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OpsLevel is your one-stop shop for understanding the microservices you have running in your architecture. A key component to understanding your microservices is to actually see what code is running in production, and when/how that changes.

OpsLevel just completed its inaugural HackDays and company getaway. We all piled into a few cars and drove up to a beautiful cottage near Parry Sound, Ontario. Surrounded by some of Canada’s best scenery of trees, lakes, and trails, we first set about for 24 hours of programming. Given our geography, we thought about calling the event “Hack the North”, but that name is taken, so “OpsLevel HackDays” it is.

At OpsLevel, we’re big fans of the 2015 MacBook Pro. The newer 2019 MacBook Pro has some great features like Touch ID, 32 GB RAM, and USB-C power delivery that you can plug on either side. Unfortunately, it also suffers from a failure prone butterfly keyboard design and the dreaded Touchbar. The 2015 MacBook Pro was the last model manufactured by Apple before the switch to Touchbar and and the butterfly keyboard.

OpsLevel is a fantastic source of truth for all of the information around the microservices in your architecture, including all the tools you use to operate each of your microservices. But it’s not always the easiest to find and discover this information when you really need it - say during a major incident, or during a gameday.

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.)

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.

After setting up a Git Repository Integration, OpsLevel can continuously scan your code repositories and verify all of the operational best practices you’ve defined. Along with the integration comes two new checks: the Repo File Check and the Repo Search Check.

You likely use a myriad of cloud-based tools to operate your services. At OpsLevel, part of our master plan is bringing various data points from all of these tools to help you gain insights and build more reliable software. We’re proud to announce our latest step on this journey with our new Github and Bitbucket integrations.

OpsLevel has become a lot more powerful with the addition of our newest features: Checks and Checklists. Now you can actually codify your best-practices around building and operating microservices and then view how these practices are being followed across your entire architecture.