Why you should consider upgrading to Bamboo Data Center 9.3?

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Bamboo Data Center 9.3 is now available and offers many reasons for upgrading!

This release provides enterprise-grade security, including new features like:

• ephemeral agents

• application tunnels

• user session invalidation

Bamboo 9.3 also offers scalability on demand, cost savings, and flexibility of use with the new ephemeral agents, as well as powerful performance thanks to change detection improvements.

Save with Ephemeral kubernetes agents

Ephemeral agents are a new type of agents that run inside a Kubernetes cluster, perform their necessary tasks, then expire.

What value do they bring?

• Security through build/container isolation — each agent starts in a new environment and no data is shared with other teams or organizations within an enterprise.

• On-demand scalability — you can fire up as many agents as you need at the moment and dispose of them immediately after they finish their jobs. This is a game-changer for large organizations, which at times need hundreds or even thousands of agents to run builds or deployments at once and sometimes don’t need any at all. What’s more, removing agents after they’ve finished their jobs frees up resources for other teams who may need additional agents. This allows teams to build much faster, without waiting long hours for specific agents to be available.

• Automatic agent lifecycle management — Bamboo will start and stop the agents automatically, making the usage simple and less time-consuming.

• All of these qualities lead to savings — the agents don’t use computing resources after they’ve done the job.

• Cloud-agnostic and adjustable to your needs — can be run on any cloud or on your own infrastructure (virtualized or bare-metal).

Learn more about the feature here: Ephemeral agents | Bamboo Data Center and Server 9.3 | Atlassian Documentation

Improve security with Application tunnels

You have asked and we delivered: support for Application Tunnels in Bamboo is finally here! Now you can securely connect your cloud products to Bamboo, without the need to open up your network to incoming connections.

Learn more: Connect to self-managed products with application tunnels | Atlassian Support

User session invalidation

Save precious admin time while increasing Bamboo’s security by invalidating user sessions through REST API or in the administrative settings. This feature: prevents unauthorized access, protects against session highjacking, and ensures compliance with security policies.

Learn more: Invalidating active user sessions | Bamboo Data Center and Server 9.3 | Atlassian Documentation

Improved performance - change detection

The new change detection algorithm, based on prioritized request handling, optimizes resource distribution across multiple repositories and prevents thread pool exhaustion issues by reducing detection times.

Read the full 9.3 release notes here Bamboo 9.3 release notes | Atlassian Support | Atlassian Documentation

With the coming end of Server support, this is a great opportunity to upgrade to Bamboo’s best Data Center version yet!