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The 8 CI/CD tools you need to know about in 2019

In 2019, one part of a successful development team is having a solid CI/CD pipeline. Now, every pipeline will have a unique set of outcomes and needs-which means that you'll need a strong set of tools to help you accomplish your goals. This blog post will help identify some of the tools out there that can help you make your pipeline great. These tools range from the familiar Jenkins and its newer predecessor Jenkins X to security tools like Twistlock. First, we'll cover what it means to have a CI/CD pipeline. Then we'll explore tools that can help you create and run a pipeline, add better security, and even help you deploy.

Deploy Artifactory HA into AWS Using AWS Quick Starts

JFrog Artifactory Cloud on AWS is a hosted solution for developers and DevOps engineers that provides complete control, insight and binary management throughout the software development lifecycle. DevOps teams have transparency and control of their entire build and release process, all with the power of cloud-based development. We are excited to announce a set of three AWS Quick Starts to easily deploy Artifactory Enterprise in a highly available (HA) configuration into AWS.

Xray 2.10 Released: New Package Support, an IDE Plugin and More.

Our user community spoke and we listened. You asked for Xray to be even more universal and support more package types… in particular Go and PHP Composer. With Visual Studio Code (VSCode) now having more than 4.5 million monthly active users, we also added a new VSCode plugin for Xray. This broad adoption of multiple programming languages and package types across organizations, is driving up the need for a more universal DevSecOps solution supporting more package types.

Chef vs Puppet: Differences, Similarities, and How to Choose

Chef and Puppet are two popular tools for configuration management. These type of tools help engineers to maintain a consistent configuration in all servers. For instance, all servers might need to have IIS with a binding to port 443 for HTTPS access and the respective firewall rule for inbound traffic. More importantly, if anyone removes the firewall rule, these type of tools will keep consistency by creating the firewall rule again.

Working On Hitting a Release Cadence? CI/CD Observability Can Help You Get There

We recently sponsored our partner CloudBees’ conference DevOps World & JenkinsWorld in San Francisco and our message “Observe how Customers Experience Your Build” resonated well with the folks we met. Release engineers are critical to the continuous delivery cycle and knowing the right time to ship is important for internal business stakeholders but more importantly end-user customers and especially if it’s a significant release.

Harness Your Deployment Superpowers With Honeybadger's Orb For CircleCI

Palantir orbs, the Globe of Peace, Thief Raid, Trine, Prophecy Records, Ood Translators — the list of important orbs throughout history is quite long. However, the Honeybadger orb for CircleCI gives you deployment super powers. Do those other “important” orbs offer this feature? I didn’t think so!