the fantastic chain reaction where cloud has enabled organizations to do so much more in DevOps and DevOps has returned the favor, opening up so many opportunities for cloud. We are really witnessing the birth of a new tech era. It is a unique privilege for CloudBees to be part of that small group of change agents!”

    One of the sessions talks about how to become a “DevOps superhero.” What is your personal DevOps superpower? 

    “That’s easy: open source. After years in the JBoss community, at Red Hat and now at CloudBees, where we are the leads on the Jenkins and Jenkins X projects, I still love open source. It is part of our DNA here at CloudBees. There is so much innovation going on in the open source communities, and the developers who are involved are so passionate about what they do. I do think, for the most part, open source developers are among the best in the developer community. They are also inclusive and really have a desire to impact the world.”

    — Heidi Gilmore

  • DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 Training is Best in Class

    DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 Training is Best in Class

    Do you work on Jenkins pipelines? Are you responsible for implementing CloudBees tools in your development environment? Do you manage a DevOps team? Is your organization ramping up DevSecOps capabilities?

    If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should be attending the training sessions coming up at DevOps World | Jenkins World, a premier global event for Jenkins users and DevOps practitioners. The event is devoting two full days to educating attendees on the finer points of these topics listed above. The conference itself is taking place Aug. 12-15 in San Francisco’s Moscone Center and the training is scheduled for Monday and Tuesday (August 12 and 13).

    Conference attendees will have plenty to do throughout the week. The final two days will feature an agenda packed with keynotes, industry-focused thought leader sessions, an awards ceremony and, if that’s not enough, an after-party with a superhero theme. In-between sessions, there will be time to walk the expo floor, to get a glimpse of the latest and greatest technologies in the space and do some networking with some of the other 2,000 enthusiasts attending the conference.

    Training will be front and center early in the conference. Professionals with varying levels of experience—those just getting started and those with a substantial background in their subjects—can take advantage of trainings targeted just for them. They can sharpen their skills, gain new perspectives and walk away with certifications that will help them advance in their careers.

    Anybody who’s been in the business for a while will confirm: Well-trained teams are a big asset in DevOps. The field is expanding rapidly and changing every year, and DevOps practitioners need to devote themselves to continuous learning to keep pace with modern software development. At DevOps World | Jenkins World, they can learn about best practices ranging from authorization to security, build management and interfacing with cloud services.

    While training sessions are available to purchase at a nominal cost, attendees can receive a free Jenkins certification exam voucher—a $150 value—for the Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE) and Certified CloudBees Jenkins Platform Engineer (CCJPE) exams. Attendees can choose to sign up for an onsite exam at the conference or use it at a later date.

    For a full rundown of the conference’s training offerings, check out the Training and Certification page.

    Now, let’s take a quick glimpse at what’s being offered.

    Jenkins Training

    Jenkins, the world’s leading open source automation server, is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. A lot has changed during that time. A community has grown around the technology resource, adding new tools, new plugins and new best practices year after year.

    While the community dedicates itself to sharing information and educating its members, the DevOps World | Jenkins World conference provides the perfect setting to get the targeted training members to get the most out of Jenkins in their work environments.

    DevOps World | Jenkins World has four separate certification courses designed to build attendees’ Jenkins skills. There are introductory and intermediate courses that will position them to become more proficient in specific areas important to their own career development. Attendees can learn about Jenkins pipeline fundamentals—everything from the structure of a declarative pipeline to the use of features to finish the pipeline. They can also take advantage of an intermediate session with lectures about shared libraries and Docker agents and follow-up lab exercises. Jenkins Admin courses get learners started on the Jenkins dashboard and configuration practices and then branches out to cover more advanced concepts such as scaling Jenkins, managing different functions and more advanced uses of Docker and Kubernetes.

    There’s a second track that covers concepts connected to continuous delivery with Jenkins X. The Jenkins X project, introduced by CloudBees, provides a resource to educate community members on cloud-native processes. This course explores ways to take advantage of Jenkins X, showing attendees how to create a fully operational continuous delivery pipeline using containers, Kubernetes, Jenkins X and many other tools.

    CloudBees Training

    If you work with CloudBees technologies in a DevOps environment, the CloudBees Core Fundamentals course is a great place to advance your skills. Attendees need to take Jenkins Admin Fundamentals and Intermediate classes to really leverage the concepts covered here. They’ll learn how to optimize the CloudBees Core product suite to successfully scale CD and DevOps in their organizations. They’ll also learn about key proprietary features in CloudBees Core to enhance the capabilities of Jenkins, including enhancements for authorization and security that provide the control and administration needed to master key aspects of the pipeline.

    DevOps Training

    This course is more advanced—a certification for DevOps leaders of all kinds. To take the course, you don’t have to be an official leader of a DevOps team. Teams need leaders of all kinds. Whatever your position on the team—be it tactical of strategic, as a designer, implementer or motivator—you can play a leadership role. This course will teach the finer points of managing people and situations in a DevOps environment. It will build leadership skills—showing how to align and collaborate to break down silos and evolve the organization. It will present real-life scenarios and case studies to prepare team members to thrive in a fast-paced DevOps and Agile environment. Completion of this certification positions learners to complete the DevOps Leader exam successfully.

    DevSecOps Training

    It took a while for organizations to start integrating security into DevOps environments. Security was once considered an afterthought in—or even a hindrance to—DevOps processes. But now, DevSecOps is taking hold, and organizations need to build the skill levels to make the discipline successful.

    This course offers attendees the training they need to gain a DevSecOps Engineering Certification. It outlines DevSecOps as a concept, reviews key best practices DevOps teams need to adhere to and explains how DevOps security practices differ from other security approaches. The course will teach practical steps on how to integrate security programs into DevOps practices and highlight how professionals can use data and security science as the primary means of protecting the organization and customer. Completion of the course positions attendees to successfully pass the DevSecOps Engineering Certification exam, which is offered on the last day of class.

    Learn more about the training and workshops available. Then register with code DWJW20 and get 20% off your registration.

    — Jason Farmer

  • 6 Reasons to Convince Your Manager to Send You to DevOps World |Jenkins World

    6 Reasons to Convince Your Manager to Send You to DevOps World |Jenkins World

    This year’s DevOps World | Jenkins World will take place Aug. 12-15 in San Francisco, at the Moscone Center.

    Now, chances are you don’t need any real convincing to attend this event. DevOps World | Jenkins World is, after all, the premier annual conference for DevOps- and Jenkins-related content. You’ve experienced it yourself, or heard others talking about past years’ events—how the conference is packed, year after year, with sessions given by experts, multiple keynotes from industry leaders, hands-on training, plenty of time for networking, a themed after-party and all kinds of other cool things to take advantage of. This year, the event is going to be bigger than ever.

    But, maybe you need a little help convincing your manager to authorize your trip. If so, we’re here to help. We’ve pulled together a list of selling points you can bring to your manager to show the incredible value a trip to DevOps World-Jenkins World can generate.

    You Can Turn Yourself into a DevOps Leader

    As we all know, DevOps is more than a technology, more than a process; it’s a culture that needs to be nurtured and fed. It needs DevOps leaders to advance that culture. Sending you to DevOps World-Jenkins World can turn you into a DevOps leader.

    You can start by taking a DevOps Leader course that will equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to successfully complete the DevOps Leader certification exam. But it goes beyond one specific course. There are other courses focused on DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery with Jenkins X and best practices connected with the use of CloudBees Core. There are sessions addressing topics ranging from DevOps culture to DevOps theory versus practice. Immersing yourself in all the DevOps content here will raise your knowledge level to new heights.

    You’ll Sharpen Your Automation Skills

    If your organization is using Jenkins, your manager knows how important is the role technology resources play in automating key aspects of the software delivery process. Management is constantly pushing teams to brush up on Jenkins and related DevOps tools—how they work, how to get the most out of them, how to fix problems, etc. Any resource that will help advance the collective knowledge of the group will be welcomed with open arms.

    DevOps World | Jenkins World offers a treasure trove of educational sessions that will help you advance your CI/CD knowledge and Jenkins expertise. Training includes intro and intermediate sessions on Jenkins administration and Jenkins Pipeline. The courses build on each other and propel learners toward the expertise needed to pass the Certified Jenkins Engineer exam. You’ll be bringing back knowledge you can apply to your organization on day one.

    There are also sessions on automated release orchestration and on a number of the DevOps tools and technologies widely used throughout the industry.

    You’ll Hear From the Masters

    It’s one thing to watch a video or read a book by one of the industry’s giants. It’s quite another to see the expert live and maybe even have a conversation with them during the show. DevOps World | Jenkins World offers this kind of access. Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi (KK), CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey and Redmonk analyst James Governor are some of the speakers who are sure to enlighten and entertain. Bring home stories of how KK challenged the crowd to think differently or what Redmonk’s Governor really thought of a commonly held DevOps practice.

    You’ll Gain a New, Broader Perspective

    With more than 100 sessions to choose from, it goes without saying that you can learn a lot of new things. Beyond the basic workshops and presentations, you can take in talks about everything ranging from DevOps in the public sector to machine learning in “continuous everything” environments. Want to hear the 10 attributes of the DevOps elite? How the auto industry is embracing continuous delivery? How Verizon followed a high-availability model using Jenkins? It’s all here. And you can bring the knowledge back to your organization, sharing it in one-on-one meetings, in presentations or in general thoughts about initiatives for next year.

    You’ll Build Your Network

    What happens when you put 2,000 or so DevOps enthusiasts in one place? They’re going to do the same thing sports fans and car fanatics do: talk loudly and animatedly about the topic they love. DevOps World | Jenkins World attendees will share stories about epic fails and debate a long list of best practices.

    Know what else they’re going to do? Exchange Twitter handles or vCards. This can be hugely valuable, not just to you but to your organization. Imagine your manager, needing help, asking you if you know anybody who knows this technology, understands this issue or has access to some hard-to-find resource. You tell your manager you can help; you met someone at the show who knows all about this. You picked up dozens of Twitter followers now engaged with you or your company and would love to help.

    You’ll Be Giving Back to Your Organization

    Building on the last item: Your manager wants this trip to be valuable—for you, for her and for the organization. You want the same thing. It’s your job to highlight how you plan to use your time wisely at the show to directly benefit your company.

    Get creative. Talk about frustrations, pain points, staffing needs, business opportunities—you name it, you can solve it. DevOps World | Jenkins World has the content and the structure to be a resource for your organization. Detail your expenses, and stress how this is a work trip designed to enhance the organization’s overall knowledge base.

    When you have successfully made your case and received approval to attend, register with this code: DWJW20 and get a 20% discount off your registration.

    — Heidi Gilmore

  • DevOps Institute Named Continuous Learning Track Sponsor of DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019

    DevOps Institute to help upskill attendees by offering DevOps Leader and DevSecOps Engineering certification courses and a panel session on the future IT workforce

    BOCA RATON, Fla. – July 16, 2019 – DevOps Institute (https://devopsinstitute.com/), a  global member-based association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, today announced its unique role as the Continuous Learning Track Sponsor of DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 from August 12-15 in San Francisco. The DevOps Institute will host several learning and upskilling opportunities to attendees, including two certification courses led by Helen Beal and Sean Davis, and a panel discussion led by Jayne Groll, CEO of DevOps Institute. Both certification courses from DevOps Institute — DevOps Leader and DevSecOps Engineering — will be held on August 12 and 13.

    Register to attend DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 and reserve your spot for the DevOps Leader and/or DevSecOps Engineering certification courses. Use the code ‘DOI20’ to receive a 20 percent discount on registration for a limited time: (http://bit.ly/DOI20)

    “Our main goal is to help the humans of DevOps evolve skills, gain knowledge, and explore ideas within a vibrant, continuous learning community,” said Jayne Groll, CEO of DevOps Institute. “We are thankful for the opportunity to collaborate with CloudBees and the DevOps World | Jenkins World conference attendees to help advance the IT workforce of the future. The certification courses offered will help DevOps practitioners gain the fundamental skills needed to confidently tackle emerging IT practices and business opportunities as T-shaped professionals”

    About the Certification Courses and Sessions at DevOps World | Jenkins World

    DevOps Leader Certification Course

    Led and facilitated by Helen Beal, DevOpsologist at Ranger4 Limited, the DevOps Leader Certification course was developed to extract real-life best practices in transformational leadership for DevOps initiatives. It includes key differences and emerging practices for cultural transformation in a fast-paced DevOps and Agile environment. Target audience for this course includes managers, directors, executives and any role that influences the culture and ways of working within an organization.  This certification course positions learners to successfully complete the DevOps Leader exam. Attendees who complete the entire class will receive a voucher to schedule their exam online.

    DevSecOps Engineering Course

    Led and facilitated by Sean Davis, Chief Transformation Evangelist at Equifax, the DevSecOps Engineering course is designed to teach practical steps on how to integrate security practices into DevOps initiatives so that security is “everyone’s responsibility.”  The course highlights how all IT professionals can use data and security science as the primary means of protecting the organization and customer. The target audience includes software engineers, operations professionals and security practitioners. This certification course positions learners to successfully complete the DevSecOps Engineering exam. Attendees who complete the entire class will receive a voucher to schedule their exam online.

    Panel Discussion: Upskilling DevOps

    Sam Fell of CloudBees will moderate a multi-perspective panel with industry experts Helen Beal, Sean Davis, Damon Edwards and Jayne Groll. Panelists will discuss the challenges and opportunities for the future IT workforce and insights for upskilling DevOps practitioners.

    “The courses DevOps Institute are offering at DevOps World | Jenkins World for the DevOps community are a real value-add for conference attendees,” said Anthony Palladino, senior vice president of worldwide field operations at CloudBees. “When we look at the organizations we work with every day, quality training such as this educates and equips DevOps practitioners to be leaders in their organization’s DevOps transformation, providing them the skills and best practices necessary to achieve success.”

    DevOps World | Jenkins World brings together DevOps thought leaders, IT executives, continuous delivery practitioners and the Jenkins community and ecosystem, providing attendees with the opportunity to learn, explore, network face-to-face and help shape the next evolution of Jenkins development and solutions for DevOps.

    Share This: The @DEVOPSINST is the Continuous Learning Track Sponsor of #DevOpsWorld | #JenkinsWorld. Register to get your #DevOps Leader or #DevSecOps Engineering Certifications at the event: http://bit.ly/DOI20

    About the DevOps Institute
    DevOps Institute is dedicated to advancing the human elements of DevOps success. As a global member-based association, DevOps Institute is the go-to learning hub connecting IT practitioners, education partners, consultants, talent acquisition and business executives to help pave the way to support digital transformation and the New IT.

    We help advance careers and support emerging practices within the DevOps community based on a human-centered SKIL Framework, consisting of Skills, Knowledge, Ideas, and Learning.  All of our work, including accreditations, research, events, and continuous learning programs – is focused on providing the “human know-how” to modernize IT and make DevOps succeed.