Today we are announcing the release of StackStorm v2.9.2 and StackStorm v2.10.1. Those two patch releases fix a security issue which has been reported to us this week by one of our users (Alexandre Juma – thanks!).

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 was an incredible event. We had many exciting announcements – LogDNA’s new partnership with IBM Cloud, our recent round of funding, as well as great conversations, product demos, fun giveaways, and even surprise gifts for loyal customers, our booth was jam packed.

Jenkins is an extremely popular, open-source, continuous integration tool used for running tests, building code, and subsequently pushing to staging and then production. In a previous post, I outlined instructions for collecting, analyzing and visualizing Jenkins system logs.

It’s hard to find time for DevOps in a startup when there’s so much else to do. Having a great idea is cool, you may already carved a plan, maybe even practiced some pitching and basically started working, you should be focusing on developing your product and doing that alone.

With the adoption of Agile methodology, it is expected to add new features quickly to an application or product. However, if the process of moving from Dev > Test > Stage > Prod is taking weeks or months – then you have a problem at hand (big or small, varies on the type of app/product). Customer will be demanding new features and the development team will be able to build/ create them quickly, which is a good thing!

Thought you could wind down for the change freeze? Sorry, we’ve got one last thing for you to do: Upgrade StackStorm to 2.10! Orquesta is now ready for almost all workflow use-cases. We’ve also done a big update to our ChatOps internals, and we have early-access Ubuntu 18 + Python 3 packages (for test only!). Read on for full details.

Although AWS sometimes feels like magic, it’s just software that controls capacity and allocation on their previously provisioned hardware. RDS is one of the services that can feel especially magic, because of the general difficulty and drudgery required to set up and manage a production database. In a matter of minutes, anyone can have a production database, complete with replication, automatic failover, backup schedules, and point-in-time recovery.