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The software industry has been leading the automation trend by setting up tools, frameworks, and platforms to simplify and automate application development and deployment workflows. This enables less human involvement, less error-prone situations, and more consistency and reliability in rolling out software.

Welcome to another monthly update on what’s new from Sysdig. Eid Mubarak! Our team continues to work hard to bring great new features to all of our customers, automatically and for free! Most importantly, of course, was our recent funding round! I won’t repeat all the details as you can read more about what it means here. However, we are super excited about all the new feature improvements we can fund and bring to our customers!

You’re called in. The system is misbehaving. It could be a key metric going crazy, or exceptions starting to fire. You’re troubleshooting, beating around the bush, just to realize that one of the team’s deployments was the one messing things up. Sounds familiar? If you’re practicing continuous deployment, you probably experience that several times a week, if not more. Users report that 50% of their outages are due to infrastructure and code changes, namely deployments.

Since Google first introduced Kubernetes, it’s become one of the most popular DevOps platforms on the market. Unfortunately, increasingly widespread usage has made Kubernetes a growing target for hackers. To illustrate the scale of the problem, a Stackrox report found that over 90% of respondents had experienced some form of security breach in 2020. These breaches were due primarily to poorly-implemented Kubernetes security.

As part of our research for the 2021 State of Database DevOps report, we asked 3,000+ recipients what they consider to be the greatest challenge when integrating database changes into a DevOps process. According to the respondents, these are the most important challenges facing database professionals when introducing DevOps practices to database development.

Since the revolutionization of the concept by Docker in 2013, containers have become a mainstay in application development. Their speed and resource efficiency make them ideal for a DevOps environment as they allow developers to run software faster and more reliably, no matter where it is deployed. With containerization, it’s possible to move and scale several applications across clouds and data centers. However, this scalability can eventually become an operational challenge.

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Grafana is free and powerful - a mainstay in DevOps and IT dashboarding. It’s an open-source visualization platform that lets you visualize data in real-time from almost any database. SquaredUp Dashboard Server is, at first glance, quite similar! You can dashboard just about any data to get real-time visualizations. All for free. So… The answer is… Yes, if you want enterprise scale dashboards hosted on Windows Server that are super-fast to set up (and usable by anyone).

Kubernetes — a popular open source container orchestration system — enables you to easily deploy, monitor, and scale cloud-native application workloads in both private and public cloud environments. In other words, Kubernetes does the hard work of managing containerized applications, giving you more time to spend building it.