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The past year was good for DevOps: we saw more enterprise adoption of containers and more companies throwing their hats into the container ring. We sat down with our friends from XebiaLabs – Andrew Phillips, Tim Buntel, and TJ Randall – and asked what they think the future has in store for the DevOps world of 2017.

1. A new wave of “next gen platform” projects is coming.

In 2017, we’ll see a new wave of “next gen platform” projects focused on container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes, and re-tooled PaaS platforms such as OpenShift or Cloud Foundry. Acceptance of the need for a cross-machine resource management and scheduling framework is growing, and the vendor ecosystem is rapidly throwing weight behind this movement. There will also be an increased shift away from defining containers directly, and more towards having containers generated automatically where necessary.

– Andrew Phillips, VP DevOps Strategy at XebiaLabs
 

We make big improvements to StackState every single day. Keeping you updated about these results on a day-to-day basis could become somewhat annoying, so that's where this monthly post fits in: a summary to share all our latest improvements and newest features.

During the last few weeks StackState has seen some huge improvements, so it’s time to catch you up on all the cool stuff we made last month. Let get right to it…

 

Mesos integration

Monitoring your containerized infrastructure can be challenging. Containers move and change so frequently, that it’s more difficult to get an overview of your container landscape – especially at scale.

Products and services are getting smarter. The Google Car can drives itself. Your phone knows how to take the best selfie and it even tells you when to leave to be on time for that important meeting. The systems that runs these services are able to use and understand data in a very smart way. Now it's time for IT operations to get smarter.

Today's DevOps teams lack the ability to use data of different systems in a smart way. They don't have advanced, data-science-driven technologies to see what's happening in their stack, to see what changed, to trouble shoot on issues and to understand the relations and dependencies between all the applications and systems in the stack.

StackState, leading provider of the first full stack IT operations platform, today announced that it is a forerunner organization for the new DevOps Agile Skills Association. 

DASA includes IT thought leaders from around the world, and provides an independent and open platform to discuss, develop, challenge and co-create the baseline for the skills and competencies organizations require today and tomorrow.

StackState, a leading provider of the first full stack IT operations platform for DevOps, today announced that it is a Giga level sponsor of .conf2016. The 7^th Annual Splunk Worldwide User’s Conference will feature more than 185 sessions and is expected to attract more than 4,400 Splunk enthusiasts who know the value of their data. The conference will be held September 26 – 29, at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resorts.

StackState will be demoing the Splunk integration for their IT operations platform, a solution for Business and IT managers including their DevOps teams, that provides unique insight into the health of the entire stack, from the hardware level all the way up to the business process level.

We hacked away like crazy in July to bring you a lot of new stuff in StackState and we’re excited to share them with you. Let’s get right to it…

The StackState Agent

Many organizations lack the ability to provide deep insights into the health of their ever changing infrastructure. We're pleased to announce the new StackState agent, which job is to collect events and metrics and provide StackState users with full visibility into their infrastructure.

As a Dev or Ops it’s hard to focus on the things that really matter. Applications, systems, tools and other environments are generating notifications at a frequency and amount greater than you are able to deal with. It's a problem for every Dev and Ops professional.

Alerts are used to identify trends, spikes or dips in your metrics and events – for example to detect low free memory, high page-fault errors or unavailable database servers. With the right alerts in place you can get notifications or signals of problems before they escalate or respond quickly before it takes a business service down which could affect your customers.

StackState is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2016. The conference will be held June 29 – July 1, 2016 at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam. 

DevOpsDays Amsterdam gathers IT professionals for three days of discussions, presentations, product demos, and open dialogue aimed at furthering the concepts of DevOps within the community. 

The global launch of StackState on Thursday 21 April was a great success. Attendees of the webinar said they liked the StackState approach and user interface. The global launch webinar is now publicly available. 

StackState consolidates multiple Dev/Ops tools in a full stack overview, provides insights into the health of the stack, automates problem finding and helps Dev/Ops engineers fix and prevent failures to create the Zero Downtime Enterprise. During the webinar we showed how StackState:

StackState, provider of the first IT operations platform for Dev/Ops, announced today that they will soon release a downloadable version and pre-registration is now open. StackState’s IT operations platform consolidates multiple (dev)ops tools in a full stack overview, automates problem finding and helps Dev/Ops engineers fix and prevent failures, reducing downtime.