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Deploy packages from a Cloudsmith repository with Ansible

Ansible is an open source continuous configuration automation (CCA) tool. You can use it to automate the management of the configuration of host systems. For example: installing and configuring applications, services, security policies; or to perform a wide variety of other administration and configuration tasks.

Operationalizing HashiCorp Vault: Introducing a New Splunkbase App to Monitor Vault

We are excited to announce the availability of the Splunk App for HashiCorp Vault. Using this app, organizations can seamlessly ingest and visualize performance metrics and audit logs in Splunk to investigate, monitor, analyze and act on Vault data across DevSecOps use cases.

Puppet Enterprise new release offers powerful orchestration and more

As the industry leader in the DevOps space, we’re excited to share recent updates to the Puppet Enterprise platform that give infrastructure operations teams the flexibility to manage and automate more infrastructure and complex workflows in a simple yet powerful way.

Standardize and automate patching workflows with Puppet Enterprise

Patching systems is not a new problem; this is something that organizations are very familiar with. Organizations have tried solving this issue in various ways by cobbling together multiple tools, processes, different teams, and more. Organizations are constantly trying to stay secure and keep their systems up to date, but patch management isn’t a simple process. In fact, applying the patch itself is just one part of the overall workflow, which involves multiple teams and various steps.

Datadog API client libraries now available for Java and Go

Client libraries are collections of code that make it easier for developers to write flexible and efficient applications that interface with APIs. Datadog provides client libraries so you can programmatically interact with our API to customize dashboards, search metrics, create alerts, and perform other tasks. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve developed and open-sourced two new client libraries for Java and Go in addition to our existing Ruby and Python libraries.

Automate k3OS Cluster Registration to Rancher with Argo Workflows and Scripting Magic

As the Kubernetes ecosystem grows, new technologies are being developed that enable a wider range of applications and use cases. The growth of edge computing has driven a need for some of these technologies to enable the deployment of Kubernetes to low-resource infrastructure to the network edge. In this blog post, we are going to introduce you to one method of deploying k3OS to the edge. You can use this method to automatically register your edge machine to a Rancher instance as a control plane.

Track JFrog Platform Performance with Datadog Analytics

Faithful operation of your JFrog Platform can be best assured by tracking usage data of Artifactory and Xray. With insights gained through real-time observability and log analytics, you can boost the efficiency of your DevOps pipeline and keep your software releases running joyfully. Datadog is a SaaS-based data analytics platform that is a popularly used monitoring service for cloud-scale applications.