Spinnaker is an open source multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence. It is a leading CI/CD tool and provides core feature sets for cluster and deployment management. Created by Netflix and Google, it combines a powerful and flexible pipeline management system with integrations to the major cloud providers. As Spinnaker developed new features and integrations, many of Spot by NetApp customers adopted it as part of their DevOps stack.

Serverless applications, more often than not, have logic distributed over multiple functions and services, which with growth and agents and wrappers attached, can get more complex and costly. This is where Serverless monitoring comes in to help. But what is Serverless monitoring? Serverless monitoring allows developers to gain important insight on what happens during each execution and event, errors become more easily visible, and measuring resource consumption for each invocation is possible.

A lot of people think that using the cloud makes you elastic, but cloud really only gives you the potential to be elastic. If your apps aren’t elastic, and your cloud usage doesn’t flex up and down based on activity levels, then it’s really just expensive. The same is true of containers—they don’t magically make all of your hosting problems go away, and while they have the potential to make you more agile and efficient, it isn’t that simple.

2020 has seen a surge in the number of organizations embracing remote work to adapt to the new normal, leading to increased reliance on digital collaborative workspaces like Microsoft Teams. As organizations migrate critical business processes to such digital workspaces, IT service management teams need to leverage these platforms as channels for delivering IT and enterprise support.