DevOps Guide - Implementing four-eyes principle with process automation tooling

This article co-authored with Roel Hodzelmans

With great power comes great responsibility.

More and more organisations are moving towards a DevOps based organisational model, putting more and more responsibility into the hands of the teams delivering software. As part of that change - and the need due to the markets moving faster and faster - more and more organisations are investing into means to release more milestones into production faster. Therefore one of the main goals within these organisations is to automate, audit, secure and ensure correct repeatability of actions.

To make that more concrete in our world of software development, we're now talking about how to implement processes that ensure our software is correct, verified, and authorized to be put into production for end customer usage. Delivering software requires that both developers and operations find common ways of merging their processes to enable faster delivery and smoother change management.

Barriers to creating a harmonious flow are found in organizations that require more stringent  verification methods on their software release mechanisms. One of the more common requirements is that of the four-eyes principle, requiring extra approval controls before release.

Let's look at defining and implementing the four-eyes principle in a DevOps automation process.

How to Install Red Hat Decision Manager 7.8

Time for another update on installing the Red Hat Decision Manager with my easy install project. 

Installing the latest decision tooling for your development projects in just minutes on your very own machine has never been easier.

It's done in just three easy steps, so let's take a closer look and see if I'm pulling your leg or telling the truth about how easy this installation can be.

Shift Remote 2020 - DevOps Heroes on Dec 8

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was invited to speak for the newly virtualized Shift Developer conference called Shift Remote.

At the time it was not yet fully planned out and the exact date and times were yet to be finalized.

Well, now we have a set schedule and I'll be coming at you online with a DevOps focused session on helping you become a DevOps hero by adding some new tools to your toolbox.

Let's take a look at what this online event looks like shall we?

How to Install Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.8

Time for another update on installing the Red Hat Process Automation Manager with my easy install project. 

Installing the latest process automation tooling for your development projects in just minutes on your very own machine has never been easier.

It's done in just three easy steps, so let's take a closer look and see if I'm pulling your leg or telling the truth about how easy this installation can be.

Voxxed Days Milan 2020 - cancelled, onwards to 2021

Back in March I wrote an article about being accepted to speak at Voxxed Days Milano 2020, which should have been in May 2020. 

Then it got rescheduled to September 2002. Not really a surprise seeing as the world was pretty much on fire at the time with virus concerns and spreading across most countries in Europe.

Now we are approaching the September event and many conferences have chosen to either go online and provide a virtual event or to cancel entirely.

What the Dev? - Best practices for Agile integration with Red Hat's Eric Schabell - Episode 44

Funny enough, in all my years of writing, speaking, and recording video content on all matter of topics from baseball to technology... I've never been on a single podcast.

That all changed last week when I got the chance to join David Rubinstein, editor in chief of SD Times, for a quick chat on his podcast called What the Dev? 

This is a podcast by the SD Times editorial team, covering the biggest and newest topics in software and technology.

In this episode 44 we had a running conversation about agile integration, microservices, agile, cloud-native development, container platforms, hybrid cloud, and more.

Find out why so many struggle with their transition to these new concepts and technologies. Listen in to a few of the pitfalls that you can avoid as you scale out your development organization to effectively deliver and maintain microservice integration projects.

How to Install Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.7

In the past I've kept you up to date on installing Red Hat Process Automation Manager with my easy install project. 

Well here's an update that installs the latest process automation tooling for your development projects in just minutes on your very own machine.

Not only that, it's done in just three easy steps, so let's take a closer look and see if I'm pulling your leg or telling the truth about how easy this installation can be.

Beginners guide - Building a retail web shop workshop update

For some years now I've maintained s free online hands-on beginners workshop for getting started with business logic tooling. Recently I've updated the entire workshop to the latest versions of the components and updated the front end.

The basics of this workshop is developing an understanding of how to use an external rules engine in your development project. It's about providing decision management capabilities so that you can dynamically change your business logic without having to change your application code. No code changes means you don't have to redeploy the application to change the behavior application.

The power of externalizing business logic can't be underestimated in these times of fast moving development and application life cycles where we want to be agile and release often. While this online workshop showcases a simple local installation and deployment for teaching purposes, one can easily see the implications for developers working on modern cloud-native container-based deployment models. 

This workshop has been split out into ten separate labs, each one focusing on a single aspect of the project as you build your business logic out using almost every type of rule offered by the engine. You'll explore the tooling, editors, and more, each a single step at a time. 

It's set up to be self-paced and you can stop anywhere along the way, spin down the application server, and return at a later time to continue down your learning path. The workshop is also hosted as a Git project that you can download and take with you for learning on the road. 

Let's explore the workshop and get you started on your first retail web shop.