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OpsRamp Introduces AI-Driven Suggestions for Incident Remediation
OpsRamp, a SaaS platform for hybrid infrastructure discovery, monitoring, management and automation has launched OpsQ Recommend Mode, a capability for incident remediation. OpsQ Recommend Mode provides predictive analytics to digital operations teams with the goal of reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).
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Algorithmia Adds GitHub Integration to Machine Learning Platform
Algorithmia, an AI model management automation platform for data scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers, now integrates with GitHub.
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Amazon Releases CLI v2, Includes SSO and Interactive Usability Features
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of AWS CLI (Command Line Interface) v2. Within this version of the CLI, features such as AWS Single Sign-On (SSO), interactive wizards, server-side auto completion and auto prompts are included. In addition, having Python installed is no longer a pre-requisite and the CLI is supported on Windows, Linux and macOS.
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What Will the Next 10 Years of Continuous Delivery Look Like?
Dave Farley and Jez Humble talked at the DeliveryConf about their expectations for the next ten years of Continous Delivery (CD). For CD to succeed, the IT industry needs to focus on three performance aspects: technical, organizational, and cultural–all profoundly interrelated. DORA's report has shown that technical practices can lead the change, but they alone aren't enough.
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WKSctl: a Tool for Kubernetes Cluster Management Using GitOps
WKSctl is an open-source project to install, bootstrap, and manage Kubernetes clusters, including add-ons, through SSH. WKSctl is a provider of the Cluster API (CAPI) using the GitOps approach. Kubernetes cluster configuration is defined in YAML, and WKSctl applies the updates after every push in Git, allowing users to have repeatable clusters on-demand.
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CircleCI Introduces New Orbs to Simplify Deployment Activities
CircleCI recently announced the availability of Deployment Orbs which focus on streamlining and simplifying the integration of deployment workflows into CircleCI jobs. This release includes orbs for deploying into common environments such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, and Salesforce.
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Preventing Inadvertent Changes, Amazon Adds Change Calendar to AWS Systems Manager
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced a new capability has been added to AWS Systems Manager called Change Calendar. This feature allows administrators to create change windows that either block or enable changes to be made, within a specific time frame, and is beneficial to organizations that have deployment freezes such as during the holidays or key business events.
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Improving Continuous Integration at Dropbox Using Bazel
Benjamin Peterson recently shared how Dropbox leverages Bazel to improve their build and deploy experience. Using Bazel, Dropbox was able to scale their continuous integration and deployment pipelines to ensure quick feedback on commits. They achieved this by running only the affected tests within a grouping of commits and selectively pre-declaring which tests are gating to deployments.
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How Deploying Every Feature Branch Enables Fast Product Feedback
Pushing the boundaries of continuous delivery, you can fundamentally change the way people collaborate while building software. Christian Uhl presented at DevOpsCon Munich 2019 how deploying every feature branch using GitLab and Kubernetes helps them to get fast feedback from product owners and stakeholders.
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Heroku's Journey to Automated Continuous Deployment
Heroku's engineering team wrote about their journey from manual deployments to automated continuous deployments for Heroku Runtime, their managed environment for applications. They achieved this using Heroku primitives and a custom deployer tool.
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Traefik 2.0 Supports TCP, Middleware, and New Routing Features
The release of version 2.0 for the cloud native edge router Traefik introduces support for TCP routing, request middleware, canary deployments and A/B testing, and a new dashboard and web UI. The latest release provides more tools for developers to configure and manage routes, and improved cluster visibility.
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Digital Factory on a Global Scale: Scaled Agile and DevOps at UBS
UBS is rolling out a scaled agile setup globally in Switzerland, India and the APAC region. Christian Bucholdt, head IT of digital factory management at UBS, spoke at Agile Leadership Day 2019 about their Digital Factory approach and how it will change the entire delivery organization.
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CircleCI Adds Security Integrations to Streamline Securing CI/CD Pipelines
CircleCI announced the addition of new orbs that address common use cases and needs with securing your CI/CD pipelines. The orbs added to the repository with this release cover vulnerability scanning, secrets management, license scanning, and digital scanning. It includes integrations with AWS and Google Cloud.
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Atomist Adds Drift Management Features to Minimize Process and Code Divergence
Atomist recently released Drift Management as a new feature within their Software Delivery Machine. This tool helps to track and control drift within repositories, libraries, and Docker images. Drift Management is open source and available in Atomist subscription plans, including the free tier.
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GoDaddy Releases Automatic Canary Deployments Tool for Kubernetes
GoDaddy recently released an open-source tool to automate gated deployments in Kubernetes. Every time a deployment happens, the tool can run regression tests, and pull metrics from data backends like New Relic. After some time, the tool decides whether to roll back or continue with the deployment automatically. Users can run A/B tests and run experiments with a small portion of live traffic.