DevOps

Atlassian’s Bitbucket Cloud has tightly integrated CI/CD capabilities via its Bitbucket Pipelines feature set. However, some of our Bitbucket Cloud and Bitbucket Data Center customers still use Jenkins for CI/CD. In this blog, I present a practical walkthrough of the benefits of Bitbucket Pipelines over a tool like Jenkins in the context of two key stats from our recent State of DevEx 2025 report. These stats serve serve as motivation for why teams should move to a tightly integrated, cloud nati

There have been dramatic changes to the developer landscape since our 2024 report. AI capabilities are extending beyond coding assistants, the rubber is hitting the road on platform engineering initiatives, and there’s more pressure than ever before to deliver quality software, fast. Delivering high-quality software fast is an excellent goal, but do developers have what they need to achieve this? This survey represents our opportunity to hear directly from developers and their leaders on

This post is based on the Atlassian TEAM ‘25 session, “From Dough to Deployment: Domino’s Recipe for Success” led by Andrew Fraser, Software Engineering Manager at Domino’s Pizza Enterprises. You can watch the recording of this session as well as other recorded sessions on-demand to learn more about how some of the world’s most successful companies improve their systems of work with Atlassian. Domino’s before Compass Article in DevOps Why devel

How does OpenAI compare versus a penguin in the role of a legal secretary? Let’s see… import openai import os from dotenv import load_dotenv, find_dotenv _ = load_dotenv(find_dotenv()) # read local .env file openai.api_key = os.getenv('OPENAI_API_KEY') def get_completion(prompt, model="gpt-3.5-turbo", temperature=0): messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}] response = openai.ChatCompletion.create( model=model, messages=messages, temperature=t

A recent project delay at work put me in mind of this recurring issue I’ve seen with a lot of agile teams. That is, reluctance to call something a blocker. Karthik and I are working on a new revision of our LinkedIn Learning courser “DevOps Foundations: Lean and Agile” so I decided to dig into this a bit. I think many engineers believe a blocker is “something that prevents me from doing any work whatsoever on this entire project.” This in my experience leads to a lot of project delays and

This came up today at work and I realized that over my now-decades of cloud engineering, I have developed a very specific way of using tags that sets both infra dev teams and SRE teams up for success, and I wanted to share it. Who cares about tags? I do. They are the only persistent source of information you can trust (as much as you can trust anything in this fallen world) to communicate information about an infrastructure asset beyond what the cloud or virtualization fabric it’s running

Today, DryRun Security, came out of stealth as the co-founders James Wickett (me) and Ken Johnson (@cktricky) launched the company. To the readers of The Agile Admin, you’ll know that I post about security and its connection with devops from time to time. We launched the company because the arc of the industry has created silos where legacy security solutions have  been geared towards security professionals rather than those who write the software.  This leads to three significant gaps.

“What is my manager’s deal, anyway?” Here’s some career advice that can help you build a more effective relationship with your manager. Remember, they may be a manager but they don’t know everything, or everything that you do, and they are navigating work and life with just as much trepidation as you are! If you haven’t been a manager, it’s sometimes hard to understand why they’re doing what they are and how to best work with them to make both of you happy. So you want to figure out how to “

I have been in technology management for more than 20 years now and have worked in a wide variety of shops, and I think I’ve identified a key element that creates a good leader, and that is gratefulness. Gratefulness Empowers Recognition Everyone knows that “employee recognition” is important for morale; any company cites it as a priority whether they are really doing it or not. Sometimes it just gets forgotten – but sometimes there’s excuses given not to do it, concerns that it “sounds

Hey all! James and I are preparing to revise our LinkedIn Learning course, DevOps Foundations, a three hour set of videos designed to orient beginners in the whole scope of DevOps.  We created the course in 2016 primarily because at the time there were no good introductions to DevOps. You needed to know what blogs to follow and what events to go to and that was it. Even the DevOps Handbook hadn’t come out yet. And this provided a very high barrier to entry to the field. And we believe in

Well, the Agile Admins have handed the reins of DevOpsDays Austin off to a new generation! And DoDA 2023 is coming up next week! I’ll be there, participating rather than wrangling for once… Shaun Mouton, one of the new core organizers, asked me to share an annotated overview of items which may be of interest to attendees! So read on, and hope to see you out at the conference. Austin musical notes for Visitors and Interested Parties DevOpsDays Austin 2023 is coming up quite soon, and I thoug

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What do coffee and donuts have in common with Jira Software Server and Bitbucket Server? Together, they make for a great experience, and I’d even go as far to say having one without the other is a bit unsatisfying. We at Atlassian know the ins and outs of coffee and don– er… I mean Jira Software and Bitbucket because we use them together every day to take the busy-work out of our workflows. Teams that use both tools should definitely integrate them (it’s a pretty straightforward process). When