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In the digital era, state and local government and education (SLED) agencies are increasingly leveraging new technological advances such as mobility, the cloud, and big data to better serve constituents while achieving cost efficiencies.

We’re very happy to announce that our self-service automation portal for use with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft System Center Orchestrator has now been updated to Version 3! This release brings with it a number of upgrades and general improvements, plus the ability to create your own colour themes, so that you can truly make the portal your own and seamlessly integrate it into your organisation.

Containers, along with containerization technology like Docker and Kubernetes, have become increasingly common components in many developers’ toolkits. The goal of containerization, at its core, is to offer a better way to create, package, and deploy software across different environments in a predictable and easy-to-manage way.

Today we are happy to announce StackStorm v3.0.1. This is a first bug fix patch / patch release in the v3.0.x release series. It includes the following bug fixes and improvements...

If you’ve built a serverless application or two, you’re probably familiar with the benefits of serverless architecture. You take advantage of already built, managed cloud services to handle standard application requirements like authentication, storage, compute, API gateways, and a long list of other infrastructure needs. You can spin up these resources in a matter of minutes and add your own specific business logic (usually as AWS Lambda function code).

The mechanism for interacting with Kubernetes on a daily basis is typically through a command line tool called kubectl. kubectl is primarily used to communicate with Kubernetes API servers to create, update, delete workloads within Kubernetes. The objective of this tutorial is to provide an overview of some of the common commands that you can utilise, as well as provide a good starting point in managing Kubernetes.

When it comes to hosting applications, business and IT administrators often need to make tough decisions as to whether cloud hosting or retention of the software at their own data center is the preferred option. Public cloud hosting may have the edge in terms of scale and distribution, but there are certain instances where an onsite approach to application hosting is a better idea.

We recently removed webpacker from our Rails 5 application. While it was a great way to bootstrap a new Rails app with a significant amount of Javascript we encountered some serious performance problems that we felt really impacted our productivity. We build our application images after every git push and we’d like to be able to deploy them quickly.