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Set up the AdGuard Home Ubuntu Appliance

Block ads and trackers, and regain full control of your network. The AdGuard Home Ubuntu Appliance is an easy way for anyone to shield their WiFi network, and all the devices in their home from hackers and prying eyes online. In this post, we discuss what AdGuard Home is, some of the benefits and features of using the appliance, and how you can get started.

Transition Jira issues on merge

Developers understand the importance of keeping their team up to date on work and use many of the integrations between Bitbucket Cloud and Jira like smart commits and automation triggers to do so automatically. However there may be times where there are nuances or uncommon situations when merging a pull request that aren't covered by existing automation rules – sometimes there are multiple pull requests, or sometimes merging means you're now in 'Done' and other times you're in 'Releasing'.

The Power of Open Source Software: Rancher Academy Issues 1,000th Certificate

The Rancher Academy launched on May 15, 2020. Here we are, 94 days later, and we’ve issued our 1,000th certificate to a graduate of the Certified Rancher Operator: Level 1 course. Rancher is open source software, so anyone can download it and use it. With that freedom, though, comes a cost: we all learn how to use it according to how we need to use it. Through this lens, the actual potential of Rancher becomes distorted, and the experience of each individual varies widely.

Nationwide Building Society: Ensuring Continuous Quality for DevOps Success

DevOps promised that we could deliver more, faster, and with confidence. But blockers to adoption and transformation can make those goals hard to achieve. From disjointed toolchains to a lack of predictability and visibility - persistent challenges can make DevOps success elusive and frustrating. Join us for a discussion with Rich Jordan, Test Engineering Manager at Nationwide Building Society, the world’s largest building society.

Explore Kubernetes resources with Datadog Live Containers

Running Kubernetes applications requires visibility into not only the overall performance of clusters but also the health of individual pods, deployments, and other resources that make up your environment. Datadog already integrates with your containerized environments and includes features like the Live Container view and the Container Map, enabling you to easily monitor Kubernetes and container runtime performance in real time and get deep visibility into clusters.

6 Steps to Increase DevOps Velocity

Many organizations are looking to implement DevOps due to the promise of increased release velocity, better developmental agility, and the ability to free up time for developers to focus on innovation. However, adopting DevOps isn’t a panacea— instead, the idea of communication, collaboration, and blameless retrospectives that a DevOps model encourages can help foster a leaner system where bottlenecks are solved in a manner that not only fixes the problem, but also improves the process.

Migrate NGINX from "stable" Helm Charts Repo with ChartCenter

For the last four years, anyone wanting to deploy the Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes would find its official Helm chart nginx-ingress in the stable repository maintained by the Helm project. Those days are over. And not just for NGINX, the most popular Ingress Controller used as a reverse proxy and load balancer, but for all open-source K8s apps. With the advent of Helm 3, the Helm project is deprecating the stable repositories.

Additional deployment environments for Bitbucket Pipelines

Bitbucket Pipelines provides teams with a one-stop solution to build, test, deploy and track their code, without ever leaving Bitbucket. Developers and release managers can easily track and visualize deployments, while non-technical teams can have visibility into what features are coming down the pipeline.

What your company can learn from the Bank of England's resilience proposal

Learn how to modernize your financial systems with confidence while mitigating risk (and meeting compliance). This article was originally published on TechCrunch. The outages at RBS, TSB, and Visa left millions of people unable to deposit their paychecks, pay their bills, acquire new loans, and more.