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Open-Source Tools to Use on an On-Prem Kubernetes Cluster

Kubernetes has dramatically shifted the trade-offs of on-prem versus SaaS deployments. Thanks to the rich abstractions Kubernetes provides, deploying software on-premises can be significantly easier than it used to be. Because Kubernetes has achieved such high market penetration (and still growing), it is now a viable target environment for many software products. Nevertheless, Kubernetes requires external tools to be production ready, especially on an on-prem deployment.

The purpose of this article is to list tools that everyone should be aware of when it’s time to move an on-prem Kubernetes cluster to production, and by on-prem, we mean not in a cloud environment. In the cloud, it is obviously better to rely on cloud services offered by the provider.

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Open Source Tools to Increase Code Quality and Team Productivity

Project teams are often faced with challenges maximizing value from diverse toolsets usage in the projects. Defining processes to the projects with access to tools at the right time and the right place is critical to maximizing the productivity of the project.

 Projects are demanding faster time-to-delivery to meet time-to-market needs. The push is for lower development costs without compromising on code quality and delivery timelines. Open-source tools that are well established and proven to add value are an alternative to enhance code quality and accelerate the time-to-delivery.

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5 Mobile App Testing Trends to Surface in 2020

The role of mobile apps in the currently thriving modernized setup has acquired an imperative stature. It is primarily to enhance the scale of convenience both at the consumer and enterprise-level that mobile apps have grown to become a major hit!

For the success of any software or application, there are different stages of testing. App quality is the foremost factor that predicts the success of a particular mobile application. Over the years, mobile app testing trends have shown serious variations. The sole reason for this shift can be attributed to the rising count of mobile devices.

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Software Testing in 2020: 7 Biggest Trends

The huge demand for high-quality products created in the shortest time possible made testing a critical success factor of the software development process. Because of the continually evolving technology and competitive market QA specialists are in constant search of new relevant testing techniques, so they can stay relevant and meet the rising customer demands. As a result, new approaches are steadily emerging. Here are some of the most important software testing trends to watch for in 2020.

Testing for Agile and DevOps

Agile and DevOps should be definitely mentioned among some of the most popular concepts in software development. Since both DevOps and Agile practitioners work on improving the quality of the products, testing becomes a common area of interest for two groups. In the competitive software development world more and more companies choose popular Agile methodologies which, in turn, has an impact on testing practices. In particular, Agile methodology ensures that testing becomes an inevitable part of the development process rather than a separate stage. At the same time, DevOps, which implements a continuous improvement cycle is aimed at reducing the duration of the testing processes. In the future, more and more companies will adopt DevOps philosophy to improve the quality of released products which will have a huge impact on how the testing is done.

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Implementing DevOps With Containerization

Traditionally, application development, testing, deployment, and support (monitoring) were all treated as separate entities, and multiple departments were involved in the completion of the software lifecycle. This resulted in a fragmented approach to the process, people, and tools, later impacting the final product performance, features, cost, schedules, and quality.

Business Drivers

Acceptance of cloud platform as the de facto service line brought many changes of procuring and managing infrastructure. As a result, open source tools have earned significant acceptance for each segment of IT function across the world, thereby increasing their popularity and versatility day-by-day. The competitive shift seems visible as there are companies like Oracle and SAP that are also offering Cloud along with Amazon, Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. There are multiple other cloud companies as well apart from the aforementioned vendors. With cloud acceptance, an addition of infrastructure/servers is just a click away which, along with credible open source tools have paved way for Dev-Ops. With open source tools, build, QA, and pre-production machines can be added as exact replicas and configurations as needed, in a fraction of the time.

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Open Source and Its Tools Are Critical to Modernization

I have always wondered what the exact definition of software modernization is. Is it upgrading the software technology stack to the current one? Is it bringing in process automation? Or, has it more to do with replacing custom build apps with COTS or vice-versa? Can it be as simple as bringing in a better hosting solution in the form of the cloud? On further reflecting on drivers and need for modernization, you realize that its more to do with:

  • Improving User Experience
  • Bringing in Agility and Efficiency
  • Reducing Cost
  • Entrusting better Operation Resilience

While many among us would have various definition of modernization, I would rather think of dividing modernization into five categories: