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Everything You Need to Know About Buildah

Buildah is a tool for building OCI-compatible images through a lower-level coreutils interface. Similar to Podman, Buildah doesn't depend on a daemon such as Docker or CRI-O, and it doesn't require root privileges. Buildah provides a command-line tool that replicates all the commands found in a Dockerfile. This allows you to issue Buildah commands from a scripting language such as Bash.

Take Full Control of Your Maven Deployments

The code we develop ends up being packaged into artifacts that are consumed as dependencies during the development of other software components. We rely on an artifact repository manager, like JFrog Artifactory, to resolve the complex challenges that come with consuming and developing all of these artifacts. Artifactory serves as the foundation for managing binaries in so many organizations, both large and small, as part of an effective CI/CD pipeline.

5 Tips to Take Your DevOps Pipeline to the Next Level

DevOps can successfully remove the bottlenecks created by waterfall methodology by improving development productivity through encouraging collaboration,continuous feedback loops, and automating processes. Collaboration. Feedback. Automation. These are the main building blocks of DevOps operations. However, not all DevOps implementations are successful. Why? Building blocks are not enough. You need to take these building blocks and design a DevOps pipeline that suits your needs.

Optimize Your CI/CD Pipeline with Codefresh & Lightstep

How do you know if the changes that you’re making to your microservices are having the desired impact to your end-users? What happens after a deploy? Did your app’s performance remain the same? Were any bugs introduced? Do you need to roll back? With Codefresh and Lightstep, you’re able to more quickly, more accurately, and more easily ensure that any commit and build results in a better experience for your end-users.

10 Essential DevOps Slack Apps

A major goal of DevOps is task and process automation. While total automation is possible to a large extent, DevOps engineers can’t just run a process and then leave it. They need to quickly react in the event of downtime and incidents. Usually, it’s important to react as fast as possible because downtime for even a few minutes can cost from $2,300 to $9,000 according to the Ponemon Institute in 2016 and a 14-hour outrage cost Facebook an estimated $90 million in March 2019.

Azure Health Monitoring

Microsoft Azure has been growing rapidly from the past couple of years and many new advancements have been done to increase the productivity of the users. Microsoft has also been constantly working on different monitoring capabilities to keep the users well informed about the status and availability of their resources. One such resource is the Azure service health which notifies the user about the availability and health status of each resource in different Azure regions.

Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.0

Version 2.0 of the HAProxy Data Plane API brings some exciting enhancements that unlock the power of HAProxy’s flexible configuration and its runtime capabilities. The HAProxy Data Plane API, which lets you manage your HAProxy configuration dynamically using HTTP RESTful commands, has marked a major milestone with the release of version 2.0. This release emphasizes the runtime aspects of HAProxy, giving you the ability to manage map files, stick tables, peers, DNS resolvers and more.

Detecting, Reporting and Mitigating Vulnerabilities for Go Modules

Go Module vulnerabilities frustrate the lives of many Go developers and can turn a simple project into a battle of endurance between the dev and their patience. With the process of CI/CD shifting left more and more, it’s becoming even more pertinent for developers to be able to track and report vulnerabilities as early as possible. JFrog GoCenter can help track and mitigate vulnerabilities and make the lives of Go developers easier.