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title: Mission Infrastructure Newsletter | February 2025
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Welcome to Mission Infrastructure, the Spacelift newsletter featuring best practices, tutorials and updates on infrastructure orchestration.

| View in browser Hi there! ️👋 Welcome to the latest edition of Mission Infrastructure, the monthly newsletter from Spacelift! It’s hard to keep up with the many articles we post on our blog, so we’ve picked out a few recent highlights for you. We also bring you a couple of interesting news features about Spacelift plus a roundup of our latest product updates. New Blog Posts 📖 Developer Velocity: What It Is, How to Measure & Improve It There’s a lot of buzz around developer velocity, but it’s about more than how fast developers can write code: It’s a measure of a development team’s ability to deliver value to end users efficiently and sustainably. Read Flavius Dinu’s post to find out more about developer velocity, how to improve it, and why it is so important. 16 DevOps Metrics You Should Be Tracking \[DORA & Other\] DevOps metrics provide valuable insights into your DevOps processes’ efficiency, productivity, and overall health. They help teams recognize bottlenecks, enhance performance, and make informed decisions. In this blog post, Ioannis Moustakis highlights the importance of monitoring DevOps metrics and which metrics teams should be tracking. How to Use Ansible Become Keyword to Secure Playbooks The Ansible uses the become keyword to securely activate privilege escalation on remote hosts. In this article, Faisal Hashem explores different ways of using the Ansible become keyword and the flags required to pass into the ansible-playbook command line to run playbooks that use the become keyword. He also covers advanced cases using the become\_user and become\_method. Kubernetes Control Plane: What It Is & How It Works The container orchestration system Kubernetes makes it easy to distribute container replicas across a cluster of compute nodes. In this article, James Walker examines the Kubernetes control plane in detail, including its components, their roles in the cluster, and best practices to ensure it functions reliably. Read more blog posts Upcoming Events 📌  \[Webinar\] Boosting Developer Productivity with Policy-Driven IaC Join us on February 26 as we explore common use cases for Spacelift policies and how teams are using them to achieve infrastructure security and cost control. Register Now Spacelift in the News 📢  Spacelift Scales Legacy Automation: Terraform First, Ansible Next Source: The New Stack Speaking after the 1.9 release of OpenTofu, Spacelift CMO Dimitri Vlachos told The New Stack “We’re very pleasantly surprised by the traction. The adoption rate and the community involvement, and the growth of the community is probably more than people expected.” Read the rest of the interview here. Spacelift Acknowledged with Digital Innovator 2024 Award by Intellyx Source: prnewswire.com "It is gratifying when respected industry analysts recognize your technology and business strategy as innovative and disruptive," said Spacelift CEO Paweł Hytry after industry analyst firm Intellyx acknowledged Spacelift among 'innovative technology solutions that realize real customer results.' Read about the background to the award here. Spacelift Product Updates 🚀 Introducing Built-in Audit Trails Built-in Audit Trails are now available for Spacelift Enterprise customers. You can now: Enable auditing without having to set up the webhooks and the underlying infrastructure that receives the data Resolve issues associated with configuration changes faster by filtering for specific events and understanding what caused them Improve your compliance and governance workflow Find out more about built-in Audit Trails here. Introducing Ignored Run Warnings If you spend ages trying to figure out why a run wasn't triggered after a commit was pushed to your repository, you’ll love ignored run warnings. With Spacelift's latest functionality, a warning box on the main stack view explains why the latest commit has been ignored in case your stack isn't in sync. This feature is available from the Starter+ tier. Find out more here.  Get Started with Spacelift Ready to start your journey to IaC orchestration? Schedule a demo or explore yourself with a Spacelift free trial. Book a demo Start for free About  •  Terms of service  •  Contact Spacelift, Inc., 541 Jefferson Ave STE 100, Redwood City, California 94063 Unsubscribe Manage preferences |
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