As more companies plant their IT systems in the cloud, DevOps methodologies are being embraced to accelerate these digital transformations. Part of DevOps adoption is the implementation of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices, bringing automation to the software delivery process.

PowerShell DSC might be the new kid on the block when it comes to configuration management, but it's certainly not lacking in power. DSC resources offer unprecedented hooks into the Windows operating system and provide straightforward configuration functionality that will make your Unix coworkers green with envy. It's a shame it's not easier to use….

First of all, we’re pleased to announce the first release of the GitHub data source. The source code is available at github.com/grafana/github-datasource. Contributions, feature requests, and bug reports are welcome. Using the GitHub data source, Grafana users can visualize data from GitHub’s API. In this blog, we’ll go over some use cases for this handy plugin.

Setting up AppSignal isn’t as complex as rocket science. Developer experience is really important to us, as AppSignal started as a way to scratch our itch. We also put a lot of effort in providing you with a first-class developer support. In fact, our developers are the ones answering all of your your technical questions. This is why we’ve added a diagnose tool to our Node.js integration.

We’re excited to share that we’ve revamped our Shipping Tokens feature! If you’re a Logz.io user, you’re familiar with the key role tokens play in shipping and protecting your data. As a form of virtual identification, tokens help us properly attribute data to the right account. They are required in a variety use cases such as log shipping, API access, and read access. And in addition, they are also mandatory for compliance.

Ingesting various events and documents into Elasticsearch is great for detailed analysis but when it comes to the common need to analyze data from a higher level, we need to aggregate the individual event data for more interesting insights. This is where Elasticsearch Data Frames come in. Aggregation queries do a lot of this heavy lifting, but sometimes we need to prebake the aggregations for better performance and more options for analysis and machine learning.

In this guide, we will use Ansible as a Deployment tool in a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment process using Jenkins Job. In the world of CI/CD process, Jenkins is a popular tool for provisioning development/production environments as well as application deployment through pipeline flow. Still, sometimes, it gets overwhelming to maintain the application's status, and script reusability becomes harder as the project grows.

The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set team has reported a Denial of Service vulnerability in ModSecurity version 3.x that allows an attacker to send a crafted payload that exploits a flaw in how regular expressions are matched within the software. A CVE (CVE-2020-15598) was assigned to this vulnerability and it has been rated with a CVSSv3 score of 7.5 (high).

“Transforming large manufacturing organizations like Continental is a huge technical and philosophical challenge. The emphasis is on finding the most intuitive and efficient way to modernize while maintaining competitive advantage.