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Redhat Ansible is one of the most popular automation platforms in the IT industry. Since its launch, it has earned its place among some of the best DevOps tools. Powered by an open source community of more than 3550 contributors, it occupies more than 50% of the market share in the configuration management segment. This article will explore Ansible and how IT professionals and engineers use it to power their workflows. Read on to learn more about one of the most powerful automation platforms.

Many of our customers use an identity provider to provision new users to our app via SAML & SSO. We are further streamlining this user provisioning by integrating with SCIM 2.0 protocol.

Over the last few years, Microsoft has built excellent tooling around different technologies. Today, everything is available and achievable through the Azure Portal, which helps manage complex solutions. However, this brings in challenges when it comes to managing the distributed resources. The struggle to keep track of messages or know the flow of messages through these distributed resources is growing day by day.

The Datadog Service Catalog helps you centralize knowledge about your organization’s services, giving you a single source of truth to improve collaboration, service governance, and incident response. Datadog automatically detects your APM-instrumented services and writes their metadata to a service definition before adding them to the catalog.

We’ve reached the point in the DevOps transformation where efficiency and automation are no longer the highest objectives. The next step is engineering past automation and towards fully autonomous, self-healing systems. If you aren’t conversing about building this type of resilience into your systems and applications, there’s never been a better time than now to start.

Testing is a vital part of the mobile app development process. Your team can use testing to evaluate the quality, security, and reliability of mobile apps before releasing them to your users. Users who expect their applications to be highly performant and intuitive. There are two ways DevOps teams can perform testing for mobile apps: on-premise (also called self-hosted) or in the cloud. But which of these is the best option for your team?

We are happy to announce that Bitbucket Pipelines now supports non-containerized Linux Shell self-hosted runners. This is currently in beta. You can now create a self-hosted runner and run it on your Linux infrastructure without container restrictions. Since it is your infrastructure, you will not be charged for the build minutes used by your self-hosted runner.

Over the last few weeks, we’ve launched several new features like support for Docker BuildKit, the ability to set default PR tasks, and fixed a few bugs. Here are the updates.