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Lightrun & JFrog - Achieving Complete Agility With Continuous Debugging And Continuous Observability

CI/CD has become the de facto standard for infusing the software development process with hardcoded agility. Organizations are now integrating DevOps concepts and practices into their workflows in order to get great features out of the door faster and reduce internal friction. But your ability to understand what’s going on in a production service is pre-defined by the logs, metrics and traces (i.e. the three pillars of observability) your developers pre-defined during development. There is, however, a need for agility even after the service is live - in order to adhere to strict SLAs, decrease MTTR and save on logging costs.

Puppet Agent 7 - Filebucket hash algorithm update

Puppet 7 upgrades the default filebucket hash digest algorithm from MD5 to SHA256, which is generally a good thing. However, this makes upgrades just a little tricky. The mitigation for this is simply to set your digest algorithm to SHA256 on server and agent both before upgrade. Gabriel shows us how to do so in this video.

Puppet Agent 7 - SMF provider consistency

Service Management Facility (SMF) is the service management framework for Solaris as of version 10. In previous versions of Puppet, starting a service was effectively the same as enabling it. This meant that the service provider only supported starting and stopping each service. As of Puppet 7, it works the same as any other service provider.