OpenSource The DevOps Enabler

There is
growing pressure on IT to provide faster and more agile platforms for business,
Red Hat’s James Allen discussed why those adopting open source tooling and
practices are succeeding at the expense of those who don’t.
Open source
culture allows IT professionals to manage the huge demand from the business and
allows them to navigate their way through multiple projects by encouraging collaboration,
transparency (both access and the ability to act), faster resolution for shared
problems, and by working together, this creates consistency and ultimately
standardisation.
James started
the session by confirming that we all know the big names, the disrupters, who
are incorporating open source successfully such as Netflix, Soundcloud, and
Uber. These companies have started to change the game. He advised that the days
of “let’s build something cool and open source it” have gone, and now “these businesses
are using open source to take things to the next level.”
It’s not just
the usual names who are creating innovative open source tooling however, James
went on to name Hystrix, Prometheus, Istio, and Jaegar as examples of those
also producing great tooling also.
James urged the
audience to embrace open source culture, “due to the open nature of source
code, as opposed to the traditional methods many are all too familiar with.” He
advised that through community based projects, Red Hat have been able to become
the leading provider of open source solutions and this has led them from
strength to strength.
James moved on
to give us his definition of what DevOps is to him “DevOps is a term used to
describe a series of methods and practices used to allow the increased collaboration,
communication, and agility of different aspects of IT based functions, such as
development, testing, and operations.”
Click here to read the full article and discover what James thinks is the current problem with people adopting open source and his solution…