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Stackery Professional Serverless Tooling Now Available on the AWS Marketplace

Stackery is now available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace! This is great news for development teams excited by the prospect of building and modernizing applications using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, API Gateway, Fargate, and the rest of the growing menu of serverless capabilities. AWS teams can start their serverless journeys with prescriptive and flexible tooling that extends AWS tools and services with less friction in the purchasing process.

Monitoring AWS Lambda with Blue Matador

AWS Lambda is one of AWS’s most popular cloud services. It allows serverless applications to be built by dividing up an application into functions that can be triggered by changes in your system. Since they are critical to the health of your application, properly monitoring Lambda functions is a top priority for most teams. In this blog post, we will go over how Blue Matador monitors Lambda functions automatically and without configuration. We will cover the following topics:

Monitor Harbor container registry with Datadog

Harbor, developed by VMware and hosted by the CNCF, is an open source registry for container images and Helm charts. Hosting Harbor within your infrastructure gives you a number of advantages over using the default Docker registry, such as role-based access control, security scanning, and replication of resources between registry instances. Since a failed Harbor deployment can spell trouble for your containerized workloads, monitoring your self-hosted container registry is critical.

Introduction to the Integration Module for VMware vSphere

The Integration Module for VMware vSphere provides a set of ready built activities for integrating with vSphere from within Azure Automation and the Kelverion Runbook Studio. These are forms driven activities which allow you to define interactions with vSphere without having to write any PowerShell code. When the Integration Module is used from within the Runbook Studio you also get the benefit of the Smart Discovery. The IM will query to find out all the Datastores, Clusters and Hosts in that exist in vSphere.

Intro to Rio Online Training: The MicroPaaS for Kubernetes

We recently launched Rio, a new open-source project. It is a MicroPaaS built on top of Kubernetes, Istio, Knative, and Prometheus. You can use it to build, test, deploy, scale, and version stateless apps on any standard Kubernetes cluster, which means that you can run your apps the way you want to without having to spend time wiring them together. Join this session to see a live demo of the product features and capabilities.

16 Ways to Speed Test Automation Using a CI/CD Pipeline

Test automation plays a significant role in software development. It improves speed, better detects errors and bugs, is repeatable, scalable, has broader coverage, and more. Let’s take a look at test automation using a CI/CD pipeline. In today’s competitive world, great speed in developing software, features, and fixes are vital.