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DevOps

The Agent Harness: The Real Foundation of Enterprise AI

Why the agent harness – not the AI model or the generated code – determines the success of enterprise AI initiatives, and how to build one in five steps.

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DevOps

Governing Agentic AI Safely: Zero Trust and Compliance for AI Agents

AI agents are transforming the enterprise at speed – and the risk is growing just as fast. How the "in dubio pro securitate" principle, formal verification, and zero trust keep agentic AI safe and compliant.

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Atlassian Cloud

Atlassian Cloud Migration: From Server and Data Center to the Cloud

Why moving to Atlassian Cloud matters now, what the cloud offers and how a migration succeeds from assessment to go-live.

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Atlassian

Atlassian Team’25 Europe: Cloud News and Collections

The key cloud and collections announcements from Atlassian Team’25 Europe: AI-native software, service, teamwork and strategy collections plus new enterprise capabilities.

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DevOps

Shift Left: Catching Bugs Earlier in Your Development Cycle

Bugs found late cost time, money, and trust. The shift-left approach moves testing and quality assurance as early as possible into the development cycle.

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DevOps

Release Management with Jira: Fixing Problems, Streamlining Processes, Securing Quality

Unclear ownership, manual steps, and time pressure turn releases into chaos. Here's how Jira brings structure, automation, and quality to your release management.

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DevOps

Post-Incident Review Best Practices for Jira Service Management

A post-incident review is more than a closing report – it helps you understand root causes, improve processes, and draw valuable lessons from every incident. Here's how to run one effectively in Jira Service Management.

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DevOps

Self-Service: Meaning and Challenges

Without self-service, companies drown in administrative tasks. We explain what self-service is, which challenges it solves, and which tools you can use to build it.

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DevOps

What Is Developer Self-Service? An Overview

What developer self-service is, the types that exist, its advantages and drawbacks, and how it works in practice – a comprehensive overview.

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DevOps

Webinar Recap: Platform Engineering – AWS Account Setup With JSM

Transform your cloud infrastructure with Platform Engineering and JSM Cloud – our webinar shows you how.

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DevOps

What Is Platform Engineering?

Platform engineering, internal developer platforms, and developer self-service – we explain the terms, the differences between them, and walk through a real-world example built on Jira Service Management and AWS.

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DevOps

A Comparison of Popular Container Orchestration Tools

Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, and Azure Container Apps compared head-to-head: features, benefits, use cases, and a comparison table to help you decide.

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DevOps

Deep Dive: Monitoring and Observability for DevOps Teams

Concepts, best practices, and tools: how monitoring and observability help DevOps teams catch problems earlier and ship software faster and more reliably.

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DevOps

DevOps: Advanced Techniques for Optimizing Your Build-Test-Deploy (CI/CD) Pipeline

From incremental builds to blue/green deployments: advanced techniques DevOps teams use to fine-tune their build-test-deploy pipeline.

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DevOps

DevSecOps in Manufacturing

Manufacturers are increasingly becoming software companies. DevSecOps helps them break down silos, build in security from the start, and stay competitive.

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DevOps

DevSecOps Glossary

From Agile to vulnerability scanning: the key DevSecOps terms explained in one place.

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DevOps

The Essential Role of Security in DevSecOps

DevOps ships fast – but speed without security is risky. Why DevSecOps brings development and security together, and how companies benefit.

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DevOps

Guide: Troubleshooting and Fixing Production Issues in Distributed Systems

A structured guide to troubleshooting distributed systems – from post-mortem analysis to post-incident review.

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DevOps

10 Best Practices for Deploying and Managing Microservices in Production

From clear ownership to chaos testing: 10 best practices for running microservices reliably in production.

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DevOps

What Is DevSecOps and How Does It Improve the Software Development Process?

How DevSecOps builds security into the entire development process – with real-world examples from Capital One and eBay, and metrics for measuring success.

What Is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
DevOps

What Is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?

Infrastructure as code replaces manual server configuration with machine-readable definition files. Here are the benefits, the challenges, and the key tools.

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DevOps

5 Key Skills for Becoming a DevSecOps Engineer

DevOps knowledge, secure SDLC, application security, cloud infrastructure, and communication: the five skills that define a DevSecOps engineer.

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DevOps

How to Get Started with DevOps Automation – and Why It Matters

DevOps automation enables faster, more consistent deployments and fewer manual errors. We cover the typical challenges and how to get started.

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DevOps

DevOps: How to Get Started

New to DevOps? A crash course on automation, monitoring, CI/CD, and the culture you need to get started successfully.

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DevOps

Post-Mortem Analysis: How to Actually Learn from an Incident

Mistakes happen – the question is whether you learn from them. How to build a blameless post-mortem culture in your DevOps organization, illustrated by Facebook's 2021 outage.

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DevOps

Keynote Container8 – The All-in-One DevOps as a Service Platform

Late last year, we launched Container8 – a DevOps as a Service platform. At Serview Festival, Benjamin Nothdurft of codecentric AG showed exactly how it works in practice in a live keynote.

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DevOps

The CALMS Framework

CALMS is a framework that helps you assess your organization's readiness for DevOps and measure progress throughout a DevOps transformation.

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DevOps

Faster Time to Market with DevOps

How DevOps and CI/CD speed up your software's time to market – through deployment automation, test automation, and efficient bug fixes.

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DevOps

Common DevOps Pain Points

From system outages to rollbacks to canary releases: the common IT pain points that DevOps methods like blue-green deployment and infrastructure as code actually solve.

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DevOps

Deploying Atlassian Software with AWS and Spinnaker – Part 1: Infrastructure

Deploying Atlassian software can be automated elegantly with AWS, Kubernetes and Spinnaker. Part 1 of this series looks at the infrastructure behind it.

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DevOps

Deploying Atlassian Software with AWS and Spinnaker – Part 3: Project Management & DNS

Deploying Atlassian software with AWS and Spinnaker, including Kubernetes support. Part 3: project and user management, and DNS.

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DevOps

Deploying Atlassian Software with AWS and Spinnaker – Part 2: Deployment

Deploying Atlassian software with AWS and Spinnaker, including Kubernetes support. Part 2 of a three-part series: deployment.

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