UPDATED 13:57 EDT / NOVEMBER 17 2014

DevOps Weekly Round-Up: GitHub AWS support, .NET Framework, Oculus Mobile SDK and more

devopsThis week in DevOps shows an ongoing expansion of opportunities for developers using open source and vendor-specific DevOps models. Configuration and automation remains the big draw for DevOps needs and continuous delivery seemed to be all about getting the bits into production.

The cloud respository GitHub continues to release expanded abilities permitting greater automation of testing, deployment, and configuration and has even added capabilities for Amazon Web Services support. Microsoft is continuing opening its product to open source market and the latest in the bandwagon is NET framework.

This and more in this week DevOps roundup.

NET Framework is open to all

Microsoft Corporation is open sourcing the full server-side .NET Core stack, from ASP.NET 5 down to the Core Runtime and Framework. The open source .NET will be expanded to run on Linux and Mac OS X in addition to Windows.

As a result of the move, millions of .NET developers around the world will now be able to share code beyond Windows. Microsoft expects this to improve compatibility between Windows and Linux applications that were using Mono, a complex open-source replication with many improvements. The code will be available on GitHub.

As for the developer tools, Microsoft is also making Visual Studio Community 2013 available immediately as a free, fully featured edition of Visual Studio including full extensibility. All these moves marks a jump for Microsoft to shift away from its image as proprietary software and make an inroad into Linux developer community.

Amazon cloud tools for developers and GitHub support

During the AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Amazon.com, Inc. launched of a new range of tools for developers to improve cloud app build and deployment cycles.

The first tool is CodeDeploy, which is designed to make it easier and faster for developers to deploy and update their apps on Amazon’s EC2. CodeDeploy allows developers to set up rolling deployments that can make slow, staggered changes to groups of instances.

The second tool for developers is CodePipeline, designed to automate builds and test workflows, and allows for code repositories from various locations to be integrated.

The final tool is CodeCommit, a managed code repository on AWS driven by Git. Using the service, developers can locate their code close to the environments they wish to deploy to, something that should help to accelerate the build and deployment cycle.

The code repository GitHub has been a mainstay of much of the open source movement and last week the company made a major update with version 2.0 of GitHub Enterprise. The highlight of the update was the support for deploying Amazon Web Services public cloud, high availability and disaster recovery options, which provides better support for LDAP and SAML, and updates to code review and project management.

By working with Amazon, GitHub allows developers to host software directly on AWS so they can completely focus on the development of the software without worrying about pesky hosting configuration. GitHub Enterprise chose AWS as an accessible and scalable deployment option. Using AWS reduces hardware costs, GitHub provides immediate access to a highly scalable infrastructure, and addresses a wide variety of compliance standards including HIPAA standards to government’s FedRAMP for developers.

Open-source projects need security audits

Coverity Inc. released the Spotlight report that provides insight into the state of open-source software quality. The report discovered almost 4,000 defects out of which 2,400 of these were high severity defects, followed by 1,330 low severity and 260 and 50 medium severity.

The Coverity Scan service analyzed several hundreds of millions of lines of code from more than 1,500 open source projects and identifies several common defects and exposures (CVEs) in open source code, and identifies that the GoToFail vulnerability could have been detected in the scan. The report noted that regular security audits and in-depth vulnerability exams can prevent the problems before they’re exploited.

Oculus Mobile SDK

Oculus VR has been working with Samsung to make mobile virtual reality a reality and in that direction the Facebook company released mobile SDK aimed at bringing developers to the Samsung Gear VR–a mobile device. The SDK includes the full-source code for Oculus Cinema, Oculus 360 Photos, and Oculus 360 Videos under an open license.

The SDK provides integration to the Unity 4.5 game engine to facilitate the creation of mobile games by taking full advantage of Gear VR. Other features of the SDK include real-time GPU context switching, GPU context priorities, real-time CPU threading, direct front buffer rendering and direct warped content for developers to build  their own virtual reality experiences.


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