
October 2022 release notes
It's the last business day of October, so here's everything we've shipped this month!

Log4j, Service Ownership, and Being Prepared
All over the globe, teams are scrambling right now to triage the impact of the recently announced Log4j vulnerability on their services and applications. Rather than reinvent the wheel, here’s a snippet from an informative Cloudflare blog post that puts CVE-2021-44228 in context:

Taking Back DevOps
Let’s get DevOps to mean Service Ownership again. We broke DevOps. And it’s preventing us from building. When the first cloud providers emerged in the mid-2000s, they unlocked a new superpower: the ability to near-instantly provision hardware. Service-oriented architecture and microservices developed as a new architectural pattern. As a result, DevOps emerged as a practice to organize engineering teams around those new services - combining development and operations responsibilities onto the same team.

Syncing Service Metadata with opslevel.yml
So, OpsLevel is cool and all, but you know what’s not cool? Clicking around in a UI whenever you want to change some of the properties of a service. Well click no longer! Now, with our Git Repository Integration, all you need to do is to plunk down an opslevel.yml file at the root of one of your repositories and OpsLevel will use that to populate the corresponding service on OpsLevel’s side. (If the repository isn’t already mapped to a service, OpsLevel will create a new one.)

Repo Search Checks
With our Git Repository integration, OpsLevel can continuously scan your code repositories and verify all of the operational best practices you’ve defined. Previously, we’ve shown you a Repo File Check, which can be used to verify that a given file exists in your repo, or verify that it contains some specific text.