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Lightrun & JFrog - Achieving Complete Agility With Continuous Debugging And Continuous Observability
CI/CD has become the de facto standard for infusing the software development process with hardcoded agility. Organizations are now integrating DevOps concepts and practices into their workflows in order to get great features out of the door faster and reduce internal friction. But your ability to understand what’s going on in a production service is pre-defined by the logs, metrics and traces (i.e. the three pillars of observability) your developers pre-defined during development. There is, however, a need for agility even after the service is live - in order to adhere to strict SLAs, decrease MTTR and save on logging costs.
Multi-cloud AI/ML and DevSecOps on Kubernetes
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In collaboration with: https://www.metrostarsystems.com/
Puppet Agent 7 - marking packages to be held
In previous versions of Puppet, there was not a good way to specify a package version and also mark the package as held on the Debian platform. Puppet 7 adds a new parameter that allows you to specify both at the same time.
Puppet Agent 7 - Filebucket hash algorithm update
Puppet 7 upgrades the default filebucket hash digest algorithm from MD5 to SHA256, which is generally a good thing. However, this makes upgrades just a little tricky. The mitigation for this is simply to set your digest algorithm to SHA256 on server and agent both before upgrade. Gabriel shows us how to do so in this video.
Puppet Agent 7 - SMF provider consistency
Service Management Facility (SMF) is the service management framework for Solaris as of version 10. In previous versions of Puppet, starting a service was effectively the same as enabling it. This meant that the service provider only supported starting and stopping each service. As of Puppet 7, it works the same as any other service provider.
Puppet Agent 7 - Windows RubyGems environment
Previous versions of Puppet always installed Ruby Gems into the Puppet provided gempath. That caused surprising behaviour at times, and so now the gem provider will detect if the computer has a system RubyGems installation, and if so, install gems there by default instead.
Cloud CI Project
Puppet supports a lot of platforms, including some that aren't well represented in the cloud world, like AIX or Solaris. To cover all these platforms, much of our module testing happened on an internal Jenkins server and our in-house vmpooler infrastructure. This worked pretty well, but had the unfortunate side effect that PRs from community contributors would often get rejected by an opaque process that didn't even tell them what tests failed!
Tech is reinventing the future of work right now
Paul Hardy, Innovation Evangelist speaks with Tom Cheesewright, Applied Futurist, on findings from The Work Survey, conducted for ServiceNow, providing a global view of the future of work beyond Covid 19. Hear how digital transformation will become an increasing focus for business spending as companies look to innovate the processes of getting work done.
It's not about remote work or return to work
Nerys Mutlow, Innovation Evangelist speaks with Tom Cheesewright, Applied Futurist, on findings from The Work Survey, conducted for ServiceNow, providing a global view of the future of work beyond Covid 19. They discuss how 2020 has seen an entirely new way of working, the benefits of remote working from home, and how the challenges are becoming more apparent.