I know what you’re thinking…what happened to the 2016 release? Well, 2016 was an interesting year, and unfortunately we weren’t able to get out a mid-year release, and our Q4 release got pushed to Q1 of this year. But, finally, an updated version of SecureCI™ is here! So, what can you expect from this release? Upgrades First and […]
I recently wrote several blog posts about setting up a DevOps pipeline, and it was working great for our code. However, recently, I ran into an issue. My perfectly written and tested code somehow introduced a bug into our production environment! Luckily, we caught this issue quickly, and it was a relatively easy fix. So, I fixed the code, […]
Welcome to the fourth and final post in my series, DevOps in a Regulated and Embedded Environment. In this part, we’ll look at the problems that pop up when the deploy/test environments aren’t virtualizable. I’m assuming that you’ve already read my earlier post on “Git Flow in a Regulated World”. If you haven’t, the short […]
Welcome to the second post in my series, “DevOps in a Regulated and Embedded Environment”. In this part, we’ll take a look at how a normal git workflow needs to adapt in a regulatory environment, and how tooling can support the necessary changes. Namely, regulation may stop the development team from releasing a planned feature, […]
Here are some slides to an internal talk I gave on the whole embedded DevOps problem. I’ll have a lot more to say on this subject over the next couple of weeks, and at a talk I’ll be giving at AgileDC on October 24, 2016, but hopefully these slides will get you thinking. The key […]
Welcome to the first part of an ongoing series I’m calling DevOps in a Regulated and Embedded Environment. This first part looks at the particular challenges posed by a particular embedded environment. Future posts will dig into the details of how the more interesting problems were solved and what we should have done differently given […]
I recently needed to setup OpenLDAP for a client. We setup an entire pipeline, similar to SecureCI and wanted to tie all of the tools into one login system. The installation was pretty straitforward, but we wanted to ensure our tooling stack was secured, so we moved a bit beyond the basics. This is all […]
I have now twice spent multiple days trying to get a Gitblit server to communicate with a Jenkins server over SSH. This was done as part of ongoing work to update the Coveros SecureCI product with the goal of properly configuring both tools and a self-signed certificate to enable Gitblit’s post-commit jenkins hook to trigger builds. Given that […]
Gene Gotimer and Tom Stiehm were published again in CrossTalk Magazine, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, this time in the May/June 2016 edition. DevOps and continuous delivery can improve software quality and reduce risk by offering opportunities for testing and some non-obvious benefits to the software development cycle. By taking advantage of cloud computing […]
Ivysettings.xml In my last project I was introduced to Ivy and Ant working together to handle library dependencies. Since Ant does not have a native automatic dependency resolution built in, we had to incorporate Ivy into the picture to manage all the necessary files for the code to compile. If you want to read more […]
