New webinar – “Git Branching for Agile Teams”
Moving to Git opens up a whole new level of agility for software teams. Freed from the clunky code freezes and monolithic mega-merges that plague centralized version control, developers can isolate work in progress and build in narrow vertical slices with ease. Branching is so painless with Git that many teams are making new branches […]
Branch-based deployments – new in Bamboo 5.2
Shipping a new feature always brings a mixture of emotions, no matter your role in getting it out the door. The sense of accomplishment is sweet, albeit tempered by the knowledge that there are so many cool things that aren’t shipping in this iteration… but you also get that spike of anticipatory excitement when you think of […]
Open Dojo #5 – Is DevOps the end of QA?
Thursday October 24th, 9am Pacific We all know that the DevOps approach brings developers and operators into closer collaboration. We also know about the emphasis on automation – especially around testing. Do these factors combine to spell the end of the QA department? Is there a place for QA specialists in a DevOps world, and […]
Sharing artifacts between plans, and other best practices
We spend a lot of time on the Bamboo team thinking about how to make really excellent continuous integration (CI) as easy and accessible as possible. Today I’m delighted to share some progress we’ve made on that front, in two ways. Artifact sharing between plans Yes! You asked for it (Atlassians have been asking for it, too), and now […]
Inside Atlassian: managing agile releases, Stash style
Stash, our Git repository manager, is one of the hottest products at Atlassian. If you follow us on Twitter, you may have noticed that the Stash team delivers new versions about every 5 weeks. That’s as tight a release cycle as it gets for on-premises B2B software! So what is the Stash team’s secret recipe for lighting […]
Alerts, anomalies & automated canaries at DevOps Dojo hangout #4
For our 4th installment of the DevOps Dojo hangouts, we corralled monitoring mavens from Atlassian, LogicMonitor, Netflix, and Metafor for an hour-long geek-out that got quite animated! Did you know, for example, that the very notion of distinguishing application monitoring from infrastructure monitoring is controversial? I did not. Or ever thought about the effects of […]
Want more DevOps? Come to Open Dojo #4!
Thursday Sept 19th at 9am PST For our fourth Open Dojo event, we’re gathering infrastructure gurus to talk about monitoring and stability. Not just the mechanics (tho they’re certainly prepared to field those “how-to” questions!), but also how infrastructure stewardship benefits when devs, ops, qa, and “the business” come together on it. Our esteemed panel […]
Inside Atlassian: developer product owners on the Bamboo team
We’ve been thinking a lot about releases in Bamboo Land recently. And I’d noticed a while back that releases of Bamboo are generally down-tempo events for the development team. None of the death marches, mandatory Saturdays, or tension I’d experienced at other companies — just another day at the office. So I asked James and […]
6 steps toward stress-free releases with Jira & Bamboo
If you’ve been around agile development long enough, you’ve heard time and again that doing agile ‘right’ means making releases a non-event. Sounds great, but how does one get to this magical place? Ever a fan of lists, I put together the top six ways to avoid an ulcer at release time using the combined […]
Introducing the Websphere Add-on for Bamboo
We are thrilled about the first deployments add-on for Bamboo 5! Made Mastika, a developer at GLiNTECH (an Atlassian Expert in Sydney), is here to tell you all about it. While Made likes to spend his free time away from development, a keen interest in things like Data Mining and JavaScript means he never gets away too far. When […]
How Badass is Your Software Team?
Is your software team baller? Does your dev team work with the most enviable tools, technologies, and processes? Are you Agile ninjas that deploy to your customers like it’s nobody’s business? Or are you stuck in the Dark Ages with antiquated tools, production malfunctions and less than enviable team dynamics? Atlassian wants to know! To prepare […]
RebelLabs cooks up a continuous delivery pipeline with Bamboo
The mad-scientists-turned-provocateurs over at RebelLabs have released yet another stellar (and entertaining) report for software makers, Release Management for Enterprises. I find this exciting enough to blog about for two reasons: First, their take on what DevOps means for both individuals and the larger organization, as well as how the two disciplines drifted apart in the first […]
Open Dojo #3 – Application monitoring (live from PuppetConf!)
It’s that time again… another DevOps-themed hangout is a-brewin’. Just for fun, we’ll be coming to you live from PuppetConf in San Francisco! Our topic for August is application monitoring. We’ll discuss why it’s a good engineering practice and trade war stories about how it saved our SaaS, of course. But we’ll also dig in deeper […]
Automated Deploys: How to Convince Your Boss
Ok, so we did chat about other topics related to deploy automation at the Open Dojo hangout last Thursday. But making the business case for investing in automation took center stage, with all four panelists weighing in (some of them more than once!). If you missed the live broadcast, you can check out the recording […]
Top 5 Plugins to Supercharge Atlassian Bamboo
Today we have a guest post from Himanshu Chhetri, a developer at Addteq (an Atlassian Expert) who works with the Configuration Management and Atlassian Solutions delivery teams. In his free time he likes to keep up to date with the latest open source projects and the devops movement. At Addteq, we have a growing list of […]