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Dos and Don’ts to Successfully Adopt Test Automation in DevOps

Gone are the days when releases to the production environment were rare. To outmaneuver the uncertainty caused by the pandemic, roll out software briskly while turning clients into brand advocates for life, businesses are continuously improving delivered IT products by releasing several and more times a day. 

For that, the process of ensuring high build quality should accelerate substantially and take minutes, not hours. A cultural shift to DevOps became a way out. DevOps helps to build, test, and deploy faster, provide quick incident responses, and enhance collaboration between teams while unlocking software development innovation and increasing agility. 

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Top 5 Lessons for Every DevOps Leader

One thing about the DevOps route is that it comes with a lot of range. Two organizations may be using a DevOps approach, but differ considerably in how they apply it. Ultimately, different organizations will succeed or fail at DevOps for different reasons. Naturally, DevOps leaders implementing specific and widespread changes are caught in the middle.

Regardless of your organization’s structure, from a leadership perspective, there are several boxes you must check if you’re to succeed at DevOps. We are going to look at five of the most prevalent lessons that a leader can draw from executing a DevOps strategy.

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A Word on ‘Docker Buildx’

What is Docker Buildx?

Docker Buildx can be defined as a CLI plugin that provides us with the extra features supported by the Moby BuildKit builder toolkit along with the features of the normal docker commands. Furthermore, it also provides us with the same user experience as building with the docker build command.

Also, along with some new extra features added over it like building against multiple nodes with multi-arch images concurrently, builder instances, etc. In addition to that, buildx also supports new features that are not yet available for regular docker build like building manifest lists, distributed caching, etc.

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Live Tech Talk and Demo: Getting Started with DevOps on Snowflake [Webinar Sign-up]

The benefits of building a DevOps culture in software companies are clear. DevOps practices integrate once-siloed teams across the software development lifecycle, from Dev to QA to Ops, resulting in both faster innovation and improved product quality. As a result, most software development teams have deployed tools to enable DevOps practices across their workflow. 

The topic of database DevOps is trending right now and most Snowflake customers are asking about it, especially those who want to build a modern data platform in the cloud. But actually doing DevOps for a database environment is difficult and has some unique challenges compared with doing DevOps for applications.