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Rounding out 2020: Mattermost Community Events

Over the course of 2020, Community events have changed. We’ve seen sweeping changes in everything from the way people get together online, to the way they interact, to the platforms they use to meet. Mattermost is a Community-driven company, and as such we continue to try to work and interact with our Community as much as we possibly can.

GitHub Plugin 2.0 release

We’re excited to announce the release of GitHub Plugin version 2.0, which adds some new features that increase productivity and reduce the need to context switch between Mattermost and GitHub. As usual, our open source community members have played a key role in developing all of these features and I’d like to say “Thank You!” for their help. Our GitHub plugin is one of the most popular integrations on Mattermost and we use it every day as part of our development process.

Using Mattermost Operator for Kubernetes to deploy our Community server

One of the key benefits of using Kubernetes is that it’s very flexible and fault tolerant. However, that also means that it has quite a lot of complexity to deal with. A well-built operator abstracts that complexity away and helps manage updates and upgrades seamlessly. The Mattermost Kubernetes operator is basically like having a Mattermost Cloud Engineer running inside your Kubernetes cluster managing Mattermost for you.

Tips and tricks to increase productivity in Mattermost

Our customers are always looking for ways to work faster and more effectively inside Mattermost. As a remote-first company, we spend most of our time collaborating inside Mattermost, and we’d like to think we’ve learned a thing or two about how to use Mattermost productively over the years. Here are some of our favorite tips and tricks for getting things done on Mattermost. We hope these examples help your team achieve similar productivity gains.

GitLab Summit 2020 recap: Using messaging for better remote DevOps collaboration

As many on-site organizations scramble to adopt remote work, DevOps teams are turning to messaging and integrated workflows to collaborate effectively. Usual office work practices are changing, and people are having to adapt to a remote-first approach. This demands a change to your company culture, a remote mindset and the tools to deliver it.

How open source solutions help the U.S. Air Force accelerate software development and modernize collaboration

The pressure to ship quickly is greater than ever before. But for many organizations, including the U.S. Air Force, security and compliance concerns severely limit their ability to quickly adopt and integrate new technologies, putting teams at risk of being locked into approved vendors and missing out on critical innovations. In order break the cycle of slow-moving development, Platform One, the U.S.

Mattermost integrations: Requesting data with slash commands

In the first two installments in this series, you learned you learned how to send alerts with incoming webhooks and request data with outgoing webhooks. In this article, you will learn how to set up a slash command. Slash commands are very similar to outgoing webhooks and even a little more powerful. To show their power in action, let’s find out how to use slash commands to request the temperature of a specific refrigerator.

Support for ESR 5.19 is ending soon

As of October 15, 2020, Mattermost Extended Support Release (ESR) version 5.19 is no longer supported. If any of your servers are not on ESR 5.25 or later, upgrading immediately is required. With our simple upgrade steps, it takes only a few minutes. Extended Support Releases are releases that will receive backports for high severity or high-impact security fixes for the length of their lifecycle.