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November Checkpoint updates and additions are here! This month, you have three new checkpoints, and we are proud to say that the three additions make for 215 worldwide checkpoint locations. We’ve also updated the IP addresses of two checkpoints.

AWS CloudFormation is a service that enables you to build infrastructure as code, similar to Terraform. You can create CloudFormation templates to provision and manage all of the resources for your stacks, such as EC2 instances, load balancers, and security groups. These templates automate the process of building infrastructure, creating repeatable steps that you can easily check into version control. This ensures that your configurations do not drift with each new environment you spin up.

Kibana is a powerful visualization platform designed specifically for log management with Elasticsearch. It already provides a lot built-in, but its open-source nature obviously lends it to some pretty cool simple and complicated additions from its community of devs. Some favorites include adding certain kinds of visualizations, API attachments, better integration between Kibana and other platforms, as well simple add-ons for flair in reports.

One of the main benefits to standardized infrastructure is the ability to share application resources across entities. We are taking advantage of this with the Cloud Native Security Hub as we start to explore how to standardize cloud native security.

Out-of-the-box integrations are great, and they help organizations see an immediate return on investment when the technologies they have invested in work together seamlessly. However, a little customization to these integrations can dramatically increase productivity and reduce mean time to resolution. Here we will address a couple of best practices and customizations that can take your PagerDuty and LogicMonitor integration to the next level.

Commits are fundamental to Git, but not all developers have a comprehensive understanding of what a commit actually is and how it gets applied to your project. In short, a commit is a snapshot of your Git repository at one point in time. In this beginner Git tutorial video, we will dig into the journey of creating a commit.

Here at Honeybadger, we are big fans of GitHub Actions' workflow automation and CI/CD features. We like it so much that we decided to add two of our own contributions to the community! Now you can trace stacks at light speed by uploading your source maps to Honeybadger directly from GitHub using your original, un-minified Javascript code.

Managing a Service desk is like firefighting. You are always on your toes; the next incident can arise anytime even though you are buried under tons of service requests. So, what to do? The very definition of an incident is unplanned disruption of a service or services; this makes incidents by nature non-standard and un-predicable. Service requests, on the other hand, are better defined since there are standard deliverables.

We are excited to announce the general availability of Calico Enterprise 2.6 (formerly known as Tigera Secure). With this release, it is now possible to fully-automate Security-Policy-as-Code within a CI-CD pipeline, including the ability to implement security as a Canary rollout, which is the most critical requirement to automating network security.