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HashiCorp Consul-Terraform-Sync Adds Task Creation API and New Integrations
HashiCorp has released version 0.5 of Consul-Terraform-Sync. CTS enables automating common networking tasks by creating Terraform modules that can be run as services are added or removed from Consul. This release adds new secure API endpoints to facilitate modifying existing tasks, new ecosystem integrations, and support for triggering Terraform workflows on Consul key-value changes.
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Google Cloud Embraces Security Orchestration through Siemplify Acquisition
Google has announced the acquisition of security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) provider Siemplify, with the aim of integrating SOAR capabilities into its own Google Chronicle security solution.
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GitHub State of the Octoverse 2021 Highlights Trends and Predicts Good Practices
GitHub's latest State of the Octoverse research highlighted three major trends towards writing and shipping code faster, creating documentation, and supporting developer communities. It also includes three predictive models to help organizations identify what they can action to achieve success.
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HashiCorp Launches Public Beta of HCP Packer
HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) Packer’s new public beta puts the long-standing machine-image building tool in the cloud, and also delivers new features such as release channels and a deeper integration with Terraform. Packer - a tool for building automated machine images which was launched back in 2013 - has been relaunched onto HashiCorp Cloud Platform, with a host of improvements.
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InfoQ Live July 20th: Software Supply Chain for DevOps & Reducing Feature Flag Debt
How can modern DevOps practices accelerate your software delivery without the quality issues? Learn how automation, continuous testing, and supply management techniques can improve software quality and speed of delivery. Get valuable insights from world-class domain experts at InfoQ Live on July 20th.
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Bridgecrew's Yor Provides Automated Tagging for Infrastructure as Code
Bridgecrew recently released Yor, their open-source tool for automated infrastructure as code tagging. Yor automatically adds tags to infrastructure configurations which are then applied to the running cloud resources, simplifying connecting the active resources back to the code that created them. Yor currently supports Terraform, CloudFormation, and Serverless.
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IBM Introduces Watson Orchestrate for Task Automation
At the recent Think conference, IBM introduces an AI-powered automation tool called Watson Orchestrate. It is currently in preview in IBM Cloud Paks for Automation and expected to be generally available later in 2021 as an SaaS offering.
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Google Announces General Availability of the Automation Capability for Appsheet
Recently, Google announced the general availability of AppSheets Automation, an additional capability to AppSheet, the company’s no-code development platform. With Automation, customers can automate repetitive tasks and business processes.
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Using Machine Learning in Testing and Maintenance
With machine learning, we can reduce maintenance efforts and improve the quality of products. It can be used in various stages of the software testing life-cycle, including bug management, which is an important part of the chain. We can analyze large amounts of data for classifying, triaging, and prioritizing bugs in a more efficient way by means of machine learning algorithms.
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GitLab 13.9 Introduces Security Alerts Dashboard, Maintenance Mode, and More
The latest release of GitLab introduces over 60 new features, mostly aimed at improving support for DevSecOps at scale and better handling the complexity of automation at scale.
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HashiCorp Terraform Adds Concise Diff Formatter and Sensitive Data Obfuscation
Hashicorp has released Terraform 0.14 into general availability. The release introduces a new concise diff format that limits the output to only the elements that are changing. Other improvements include the ability to hide sensitive data and produce lockfiles for provider dependencies.
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New Rust-Based JavaScript Tool Manager to Simplify CLI Management with Global Installs
Volta, a new JavaScript tool manager, recently released its first stable version. Volta installs CLI tools globally while locally storing version information. Like nvm for Node, Volta enables having multiple versions of the same tool installed, without having to worry about switching versions when switching projects. Rust-based Volta ships as a native, fast binary with no external dependencies.
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AWS Announces Cloudshell, a Browser-Based Shell to Interact with AWS Resources
During the annual re:Invent, AWS introduced a Linux terminal available from the AWS console called AWS CloudShell. With CloudShell, operation teams and developers at customer organizations can access AWS resources with AWS-enabled shell prompt in a browser.
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Puppet Releases Its 2020 State of DevOps Report
The State of DevOps Report 2020 released by Puppet reveals that internal platforms for self-service and effective change management practices were key for organizations to move up the DevOps evolution ladder. Security integration in the software delivery pipeline also plays a key role.
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Puppet Relay Provides Event-Driven Automation for Common Workflows
Puppet has announced the beta release of Relay, their event driven automation platform. Relay allows for automating processes as code. There are a number of pre-written workflows and there is support for creating additional workflows. Relay has a number of integrations available for use in workflows including AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, PagerDuty, and GitHub.