Author: John Willis

John WillisJohn Willis is Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat. Prior to Red Hat, he was the Director of Ecosystem Development for Docker, which acquired SocketPlane, the company he co-founded. Previous to founding SocketPlane, John was the Chief DevOps Evangelist at Dell. He has also held past executive roles at Chef and Canonical. John was one of the earliest cloud evangelists and is considered one of the founders of the DevOps movement. He is the author of seven IBM Redbooks and co-authored “DevOps Handbook” and “Beyond the Phoenix Project” with author Gene Kim.

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From the Winter 2021 Issue

DevOps Automated Governance

Author(s):

John Willis, Senior Director, Global Transformations Office, Red Hat

Devops-Automated-Governance

In the Spring of 2019, several organizations worked together to create a forum paper called DevOps Automated Governance.[1] The paper intended to create a reference architecture around Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and an automated process while simultaneously building off of some of the successful DevOps software delivery patterns (e,g, CI/CD, Pipelines, Software Supply Chains). … Read more

From the Fall 2017 Issue

You Build It, You Secure It

Author(s):

Barbara Bouldin, Director of Technologies Research, SJ Technologies

John Willis, Senior Director, Global Transformations Office, Red Hat

Leading to DevOps In 2006 Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO, said in an interview with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that developers at Amazon don’t throw software over the wall. His famous quote was “You build it, you run it”. This simple phrase became a battle cry for the DevOps movement.1 In 2017, the process … Read more