Luca Relandini

This post is the 2nd part our series on DevOps and will focus on a CI/CD demo based on Cisco Multicloud Portfolio. You can find part one here. For our demo environment, we are using resources from 3 Kubernetes clusters, on-premises and in AWS. Our lab We have built a simple microservice-based applic…

The need for digital innovation Whatever your business might be, your internal and external customers expect more and more services, greater efficiency and a better experience. Providing new services (which in most cases will mean a new or revamped application) to customers and anticipating your com…

In a previous post we demonstrated how to automate the setup of a Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment environment. Now we will demonstrate how to use it: a developer can create an application that will be compiled, then built and deployed into a test environment automatically using this C…

In a previous post we introduced CI/CD as a Service (CD/CDaaS) and talked about how it can transform and increase the efficiency of your DevOps practice, that can now serve development and Line Of Business (LoB) teams better. In this post we will show how to effectively create a CI/CDaaS with Cisco…

If you are not interested in the detail, at least browse the post and watch the amazing video recordings embedded.   🙂 We have already discussed the value of automation in the deployment of software applications. It is also clear that collecting telemetry data from systems and applications into anal…

In the previous post we described the benefit of using Application Automation in conjunction with Network Analytics in the Data Centre, a Public Cloud or both. We described two solutions from Cisco that offer great value individually, and we also explained how they can multiply their power when used…

A very common goal for software designers and security administrators is to get to a Secure Zero-Trust model in an Application-Centric world. They absolutely need to avoid malicious or accidental outages, data leaks and performance degradation. However this can be very difficult to achieve sometimes…

The IT admin standpoint: What’s in it for me? In the first part of this post we have seen that you can build a service catalog with all the enterprise features you need: multitenancy, role based access control, reporting, chargeback, approvals, etc. But you can also offer (secured) access to t…

In the previous posts (1 and 2) we talked about how technical innovation (in networking and containers) can address an operational challenge involving different stakeholders within an organisation. In the next two starting today, we zoom out to see another pattern of dynamics between business and IT…