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Monthly Moo Update | December 2021

What a year 2021 has been for us all. We are extremely proud of the continuous innovation and delivery of new features and functionality we have provided throughout the year, all while maintaining enterprise scale and uptime that could win awards. We’ve heard success story after success story from our brilliant customers, each unique in their own way. We couldn’t have had the successful year we’ve had without you, and it’s been our honor to be part of your success.

Monitor and optimize S3 storage with Amazon S3 Storage Lens metrics

With Amazon S3’s scalable object storage, you can store and manage billions of objects across multiple AWS accounts, regions, and storage classes. S3 Storage Lens provides 29 useful metrics that give you deeper visibility into your S3 usage and activity across your entire organization. We are proud to be a pre-integrated AWS partner using the new CloudWatch publishing option to bring S3 Storage Lens metrics into Datadog for enhanced S3 storage monitoring.

Preventing Kubernetes misconfigurations and deprecations with Datree

Join Datree’s Shimon Tolts and Civo’s Kunal Kushwaha and as they talk about preventing Kubernetes misconfigurations and deprecations. Shimon walks through why you should automate your Kubernetes cluster upgrades and scan for deprecations regularly, and ultimately, how to do this easily with open source tooling. Kunal focuses on minimizing Kubernetes misconfigurations that can cause clusters to fail in production with Datree. Including setup and installation of the tool, some of the key features, policy management, tokens, and more.

Building application-ready clusters with Crossplane

Much has been written over the years about DevOps and, maybe a bit more recently, about Platform Engineering. Both jobs focus heavily on designing, building, maintaining, extending, and automating underlying infrastructure components (e.g., Kubernetes, monitoring, security, pipelines, etc.), so their end-users, often developers, can consume it as an integrated platform.

Canonical joins Magma Foundation

We at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, are pleased to join hands with the Magma Foundation. Magma connects the world to a faster network by providing operators an open, flexible, and extendable mobile core network solution. Its simplicity and low-cost structure empower innovators to build mobile networks that were never imagined before. We decided to support this open source project because of our wider telco efforts.