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.

DevOps and SRE teams are under intense pressure to reduce the Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) in resolving incidents. With the proliferation of cloud services and the increasing complexity of DevOps toolchains, engineers today need to not only learn how to use these services but also troubleshoot them when an incident is raised at 2 AM. Incident response is still manual today – cobbling together runbooks and ad hoc scripts and orchestrating people to respond.

Demand for colocation space is continuing to accelerate across the Asia Pacific region. According to research by Global Data, data centre and hosting services revenue is estimated to reach around $32 billion by 2023, giving the region an almost 30% share of the overall global data centre market. Let’s take a closer look at what’s driving that growth…

First, I hate the term “soft” skills. I prefer we call them essential or non-technical skills or even essential non-technical skills, as that would be more accurate and not have implications about difficulty. I firmly believe these skills are crucial even in normal times. As the year wears on and there’s no end in sight for a remote workforce, I want to take a few moments to recognize the importance of these non-technical skills in this environment.

Monitoring plays a critical part in the success of any business that relies on its digital services. Businesses want to understand the end-user experience, which enables or hinders good end-user experience, and how it relates to their business revenue. It plays a crucial role in answering some critical questions. Interestingly, our recent 2020 CIO Survey results highlight how the monitoring approach adopted by top/bottom tier organisations impact the overall business metrics.

Today is a great day for PagerDuty customers, practitioners, partners, and employees as we’ve entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rundeck, a Californian start-up that’s a leader and innovator in DevOps automation. Before I get into the technicalities of what our solutions can do together, let me first set the scene on why we decided to do this, now.

We are simplifying our pricing plans to provide you, our customers, with more value and to help you more easily choose the right package for your team and organization. Whether your team is just getting started with on-call or you’re ready to take a more proactive approach to digital operations, PagerDuty has a plan that is right for you. Read on to learn more about our new plan options, find out what’s best for your team’s needs, and see how PagerDuty can grow with you.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly complex and often distributed technology environments posed a challenge for software-driven enterprises. Now, the global health catastrophe has accelerated digital transformation timelines and forced a complete shift to digital interactions between enterprises and customers, as well as internally between teams and coworkers. What IT professionals have accomplished in the past 6 months is nothing short of astounding.