For a variety of reasons, a lot of companies are moving to an Agile, DevOps Culture, Continuous Integration and Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) model. These transformations rely on a variety of tools, including open source. A lot of organizations also use open source tools and libraries to develop their applications and in order to ensure security, these […]
SecureCI™, the industry’s first and only open-source continuous integration solution, just got better! Fairfax, VA., February 9, 2017 — Coveros, the market leader in the delivery of secure, reliable software, announced today availability of the newest version of SecureCI™ which includes updated and integrated versions of best in class open source products for source code control, […]
I was recently on a project which required my team and I to implement a comprehensive backup scheme involving an AWS (Amazon Web Services) Windows 2012 R2 server. Critical data stored on this server had to be available at all times. My team and I decided to approach the backup task by creating snapshots of […]
Coveros, the market leader in secure software development using agile methods, announced today the dates for its 2017 DevOps Week DC training events. Fairfax, VA., February 8, 2017 — Coveros, in its ongoing commitment to help companies realize the benefits of Agile and DevOps, has launched a series of week-long DevOps training events for those […]
Hey DevOps Engineers, Docker is ready! I started getting into Docker just under a year ago. It obviously had promise, but I couldn’t find many people using it successfully. Since then Docker has matured, and I’ve been recommending it to everyone doing CI/CD web-services. When the IT services industry first went to the dynamic virtual […]
DISCLAIMER: Only perform security testing on applications which you have explicit permission to do so. Also, this post shows features for Burp Suite Professional, as Macros and scanning are not available without a license. Identifying the Target Many web applications are unique and apply complexity which defeats basic security scanning. This can come in the […]
Docker Inside Your Pipeline Docker has many applications in a modern CI/CD pipeline that make it a natural fit. In particular I use it for build containers and integrations testing. With docker you open up several capabilities that are not normally available to you with CI. First off, you can change your build environment without […]
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, […]
On our current project, we are using a JBoss application server to host the services that the application needs to function. This application server takes about 1.5 minutes to start. This means that after a developer makes a change to the code, they must wait at least this long (in addition to the amount of […]
Here at Coveros, our accountants were facing significant issues with QuickBooks Premier Professional Services 2015. The initial login process was painfully slow, often taking up to twenty minutes to get a stable login. The software often struggled while switching between single-user mode and multi-user mode (which was done to allow multiple users to access the […]
