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How Automation Benefits IT Operations: Good Automation Things Come in Threes

IT professionals talk about automation… sometimes ad nauseum. We generally understand its value, even if we’re tribally divided by the specifics of its application. For civilians, automation is a catch-all for using technology to wield skills and abilities outside their experience (like placing an order through a complex infrastructure) and access the world of vendors and goods they wouldn’t have time to connect with on their own.

Official JFrog Ansible Collection for Artifactory & Xray

Ansible has become one of the most popular tools used by operations teams to automate their IT tasks. It allows them to quickly, and at the largest enterprise scale, manage the configuration of their IT systems. This includes software and infrastructure on-premise and in the cloud. Its open-source roots has allowed it to grow a large global community with an equally expansive ecosystem of integrations.

Launching JFrog ChartCenter: The Helm Chart Central Repository for the Community

The number of publicly available Helm charts is continuously growing and while this is great for the community, it can be challenging to navigate the vast sea of Helm charts and Helm chart repositories. Like a ship’s captain, you need more than just a list of where you can go, but the details to ensure those under your charge arrive certainly and safely. Not just what can be seen on the surface, but what lies underneath, and the hazards that await.

Catchpoint's SRE Report 2020 - The Highlights

Our 2020 SRE Report is ready! We launched the SRE survey 2020 this January with the goal of understanding the current state of SRE. The survey covered a range of topics including: As we neared the end of the survey period, the SRE community was in the midst of a sudden change. SRE teams were forced to migrate to all-remote IT. We realized we would not be able to provide an accurate analysis without considering this shift in how SRE teams were operating in this new environment.

Data science workflows on Kubernetes with Kubeflow pipelines: Part 1

Kubeflow Pipelines are a great way to build portable, scalable machine learning workflows. It is one part of a larger Kubeflow ecosystem that aims to reduce the complexity and time involved with training and deploying machine learning models at scale. In this blog series, we demystify Kubeflow pipelines and showcase this method to produce reusable and reproducible data science.

Git is About Communication

An SCM such as Git is more than just a database for source code. It’s not only the thing you need to interact with to get code to production, but also a log of changes on a project. It’s not just the last couple of weeks of commits that are worth looking at. Any commit remains relevant weeks, months and years later. A commit serves multiple purposes. The first one is to explain a change during its review and the second is to explain a change to a future reader.

LogicTalks - How to Approach Monitoring during a Crisis

In this episode of LogicTalks, Mark Banfield, Chief Revenue Officer at LogicMonitor, is joined by Nancy Gohring, Senior Analyst at 451 Research to talk about how today's new realities effect how IT organizations are approaching the tools and solutions they use to retain and grow their customer base, keep employees production and their businesses up and running. From the reasons why it's a good idea to continue investments in IT technologies, to tackling tool sprawl, to some unique ways your organization could be using your monitoring solution to find efficiencies and cost savings,

JFrog ChartCenter walkthrough with Rancher Labs

JFrog ChartCenter is a new central Helm chart repository that just launched! We will be working on adding great new features and content for the Helm community all summer. JFrog’s ChartCenter is the latest entry from the JFrog Community Team and was built to help the Helm community find immutable, secure, and reliable Helm charts and have a single source of truth to proxy all the charts from one location.