Software developer tooling company JFrog has teamed up with GitHub on the heels of a tie-up with cloud monitoring as a service firm DataDog.
Shlomi Ben Haim, chief executive officer (CEO) of JFrog, indicated the GitHub deal would help unify software supply chain management and security for devops, devsecops, MLops and AI practice.
“Our customers adopt technology rapidly and must manage devops, security, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) and AI initiatives while consolidating tools,” he confirmed in the announcement.
Developers and devops engineers would be able to use the GitHub source code platform alongside the JFrog artifact platform, he said, a capability its users have requested.
“Partnership and integration with GitHub will not only provide a seamlessly powerful experience using both platforms but improve development efficiency,” Ben Haim added.
JFrog cited an April report by JP Morgan executive director of enterprise software equity research Pinjalim Bora that 50% of its devops survey respondents using JFrog were also using GitHub as their primary code repository.
Thomas Dohmke, CEO at GitHub, was quoted as saying GitHub Copilot was changing how developers write code.
“At the same time, more code means more binaries, which have their own management, security and delivery requirements,” Dohmke said.
With GitHub and JFrog, enterprises would have a more “holistic” way to generate, manage, secure, and deliver software across the supply chain, he said.
The jointly built roadmap focused on seamless navigation and traceability between source code and binaries, continuous integration and deployment with GitHub Actions and JFrog Artifactory as well as a unified view of security findings, according to the announcement.
Just a week earlier, JFrog sealed a partnership with DataDog, which offers cloud monitoring as a service.
According to JFrog, the Artifactory log streamer integration with DataDog Flex will give users more visibility of logs for JFrog-managed instances of Artifactory in the cloud.
Gal Marder, enterprise vice president of strategy at JFrog, said in the related announcement: “Enterprises cannot rapidly migrate their devops workloads to the cloud without a high degree of trust in the target environment.”
Providing visibility and easy consumption of app health, usage, and other platform metrics is an essential piece of building trust with a vendor, Marder explained.
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