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Docker 4.18 Extends Scout, Adds Container File Explorer, Docker Init, and More
Docker Desktop's latest 4.18 release, brings a wealth of new features, including vulnerability quickview, recommendations, and image diffing for Docker Scout, stable Container File Explorer, an init command to quickly add Docker to a project, and experimental Compose File Watch to monitor changes inside a project.
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Open Source Git Project Releases Version 2.40
Recently, the open-source Git project released its latest version 2.40, bringing some new features and bug fixes. Highlights of this release include updates to git jump tool, enhancements to cat-file tool, and faster response on Windows.
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GitHub Adds SBOM Export to Make it Easier to Comply with Security Requirements
GitHub has announced a new SBOM export feature meant to be used as part of security compliance workflows and tools. The new feature allows you to export NTIA-compliant SBOM easily, says GitHub.
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GitLab Ultimate Adds Code Viewing Ability for Guest Roles
GitLab has added customizable roles to its Ultimate subscription, enabling customers to define their roles, based on the current Guest role. The minimal viable change allows Ultimate users to add one additional permission to the Guest role, which grants users the ability to view code, known as Guest+1.
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GitLab Improves Merge Requests, GitOps Functionality and More
GitLab has released further point versions of their DevOps software package. Versions 15.3 through 15.9 been released on a monthly cadence. GitLab's first machine-learning powered feature improves merge request approvals, with other significant improvements and fixes ranging from GitOps enhancements, through improvements to IdP, to new functionality for DAST.
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GitLab Releases Single-Tenant SaaS Offering for Strict Security and Compliance
GitLab has released a new product - GitLab Dedicated - for customers in industries with strict security and compliance requirements wishing to move their DevOps software solutions from on-premise to the cloud.
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GitLab Adopts CLI Project to Bring GitLab to the Terminal
Open-core DevOps tool vendor GitLab has announced their adoption of glab - a command-line interface (CLI) tool for interacting with GitLab. This furthers GitLab's reach into all stages of the code writing process.
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AWS Enters Remote Development and Collaboration Space with CodeCatalyst
At its recent re:Invent 2022 conference, Amazon previewed CodeCatalyst, a service aimed to ease developer collaboration by integrating remote workspaces, project templates, issue management, continuous integration and delivery, and more.
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How Slack Engineers Addressed Their Most Common Mobile Development Pain Points
In a rather detailed article, Slack engineers Ahmed Eid and Arpita Patel provided an interesting peek into the processes they adopted along the years to improve developer experience in a number of distinct areas and the tools they used to that aim.
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KubeCon NA 2022: How to Build an End-to-End Argo-Based DevOps Platform for Kubernetes
Argo, a CNCF project, helps engineers to use Kubernetes by covering many use cases from GitOps-based continuous deployment to event-based workflow automation. It can also be used to create an end-to-end DevOps platform. Alexander Matyushentsev and Leonardo Luz Almeida spoke at the KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference on how to build an Argo-based DevOps platform for Kubernetes.
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Safe Mode is Lyft's Approach to Handling Feature Flags Incidents
Feature flags are a useful tool to conduct A/B experiments and to roll out changes in a controlled way. To make sure that their use does not end up disappointing users when a change causes a crash or degrades the user experience, Lyft created Safe Mode, specifically aimed to prevent crash loops on launch.
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GitLab Cloud Seed Aims to Simplify Google Cloud Integration
At Google Next '22, GitLab launched GitLab Cloud Seed, a new open-source solution integrated in GitLab One DevOps platform that aims to simplify Google Cloud account management, deployment to Google Cloud Run, and Google SQL database provisioning.
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Slack Implements Circuit Breakers to Improve CI/CD Pipeline Availability
Slack recently published how it implemented the Circuit Breaker pattern to improve its CI/CD pipeline availability. Before this project, engineers at Slack saw challenges as peak request volumes in internal tooling caused cascade failures in dependent systems. Since completion, engineers saw increased service availability and fewer bad developer experiences like flakiness from failing services.
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GitLab 15 Improves Editing, Metrics, Container Scanning, Security and More
With the recent release of GitLab version 15.2, open-core company GitLab Inc. has announced a series of improvements, including an enhanced Wiki editor, adding SAML integration for enterprises, improving dashboards, and adding internal notes.
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Microsoft Introduces a New Way for Faster Building Cloud Apps with Azure Developer CLI
Recently Microsoft introduced the public preview of the Azure Developer CLI (azd) — a new, open-source tool that accelerates the time it takes to get started on Azure. It provides developer-friendly commands that map to essential stages in the developer workflow: code, build, deploy, monitor, and repeat.