The DevOps Blog

Preparing for Atlassian’s December 3rd Rovo and Automation Usage Pricing

Atlassian’s Rovo and Automation pricing changes December 3, 2026. Learn how credits, steps, and usage allowances may affect your costs—and how to prepare and how to use ReleaseTEAM’s free tools to plan ahead

5 Ways Red Hat OpenShift Helps Development Teams Deliver Better Software

See how Red Hat OpenShift — Red Hat’s enterprise Kubernetes platform — helps development teams automate operations, standardize delivery across the data center, OpenStack, and public cloud, and build a more consistent foundation for modern software delivery.

Balancing Speed and Quality in DevOps: Finding the Sweet Spot

Discover how to strike the ideal balance between speed and quality in DevOps. Learn strategies—from shift-left testing and progressive delivery to governance by code—to help your team deliver faster and better without sacrificing reliability.

From Purchase to Renewal: The Case for Vendor-Managed Software Licensing

Discover how vendor-managed software licensing turns complex purchases, renewals, and compliance into a streamlined, cost-effective lifecycle—freeing your team to focus on innovation, not administration.

Scaling DevOps Without Losing Sight of Business Goals

Learn how to scale DevOps without losing sight of business goals. Discover strategies for alignment, observability, collaboration, and continuous improvement to ensure growth delivers both technical excellence and business value.

The DevOps Mindset for Non-Tech Teams

Non-tech teams can adopt DevOps by focusing on culture and collaboration, rather than just tools. It’s about flow, feedback, and continuous learning—making work visible, breaking silos, spreading responsibility, and iterating fast.

SBOM solutions: What’s in your code?

SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) solutions provide transparency into your software’s components, helping you manage security risks, compliance, and quality for better code integrity and reliability.

Superior Customer and Developer Experiences Using SBOMs

SBOMs (Software Bill of Materials) enhance both customer and developer experiences by improving transparency, security, and software quality in today’s digital landscape.

Value Stream Management: Platforms and Tools

The ReleaseTEAM Blog: Here's what you need to know...This is Part 4 in our series on Value Stream Mapping. You can catch up on Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3 if you missed them. As more vendors enter the value stream management space, the “Build or Buy” decision is...

How to Map Your Value Stream

The ReleaseTEAM Blog: Here's what you need to know...This is Part 3 in our Value Stream Mapping series. Did you miss Part 1 or Part 2? A value stream is anything that delivers a product or service. You may certainly map the entire software delivery life cycle, from...

DevSecOps Delivers Value and Reduces Risks for Federal Agencies

The ReleaseTEAM Blog: Here's what you need to know...Like state governments, the federal government faces many challenges when changing the processes and tools used to develop the software that agencies depend on. Waterfall methodology may appear to be less risky, but...

Adopting DevOps in a Bureaucratic Institution

The ReleaseTEAM Blog: Here's what you need to know...While the private sector was quick to embrace DevOps development methodologies, the necessity for bureaucratic oversight hampered adoption for public entities. Finding a balance between the structured trust built...

State Government and DevSecOps

The ReleaseTEAM Blog: Here's what you need to know...Adopting DevOps to improve efficiencies and day-to-day delivery of state government services is not a new phenomenon. Still, many states needed to accelerate digital transformations during the pandemic quickly. The...

DevOps for Higher Education

The ReleaseTEAM Blog: Here's what you need to know...Higher education and government entities may not be top of mind when you think of DevOps adoption. However, just like regulated industries, these institutions realize the benefits of faster releases, better...

DevOps Tool Sprawl: Hidden Costs and How to Reduce Them

DevOps tool sprawl creates hidden costs that slow software delivery through disconnected systems, integration debt, and poor visibility. Learn how strategic platforms and integrated workflows improve collaboration, security, automation, and efficiency.

Tackling Common Challenges in Running Programs with Atlassian Tools

Struggling to manage complex programs in Jira and other Atlassian tools? Discover proven strategies to improve visibility, streamline intake and prioritization, reduce workflow sprawl, and scale program management for better cross-team alignment and delivery.

From Purchase to Renewal: The Case for Vendor-Managed Software Licensing

Discover how vendor-managed software licensing turns complex purchases, renewals, and compliance into a streamlined, cost-effective lifecycle—freeing your team to focus on innovation, not administration.

The DevOps Mindset for Non-Tech Teams

Non-tech teams can adopt DevOps by focusing on culture and collaboration, rather than just tools. It’s about flow, feedback, and continuous learning—making work visible, breaking silos, spreading responsibility, and iterating fast.

CI/CD Vendors: Atlassian Bamboo

When Atlassian comes up, many companies first think of Jira and Confluence, but Atlassian first launched Bamboo way back in 2007. It beats out the brand Jenkins but not Jenkin’s predecessor, Hudson.

Atlassian Bamboo Data Center is an on-prem continuous delivery pipeline that supports teams of any size.

CI/CD Vendors: A closer look at GitLab

Over the past several years, GitLab has invested heavily in evolving from git repository hosting and version control to becoming an end-to-end DevOps toolchain. One area that GitLab has continued to invest in continuous integration and continuous deployment capabilities.

GitOps vs DevOps: Differences, Benefits, and Use Cases

Compare GitOps vs DevOps, including key differences, benefits, and when to adopt each approach. Learn how GitOps enhances DevOps with a declarative model, improved automation, and stronger control for modern software delivery.

The Rise of AIOps: How AI/ML Are Reshaping DevOps

AIOps is transforming IT operations by combining AI, machine learning, and automation to predict issues, reduce downtime, and streamline workflows. Discover how AIOps is driving faster, smarter, and more resilient DevOps and release management strategies.

Tool Modernization: Replacing Legacy Systems Without Breaking Everything

The ReleaseTEAM Blog: Here's what you need to know...If your delivery pipeline still relies on classics like RTC, DOORS, SVN/CVS, Mercurial, ClearCase, or ClearQuest, you’re not alone. These tools powered serious engineering organizations for decades—especially in...

Balancing Speed and Quality in DevOps: Finding the Sweet Spot

Discover how to strike the ideal balance between speed and quality in DevOps. Learn strategies—from shift-left testing and progressive delivery to governance by code—to help your team deliver faster and better without sacrificing reliability.

From Purchase to Renewal: The Case for Vendor-Managed Software Licensing

Discover how vendor-managed software licensing turns complex purchases, renewals, and compliance into a streamlined, cost-effective lifecycle—freeing your team to focus on innovation, not administration.

DevOps for Small Teams: How to Do More with Less

Discover how small DevOps teams can thrive by maximizing limited resources, automating repetitive work, consolidating tools, and strategically augmenting staff. Learn practical strategies to streamline delivery, enhance resilience, and achieve big results.

Scaling DevOps Without Losing Sight of Business Goals

Learn how to scale DevOps without losing sight of business goals. Discover strategies for alignment, observability, collaboration, and continuous improvement to ensure growth delivers both technical excellence and business value.

The DevOps Mindset for Non-Tech Teams

Non-tech teams can adopt DevOps by focusing on culture and collaboration, rather than just tools. It’s about flow, feedback, and continuous learning—making work visible, breaking silos, spreading responsibility, and iterating fast.

Developer Experience (DevEx): Why It’s Critical in DevOps

Discover why Developer Experience (DevEx) is essential to DevOps success. Learn how prioritizing smooth workflows, tooling, feedback loops, and onboarding boosts delivery speed, reduces friction, and helps retain top engineering talent.

DevOps for Small Teams: How to Do More with Less

Discover how small DevOps teams can thrive by maximizing limited resources, automating repetitive work, consolidating tools, and strategically augmenting staff. Learn practical strategies to streamline delivery, enhance resilience, and achieve big results.

The DevOps Mindset for Non-Tech Teams

Non-tech teams can adopt DevOps by focusing on culture and collaboration, rather than just tools. It’s about flow, feedback, and continuous learning—making work visible, breaking silos, spreading responsibility, and iterating fast.

The Great Resignation Shows the Importance of Investing In Employee Skills

The ReleaseTEAM Blog: Here's what you need to know...The "Great Resignation," or more aptly a massive reshuffling of talent, has left organizations wondering how they can attract and retain the skilled employees they need. Unless you're one of the FAANG...

Alright Stop, Collaborate, and Listen

The ReleaseTEAM Blog: Here's what you need to know...DevOps is back with a brand new solution If you hail from the generation before Gen X, you might remember how Vanilla Ice sampled the bassline from Queen’s "Under Pressure" in a completely different genre to...

What the hex is going on

The ReleaseTEAM Blog: Here's what you need to know...In honor of Halloween, this month’s title and theme are drawn from the animated series, “Scooby-Doo,” which featured a loveable Great Dane and his companions who unlock the mysteries and unmask seemingly scary...

How to Get Ready for Your First DevOps Initiative

The ReleaseTEAM Blog: Here's what you need to know...Perhaps you’ve read about how DevOps is helping companies get to market faster, with fewer defects, or how DevOps teams are using automation and quick iterations to adapt to challenges of remote work this year....

Why QA Should Care About DevOps

There are several advantages for QA engineers who work in a DevOps practice Testing is not conducted in a DevOps organization the same way as it is in the traditional waterfall software development lifecycle (SDLC). In the old model, developers would create a...

Service Management Has Moved Beyond IT to the Enterprise (ESM)

Enterprise Service Management (ESM) is transforming how HR, finance, legal, operations, and IT teams deliver support. Learn how modern service management platforms improve workflows, automation, collaboration, and employee experience.

Can ITIL and DevOps Work Together?

Discover how ITIL and DevOps complement each other to streamline IT operations, improve collaboration, and boost efficiency. Learn more today!

Incident Management-Respond, Communicate, and Resolve

The ReleaseTEAM Blog: Here's what you need to know...In our final installment of the “Incident Management for DevOps teams,” we will examine the Respond, Communicate, and Resolve steps: Staff Response and Escalation As part of the response, the on-call team will...

Incident Management-Detect

The ReleaseTEAM Blog: Here's what you need to know...Part 3: Detect“The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.” Zig Ziglar This is our third installment in the Incident Management for DevOps Teams series. Unplanned service interruptions,...

Incident Management-Prepare and Plan

The ReleaseTEAM Blog: Here's what you need to know...Part 2: Preparation Stage“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” Alexander Graham Bell Last month we introduced Incident Management for DevOps teams. Unplanned service interruptions, or Incidents,...

Incident Management for DevOps Teams

The ReleaseTEAM Blog: Here's what you need to know...Part 1: a PrimerWe are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. John W. Gardner No matter how well you’ve planned, service interruptions or unplanned reductions...

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