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President Joe Biden recently signed an executive order which made adhering to cybersecurity standards a legal requirement for federal departments and agencies. The move was not a surprise. It comes after a string of high-profile cyber-attacks and data breaches in 2020 and 2021. The frequency and scale of these events exposed a clear culture of lax cybersecurity practices throughout both the public and private sectors.

It’s been a long time since our last community update, rest assured that we have been hard at work here at Netdata. Community building is hard, especially when you have such a venerable community like the one here at Netdata, where hundreds of contributors have contributed to creating one of the best monitoring solutions that exist. Last year we started to concentrate working on consolidating the community by integrating the various platforms where people come together to talk about Netdata.

For those of us who need to get applications running in Kubernetes, having Kubernetes on the desktop is incredibly useful. When we want to focus on our applications, it’s especially useful when Kubernetes is easy to use. This is where Rancher Desktop comes in. Rancher Desktop provides easy-to-use Kubernetes and container management (something we’ll look at in a moment) for Mac and Windows. Having Kubernetes isn’t enough.

Welcome to another monthly update on what’s new from Sysdig! Happy Pride month! We hope you are celebrating safely, in whatever manner you choose. It’s been over 50 years since the Stonewall riots, but we continue to fight for equality and justice. Love is love, and we’re sending you all of ours! Thank you to Marsha P. Johnson, Brenda Howard, and countless others for fighting for the freedom that many of us today enjoy.

This is the fourth installment in a series of articles on Mattermost plugins. First, we talked about how to set up your developer environment. We then examined the structure of server-side and web app plugins before walking through how to build a server-side plugin in Mattermost. In this piece, we’ll explore how to create web app plugins. The web app is written in JavaScript. It uses Redux, and you can write your plugin in Typescript as well. In this article, we’ll use JavaScript.