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AWS Announces the General Availability of AWS Proton
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of its fully-managed application delivery service, AWS Proton, allowing customers to easily provision, deploy, and monitor the microservices that form the basis of modern container and serverless applications.
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Ambassador Developer Control Plane Integrates Common Kubernetes Full Lifecycle Tooling
Ambassador Labs announced the release of their Developer Control Plane (DCP). The DCP brings together tooling to support the full development and operations of Kubernetes based services. This includes popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) tools such as Argo, Telepresence, and Envoy Proxy.
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How GitHub Leverages Feature Flags to Ship Quickly and Safely
In a recent blog post, Alberto Gimeno, GitHub actions engineer, shared how GitHub makes use of feature flags to enable frequent, safe deployments. GitHub leverages feature flags for all potentially risky changes, allowing them to quickly disable the change if needed.
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GitHub Reacts to Growing Cryptocurrency Mining Attacks Using GitHub Actions
In response to the recent surge in cryptocurrency mining attacks, GitHub has changed how pull requests from public forks are handled in GitHub Actions to prevent abuse.
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Community Debates Value, Even Existence of Continuous Deployment
A post by Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb, reopened a debate over continuous deployment (CD) as she asserted that when people talk about CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous deployment) they’re only talking about continuous integration (CI), and that’s not enough. The discussion covered not just its importance, but how many organizations are actually using it.
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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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Safe and Fast Deploys at Planet Scale: QCon Plus Q&A
Uber has automated the deployment of services using a hybrid cloud model. All services are deployed using the same rollout techniques and workflows, ensuring safe deployment and mitigation of any issues. Abstracting away the differences between clouds supports engineers in building services that run on any platform.
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AWS Introduces Proton - a New Container Management Service in Public Preview
During the annual AWS re:Invent developer conference, the public cloud provider announced the public preview of AWS Proton, a new fully-managed deployment service for container and serverless applications. With AWS Proton, customers can automate and manage infrastructure provisioning and code deployments for serverless and container-based applications.
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GitHub Code Scanning Is out of Beta
One year ago GitHub announced the acquisition of Semmle, maker of a semantic code analysis engine powered by the Semmle QL query language. After a few months in beta, GitHub is now announcing the availability of its new CodeQL-based code scanning capability for all public and private repos.
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GitHub CLI Reaches 1.0, Enables Scripting CI/CD Workflows
Released in beta last February, GitHub CLI has now reached version 1.0. According to GitHub, you can use GitHub CLI for your entire workflow from issues to reviews to releases. In addition, you can script the GitHub API to automate any available action.
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How Amazon Teams Do Continuous Delivery
An AWS engineer recently wrote about how Amazon deployment pipelines look and what practices they follow to deploy continuously to production. A pipeline validates changes in multiple environments running unit and integration tests, and use stages to stagger deployments to production. Teams don't actively examine deployments as the pipeline monitors key metrics and can rollback if needed.
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Amazon Announces General Availability of AWS CodeArtifact
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of AWS CodeArtifact, a fully managed artifact repository service. With this service developers and organizations can securely store and share the software packages used in their development, build, and deployment processes.
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Pulumi Releases Version 2.0 with New Policy as Code Tool
Pulumi announced the release of version 2.0 of their open source infrastructure as code platform. This release includes a new policy as code system called CrossGuard. Also included are improvements for moving pre-existing systems into Pulumi.
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Shifting-Left Testing with Mabl DevTestOps Platform
Corresponding to the ideas of "test early, test often" and "test as early as possible" in the development lifecycle, shift-left testing is a well-known approach. Recently, the combination of shift-left testing and CI/CD is fueling a new approach to DevOps dubbed DevTestOps. InfoQ has spoken with Dan Belcher, co-founder at DevTestOps platform maker mabl.
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Go as a Scripting Language
Go's growing adoption as a programming language that can be used to create high-performance networked and concurrent systems has been fueling developer interest in its use as a scripting language. While Go is not currently ready out of the box to be used as a replacement for bash or python, this can be done with a little effort.