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Automate Self-Service Workflows from ServiceNow with the Puppet Spoke

Puppet Spoke empowers your team to deliver changes in a faster, more efficient manner by creating a single platform experience between Puppet and ServiceNow. Users can trigger automation workflows such as installing packages, rebooting machines, and orchestrate changes across their environments without ever leaving ServiceNow.

Build Automated, Scalable Enterprise Integration Workflows by Using the Enterprise Integration Pack (EIP) with Azure Logic Apps

In business-to-business (B2B) solutions and seamlessly creating communication between organizations, establishing a standard format to create communication across different services and enabling the security trust fact across various services is the most challenging parameter to achieve. But today, you can build automated, scalable enterprise integration workflows by using the Enterprise Integration Pack (EIP) with Azure Logic Apps at ease.

GitHub Authentication Policy Changes Coming August 2021

If you’ve already connected your GitHub integration via OAuth in GitKraken, you’re good to go! GitHub is changing its security policy and will no longer allow username/password-only access. This change goes into effect on August 13th, 2021, and affects all desktop Git applications that offer a GitHub integration, including GitKraken. Users who have already authenticated to GitHub using OAuth will be unaffected. OAuth is the default connection method within your GitKraken profile settings.

DevOps Training: Enabling Continuous Cloud Capacity Optimization

Cloud elasticity makes capacity management irrelevant in the cloud, right? Wrong! In fact, with effectively no limits on potential capacity, optimization and management becomes critical. Watch as we explore opportunities for DevOps practitioners like you—linchpins for enabling cloud business strategies—to achieve greater agility while providing increased cloud ROI.

Announcing developer preview of the Mattermost Apps Framework and serverless hosting

The value of Mattermost is significantly enhanced with third-party tool integrations and customization. Today, we are releasing the developer preview of a new Apps Framework for creating application integrations and customized workflows. The Apps Framework complements the existing ecosystem of plugins and allows apps to be written in any language and deployed with serverless hosting.

Cloud 66 Feature Highlight: Tag Propagation

What is tag propagation? Some cloud providers support the propagation of your Cloud 66 tags into their own tagging systems. Tag Propagation allows you to easily identify and link components between your Cloud 66 account and supported cloud provider platforms. Currently, tag propagation supports cloud servers and load balancer components.

Monitor AWS App Runner with Datadog

Knowing how to deploy and run applications has become a key part of modern app development, meaning that developers need expertise in a number of areas beyond their core application code. Whether it’s container orchestration, networking, scaling, or load balancing, there is a steep learning curve to being able to deploy and run an application at scale.

5 factors for evaluating an RMM tool for the modern MSP

Managed service providers (MSPs) are becoming increasingly important in the IT management industry. The role of an MSP does not just stop with monitoring, managing, and maintaining the IT services of their clients; it extends to keeping a close watch on everyday IT developments and proactively securing clients’ IT networks against cyberthreats. To balance all these responsibilities, MSPs need comprehensive IT management and monitoring solutions that can cater to all their needs.

What Is Thanos - Use Cases

When you hear the word "Thanos," your first thought might be the Marvel Cinematic Universe villain from the Avengers: Infinity War film who seeks to collect the Infinity Stones and end half of all life in the universe. But if you mention the word to a data nerd, you're likely to get a very different response. Prometheus is a free and open-source platform for real-time systems and event monitoring and alerting.

SaaS vs onPremise: Pros, Cons and Cost Analysis

Be aware that we’re not saying that you are in cloud nine, but that you may most likely be using the cloud. That is, if you use Google mail, Microsoft Office 365 office suite or you take a photo with your cell phone and then it gets automatically uploaded to iCloud or something similar, you are using the cloud.