Beware the Ides of March!
Caesar didn’t heed the warnings either. And it looks like some Atlassian instances didn’t heed the CVE warnings, for Data Center, or the “Check your automations” warnings after the recent Cloud outage.
Last month’s Jira Cloud outage got you feeling unsure about your automations? We offer a quick automation health-check to make sure your automations are working as intended. Call to get yours done this week. 972-294-7014, ext. 3333
In this issue:
- The Europe Atlassian outage Post Mortem report
- Xray’s Latest Posts
- VMWare announces Explore in Las Vegas!
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Incident Report: EU Performance Issues Post Mortem
On March 7, 2024, between 12:02 pm UTC and 12:21 pm UTC, some Atlassian customers using Jira in the EU-Central region were unable to interact with core experiences of the product, and some customers using Confluence in the EU-Central region had a degraded experience.
https://jira-software.status.atlassian.com/incidents/qn7x71skgz18
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Incident Report for Jira Service Management
https://jira-service-management.status.atlassian.com/incidents/mx35ghg6m8qq
Data Center Roadmap Webinar
April 3rd & 4th
Join Atlassian as we highlight Data Center’s recent enhancements and provide a glimpse into exciting roadmap features coming over the next year. Discover the latest capabilities available in your Data Center products and learn how Atlassian is advancing our security protocols to secure your data and mitigate potential threats.
https://www.atlassian.com/webinars/enterprise-cloud/how-were-preparing-data-center-for-the-future
Scheduling Jobs in Jira Data Center
A step-by-step How To: https://medium.com/@martyhenderson/scheduling-jobs-in-a-jira-data-center-plugin-like-its-2024-5ff53c8c9c24
Atlassian University Down for Maintenance
From March 29 to May 1, 2024, Atlassian University’s $39 on-demand courses will be unavailable for purchase while we make some exciting changes behind the scenes. Learn more here.
If you’ve previously purchased a $39 on-demand course, you can still access your course materials using the “My Learning Activities” item in the navigation bar.
Atlassian will send another email on May 1, 2024 when the changes are live and all courses are available for enrollment.
Configuring OpenSearch for Confluence
https://confluence.atlassian.com/confeap/configuring-opensearch-for-confluence-1376031465.html
Xray’s Latest Posts
- 2023 Partner Awards – https://www.getxray.app/news/xray-announces-2023-partner-awards
- Exploratory Testing
- For non-functional requirements – https://www.getxray.app/blog/exploratory-testing-for-non-functional-requirements-guide
- As a Team – https://www.getxray.app/blog/how-to-perform-exploratory-testing-as-a-team
- For Remote Working – https://www.getxray.app/blog/how-to-perform-exploratory-testing-in-a-remote-work-era
- Test Case Design Podcast – https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/qa-therapy-podcast/episodes/S1-E16-Test-Case-Design-and-Combinatorial-Testing-e2028l6
VMware Explore Dates Announced for Las Vegas & Barcelona
https://www.vmware.com/explore.html
What is Explore?
Explore is the industry’s essential cloud event that enables attendees to efficiently modernize infrastructure, accelerate app development and protect everything, everywhere. Join your peers to access rich technical content, product expertise and community resources.
Who should attend VMware Explore?
Those engaged in cloud infrastructure, networking, security, load-balancing, software-defined edge, enterprise applications and private AI will be among their peers at Explore.
Navigating VMware’s New Licensing Changes:
What You Need to Know
“There’s a lot of confusion and misinformation out there right now, so it’s important to choose a reputable partner that can help customers figure it all out.”
– Paul Palazzolo, Director, Sales and Lifecycle Services
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/navigating-vmwares-new-licensing-changes-what-you-er4uc/
Migrating from Atlassian to GitLab?
- Bitbucket to GitLab
- Jira to GitLab
- Bamboo to GitLab
- and YES, Even Confluence to GitLab
https://about.gitlab.com/move-to-gitlab-from-atlassian/
Major Jira Cloud Outage Results in Broken Automations
Yes, even after the Incident was reported as resolved, reports began surfacing that Automations still weren’t working.
Here’s what our colleagues Alex Ortiz, Rodney Nissen (The Jira Guy), and Bob Wen discovered and reported as they helped the community repair and recover after this major outage incident.
https://www.revyz.io/blog/how-to-recover-automation-rules-after-latest-cloud-incident