February 2024

Love is in the code! We're bringing DevOps news with passion this February. This edition has sweet insights into seamless collaboration, heartwarming automation, and a sprinkle of Valentine's Day magic for your pipelines. Happy deploying!

Containers as Part of a Cloud-First Initiative

Cloud-first initiatives allow organizations to build highly scalable and available applications, improve efficiencies and productivity, and reduce expenses associated with data centers.



In Part 6 of our cloud-native series, we explore another technology that simplifies development for the cloud and other targeted platforms—containerization.

DevOps Industry News

Will the rise of generative AI increase technical debt?

Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and others collaborate with the U.S. government for AI research

Shape the future: DevSecOps 2024 trends and insights

Partner News and Announcements

Confluence vs. SharePoint: when to use which?

5 strategies to enhance customer experience through better service transparency

Do you know if all your repositories have up-to-date dependencies?

A guide to open source for the social sector

Southwest looking to help developers take flight with GitLab

GitLab drives automotive industry information security with TISAX certification

*nix libX11: Uncovering and exploiting a 35-year-old vulnerability

Empowering DevSecOps: JFrog’s enterprise-ready platform for Federal NIST SP 800-218 compliance

Introducing Helix Core Cloud, managed & hosted version control by Perforce

What is linting and when to use lint tools

Fake 'Distube-Config' npm package drops Windows info-stealing malware

DevSecOps Maturity Model: a beginner’s guide

Introducing Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant (preview)

AWS Certification retirements and launches

Getting started with CloudBees Flow Metrics

Breaking the chains: blocking cryptocurrency mining on the CloudBees platform

k0smotron Anywhere: Now a complete ClusterAPI infrastructure provider

Mastering team access in Kubernetes

How Custom Charts for Jira is ending bad service management

Don’t buy a Jira time in status app

Hosted Chef end-of-Life announcement and next steps

Introducing the new and improved ‘Progress Chef Downloads’

Introducing the Microsoft Active Directory inventory plug-in for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Building a mission-critical application platform

Prompt engineering: A guide to improving LLM performance

Introducing Docker Build Cloud: a new solution to speed up build times and improve developer productivity

GitHub pull request management with GitKraken client

Google Project IDX adds Android emulators, iOS simulator

Securing Critical Infrastructure in The Digital Age

Tempo acquires Alpha Serve

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