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Puppet

How Puppet Is Eliminating Soul-Crushing IT Work: Project Nebula, Continuous Compliance, and the Multi-Cloud Future

Puppet’s Project Nebula aims to give DevOps teams a unified way to build, provision, and deploy cloud-native applications—while the company doubles down on continuous compliance and incident remediation to remove repetitive, error-prone work from IT.

GitHub

GitHub CEO Nat Friedman: Why GitHub Defended Its ICE Contract in the Face of Employee Protest

In October 2019, GitHub CEO Nat Friedman published a public defense of the company’s decision to renew a GitHub Enterprise Server contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), even as employees demanded the contract be cancelled.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes and Multi-Cloud: How to Monitor Modern Applications Effectively

As microservices and container adoption accelerates, Kubernetes has become the de facto orchestrator for multi-cloud environments. But monitoring Kubernetes effectively requires more than basic infrastructure metrics — it demands unified log, metric, and metadata correlation across every pod, node, and cluster.

Chef

GitLab’s One-Stop DevOps Platform Pitch: Replace Chef, Puppet, Splunk, and Snyk?

At its 2019 Commit London event, GitLab staked out an ambitious position: a single DevOps platform capable of replacing a sprawling toolchain that includes Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Jira, Jenkins, Splunk, and security tools like Snyk. We examine the strategy, the trade-offs, and the questions it raises.

GitHubGitLab

DevOps Roundup: Weaveworks Debuts Kubernetes Tool, GitHub Refines Actions, GitLab Patches, and Spring Integrates

A snapshot of key DevOps and cloud-native news from late 2019: Weaveworks launches a new Kubernetes management tool, GitHub iterates on Actions, GitLab issues security patches, and the Spring ecosystem expands its integrations.