Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Coming to this article you may be in two learning mindsets. You’re curious about building a service catalog and want to know some of the basics. Or you’re curious about FireHydrant’s philosophy around this growing space.

We've had a jam-packed year and it's only September. Here are some of the product releases we’ve had to date, from new features to updates for incidents, integrations, Runbooks, and more. Keep reading to see what’s new and improved with FireHydrant and what you can leverage for your team.

Have you ever installed OpenStack from scratch? I know, it sounds geeky, unnecessary and maybe even overcomplicated … It is after all 2021, OpenStack is mature, there are hundreds of OpenStack distributions available out there, configuration management tools are all the way around and installing OpenStack from scratch almost sounds like compiling the Linux kernel or using make scripts to install software on Ubuntu.

On August 4th 2021, Kubernetes (K8s) upstream announced the general availability of Kubernetes 1.22, the latest version of the most popular container orchestration platform. At Canonical, we actively track upstream releases to ensure our Kubernetes distributions align with the latest innovations that developers and businesses need for their cloud native use cases.

For large digital enterprises Microsoft Azure and private cloud offering Azure Stack Hub have emerged as the strategic cloud platforms of choice for many organizations. Azure offers an open and flexible platform on which to quickly build, deploy and manage applications at scale.

Webhooks allow for communication between services and APIs, which makes them the glue of our interconnected, cloud-based application environment. If you are familiar with APIs, you can learn to use webhooks. CircleCI offers a webhooks feature for our CI/CD platform that lets you subscribe and react to CircleCI events such as workflow and job completed. This tutorial showcases the webhooks feature and gives you steps for getting started.

Over the past 10 years, CircleCI customers have used our platform to customize their software development process. Orbs have helped standardize and scale CI/CD pipelines with reusable packages of configuration. The CircleCI API has allowed users to create robust internal tools for their developers and integrate with other products for more granular monitoring. As of today, CircleCI users have yet another way to react to events and customize their software delivery experience with webhooks.

As a business, whichever industry you are in, there is a fair chance that you depend upon online assets such as mobile applications or API’s for conducting operations. Assuming that one wants to ensure their availability, correct functioning and quick response at all times, it is important to use synthetic monitoring for better customer experience.

With the advent of cybercrime in recent years, tracking malicious online activities has become imperative for protecting operations in national security, public safety, law and government enforcement along with protecting private citizens. Consequently, the field of computer forensics is growing, now that legal entities and law enforcement has realized the value IT professionals can deliver.