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Trigger your CircleCI pipelines from a GitHub Actions workflow

If you are already a GitHub user, you may know that GitHub Actions provides you with powerful tools to increase efficiencies in your software delivery life cycle. Actions can be impactful for team collaborations and process simplification. For example, you can automate things like building a container, welcoming new users to your open source projects, managing branches, or triaging issues.

5 IT Financial Management (ITFM) Best Practices To Consider In 2022

If IT Financial Management (ITFM) was as simple as widely presumed, we’d be seeing IT expenditure dropping globally with the continued adoption of cloud services. For example, in 2020 it was expected that 83% of enterprise workloads would move to the cloud. That move happened but the results didn’t come with the extensive cost reduction benefits that businesses envisioned. Organizations are actually spending more despite the workload migration.

Robotics and Ubuntu rewind 2021

A year packed with news and events. A year where great competitions came to an end. A year that made us dream with new robots. 2021 inspired us to reach new heights and pursue new breakthroughs. As we power millions of robotics developers with Ubuntu and our robotics open source tools, we present a recap of what marked this year. Discover the victories and defeats of 2021. Those product launches that made the front page. Our best tutorials and whitepapers.

Data centre networking: SmartNICs

This blog post is part of our data centre networking series: With the explosion of application traffic and the multiplication of data centre workloads during the last decade, east-west traffic greatly increased and ended up impacting the traditional north-south based architectures. This raised the need to review the entire data centre architecture while keeping the goal of meeting performance, security, and monitoring requirements.

How to define software failure

Two of the four DORA metrics, Change Failure Rate and MTTR, require that you first define what failure means. Does failure always mean incident? Or should failure mean rollback? In this video, Don walks you through a couple different ways to define failure, and how Sleuth does it today. SLEUTH A deploy-based DORA / Accelerate Metrics tracker both managers and developers love.

How an open approach to DevOps gives you the flexibility to adapt to anything

No single vendor will ever build or own all the DevOps tools your team needs. Atlassian has created a large ecosystem of partners who deliver expertise in key areas of the DevOps lifecycle. Join this session to learn about Atlassian’s open toolchain approach and how it can empower your teams with best of breed tools that work better together. In this session, Snyk, JFrog, and Gitlab will discuss how their integrations can help you achieve your DevOps goals.

Cloud monitoring 101

Cloud monitoring is a concept that refers to a process of examining, monitoring, and controlling a cloud workflow. Cloud monitoring may be performed manually or via automated monitoring services or technologies to ensure that a cloud is operating. This procedure, centered on security and administration, has become critical for firms that depend on cloud technology.