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Introduction As all companies become software driven, DevOps is becoming an important practice in enterprises and startups across the world. DevOps is about bringing velocity to delivering tech products and services, so you can delight customers and meet business goals. To achieve this velocity, development (dev) and operations (ops) teams work closely together across the software lifecycle - from planning to release. And this has led to a new role in engineering teams - DevOps Engineer.

On December 9, 2021, a critical vulnerability in the popular Log4j Java logging library was disclosed and nicknamed Log4Shell. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2021-44228 and is a remote code execution vulnerability that can give an attacker full control of any impacted system. In this blog post, we will: We will also look at how to leverage Datadog to protect your infrastructure and applications.

Liesse Jones: Steve Pereira is a DevOps enthusiast and an expert in software team performance. He leads the largest DevOps community in Canada and is the founder of Visible, where he coaches teams to boost flow and value using his four key maps of DevOps. Welcome to DevOps State of Mind, a podcast where we dive deep into the DevOps culture and chat with friends from small startups and large enterprises about what DevOps looks like in their organizations. I'm Liesse from LogDNA.

2022 is right around the corner, and it’s not just time to prepare for christmas, play video games, buy presents, or share anti-christmas memes. It’s time to start making some predictions for bare metal Kubernetes! Take a minute and let’s think about it. Developers have advent of code so they’re busy right now. Sysadmins and devops can play games like predicting what’s going to happen next year for bare metal Kubernetes.

December 14, 2021: Canonical and Xilinx Inc. announced today the publication of Ubuntu images optimised for Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ evaluation boards and the production-ready Kria System-on-Modules (SOM). The companies are collaborating to bring enterprise-grade Linux to the world of adaptive SoCs to accelerate the development of new software-defined devices across all IoT verticals.

A while ago, we wrote about using GitHub Actions to enable a developer-friendly CD process for Kubernetes. The goal was to show how DevOps or Platform Engineers could give developers an easy way to define and deploy their applications themselves with the target of implementing a self-service model.

Accenture’s vision for value-led, business-aligned operations applies Machine Learning, Automation and Observability to help cloud-hosted and on-premise systems diagnose and heal themselves. The company’s ubiquitous myWizard® platform, used by 100,000+ practitioners at more than 3000 companies, applies StackState’s advanced 4T Observability data model to improve service to Accenture’s customers.