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NubesGen Brings Git Push to Azure Infrastructure
With a new command-line interface (CLI) available in its v0.8.0 release, NubesGen can now automatically find its configuration, and set up a GitOps workflow for deploying Infrastructure as Code into Azure, allowing developers to easily get up and running with cloud infrastructure for their projects. InfoQ interviewed Julien Dubois, project leader of NubesGen, on the product and where it’s headed.
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Google's Managed Continuous Delivery Service for Kubernetes Moves to GA
Google has announced the GA release of Google Cloud Deploy, their managed continuous delivery service for Google Kubernetes Engine. The service provides declarative builds that persist with a given release, support for connecting external workflows, and detailed security and auditing controls
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Docker Desktop Best Practices for Code Sharing
In a recent article, Docker engineer Stephen Turner shared a few best practices to help developers understand file sharing between a Docker container and its local host and how its performance varies across OSes.
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How AI Supports IT Operators to Resolve Issues Faster and Keep Systems Running
AIOps is all about equipping IT teams with algorithms that can help in quicker evaluation, remediation or actionable insights based on their historical data without the need to solicit feedback from users directly. AI can help IT operators to work smart, resolve issues faster and keep the systems up and running to deliver great end-user experience.
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Google and GitHub Announce OpenSSF Scorecards v4 with New GitHub Actions Workflow
GitHub and Google have announced the version 4 release of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)'s Scorecards project. Scorecards is an automated security tool that identifies risky supply chain practices in open source projects. This release includes a new Scorecards GitHub Action, new security checks, and a large increase in the repositories included in the foundations weekly scans.
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Aqua Security Reports Large Increase in Supply Chain Attacks
Aqua Security's recent report highlights the increasing threat of supply chain attacks. According to the report, supply chain attacks grew by 300% from 2020 to 2021 while the level of security across software development environments remained low. Google and the CNCF have recently released papers detailing approaches to improving the security of the supply chain.
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How GitHub Does DevOps for its iOS and Android Apps
GitHub relies heavily on GitHub Actions to manage the release process for their iOS and Android apps. Using the right tools to automate the process allows the mobile team to ship a new release every week, GitHub engineer Taehun Kim explains.
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HashiCorp Waypoint Adds Triggers and External Data Fetching
HashiCorp has released version 0.7 of Waypoint, their open-source application deployment tool. This release presents a number of redesigns to the user interface, the introduction of scripting and continuous integration lifecycle operations via triggers, external data fetching, and scoping of configurations to specific workspaces.
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GitLab 14.6 Improves Geo Replication and Adds Support for .NET 6 Projects
GitLab 14.6 new Geo configuration streamlines the process of using the geographically closest replica to speed up clone and pull commands. It also introduces an activity list for GitLab's Agent to log real-time events and brings support for .NET 6.
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Migrating Neo4j Graph Schemas with Neo4j Migrations
Neo4j Labs has released Neo4j Migrations, a database migration and refactoring tool that offers version control for relational databases. Inspired by FlywayDB, the tool supports migrations based on Cypher statements or Java. Triggering the migrations is possible via the CLI, Maven plugin, or a Spring Boot starter.
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GitHub Improves Code Navigation and Search
GitHub announced improvements to its code search and code navigation capabilities. The new code search, which is still available experimentally, features now the possibility of finding code symbols and using regular expressions. Code navigation has been made available from within pull requests and extended to provide more precise information for Python repos.
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AWS Announces Construct Hub and New Version of AWS Cloud Development Kit at re:Invent 2021
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of version 2.0 of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) and AWS Construct Hub during its annual re:Invent conference.
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XCRemoteCache Aims to Speed up iOS App Build Times
Spotify created XCRemoteCache to reduce Xcode compile times. Recently open-sourced, XCRemoteCache can decrease clean build times by 70%, says Spotify.
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ClusterFuzzLite Brings ClusterFuzz to GitHub Actions and Other CI/CD Pipelines
ClusterFuzzLite, as implied by its name, is a light version of Google ClusterFuzz, a tool aimed to find security and stability issues in software systems through fuzz testing. ClusterFuzzLite is meant to be integrated in a CI pipeline with a few lines of code, says Google.
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Building Large-Scale iOS Apps at Airbnb
The Airbnb iOS team addressed the challenge of its growing mobile app codebase and complexity by adopting new tools and processes, including a modern build systems, module types, and dev apps.