Chef Habitat hits roadmap goals; Pegasystems' low-code update

DevOps Digest: A roundup of DevOps content from TechTarget's network

DevOps Digest A roundup of DevOps content from TechTarget's network | February 17, 2020 FEATURED STORY Chef IT automation invigorates legacy apps amid cloud surge by Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer Chef Software's Habitat tool carved out a niche as it matured, among enterprise IT pros tasked with modernizing legacy data center apps. Advertisement NEWS   Ad firm gets Kubernetes management boost from Agile Stacks With a small staff of engineers responsible for all of IT, a digital advertising firm needed help to smooth out the learning curve as it migrated from Mesosphere to Kubernetes.   Pegasystems' Pega Express empowers citizen developers Pegasystems' Pega Express low-code application development methodology helps business users and citizen developers quickly create applications.   Grafana Loki users reap log data savings, with tradeoffs Grafana Loki won't replace advanced log analytics tools, but it may be a boon for shops that want to collect massive amounts of log data for troubleshooting applications.   LightStep targets developers with new observability tool LightStep hones its observability software with its new Service Health for Deployments feature, which lets developers find and fix service health issues. EXPERT ADVICE   Practical advice to integrate IT systems after a merger A merger or acquisition can devour an IT administrator's time in many ways -- from running and supporting parallel sets of infrastructure to managing automation and security.   Use this Kubernetes and Helm tutorial to simplify app deployments Helm charts are a helpful tool to deploy applications onto Kubernetes clusters. Follow this tutorial, which also features Windows and Chocolatey, to get started with the package manager.   Learn how New Relic works, and when to use it for IT monitoring New Relic is one of many tools that can help an IT team track application performance and health. Before adoption, understand primary use cases and SaaS installation requirements.   Evolve IT help desk skills to meet modern user demands "Have you tried turning it off and then back on again?" is no longer the first question a help desk technician should ask. Widespread use of tech by just about everyone has changed the role.   How a rules engine can drive -- or derail -- an IT automation strategy To benefit fully from a rules engine -- and minimize the risk of chaos -- IT organizations need to carefully define system metrics and be diligent about documentation.   5 tips to master server troubleshooting Understand, communicate, monitor, check logs, ask for support. Follow these guidelines, and make troubleshooting server problems quick and easy. About This E-Newsletter The DevOps Digest is published by TechTarget, Inc., 275 Grove Street, Newton, Massachusetts, 02466 US. Click to: Unsubscribe. You are receiving this email because you are a member of TechTarget. When you access content from this email, your information may be shared with the sponsors or future sponsors of that content and with our Partners, see up-to-date Partners List, as described in our Privacy Policy. For additional information, please contact: webmaster@techtarget.com. © 2019 TechTarget, Inc. all rights reserved. Designated trademarks, brands, logos, and service marks are the property of their respective owners. Privacy Policy | Partners List