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Cloud Modernization Best Practices

Cloud services have revolutionized the technical industry, and services and tools of all kinds have been created to help organizations migrate to the cloud and become more scalable in the process. This migration is often referred to as cloud modernization. To successfully implement cloud modernization, you must adapt your existing processes for future feature releases.

Why Your Legacy Cloud Cost Tools Aren't Cutting It

In the beginning of cloud computing, before the earliest cost tools came along to give companies a glimpse into their spending, most businesses found it hard to determine where their cloud budget was going. The money disappeared into the black hole of the cloud service provider, and in exchange, the business received cloud services. Achieving any sort of granularity beyond that was next to impossible.

Open DevOps toolchain page: installing, connecting, and configuring integrations to Jira Software

Dave McCormick, Engineering Manager - Open DevOps, walks through a new Open DevOps capability: toolchain page. Toolchain page is an admin experience for discovering, connecting, and visualizing your toolchain, all within Jira Software. Toolchain page is available to all Jira Software cloud users.

Application Platform with Crossplane and Shipa

Crossplane is an open-source project that lets you turn a Kubernetes cluster into a control plane. Crossplane lets you interact with your cloud provider API from a Kubernetes cluster, enabling you to create cloud resources required by your applications, such as databases or other resources supported by Crossplane for different cloud providers.

We've made it even easier to manage your FireHydrant configuration with Terraform

Many of our customers use FireHydrant’s verified Terraform provider to track configuration changes, ensure consistency, and automate repetitive configuration tasks. Back in March we streamlined our Terraform provider support for service catalog configuration. Today we are releasing extensive Terraform provider improvements for configuring runbooks, task lists, service dependencies, incident roles, and more.

Why it makes sense to invest in a hybrid cloud future

A cloud-first strategy is increasingly seen as the standard way to achieve efficient business operations. As the favoured approach of new start-ups and expanding businesses wanting to benefit from the flexibility and resilience of the cloud, it’s little wonder that foundational cloud services saw a revenue growth of 38.5% in 2021 according to IDC. It looks like a fantastic package from the outside.

17 Best DevOps Tools to Use in 2022 for Infrastructure Automation and Monitoring

You must adopt proper infrastructure automation if you want to enable your teams to achieve faster application delivery while eliminating human errors. Automation of servers, deployment environments, configuration management, and deployments play a vital role in getting a competitive advantage for your product. Monitoring both the infrastructure and application is equally important as well. In this article, we will discuss top tools for infrastructure automation and monitoring.