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Best Practices: Onboarding Jfrog Xray

JFrog Xray is a Software Composition Analysis tool (SCA) which is tightly integrated with JFrog Artifactory to ensure security and compliance governance for the organization binaries throughout the SDLC. This video provides best practices learned from customers for successfully deploying JFrog Xray into your organization and performing a real Shift-Left. It will focus on two keys to success, 1. involving R&D and 2. starting small and working in cycles.

Speed Up Your Maven Builds With Jfrog Artifactory

The code we develop ends up being packaged into artifacts that are consumed as dependencies during the development of other software components. JFrog offers an end-to-end Maven repository solution to resolve complex challenges that come with consuming and developing all these artifacts. There are many reasons why you may want to use JFrog Artifactory as your Maven repository. As a Maven repo, Artifactory is both a source for artifacts needed for Maven builds and a target to deploy artifacts generated in the build process.

Restore authority with Token Bandwidth Controls!

Now you can go beyond measuring your bandwidth usage and regain control via Cloudsmith's new bandwidth controls for Entitlement tokens. You can craft tokens with individual usage limits using the UI, API, and CLI, allowing you to decide the exact level of usage for each token. Combining the new and existing limits for entitlement tokens, allowances are configurable to provide fine-grained control for any combination of properties.

Managing Sensu Go 6 using Ansible

Earlier this year, we shared the certified Ansible Collection for Sensu Go, which makes it easy to automate your monitoring and achieve real-time visibility into auto-scaling infrastructure. Now that Sensu Go 6 has been released, we’ll share the latest updates on the Collection, including the management aspects of Sensu Go 6, with a focus on the structure of Ansible playbooks in the Sensu Go 6 world.

Top Go Modules: Writing Unit Tests with Testify

All developers have seen them, even in well-structured Golang programs: comments suggesting you keep away from lines of code since they seem to be working in a magic way. These warnings make us timid, fearing we might break something. But applications need to change, to improve and innovate. That’s why unit tests are a vital part of software development. They help developers know whether the small parts of their software perform their intended function correctly.

Microsoft Azure & JFrog: Accelerating Deployment With Virtual Kubelet And Artifactory

Virtual Kubelet simplifies the management of your Kubernetes cluster by rapidly spinning up pods behind an abstraction that takes care of scaling up and down your cluster. JFrog Artifactory is a universal binary repository that serves as a highly scalable container registry with advanced security scanning of container images. By combining Virtual Kubelet on Azure Container Instances (ACI) for fast orchestration and Artifactory to reliably serve container images, you get a highly scalable and secure platform for application deployment.

Add file attachments to pull requests in Bitbucket Cloud

During code review, static image files might not be adequate when a developer wants to demo their changes. Starting now, teams can attach any type of file to a pull request. No need to worry about the file size either. For example, “before and after” screen recordings can be uploaded and viewed directly in a pull request. With this change, Bitbucket Cloud has become more integrated with the Atlassian ecosystem. Does your team also collaborate on Jira or Confluence?

Monitor your Package Activity and Save on Storage!

With the introduction of the Package Activity API and accompanying CLI command, you can now quickly and easily check your entire repository for packages' activity status or even take a detailed approach and view packages individually (per day/per package). You can save on your storage costs by eliminating inactive packages and retaining only the packages you or your users derive value from storing and distributing via Cloudsmith.