The latest News and Information on DevOps, CI/CD, Automation and related technologies.
There’s a profound shift happening today that is taking businesses in a fresh, new direction. Outcomes are at the forefront of IT leaders’ minds, and they’re rightfully becoming a core business accelerator. It’s clear that employee and customer experiences are critical for growing businesses. The trend stems from a shift in priorities.
A few months ago we announced Status Pages – the most delightful way to keep customers up-to-date about ongoing incidents. We built them because we realized that there was a disconnect between what customers needed to know about incidents, and how easily accessible this information was. For example: As we built them, we focused on designing a solution that powered crystal-clear communication, without the overhead — all beautifully integrated into incident.io.
A Configuration Management Database (CMDB) like ServiceNow CMDB serves as a centralized repository for comprehensive information about the various components of an information system. These components, known as Configuration Items (CIs), encompass hardware (such as servers and switches), software applications, network paths, and even individuals or documentation.
Terraform, a powerful Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tool, has long been the backbone of choice for DevOps professionals and developers seeking to manage their cloud infrastructure efficiently. However, recent shifts in its licensing have sent ripples of concern throughout the tech community. HashiCorp, the company behind Terraform, made a pivotal decision last month to move away from its longstanding open-source licensing, opting instead for the Business Source License (BSL) 1.1.
How do you track reliability in an organization with hundreds of engineers, dozens of daily production changes, and over 32 million monthly users? Even more, how do you do this in a way that's simple, presentable to executives, and doesn't dump a ton of extra work on to engineers' plates? Slack recently wrote about how they created the Service Delivery Index for Reliability (SDI-R), a simple yet comprehensive metric that became the basis for many of their reliability and performance indicators.
Ansible is a configuration management tool that helps you automatically deploy, manage, and configure software on your hosts. By turning manual workflows into automated processes, you can quicken your deployment lifecycle and ensure that all hosts are equipped with the proper configurations and tools. The Datadog collection is now available in both Ansible Galaxy and Ansible Automation Hub.
